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Friday, September 01, 2006
08-31-06 - Israeli army kill senior Palestinian militant in Nablus: witnesses
08-31-06 - Palestinian militant commander in Gaza assassinated by unknown gunmen
08-31-06 - Palestinian despair as donors meet The administration is so broke that it has been able to pay its workers almost nothing for six months. The entire civil service - which normally supports a quarter of the population - is being forced into poverty...The United Nations puts the poverty rate in Gaza at close to 80%
08-31-06 - Annan prods Israel to lift Lebanon siege Annan described Israel's 7-week-old blockade of Lebanon as "unsustainable," saying: "It is important that it is lifted and not be seen as collective punishment of the Lebanese people."
08-31-06 - UN chief in Syria, blasts Israel over cluster bombs
08-31-06 - Ruin, despair in Gaza neighborhood after Israeli incursion "My husband is abroad. We were so afraid. My youngest daughter, four years old, could not stop crying. She thought she would never again see her father. She kept repeating 'we are going to die, we are going to die.'"
Even worse, she says, is the fact that the Israeli army razed the family's nearby olive orchard.
08-31-06 - Donors make huge Lebanon pledge The Lebanon donor conference in Stockholm has raised more than $940m in pledges of new money, Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson has said.
08-31-06 - B'Tselem to Defense Minister: Stop using Rafah Crossing to pressure Gaza civilians
08-31-06 - Palestinian woman injured by US-troops fire in Iraq
08-31-06 - OPT: Oxfam calls on world leaders to lift Palestinian aid freeze at Stockholm conference
08-31-06 - Crisis in Gaza deepens
08-31-06 - Experts clearing cluster bombs from Lebanese villages Masche has found so many of the American-made M-42 cluster munitions that he named them "bomblet of the month" on his personal website, which he uses to educate others.
08-31-06 - Palestinians fire rockets; defy Abbas The Israeli army said four of the rockets landed near the southern border town of Sderot, while the fifth landed near the city of Ashkelon. There were no injuries, it said
08-31-06 - Garbage rots in Gaza as workers walk out Municipal workers responsible for garbage collection, water treatment, and sewage processing went on strike in Gaza City and two other southern towns three days ago. The action - along with a broader strike threat by other unions linked to the opposition Fatah Party - has been widely viewed as a tactic to force Hamas to give in to demands to form a national unity government.
08-31-06 - Commandos storm Tel Aviv embassy Israeli police commandos have stormed a British embassy compound in Tel Aviv to capture a man who broke in and demanded asylum in the UK.
08-31-06 - Hope for women in war-torn countries "In Palestine, for instance, there's a woman who is handicapped. Through my collection, she was able to buy a wheelchair. It's a huge thing for her. She can now move around."
08-31-06 - Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism "We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war," the declaration added. I have a page of related articles here.
08-31-06 - Deception as a Way of Life - Israeli Myths the government has been embarrassed by reports that nearly half of the civilians killed by rockets were Arab, and by suggestions that the reasons for this were the state's long-standing failure to protect Arab communities by building public bomb shelters, providing air raid sirens and disseminating advice from the civil defence authorities in Arabic.....the government is amassing huge sums of money for the reconstruction effort from Jewish groups in America and Europe and is looking for an excuse not to fund work in Arab communities Racism.
08-31-06 - Israeli diplomat arrested on suspicion of pedophilia An Israeli diplomat, Yosef Sagiv, was arrested Friday in the American city of Atlanta on suspicion of computer related offences linked to pornography and the sexual exploitation of children.
08-31-06 - Protests against Khatami US visa "It is mystifying that we should roll out the red carpet to a person who has incited violence against civilians and who has expressed incendiary rhetoric against the United States and our allies," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Israel's head agent on Capitol Hill - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
08-31-06 - Merkel Soothes Jewish Ire After Minister's Cluster Bomb Remark A cabinet minister recently ruffled feathers in the Jewish community by calling for a UN investigation into possible Israeli "carpet bombs." Merkel and the Jewish council president met Wednesday to clear things up.
