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Thursday, August 17, 2006
08-16-06 - Four Hezbollah fighters killed in ceasefire breaches: UN UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have said they had recorded three breaches of a deal ending fighting between Israel and Hezbollah over the past 24 hours which left four Hezbollah guerrillas dead.
08-16-06 - A 42-year old worker severely beaten by troops in Hebron He was on his way to work when he was stopped by an Israeli military jeep, soldiers claimed that the man was attempting to enter Israel without permission".
08-16-06 - Hezbollah Balks At Withdrawal From the South Israeli officials have declined to say how many of their soldiers are inside Lebanon. Strugar said that whatever the number, their withdrawal has to be coordinated with UNIFIL and Lebanese army officers in the coming days. "This is a complicated issue," he said.....Nasrallah, in his television address, suggested that for the time being the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon is the only way to defend Lebanon's sovereignty against Israel.
08-16-06 - Israel urges UN action on arms embargo Israel's Foreign Minister is urging UN peacekeepers to enforce an arms embargo to prevent Hezbollah militia from getting weapons from their backers in Iran and Syria.
08-16-06 - Halutz: Deploy Lebanon army to south or IDF will halt pullout Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Wednesday that the IDF would halt its withdrawal from southern Lebanon if the Lebanese army did not deploy in the area within days.
08-16-06 - Palestinian President expresses sympathy over kidnap of NZer Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his sympathy over the kidnapping of a New Zealander.
08-16-06 - Crisis talks on Lebanon oil spill Officials from the UN, the EU and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are meeting to agree a way to halt the spread in the Mediterranean.
08-16-06 - WFP operational update: occupied Palestinian territories Despite the relative reduction in hostilities in Gaza over the past week, WFP food remains a vital "band aid" for oPt's stricken economy.
08-16-06 - Palestinians agree to unity talks
08-16-06 - Many Iraqis See Lebanon as Mirror Image New frustration is rife within Baghdad. The United States response in support of Israel has further sharpened opposition to the U.S.-led occupying army.
08-16-06 - Palestinians stranded at the borders appeal the international community to end their suffering Thousands of Palestinian residents stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and at Al Areesh airport in Egypt since several weeks have voiced an appeal to the international community to end their suffering and practice pressure on the Israeli authorities to allow them back in the Gaza Strip.
08-16-06 - Gaza communities face further economic decline Hundreds of families that fled from the village of Shokeh in the Gaza Strip have returned home to discover extensive damage. Israeli forces pulled out of the village on 5 August after an eight-day incursion that left 30 houses, 500 greenhouses and more than 5,000 dunums (1,250 acres) of agricultural lands demolished.
08-16-06 - Abbas Zein carries the body of his wife who was killed in an Israeli air strike, during a funeral in Burj al-Shemali
08-16-06 - Lebanese hospital struggles to cope with the dead
08-16-06 - Israel sends mixed signals on pullout Israeli forces prepared to make way for U.N. peacekeepers in parts of south Lebanon on Wednesday, but their commander said troops could stay for months if it takes that long for a bigger U.N. force to deploy.
08-16-06 - Hamas contacts groups in bid to free Western reporters The head of the Fox bureau in Jerusalem, Eli Fastman, on Tuesday met in Gaza with Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, of the Islamist Hamas movement, saying afterwards that Haniya had condemned the kidnapping.
08-16-06 - Syria warns Israel over occupation of Golan Syria has warned Israel that the occupation of the Golan Heights "cannot last forever" and said Syrians would emulate Hezbollah to recover their land.
08-16-06 - South Lebanon littered with war's lethal leftovers "These things are tiny, really hard to see, and very sensitive. You just accidentally kick one and it will go off.".....The U.N. estimates Israel fired 2,600 artillery rounds, missiles and bombs into Lebanon each day of the five-week war, which killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis.....U.S. rights group Human Rights Watch has urged the United States not to send cluster munitions to Israel, saying their use in civilian-populated areas violates international law.
08-16-06 - France calls for end to Lebanon blockade The French foreign minister on Wednesday called for Israel to lift its air, naval and land blockade of Lebanon, saying it was unnecessary with the U.N.-imposed cease-fire holding.
08-16-06 - Lebanon army set to move to south Bulldozers are now being used to clear away debris from the highways. The UN found 200 cluster bombs near a hospital, in the village of Tebnin.
08-16-06 - Red Cross: Explosives hinder Mideast aid
08-16-06 - For stoic Lebanese, a cycle of rebuilding "We were angry with both sides," Shaalan says. "But mainly with the Israelis because they did not differentiate between Lebanese civilians and Palestinian fighters."
08-16-06 - Rice: Not U.N.'s job to disarm Hezbollah That "political agreement" will be the responsibility of the Lebanese, Rice said in an interview with USA TODAY
08-16-06 - FBI: Ex-Comverse chief now a fugitive Alexander, a native of Israel, has dual American and Israeli citizenship, according to federal authorities. I'll give you three guesses as to where he probably is.
08-16-06 - About Those 'Birth Pangs' - They're really death throes? The president parrots the Israeli line that Hezbollah is a "terrorist" organization that represents a mortal threat to Americans worldwide, but the reality is quite different, as the U.S. intelligence community recognized in a National Intelligence Estimate prepared in April, which, according to Laura Rozen, "says that Hezbollah is the only major terrorist group with global reach currently not trying to kill Americans."
08-16-06 - Costa Rica to move Israel embassy out of Jerusalem Costa Rica will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, its new president said on Wednesday, in a move that pleases Arab nations and is a blow to the Israeli government.
