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Monday, August 28, 2006
08-27-06 - Fighting in Gaza kills four Palestinians, wounds journalists On Sunday afternoon, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot in the head by a sniper in the Shajaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza City, hospital officials said. The army said the man approached troops while he was carrying an anti-tank missile. A six-year-old boy was shot in the chest and critically wounded in the same area later Sunday outside his home
08-27-06 - Second Palestinian killed in Israeli offensive in eastern Gaza
08-27-06 - Syria will talk peace 'when Israel is ready' "Peace would involve Israel returning occupied lands to their owners and restoring their rights," Assad said. "Israel is an enemy founded on the basis of aggression and hegemony.
08-27-06 - Nasrallah sorry for scale of war Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
08-27-06 - Key US legislator says will block aid to Lebanon A key U.S. legislator said in Israel on Sunday he would block aid President George W. Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria Lantos is, not surprisingly, an Israel-firster.
08-27-06 - Israel deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in both Palestine and Lebanon
08-27-06 - Israeli Siege Leaves Gaza Isolated and Desperate More than 200 Palestinians, at least 44 of them children, have been killed in the past 8 weeks. 44 kids killed in 2 months' time. Had they all been killed at once, it may have made the headlines in America. But it's the slow methodical mode of killing that the IDF enjoys the best - so that it slips under the radar.
08-27-06 - Soldiers break into a physicians' home in Hebron, attack him and his family Dr. Zahda added that soldiers and settlers have carried repeated attacks in the area, and that his house was repeatedly occupied by soldiers and settlers in separate incidents.
08-27-06 - Soldiers violently attack older Palestinian man in his home
08-27-06 - Israel detains Palestinian Hamas MP in West Bank
08-27-06 - Mother, her child, injured east of Gaza City Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian mother and her child were injured in an Israeli shelling that targeted an area east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources reported.
08-27-06 - Tearful Western journalists freed after Gaza kidnap ordeal "We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," he said. "I have the highest respect for Islam, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns and we didn't know what the hell was going on," he said....Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, who met with the pair after their release, said the mysterious group behind the kidnapping was not linked to the global Al-Qaeda network as rumored.
08-27-06 - Wounded cameraman tells of Gaza blast "This car was not identified by the army as a press vehicle," said army spokeswoman Captain Noa Meir. "If journalists were hurt, we regret it." Uhh.. they might want to take a gander at this picture then. Dahh..
08-27-06 - Fox News crew freed after Gaza ordeal "I want to thank everybody. I am happy to be here. I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind-hearted," Centanni told reporters. "The world needs to know more about them. Don't be discouraged."
08-27-06 - Displaced Lebanese race bulldozers to recover keepsakes In the ruins of Haret Hreik, a southern Beirut suburb, Shiite families tried to save keepsakes before they were lost amid debris being cleared away by bulldozers and dump trucks.
08-27-06 - Israelis still occupy nine positions in south Lebanon: military Israeli troops still occupy nine positions in southern Lebanon two weeks after a ceasefire between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah ended more than a month of heavy fighting
08-27-06 - UN peacekeeping force not to destroy Hezbollah: Italian FM
08-27-06 - Israeli general plots war with Iran "Everyone is playing with dates and time frames, but the list of options is becoming shorter," he added. "I think we have one year open (to launch military action). Israel will have to decide." Israel will not launch a war on Iran. America will on her behalf - like it did with Iraq.
08-27-06 - Humbling of the supertroops shatters Israeli army morale ?For the last six years we were engaged in stupid policing missions in the West Bank,? he said. ?Checkpoints, hunting stone-throwing Palestinian children, that kind of stuff. The result was that we were not ready to confront real fighters like Hezbollah.?
08-27-06 - Lebanese offical blasts NYC man's arrest "As a Lebanese citizen first, and as an official in the Lebanese government and information minister of Lebanon, I find this to be unacceptable," Ghazi Aridi told reporters in Beirut.
08-27-06 - Canadians divided over Middle East conflict Almost half of Canadians blame the on-going conflict in the Middle East on Iran and Syria, and such groups as Hezbollah and Palestinian militias, according to a new national poll that says 19 per cent point the finger at Israel.
Good little sheepies.
08-27-06 - I Want to Represent Israel in Congress California?s Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) asked himself how to better serve Israel and overlook American interests? Out of no where, the savior emerged as a hero: he suggested withholding aid from Lebanon.
