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Sunday, August 20, 2006
08-19-06 - Palestinian farmer killed in Gaza; Friday's death toll rises to seven
08-19-06 - Palestinian shoots dead Israeli soldier in West Bank A Palestinian militant killed an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank before being shot dead himself, the Israeli army and Palestinian sources said....In a separate incident, five Palestinians were wounded in the village of Tell, south of Nablus, when Israeli soldiers in five vehicles responded to stone-throwing by opening fire, Palestinian medical and security services said.
08-19-06 - Lebanon gives warning after Israeli raid Israel said the raid was launched to stop arms smuggling from Iran and Syria to the militant Shiite fighters, while Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora called the operation a "flagrant violation" of the U.N. truce. An Israeli officer was killed during the raid, and two soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
08-19-06 - Jerusalem's Shu'fat Refugee Camp residents appealing for water Without prior warning thousands of camp residents lost their water supply 10 days ago
08-19-06 - Israeli aircraft attack eastern Lebanon: source Israeli aircraft fired several rockets at a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon early on Saturday, a Lebanese security source said.
08-19-06 - Israel kills 3 Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon raid
08-19-06 - Gaza border crossing re-opens for humanitarian cases The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt re-opened in both directions for humanitarian cases, European observers said.
08-19-06 - Emergency aid for Gaza's Palestinians held up in Israel due to Lebanon conflict ? UN Hundreds of containers full of food for Palestinians in Gaza are still being held up in the Israeli port of Ashdod because of a backlog caused by the recent conflict in Lebanon that closed the port of Haifa, the United Nations said today.
08-19-06 - Israel violated Lebanon ceasefire: Annan Israel has violated the terms of a UN-mandated halt to fighting in Lebanon, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said, calling on all parties to respect an embargo on unauthorized arms shipments to Lebanon. Israel violate a ceasefire? Say it ain't so...
08-19-06 - Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."
08-19-06 - Hamas plea over seized deputy PM
08-19-06 - Robert Fisk's Beirut Diary: A land reduced to rubble
08-19-06 - Egypt denounces Israel's arrest of Palestinian deputy PM
08-19-06 - Annan says U.N. won't 'wage war' A key concern of many countries is whether the U.N. force will be called on to disarm Hezbollah fighters, as called for in a September 2004 U.N. resolution. They want to study the rules of engagement and concept of operations for the force, which were distributed Friday, before making a decision on troops.
08-19-06 - Journalists in Gaza protest kidnapping Palestinian journalists on Saturday protested the kidnapping of a Fox News correspondent and cameraman, as concern about the men's safety grew.
08-19-06 - Israelis Back Attack on Iran Reactor Many Israeli adults would support a pre-emptive strike against a nuclear facility in Iran, according to a poll by Teleseker published in Maariv. 63 per cent of respondents think Israel should bomb the Iranian nuclear core.
08-19-06 - Army storms charitable society offices in Hebron
08-19-06 - Chavez launches fundraising drive for Lebanon, Palestinians President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela is carrying out a nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for the Palestinian people.
08-19-06 - Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians with Nasrallah screen savers on their mobile phones
08-19-06 - Lebanese army says its citizen kidnapped by Israeli forces Lebanese army said Friday that Israeli forces has abducted a Lebanese youth from southern Lebanon. Abdullah Malak, 22, was kidnapped from the southern village of Beit Leif, the army said in a statement, quoted by media reports.
08-19-06 - Israel arrests Palestinian who stabbed tourist to death in J'lem The Shin Bet security service announced Saturday that it had apprehended a Palestinian youth, a resident of the West Bank village of Kabatiya south of Jenin, who confessed to the stabbing death of an Italian tourist in Jerusalem last Thursday.
08-19-06 - Blair Middle East mission snubbed Tony Blair's bid to revive the Middle East peace process has received a rebuff from Israel, The Observer has learned, placing in doubt his plans for a high-profile diplomatic mission to the region.
08-19-06 - War Stirs Worry in Israel Over State of Military "For four weeks we failed to defend ourselves against daily bombardments against our cities. This is a failure that never happened before,"
08-19-06 - Clean-up crews recover some of massive Lebanon oil spill Clean-up crews have recovered about 100 tonnes of oil along the coast of a historic Lebanese port city after a massive spill caused by Israel's bombing of a power plant.
08-19-06 - Israel warns it will enforce arms ban In a boost for Israel, the U.S. declined to criticize the Israeli campaign, noting the U.N. resolution's arms ban on Hezbollah. According to the AFP report, this raid was not in fact about preventing Hezbollah from getting arms. Nevertheless, our government is a stoolie for Israel.
