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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
08-15-06 - Israeli air strike hits house in southern Gaza Strip kills 2, wounds 4 Also Wednesday, the Israeli army said it shot and hit two Palestinians trying to infiltrate Israel from Gaza. But the army could not confirm if they were killed and Palestinian officials said ambulances could not reach the area.
08-15-06 - Lebanese villagers return to corpses, devastation
08-15-06 - Returning, Lebanese find shattered homes and villages Ali Bakri, a local businessman who stayed, says that about 10 elderly people who were unable to leave had been killed when Israeli bombs flattened their homes.
08-15-06 - Gaza militants get new proposal over Israeli soldier A source close to the negotiations said the proposal called for Hamas to transfer Corporal Gilad Shalit to Egyptian authorities in return for Israel's release of up to 600 Palestinian prisoners, including women and minors. Another group of Palestinian prisoners, including many who have served longer sentences, would be freed by Israel at a later date
08-15-06 - Army Demolishes Homes in Askar Refugee Camp During the early hours of the operation, and elderly woman of the Tibi family had a heart attack, and because her ambulance was prevented from reaching the hospital in a timely manner, she died upon reaching al-Watani hospital.
08-15-06 - Nonviolent Palestinian farmer resistance as Israeli settlers destroy trees, land and horse fields The oldest of many settlers in the settlement of Ornit, south of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, is among those Israeli settlers destroying Palestinian trees. In yet another act of nonviolent resistance to the continual onslaught, Palestinian farmers appealed to the International Red Cross to intervene.
08-15-06 - Gaza ceasefire hopes dwindle the situation in Gaza has been completely overshadowed by the Lebanon war. People here regard the international community as having turned away and ignored their suffering.
08-15-06 - UNICEF: Children at risk in Mideast "In July alone, 38 kids have been killed" in Gaza, Bociurkiw said. "This has almost been the highest number since the beginning of the intifada," or Palestinian uprising, in 2000. He said the toll included all children killed, including those by unexploded ordnance, but he did not have a breakdown.
08-15-06 - Gaza marks first year of Israeli withdrawal in despair .."We are in a new prison called Gaza."
08-15-06 - Lebanese youth stand on a banner in protest against the United States in the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli bombardment
08-15-06 - Palestinians watch as an Israeli army bulldozer demolishes a structure
08-15-06 - UN aims for advance Lebanon force BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, at the UN in New York, says there is clearly concern at the apparent reluctance by so many countries to sign up. Who can blame them? Israel killed those UNIFIL officials despite repeated contacts between them and Israeli officials to stop firing on the marked UN post.
08-15-06 - Olmert's War, and the Next One by Patrick J. Buchanan With our War Party discredited by the failed policies it cheered on in Lebanon and Iraq, there will come a clamor that Bush must "go to the source" of all our difficulty ? Iran. Only thus can the War Party redeem itself for having pushed us and Israel into two unnecessary and ruinous wars. And the drumbeat for war on Iran has already begun....Bush is on notice from the neocons and War Party that have all but destroyed his presidency: Either you take down Iran, Mr. Bush, or you are a failed president. See my previous post about the next war: Iran.
08-15-06 - "The US and Israel Stand Alone" Former US president Jimmy Carter: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon."
08-15-06 - Israeli forces kill Hezbollah leader Israel's military officials also made a first gesture at possible post-conflict negotiations. They said 13 Hezbollah prisoners and the bodies of dozens of guerrillas could be offered in exchange for two captive soldiers, who were taken in a cross-border raid July 12 that touched off the worse Arab-Israel battles in 24 years.
Israel took the bodies of Hezbollah men to use as bargaining chips.
08-15-06 - Fragile truce holds as Israelis withdraw All Israeli troops are expected to have moved out of southern Lebanon by the start of next week at the earliest, although other estimates suggest a two-week withdrawal.
08-15-06 - Hard road back for displaced Lebanese In a televised address on Monday night, Hassan Nasrallah said the movement would put the same energy, planning and dedication into the reconstruction effort as it had into fighting the Israelis. He said Hezbollah would pay for the rebuilding of the 15,000 homes it estimates have been totally destroyed, and in the meantime, would pay for the homeless to rent properties for a year.