08-31-06 - Golan Syrians make rare visit to their homeland Every house in Qunaitera was demolished by Israeli forces before they withdrew under a truce in 1974
08-31-06 - War cost Lebanon millions in lost crops -Oxfam Potatoes, tobacco, melons and citrus fruits have been left to rot in Lebanese fields because farmers were unable to harvest them during the war between Israel and Hizbollah, aid agency Oxfam said on Thursday.
08-31-06 - US wheat heads to Lebanon from Jordan The US government has donated 700 tonnes of wheat to Lebanon as part of a "goodwill" gesture to help relief efforts, with the first trucks heading for Beirut from Jordan, the US embassy has said. It would have been MUCH more helpful if the US government had instead NOT supplied Israel with cluster bombs. Ronald Reagan banned supplying Israel with these same bombs in the 80s because Israel was using them AGAINST CIVILIANS THEN (too).
08-31-06 - Annan to meet Assad to bolster Lebanon truce
08-31-06 - The Lobby, the US and the Israeli War on Hezbollah The destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure, the bombing of areas not associated with Hezbollah, and especially the killing of almost 1,600 civilians, many of them women and children ? which constitutes an international war crime according to Amnesty International and other organizations ? had no effect whatsoever on either the U.S. executive branch or Congress This conference can be viewed here.
08-31-06 - Crayons and glass litter Lebanese school
08-31-06 - U.N. force in Lebanon getting weaponry The U.N. force in Lebanon will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of Italian and French troops with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said Thursday.
08-31-06 - Blinded by a concept By George Soros Israel has been a participant in this game, and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel. Events have shown that this policy leads to the escalation of violence...the United States has become less safe since Bush declared war on terror.
08-31-06 - Suspect in invasions is familiar to victims
08-31-06 - Italy coming out of Washington's shadow Long considered something of a junior partner among Europe's elite nations, Italy is carving out a hefty role in world affairs. Rome is contributing the largest contingent to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has claimed a role in negotiations with Iran and is rallying European governments around the idea that Italy can form a counterweight to American might.
08-31-06 - Fox Journalist Says He's 'Sympathetic' to Captors "In some ways, I feel such sympathy for the Palestinian cause. You know, in my heart. You know, I can't hate them for what they did. I resent on behalf of my family what they did. But there's a funny bit of me that's sympathetic to them still."
08-31-06 - Russian expert says Hamas not a terrorist organization
08-31-06 - Palestinian denies Israeli allegation of uncovering tunnel in eastern Gaza
08-31-06 - Palestinian gov't denies there are obstacles to form coalition government
08-31-06 - EU to seek new Mideast talks based on 1967 borders The European Union is set to launch a drive this week to revive long-stalled Middle East peace negotiations based on the principle of a return to Israel's 1967 borders, EU officials say.
08-31-06 - Abbas sides with angry civil servants
08-31-06 - Bush: Hezbollah plays terrorist role Hezbollah plays a central role in international terrorism, President Bush said. We are now being led to believe that Hezbollah is on par with Al Qaeda to justify US support for Israel's wanton destruction in Lebanon - including war crimes committed by cluster bombing civilian areas. Pure BS.
08-31-06 - 4 Israelis beat IDF soldier, break through West Bank checkpoint
08-31-06 - S. Africa: Union Pres. Adds Israel's Diamond Industry to Boycott Call
08-31-06 - In Pro-Israel Circles, Doubts Grow Over US Policy A growing debate within Israel over whether United States President George W. Bush's Middle East policies really serve the interests of the Jewish state has spread to Washington, where influential voices within the U.S. Jewish community are questioning the administration's hard-line positions in the region. US policy? The US does not make Israeli policy. It's quite the opposite.
08-31-06 - Galloway says Israel poisoning West-Islam ties
08-31-06 - Transcript: the Israel Lobby and the US Response to the War in Lebanon (pdf)
08-31-06 - Writer barred from reading 9/11 novel at Concordia The novel's plot deals touches on such controversial events as the university's decision to deny the student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights permission to hold a bazaar and rally on school property on Sept. 15, 2001.
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