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Saturday, September 02, 2006


News for 09-01-06

09-01-06 - Israelis battle Gaza gunmen, 2 dead Younis Abu Odah, a resident, told local media that bullets fired during the gunfight came through his house and killed his 54-year-old father and 27-year-old brother, and wounded two of his sisters. He appealed for medics to take them to hospital


09-01-06 - 12 Year Old Boy Shot by Settler While Playing Near His Home


09-01-06 - Palestinian donor meeting raises $500 mln International donors pledged $500 million (263 million pounds) in aid for the Palestinian Territories on Friday and called on Israel to give humanitarian agencies better access to the region....A separate gathering on aid to Lebanon held in Stockholm on Thursday raised $940 million (495 million pounds), nearly double expectations. What price Israel? The world is once again left to pick up the tab after another rampage by Israel.


09-01-06 - Israeli formally annexes 14% of northern Bethlehem Now historic Bethlehem is entirely cut off from its twin city Jerusalem by a kilometer stretch of the Wall. Hundreds of shops, factories, cultural institutions, religious and social centers, and residential homes were either confiscated or annexed to Jerusalem and under complete Israeli control.


09-01-06 - Hamas PM urges Palestinian teachers not to strike Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya has urged teachers not to strike at the start of the new academic year as demanded by their union to protest the non-payment of salaries.


09-01-06 - U.N. names panel to probe Israel abuses Under the resolution, the three will investigate the "systematic targeting and killings of civilians by Israel," according to the commission's resolution. The commission will also examine the types of weapons Israel used and their conformity with international law.


09-01-06 - Hope and despair in the rubble of Lebanon's Bint Jbeil "I have nothing left," he says. "I'm not Hezbollah. Why do they have to do that to me?"


09-01-06 - A decade to clear cluster bombs in Lebanon Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based demining group said on Friday. ..."Currently one person per day is being killed and three people per day are being injured by ordnance of all types,"


09-01-06 - Experts: Reuters jeep not hit by missile


09-01-06 - Demonstrators are sprayed with a colored liquid fired from a water canon by Israeli border police, as one holds the Palestinian flag


09-01-06 - No victory for Hizbollah, say Lebanese Christians "People have got fed up over the years with outside interference and wars. I am sure that 75 per cent of the country want to have a secure country and live in peace irrespective of everything else."


09-01-06 - Israel: Beyond Good and Evil - Ehud Olmert's Nietzschean foreign policy Here is yet more evidence of my thesis that Israeli society, deformed by perpetual war and disfigured by state controls, is morphing into a form of fascism, including a mass movement with global reach that mimics the historical forms of national socialism - minus, of course, the requisite anti-Semitism Umm Justin, Arabs are Semites. And Israeli Jews would appear to be (last paragraph) very prejudiced against their Arab counterparts, to say the least.


09-01-06 - OPT: Strikes paralyse Palestinian health sector


09-01-06 - Israel to try Palestinian officials in Dec. An Israeli military court announced Thursday that the trial of detained Palestinian officials will be held on Dec. 12, Israel's newspaper Ha'aretzreported on its website editon.


09-01-06 - EU talks on Mid-East peace plan He said the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah had shown the need for reviving - and if necessary updating - the road map peace plan.


09-01-06 - UN welcomes Palestinian aid pledge Mr Egeland warned that a lack of funding had the potential to create a social revolt caused by the anger of Palestinians at their living standards. That was what Israel was hoping for and why it made sure that aid was cut off when Hamas was elected. Palestinians were to oust Hamas in this strategy.


09-01-06 - Israel drops Lebanon deployment objections, says Indonesia Israel has dropped objections to Indonesia's participation in the expanded UN force in Lebanon and Jakarta will send up to 1,000 troops, Indonesia's Defence Minister says.


09-01-06 - Syria agrees to U.N. resolution U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had promised to enforce an arms embargo on Hizbollah under a U.N. resolution that halted Israel's war with the Lebanese group.


09-01-06 - Deal would free 1,000 for Israeli soldier


09-01-06 - Atomic inspectors' report on Iran lays groundwork for united action The top agenda item for U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) for the last congressional session in September, before mid-term elections, is final passage of her Iran Freedom Act, which has garnered overwhelming support in the House of Representatives. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and an array of other Jewish groups are committed to the act's passage.


09-01-06 - German spy chief en route to Lebanon The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, is on route to Lebanon, a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday, fuelling speculation Germany may play a role in a prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon.


09-01-06 - Rosa Brooks: Criticize Israel? You're an Anti-Semite! What's most troubling is that it's typical. Typical, that is, of what anyone rash enough to criticize Israel can expect to encounter. In the United States today, it just isn't possible to have a civil debate about Israel, because any serious criticism of its policies is instantly countered with charges of anti-Semitism


09-01-06 - Israel Says Syria, Not Just Iran, Supplied Missiles to Hezbollah The U.S. and Israel in recent weeks have pressured nations that sell weapons to Iran and Syria to tighten restrictions on their transfer to third parties, an effort aimed at curtailing Hezbollah's arsenal. China, which has substantial economic interests in the region, is considered unlikely to stop its shipments, experts said, though the lobbying may have more effect on Russia.


09-01-06 - Critical congressman tours Israel The American Israel Education Foundation, which is affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, sponsored the trip, and an AIPAC staffer accompanied Van Hollen.


09-01-06 - Local residents, international peace activists protest against the Wall in Al Khader


09-01-06 - Abbas and Norway FM hold talks


09-01-06 - Bil?in Demonstrators Attacked by Experimental Weapons


09-01-06 - Brazil makes donation to Palestine


09-01-06 - Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates Meet In Only Debate Sheeler said the U.S. should support Israel, but he seemed to suggest the U.S. government should do more to support the creation of a Palestinian state


09-01-06 - Spain to build up Lebanon force


09-01-06 - Critics Decry 'Destroy and Lend' Policy in Lebanon Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience a devastating Washington-backed war and a massive influx of new illegitimate debt to cover reconstruction expenses, anti-debt activists say.

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