08-15-06 - Lebanon pact disappoints U.S. As it became clear that the Israelis were not going to wipe out Hezbollah, support in the White House shifted from the hard-liners, typically led by Vice President Dick Cheney, to the advocates for more diplomacy. Cheney runs the show in the Bush admin.
08-15-06 - Peretz: We should create conditions for talks with Syria Germany's foreign minister canceled a trip to Syria on Tuesday in protest over Assad's speech. Assad said that the United States' plan for a "new Middle East" has collapsed after what he described as Hezbollah's successes in fighting against Israel, and warned Israel to seek peace or risk defeat in the future.
08-15-06 - Iran and Syria applaud 'victory'
08-15-06 - A Defiant Hezbollah Rises From the Rubble Nasrallah scoffed at the idea that the "resistance" should lay down its guns in order to build a strong Lebanon. It should be the other way around, he argued. "First you have to build a strong, capable, just and secure country for all Lebanese, so that you can tell the people, 'We can protect your dignity and honor, and there is no need for the weapons of the resistance,' " he said.
08-15-06 - Hizbullah doesn't speak for Lebanon As a Palestinian, an American, and a rational being, I can confidently say that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, which occurs in violation of numerous UN resolutions and is upheld through gross human rights abuses, is now, and has always been, the root cause of conflict between Israel and Hizbullah
08-15-06 - Lebanese anger at both US, Hizbullah grows after truce
08-15-06 - Hizbullah shifts focus from war front to home front Even critics of Hizbullah in Lebanon often say they respect the group's integrity, efficiency, and commitment to helping its followers. Nasrallah promised to pay a year's rent for those with destroyed homes, saying Monday night that "we can't wait for the government."
08-15-06 - Aid diary: The rush for home A little girl says: "I want to go back to my toys and see my friends again."
08-15-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon's shattered economy Well we know who WON'T be helping to do that. The world is expected to clean up another one of Israel's messes.
08-15-06 - Bush Defends U.S. Handling of Lebanese Conflict, Asserting That Hezbollah Is the Loser Mr. Bush spoke as he and his advisers sought to portray the cease-fire deal that was established under a United Nations Security Council resolution as an affirmation of American foreign policy.
08-15-06 - Sharon suffering from pneumonia
08-15-06 - Peres confident in cease-fire Shimon Peres said Israel would not use force against Hezbollah unless the militia used force against Israel.
08-15-06 - Iran displays Holocaust cartoons Organisers of the exhibition say they are testing the West's commitment to freedom of speech.
08-15-06 - Israeli military chief draws fire for selling shares after soldiers' kidnap Dan Halutz, head of the Israel Defence Force (IDF), was reported by the Israeli newspaper, Maariv, to have instructed his investment manager on 12 July to sell his personal portfolio, just as senior military and political figures were discussing the military response to the raid, in which two soldiers were abducted.
08-15-06 - Update on CPTers detained on Friday Just before four pm, Avshalom Tasha, the "investigator with the key" returned
the video camera to Roe, but did not return the tape of the August 11 home
invasion. "The tape must remain in police custody as evidence," he told her.
He did not know if she could get it back when the case was closed.
08-15-06 - 'Blame war' looms for Israel leaders
08-15-06 - Army bulldozes Palestinian land to construct the annexation wall near Qalqilia
08-15-06 - Benn family at odds over Middle East "While this slaughter was going on, with 1,000 people killed and a quarter of the Lebanese population homeless, we were not only supplying weapons ourselves to Israel, but we were making it possible through Scottish airports for the Americans to arm Israel with the weapons that were being used to kill the Lebanese. It was an absolute disgrace."
08-15-06 - Global donors to tackle Lebanon reconstruction Lebanon had been expecting its best tourism season for more than 30 years, exports were up 100% on the previous year and the economy had been expected to grow by 5%. The post-bombing projections are now for either zero or negative growth.