08-19-06 - Hezbollah supporters tell of bold Israeli raid gone wrong Israel said its raid, which drew harsh criticism from Lebanon's premier and threatened to throw off course a six-day-old truce, was aimed at preventing weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Syria and Iran. But villagers in Buday, nearly all of them self-described supporters of Hezbollah which in recent days has doled out thousands of dollars in cash to those whose homes have been destroyed in southern Beirut, see a different motive. "They came to capture Sheikh Yazbek,"......The vehicles were painted in Lebanese army colors and the Israeli soldiers were wearing Lebanese army uniforms, so the Israeli soldiers were able to move freely for several hours, residents say.
I wonder how the Lebanese government feels about Israel pulling that one.
08-19-06 - Arab nations urge new Israeli peace plan
08-19-06 - Bush should listen to elders instead of neocons Leaked information that the operation had been planned for over a year by Israel and the United States lays bare any pretense that pursuit of democratic reform in the Middle East is his goal -- a goal buried in the smoking ruins of a small but beautiful country used as a testing ground for future attacks on Syria and Iran, in line with neocon fantasies of hegemonic control of the Middle East.
08-19-06 - Russia says counting on Palestinian promise to end attacks on Israel
08-19-06 - Israeli Apartheid: The striking parallels to South Africa
08-19-06 - Intelligence Test by JAMES BAMFORD the commission discovered that the original plan for 9/11 envisioned an even larger attack. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the strategist of the 9/11 plot, "was going to fly the final plane, land it and make 'a speech denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East,'" Kean and Hamilton say, quoting a staff statement. And they continue: "Lee felt that there had to be an acknowledgment that a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was vital to America's long-term relationship with the Islamic world, and that the presence of American forces in the Middle East was a major motivating factor in Al Qaeda's actions."
08-19-06 - France condemns arrest of Palestinian deputy PM by Israel
08-19-06 - Islamic Jihad rejects to join Palestinian coalition cabinet
08-19-06 - IDF troops suspected of Gaza looting
08-19-06 - Historic Byblos polluted by war Berj Hatjian wants to know why Israel attacked oil storage tanks right by the sea. He thinks they must have known what the effect would be, that it would punish whole communities that had nothing to do with the conflict.
08-19-06 - Middle East in pivotal moment, says Bush He says the US and its allies "will defeat the terrorists by strengthening young democracies across the broader Middle East". Haha HAHAHAHAHAHA. When Hamas representatives were democratically elected in Palestine, the US - at the behest of Israel - CUT OFF FUNDING to this already impoverished land.
08-19-06 - Policy on Middle East Divides Americans 35 per cent of respondents say U.S. policy is as fair with the democratic government of Lebanon as it is with the democratic government of Israel, while 37 per cent disagree.
08-19-06 - Palestinians Wait to Cross Into Gaza
08-19-06 - To Israel with love "Thank God we have AIPAC, the greatest supporter and friend we have in the whole world," says Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister The Israeli lobby endangers Americans, and this bothers the AIPACers not one iota. Americans are so 'pro-Israel' because the mainstream media in America fail to present the other side of the story - which gets airtime in Europe. And THAT'S the difference.
08-19-06 - Our foreign policy is just plain wrong As long as the Palestinians are subject to daily humiliations and settlements are expanded on the West Bank, all in breach of international law, and denied a viable homeland, Israel's legal and moral right to live in peace behind secure and recognised borders will be undermined. Israel/Palestine should become not a cause but an obsession. If it redefines our relationship with the United States, so be it.
08-19-06 - Memorial Honors Woman's Non-Violent Efforts The Rachel Corrie exhibit opens Saturday night at the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno.
08-19-06 - Chicago feds outline case against alleged Hamas fundraisers
08-19-06 - Earlham grad studies Israeli, Palestinian conflict "For me, it's very important as a Jew to reach out to Palestinians and understand who they are and how they feel about their lives and about their national conflict with Israel," Leader said. "There's not really a lot of energy right now in the Jewish community to understand Palestinian politics and society. There's a lot of pressure to stand with Israel in a very blind way and I think that's a really dangerous and unfortunate phenomenon."
08-19-06 - Ad pitch for Israel aimed at Christians the pitch goes beyond mere sympathy. The scenes are interspersed with biblical passages that suggest a divine calling to help the cause. And here's the supreme irony - Israel leveled Lebanon - a nation that is 40 % Christian. THOSE Christians won't be getting squat from the Christian Right in this country.
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