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Saturday, August 19, 2006
08-18-06 - Militants killed in W Bank raid Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian militants during a raid near the West Bank town of Bethlehem
08-18-06 - Three residents killed in Dier Abu Da'eef village near Jenin According to local sources the explosion happened in the village swimming pool while the reasons behind it remain unknown. Palestinian police initiated an investigation of the incident.
08-18-06 - Lebanon aid appeals: where you can donate The following major agencies have launched appeals to help those affected by the fighting:
08-18-06 - Hamas sets conditions for forming coalition
08-18-06 - Israeli Army sprays protestors in Bil'in with unknown blue chemical Seven residents who were hit with the full blast of the dye began screaming and shaking when the dye hit them. The soldiers then fired rubber-coated bullets, and an Associated Press photographer named Rami Abdu was injured when one of the rubber-coated bullets hit him in the back.
08-18-06 - Israeli soldiers seize Palestinian deputy prime minister, wife says
08-18-06 - Fears over cluster bomb clean-up the New York-based group Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of acting outside the rules of war by firing cluster bombs into civilian areas.
08-18-06 - UN plea for European peacekeepers
08-18-06 - Palestinian man tortured and killed by an unknown group in Iraq
08-18-06 - A Lebanese woman bursts into tears as is calmed by her relatives during a mass funeral
08-18-06 - Relatives of the Lebanese victims of the July 30 Israeli forces' attack, holding pictures of their loved ones, participate in a mass funeral procession
08-18-06 - Relatives holding portraits of some of those killed grieve at a mass funeral procession in Qana, southern Lebanon
08-18-06 - France Declines to Contribute Major Force for U.N. Mission
08-18-06 - Mass funerals in southern Lebanon
08-18-06 - Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 10 ? 16 Aug 2006
08-18-06 - Israelis arrested in Samaná are taken to Dominican capital they are being questioned as to the origin of their military equipment. including communications geographic location, and night viewing.
08-18-06 - Israeli jets circle over Bekaa Valley The reporter said military jets, helicopters and drones had circled over the area and had come under anti-aircraft fire but had not been hit and had not opened fire themselves.
08-18-06 - Abbas announces Palestinian cease-fire However, some of the factions' representatives said the cease-fire would be implemented only if Israel halted it s military attacks in the Gaza Strip.... According to one aide, Abbas even turned down a request from Washington to dismiss the Hamas government and to reinstall his Fatah party.
08-18-06 - Lebanon's devastation sightseers "Hezbollah may have kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, but Israel kidnaps Lebanese and Palestinians when it likes," he says. "No-one comes to bomb essential roads and bridges in Israel."
08-18-06 - In pictures: In the rubble of southern Beirut
08-18-06 - Wife plea for missing journalist The British wife of a Fox News cameraman has made an emotional plea to his kidnappers to release him and a fellow journalist.
08-18-06 - Hizbollah hands out cash for Lebanese war victims Lebanon's reconstruction chief said Israeli bombardment had inflicted a "disastrous" $3.6 billion worth of physical damage on Lebanon from which it could take years to recover. The United States, via Cheney and the neocons, gave Israel the greenlight to attack Lebanon earlier this year.
08-18-06 - Mixed UN commitments from Europe European governments are mixed in their support for an enhanced United Nations mission in Lebanon.
08-18-06 - Syrians demand military action to reclaim Golan Heights Pressure is mounting on Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, to follow Hizbollah's example and consider force to eject Israel from Syrian land that it has occupied for nearly 40 years.
08-18-06 - South Africa: South Africa is Best Qualified to Help the Middle East Today, it is the controversial policies of Israel towards its occupied, militarily weak and poor neighbouring countries that continue to prick the conscience of those who know what it means to be subjected to such dehumanising policies. Like the former white-minority governments of southern Africa, Israel believes that its military might and the (LMM1)concrete wall that it is erecting between itself and the Palestinian territories are enough to ensure its security indefinitely.
08-18-06 - Soldiers Detain Palestinian Kids for getting hit with Settlers? Rocks B'tselem reported that the Palestinian boys were walking down the steps near Shuhada Street, and settler boys were throwing rocks at them. The settler boys then told the soldier that the Palestinian boys were throwing rocks at them
08-18-06 - The Headlines is BACK The fellow that runs that site lives in Lebanon, and had to flee the area for over a month. It is good to know that he survived.