08-15-06 - West Bank pullout may be next casualty Mr Olmert's hopes of pursuing his realignment policy appeared to have been delivered a fatal blow yesterday, with the leak of a government-appointed panel's report on its consequences. According to Ha'aretz newspaper, the committee found that a withdrawal would leave cities such as Tel Aviv vulnerable to rocket attacks from the West Bank.....Mr Khatib said there were growing fears among Palestinians that Mr Olmert and the Israeli army might try to rescue their reputations with a broad offensive against Hamas in Gaza. "People are worried because Israel might try to create victories on the Palestinian front after its difficulties on the Lebanese front," he said.
08-15-06 - "Star Wars" agency helps Israel on rocket threat The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has begun working with Israel to help find ways to counter enemy rockets, a much shorter-range threat than the "Star Wars" mission to block ballistic missiles for which is it known, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.
08-15-06 - Jackson seeks Mideast prisoner exchange On several occasions, Jackson has successfully intervened on behalf of Americans and others held hostage or prisoner in foreign lands
08-15-06 - Arabs predict guns won't be silent long in Lebanon "The war in Lebanon may stop, but I doubt it, for never in history has Israel respected a single resolution issued by the Security Council,"...."This resolution was an expensive gift for Israel from America and France via the U.N.," he wrote. "It gives Israel permission to play with Lebanon and attack it again."
08-15-06 - US blacklists two Syrian spy chiefs linked to Lebanon The US Treasury blacklisted two senior Syrian intelligence officials, accusing them of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing Lebanon. Destabilizing Lebanon? What kind of sick joke is that? Israel just DESTROYED large parts of Lebanon. Hypocrisy.
08-15-06 - Fatah, Hamas may join forces "The two sides believe that in the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah war, the best thing for the Palestinians at this stage is to be united,"
08-15-06 - Livni heads to New York Israel?s foreign minister was scheduled to travel to New York to lobby for Israel?s interests in the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire.
08-15-06 - Perpetual Limbo: Report of B'Tselem and HaMoked a report on 's policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories
08-15-06 - Palestinians seek 2 kidnapped reporters Palestinian security forces hunted for two abducted Fox News journalists Tuesday, and the Palestinian president and prime minister intervened in an attempt to gain their release.
08-15-06 - Politicking over Israel: Jewish state becomes fodder in congressional war "I think it's a good thing to have members of Congress outdo their colleagues by showing that their pro-Israel credentials are stronger than the next guy's," said William Daroff, vice president of public policy at United Jewish Communities and a former Republican activist. America's interests never figure in.
08-15-06 - Israeli defense chief talks peace Israel?s defense minister called for peace talks with Lebanon, the Palestinians and eventually Syria.
08-15-06 - A Lebanese who had left the country for Syria during the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah, returns with her family following the ceasefire
08-15-06 - Americans Reject Peacekeeping Role in Lebanon Few adults in the United States believe their country should deploy soldiers to the Middle East
08-15-06 - Derry Antiwar Activists Face Terrorism Charges The activists knew that, despite the line of the main parties, there is real anger in the town at the idea of software developed in Derry helping to murder people in Lebanon and Gaza.
08-15-06 - Muslim groups decry cell-phone arrests
08-15-06 - Israelis arrested as prostitution ringleaders Two Israelis were arrested on suspicion of running a U.S.-based prostitution ring.
08-15-06 - Arab Americans to lobby Congress Arab Americans are slated to meet with congressional representatives to press for U.S. involvement to bolster the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire.
08-15-06 - Lebanon war cost Israel $1.6bn However, the total bill is unlikely to exceed the approximately $2.5bn Israel receives each year in aid from the US - $2.2bn of that in military grants.
08-15-06 - Blair's Middle East policy has driven me to return my MBE
08-15-06 - Democrats dispute Bush assertion that Israel defeated Hezbollah
08-15-06 - Israelis hack Ahmadinejad's blog Israeli bloggers claim to have overloaded website of Iranian president, causing it to crash
08-15-06 - Unadilla takes on controversial play Theater premieres tragic story of Rachel Corrie
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