08-16-06 - How Reports of the July 12th Capture of IDF Soldiers Soon Shifted From Lebanon to Israel On the matter of exactly where the Israeli soldiers were abducted (in Lebanon or in Israel), the author did their homework.
08-16-06 - Poll: 70 Percent of Israelis Oppose Cease-Fire
08-16-06 - An outburst that shows Labour's true feelings towards America The Prime Minister has been frustrated by the lack of progress on the road map by the Bush administration and Mr Prescott's alleged remarks that the "Bush administration has been crap" on the issue are widely shared in Labour ranks at Westminster. Recall that Blair was led to believe by the Bush administration that, for his participation and support of the US invasion of Iraq, the issue of Palestine would get resolved. Clearly, he was deceived.
08-16-06 - Canada can do more, Israeli ambassador says Mr. Baker also said he hopes to arrange a visit to Ottawa by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to thank Canada for its support.
08-16-06 - 2400 detainees in the Negev on Hunger Strike The incident took place on Tuesday when soldiers tried to force mothers, sisters and wives of detainees from Qalqilia, Salfit and Bethlehem districts in the West bank, to remove all of their clothes under the pretext of searching them.
08-16-06 - Reconstruction alone estimated at $7bn in Lebanon
08-16-06 - International jurists group to probe Israel-Hezbollah conflict
08-16-06 - Israel to keep up blockade but permit civilian cargos: Peres
08-16-06 - Israel wants UN to patrol Syrian border for weapons She said Lebanese monitoring of borders was "not enough" and U.N. peacekeepers, known as UNIFIL, had to help "prevent rearmament." UN is being charged with the task of providing Israel security. The real irony is this: had Israel been implementing the scores of UN resolutions that ~it~ is in violation of - we likely wouldn't be at this point today.
08-16-06 - Hezbollah 'victory' boosts Palestinian radicals: analysts "What happened in Lebanon has strengthened the belief among Arab people that resistance is more effective than negotiations with Israel,"
08-16-06 - Peace in Lebanon requires Israeli-Palestinian peace: Finland A lasting peace in Lebanon can only be attained once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the European Union presidency, has said.
08-16-06 - Pak FM calls for Palestine solution before another round of war
08-16-06 - Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian farm land in northern Gaza Strip for military installations Israeli forces imposed a military installation for itself east of Beit Lahia in the Abu Safia neighborhood, with another imposed on East Street between Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.
08-16-06 - Palestinian camp under Lebanon control
08-16-06 - Retaliation against Fox possible kidnap motive Dr Nigel Parsons from Massey University's politics department, says Fox is rampantly pro-Israel and if the kidnappers are aware of that, it is a possible motivation. He says the group may also have taken the pair hostage in an attempt to embarrass Hamas, by showing how it is failing to provide security.
08-16-06 - Italy says Lebanon war shows futility of military force "The war in Lebanon has proved to all that military force will solve nothing. The use of military force leads to nothing except the rise of extremism and terrorism,"
08-16-06 - Terror charges dropped against men arrested with 1,000cell phones Maruan Muhareb, 18; Adham Othman, 21, and Louai Othman, 23, all of the Dallas area, face new charges of conspiracy to defraud consumers and telephone providers by trafficking in counterfeit goods -- so-called "unlocked" cell phones.
08-16-06 - Hamas leader missed again? Israel reportedly botched a second attempt to assassinate Hamas' supreme leader.
08-16-06 - It's Left to Bashar al-Assad to Tell the Truth there is no more sign that Hizbollah intends to "disarm" under the terms of UN Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1701 than Israel is prepared to abide by UN Security Council Resolution 242 and withdraw from Arab territories it occupied in 1967
08-16-06 - Israel, U.S.: Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah Israel and the United States expect Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.
How did Israel's problems become OUR problems, I wonder?
08-16-06 - Robert Fisk: Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel's failure
08-16-06 - Israel humbled by arms from Iran The discovery of the origin of the weapons proved to the Israelis that their enemy was not a ragged and lightly armed militia but a semi-professional army equipped by Syria and Iran to take on Israel. So says Israel.
08-16-06 - Conflict hits home Smith was connecting with people in the Palestinian territories to the south, working at a refugee camp and living with a Palestinian family. ...Yet, despite political rhetoric on both sides, Smith said many Palestinians greeted their young American guests with warmth and friendship.
08-16-06 - Russia calls for resumption of Palestine-Israel dialogue
08-16-06 - UK-Palestinian charity probed Interpal was cleared of any wrong doings during an investigation by the CC in 2003, which was launched after the organization was branded a terrorist organization and had its funds frozen by the US treasury.
08-16-06 - Israel allowed Arab overflights The deputy prime minister, on a U.S. tour to raise funds for reconstruction in the North, said Wednesday in Washington that he could not name the countries.
08-16-06 - In Congress, Lonely on Lebanon If you're trying to quantify the U.S. policy in the Middle East, here's a useful statistic: Since the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah started, 22 members of Congress have flown to Israel. Only one went to Lebanon.
08-16-06 - AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon "AIPAC meets with every candidate running for Congress. These candidates receive in-depth briefings to help them completely understand the complexities of Israel's predicament and that of the Middle East as a whole. We even ask each candidate to author a 'position paper' on their views of the U.S.-Israel relationship--so it's clear where they stand on the subject."
08-16-06 - ADL: Campus Newspaper Editors In Israel To Gain Firsthand Experience Of The Region The mission first went to Poland, where the students visited the concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek and the areas once occupied by the Warsaw and Krakow ghettoes Immediately, the pro-Israeli camp plays the Holocaust card to gain the sympathy of these editors, much like they shepherd foreign nationals to the Israeli Holocaust museum as soon as they step off the plane.
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