08-27-06 - At-Tuwani Update 1 August - 13 August The soldier explained that the settlers believe that there is a clear
delineation between the Palestinian side of the Khoruba valley and the settler
side. Eventually, the soldier admitted that it was all Palestinian land but was
concerned that no one gets hurt. He then told the settlers to go back to the
woods.
08-27-06 - Israeli military abducts Palestinian mayor; CPT visits family Three weeks earlier, August 3, 2006, at CPT's request, Mayor Farhan had hosted
thirty internationals representing several different Christian organizations
visiting Israeli and Palestine. Tracy Hughes, CPT member who brought a
delegation from Common Global Ministries, expressed shock when she heard of the
arrest. ...At the time of his arrest Mayor Alqam was in the process of inviting former
President Jimmy Carter to visit Beit Ommar Now you know why he was arrested.
08-27-06 - "THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM" - Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem This is where we take our stand. We stand for justice. We can do no other. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation with a life of security and prosperity for all the peoples of our Land. By standing on the side of justice, we open ourselves to the work of peace - and working for peace makes us children of God.
Hallelujah.
08-27-06 - Missing facts may have changed Israel/Lebanon poll results If you knew that Israel?s attack on Lebanon had been planned for over a year, and that the capture of two Israeli soldiers was just their excuse, would you still think their attack was justified?
08-27-06 - Hezbollah says won't resist UN troops
08-27-06 - Trickle of supplies reaches Lebanon Israel has blocked commercial cargo flights, letting about three planes carrying relief supplies land daily at the country's only international airport, along with seven passenger flights, airport officials said.
In a prison called Lebanon. How many Arab nations can Israel imprison at once?
08-27-06 - Annan to visit Beirut U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will discuss the deployment and role of a planned 15,000-strong peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon when he visits Beirut on Monday for the first time since the Israel-Hizbollah war.
08-27-06 - Jesse Jackson says Syria backs prisoners' release Syria backs efforts to free captured Israeli soldiers and Arab prisoners held by the Jewish state, U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said after meeting President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday.
08-27-06 - US Fox news 'grateful' for release of reporters
08-27-06 - US support for Israel soars after Hizbullah war Support for Israel was highest in the US South, where 56% said the Land of Israel was given to the Jews by God and 45% said the state of Israel fulfilled biblical prophecy. The comparable figures for the Northeast region were 24% and 22%, respectively.
The south is chock full of Christian fundies.
08-27-06 - Campaign to raise funds for children starts today A CAMPAIGN by Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) to assist Lebanese and Palestinian children affected by the recent crisis in the region will be officially launched at the City Center today
08-27-06 - Hezbollah 'in talks' on prisoner exchange Sheikh Nasrallah has told a Lebanese television station that prominent politician Nabih Berri is acting as a middle man in negotiations aimed at exchanging the two Israeli soldiers for Lebanese prisoners held in Israel.
08-27-06 - Islamic Jihad supports coalition, but not to join
08-27-06 - Cluster bombs leave 'toys' that kill children The US State Department opened an investigation last week into whether Israel?s use of American-made cluster bombs violated an agreement that they would not be used in civilian areas.
And a US official stated that this investigation is just for show. The cluster bombs are courtesy of the United States of America.
08-27-06 - Haredi writer accused of racism, slander In the article, published in the ultra-Orthodox newspaper "Hassidic World", author Yitzhak Ben-Zvi writes that "the Arabs are a people
similar to donkeys? they are a vile nation of savages? they have a great desire to murder and are even worse than the Nazi enemy." He's just saying what most Israelis think. See yesterday's news.
08-27-06 - Flights bring bridges to Lebanon Two aid flights are due to take off from RAF Brize Norton for Lebanon, with bridges to replace crossings bombed in recent Israeli air raids.
08-27-06 - Berlin demands to board Lebanese ships Germany is offering to patrol Lebanon's coast rather than send ground troops as part of a UN peacekeeping force after the conflict between Israel and Lebanon-based Hizbullah.
08-27-06 - U.N. plans Lebanon 'exclusion zone'
08-27-06 - UN will not stop Syria sending weapons to Lebanon Speaking in Brussels before heading to the region, Kofi Annan, pictured below, the UN Secretary-General, confirmed that the 15,000-strong force will not meet Israeli demands to police the routes used by the militia to smuggle missiles from Syria. "Troops are not going in there to disarm - let's be clear,"
08-27-06 - Palestine, justice still the issue
08-27-06 - Law Put to Unusual Use in Hezbollah TV Case, Some Legal Experts Say
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