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Sunday, September 03, 2006
09-02-06 - Three Palestinians killed amid reported prisoner exchange talks Three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, sources said, while talks were reportedly taking place to exchange an Israeli soldier for Palestinian women and children.
09-02-06 - Israeli warplane destroys Palestinian house, wounding two
09-02-06 - Palestinians to announce unity government in 10 days: Abbas
09-02-06 - £3 million from UK helps rehabilitate Palestinian water and electricity services The payment will help to ensure that water, sanitation and electricity services are kept running by providing finance for essential operation, maintenance and repair work.
09-02-06 - ACT Appeal: Emergency assistance to the Palestinian population
09-02-06 - Palestinians strike over lost pay There has been a big response in the West Bank, with most government offices shut and the first day of the school year heavily disrupted.
09-02-06 - Tehran assures Annan on Lebanon Hours before Mr Annan's visit, the Iranian president repeated his warning that Iran would not abandon its nuclear programme.
09-02-06 - Unrest in Gaza Eoin Murray from Trocaire, the Irish Catholic Aid Agency, lived in Gaza for two years and has just come back from a visit there. He told us the situation is the worst he has ever seen?
09-02-06 - Lebanese official wants blockade broken The Western-backed Saniora rejected the contention that the blockade was being carried out under paragraph 14 of the U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution, which calls on the Lebanese government to secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the influx of weapons. "Who assigned Israel to be guardian of the implementation of the resolution?" Saniora asked.
09-02-06 - Former security chief urges Iran action ISRAEL should consider a military option to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the former head of the Mossad intelligence service said overnight.
09-02-06 - In Lebanon, a prominent military figure disputes Israel's motive for war few appear to be paying attention - by the evidence, such as it is, put forth by a prominent, retired Lebanese military officer who claims that "[t]he capture operation actually took place in the Alm Al-Shaab area of south Lebanon...."....The problem is, of course, that even if Hteit's claim is true, now, after Israel's intense bombing of southern Lebanon during the war, there is no physical evidence left standing to support his argument.
09-02-06 - Increased Israeli Military Harassment of Palestinians in Hebron Since the War in Lebanon, the Christian Peacemaker Team has seen
increased military activity in Hebron, especially in and around the Old City.
09-02-06 - Hamas official calls on Israel to unfreeze Palestinian tax revenues The Palestinian government led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday called on Israel to unfreeze tax revenues worth of 600 million U.S. dollars they held since it took office in late March.
09-02-06 - Italian troops arrive in Lebanon
09-02-06 - Robert Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity All agree that the most pernicious element to the latest Bush rant is his gift to Israel of placing Ehud Olmert in the ranks of his "war on terror", quite specifically linking Israel's slaughter of Lebanese civilians in July and August to his own manic project by stating that combatants from Iraq and Lebanon "form the outlines of a single movement, a worldwide network of radicals that use terror to kill those who stand in the way of their totalitarian ideology".
09-02-06 - Eyewitness reports from Gaza Caritas Jerusalem, the Catholic aid agency working in the Holy Land has just sent these reports
09-02-06 - Most Americans Blame Hezbollah for War Conversely, 55 per cent of respondents think the Lebanese government should be blamed, while 48 per cent hold the Israeli government responsible.
Ruh roh. Better get more ads to the sheep, Abe.
09-02-06 - Israeli Company Refuses to Prosecute British Protesters Over Fear of Examination of the Lawfulness of its Business in Court Carmel is complicit in war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICC Act). They import fresh produce originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.
09-02-06 - Nonviolent movement claims partial victory as part of settlement dismantled near Bil'in But in the rest of the West Bank, Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land are due to expand, with an Israeli court order ruling that Israeli authorities should allow settlement growth.
09-02-06 - Congressmember Weiner Gets It Wrong On Palestinian Group He Tried To Bar From U.S. You know, Israel didn't choose to have a war. Yes they did, Anthony Weiner. They planned it a year ago(paragraph 4). This guy is yet another shill for Israel on Capitol Hill.
09-02-06 - "Butcher of Qana" finds No Safe Haven on Capitol Hill
09-02-06 - Bedouin Homes Destroyed The Government of Israel demolished SIX houses today in the Negev
09-02-06 - Villagers See Violations of a Cease-Fire That Israel Says Doesn't Exist Israeli tanks crisscross the dry brown hills, shooting into the fields and smashing up houses and stone walls. Teams of Israeli soldiers have planted their nation?s flag atop bluffs here and sometimes detained Lebanese men, releasing them days later. No one seems to know where the mobile Israeli units are based, or how to avoid them....The flags and the continuing presence of Israeli soldiers here have further angered villagers already stunned by the extent of the Israeli bombing. Even some Christians, whose villages were largely spared the destruction visited on Shiite areas, say the war has fueled their support for Hezbollah.
09-02-06 - Israel rejects Syria's arms embargo pledge Israeli officials were sceptical about the Syrian offer, pointing out that they did not believe Syria could be trusted to enforce the arms embargo as it had been the main supplier of arms to Hizbollah for more than two decades.
09-02-06 - Canada government slips in key battleground: poll The decision by Canada's minority Conservative government to take a strongly pro- Israel stance is costing the party support in the influential French-speaking province of Quebec, according to a poll published on Thursday.
09-02-06 - US may consider additional aid to IDF The official also rejected a report in The New Yorker magazine at the beginning of the month according to which Israel and the US had coordinated and planned the war in advance as a test to see how the military would function in the run-up to a possible strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Horsesh*t.
09-02-06 - World Questions U.S. Role in Mid-East War 34 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is responsible for the war in Lebanon.
09-02-06 - Erekat calls for building a sea-port and repair Gaza airport
09-02-06 - Egypt's Mubarak says negotiations underway on swap of Palestinian, Israeli prisoners
09-02-06 - Palestine Prime Minister cleaned garbage When garbage men went on a strike in Gaza three days ago, garbage covered the streets. In order to encourage people to do the same thing, Palestine Prime Minister Ismael Haniya took the brooms of the garbage men and cleaned the streets with volunteers.
09-02-06 - Aid for Palestine significant part of China's support for Mideast peace process: envoy The economic assistance to Palestine, including humanitarian aid, is an important expression of China's support for the Middle East peace process, Sun Bigan, Chinese envoy on the Middle East, said on Friday in Stockholm.
09-02-06 - German Jewish leader accuses Merkel minister of anti-Semitism Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of German Jews, has been angered over calls by Development Aid Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul for a United Nations probe into Israel's use of cluster bombs in military strikes on Lebanese and Hezbollah targets.
09-02-06 - Lebanese clear away the rubble from war
09-02-06 - 'Fascism' Frame Set Up by Neocon Press The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.....Israel-centered neoconservatives and other hawks have long tried to depict foreign challenges to U.S. power as replays of the 1930s in order to rally public opinion behind foreign interventions and high defense budgets and against domestic critics.
09-02-06 - Race is on to save the Dead Sea Ariel Sharon, the ailing former Israeli prime minister, once called Israel?s diversion of the River Jordan in 1964 the spark that led to the six day war in 1967. Palestinians are still forbidden to sink new wells.
09-02-06 - Palestinian educator breaks barriers to teach politics MORAGA: St. Mary's professor born blind in West Bank camp, but stays objective on Mideast
09-02-06 - Get ready for the Democrats The basic attitude of Congress toward Israel is not likely to change, according to some pro-Israel officials busy trying to insure just that
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