08-18-06 - Olmert 'suspends' withdrawal plan Mr Olmert was elected on a platform of withdrawal from some of the West Bank, while tightening Israel's hold on large settlements and the Jordan Valley.
08-18-06 - Teenage Settlers Hurl Glass Bottles at Human Rights Workers
08-18-06 - Hezbollah's transformation is a case study "Everybody is going to be much more aware and much more willing to let Israel take action precisely to prevent a situation where Gaza turns into south Lebanon."
08-18-06 - A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag as he is sprayed with a colored liquid from a water canon by Israeli border police during a protest
08-18-06 - A Letter from 18 Writers The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner--and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis--there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.
08-18-06 - A man holding up a Palestinian flag resists a spray of coloured water shot by an Israeli police water cannon vehicle used to disperse demonstrators
08-18-06 - End the taboo on challenging Israel He gets points for even raising the issue, but the author is wrong: the US owes Israel nothing.
08-18-06 - Jewish man wanted to help Palestinians Edmund Hanauer, a Jewish man who devoted his life to promoting justice for Palestinians, died last week after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 68.
08-18-06 - Israel ? Our Delinquent 'Ally' Ken Silverstein cites a "well-connected former CIA officer" who claims an American role in the peacekeeping force is being actively considered by the Bush administration ? and, as the prospects of an international force seem to wilt on the vine, the likelihood of direct American intervention grows. Huge mistake. If you think our guys are sitting ducks in Iraq, try sending them to Lebanon, where people are openly blaming the US for the devastation that Israel rained down on them.
08-18-06 - Israeli forces arrest 30 Palestinians
08-18-06 - Despite the bombing, Hizbullah appeals to Arab-Israelis
08-18-06 - Judgment Day coming ? for the neocons by Patrick J. Buchanan With some of us, the tutoring never took, but the neocons surely did convert George W. How's your boy doing, Irving?
08-18-06 - To engage or not to engage? Groups ponder approach as U.N. disappoints Evidently the UN, unlike the US, refuses to bow down to Israel. This infuriates the likes of the ADL and other organizations dedicated to and based on the supremacy of Israel.
08-18-06 - Officials: U.S. helped stop Iranian shipment Officials from two different U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed to USA Today that U.S. diplomats persuaded Turkey and Iraq to deny an Iranian plane laden with sophisticated missiles and launchers access to their airspace en route to Syria.
08-18-06 - A foretaste of larger furies to come Israel and the US have shown they are prepared to destroy an entire country to assert their interests if not also their dominance in this region
08-18-06 - Israel: Hezbollah used Russian missiles And Israel uses US-made weaponry - and killed mostly civilians in Lebanon, as well as destroyed civilian infrastructure.
08-18-06 - Invest in peace, United Church urges members proposal had been before the council that, if adopted, would have seen the church boycott any Canadian or international firm involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. But the church moved away from the idea after intense lobbying from Jewish leaders.
08-18-06 - Accused Israeli minister to quit This is the latest in a series of cases of alleged impropriety involving Israeli ministers and senior figures.
08-18-06 - Laborites slam Defense Minister for supporting talks with Syria
08-18-06 - AJCommittee: Consider war?s impact on Israel The American Jewish Committee wants international human rights groups to consider the Lebanon war's impact on Israel.
What chutzpah. Israel inflicted billions of dollars in damage in Lebanon in a war that was planned a year ago, and that which was a disproportionate response to the abduction of the IDF soldiers. The 1000+ Lebanese victims' families should sue Israel though the US would end up paying (as it always does for Israel's intransigence).
08-18-06 - View of common fears drives US-Israel policy "The president doesn't see any difference between American interests and Israeli interests with regard to the Middle East now," And that is the problem. For, our interests are NOT the same. And where they diverge, America's interests MUST come first. And secondly, America has been involved in Israel's war on the Arabs in the first place because of Israel's lobby in the US. The support this lobby garners has endangered America to the detriment of US citizens.
08-18-06 - Reports: Clarett has ties to Israeli mob
08-18-06 - The border of loyalty The relationship between the State of Israel and its minorities is currently at a crossroads. The Arab community must decide where its loyalties lie - to those who are willing to live in the state of the Jews as a loyal minority with full rights and obligations I say "Welcome". To those who tied their fate to that of the Palestinian people I say that this country may be too small for both of us.
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