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Monday, September 04, 2006


News for 09-03-06

09-03-06 - Boy wounded in teacher dispute A mass teachers? strike that is part of the Palestinian power struggle erupted in violence when masked militants trying to keep students away from school shot and wounded Issam Ghannam, a 12-year-old boy trying to go to class in Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank.


09-03-06 - Gaza doctors encounter 'unexplained injuries' The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering whether there is a case for an investigation into the injuries amid suspicions by the medics that the injuries were inflicted by what they claim may have been unidentified "non-conventional" weapons....Beside especially severe burning "down to the bones", the doctors say that, in other cases, internal organs have been ruptured without any obvious sign of shrapnel wounds


09-03-06 - Olive Picking Program 2006 Despite the ruling of the International Court of Justice regarding the illegality of the Separation Wall, the Israeli authorities continue to divide villagers from their land and water resources. Many farmers feel that this year will be their last chance to harvest their produce. You are cordially invited to help them defy the illegal occupation of their land.


09-03-06 - Haneya urges Arabs to break siege imposed on Palestinians Ismail Haneya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, on Sunday called on Arab nations to break a siege imposed by the United States and Israel on the Palestinians and its government.


09-03-06 - Israeli notice to northern West Bank: Land will be confiscated, olive trees will be destroyed Hundreds of farmers will no longer be able to reach their trees and crops when Israeli forces have completed the confiscation and destruction in the Palestinian town


09-03-06 - Israeli forces attack Palestinians trying to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque Israeli soldiers in al-Ram neighborhood at the edge of occupied Jerusalem opened fire at West Bank Palestinians trying to enter Jerusalem to attend the Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque.


09-03-06 - Swap for Shalit? Israel is reportedly in talks to release 800 jailed Palestinians in exchange for a soldier held hostage in the Gaza Strip.


09-03-06 - Old mines in northwestern West Bank endanger farmers and firefighters The mines date back to Israeli forces and the Prince of Jordan during the Six Day War in 1967. Between Qalqilia, a city now encircled by the Wall, and Nablus further to the north, several patches of explosives are waiting to detonate


09-03-06 - Lebanese MPs prolong sit-in against Israeli blockade "The Israeli blockade is in violation of (UN Security Council) Resolution 1701, and we have taken steps to make sure it is lifted,"


09-03-06 - Israel attacks Gaza building Israeli forces launched an air strike on the home of a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip early on Monday and troops began a new raid into the north of the territory, residents said.


09-03-06 - Lebanese officials scoff at Israel talks "Why should we negotiate with them?" said the information minister. "Israel will not get through peace what it failed to get in war."


09-03-06 - Qatar airline to fly into Beirut Qatar Airways says it will resume direct flights to Beirut on Monday despite a blockade by Israel.


09-03-06 - Hebron update: 8-16 August 2006


09-03-06 - Hebron Update 17-25 August 2006 Christina Gibb went to the opening of a new kindergarten in the Haret Jaberi
area, above the Hebron Rehabilitation Center. An earlier kindergarten, closer to
the large Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, had had to close because settler
harassment had made it unsafe for the children.


09-03-06 - Hebron Update 26 August - 1 September 2006


09-03-06 - At-Tuwani Update 14-31 August 2006 A friend of the team from At-Tuwani reported he had seen at least three
Israeli military Humvees and Jeeps in Yatta earlier that day. He said he
heard one soldier say to a group of children, "We are the Israeli army who
was in Lebanon. We want to do to you what we did there."



09-03-06 - Forecast: Israel will disappear in 17 years The year 2007 will mark the beginning of the countdown for the destruction of Israel, a process that will last 17 years, he claimed. The Christian Fundies will be giddy with excitement over the forthcoming 'Armageddon'.


09-03-06 - Genocide in Gaza


09-03-06 - From 1998: Israel's Ethnic Weapon? Israel is reportedly developing a biological weapon that would harm Arabs while leaving Jews unaffected, according to a report in London's Sunday Times.


09-03-06 - Lebanese PM rejected calls to meet: Olmert


09-03-06 - Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria ** (Note that neocon Perle is quoted in this article). There has been grave concern in Israel over a military pact signed in Tehran on June 15 between Iran and Syria, which the Iranian defence minister described as a "mutual front against Israeli threats". You know as well as I that America will be fighting this one too. Somehow, someway, America will be attacking Iran (and consequently Syria) very soon. This is not a new strategy for Israel, contrary to what they said in the article. Israelis demanded America next take care of Iran and Syria the minute we invaded Iraq. See also this article, and this one, and also this one.


09-03-06 - Jackson to ask Hizbollah for evidence on Israelis


09-03-06 - Israel Lobby Takes a Few Hard Hits


09-03-06 - When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic" It was known that in the last days of the war the Israeli army was engaged in a desperate attempt to have some "victory" and rushed troops here and there in an attempt to have a photo shoot near the Litani River. What was not known until now was the blind spite that sowed the ground of South Lebanon with a massive number of bomblets.


09-03-06 - Flashback Sept. 2004: Expulsion of Arafat imminent, says Israel It was the second time in a week that a senior Israeli official talked about expelling Arafat. On Monday, Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz said the government remained committed to a security cabinet decision from last year to remove Arafat, but there were no immediate plans. Arafat died only months later of an undisclosed ailment.


09-03-06 - Annan 'misguided' on Gaza offensive An Israeli Cabinet minister has described United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan as misguided after comments he made condemning Israel's continuing assault on the Gaza Strip.


09-03-06 - This war has taught us that Israel must revise its military approach by Shimon Peres A war deterrent is supposed to prevent war. The goal is peace. Well Mr. Peres, then why don't you explain to everybody why this entire operation was planned a year ago, and was even brought before Dick Cheney (paragraph 20) in order to get the approval of the Bush administration. All of this blather and bullsh*t is not going to change that fact.


09-03-06 - Turkey threatens to withdraw troops if required to disarm Hezbollah: PM


09-03-06 - Israeli army destroys Hezbollah weapon depots During the Israeli operation around the southern Lebanese village of Ayt a-Shab near the Israeli border, the troops found rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortar shells, light arms and communications equipment in the depot, the report said.


09-03-06 - Palestinian minister of communication quits Hamas- led government The resignation came amid mounting pressure on the government by unpaid employees who have not gotten salaries since the government took office in late March


09-03-06 - Kidnappers of Fox News journalists threat to abduct non-Muslim foreigners


09-03-06 - Gerry Adams on peace mission to Middle East THE Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, will this week urge warring Israeli and Palestinian factions to follow the Northern Irish blueprint for peace.


09-03-06 - Palestinians are urged to use Egypt crossing JERUSALEM: The World Bank yesterday recommended that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip send exports through the Rafah crossing with Egypt instead of a crossing with Israel that is often closed due to security concerns Someone needs to tell the World Bank that Israel has kept THAT crossing closed too.


09-03-06 - Father, his five sons, taken prisoners in Hebron Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday at dawn the Al Fawwar refugee camp, near Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, and arrested a father and his five sons after surrounding their home, Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported


09-03-06 - Israeli foreign minister rules out peace talks with Syria for now "The tools are in place to free Lebanon from Syria," she said. "To add other Syrian interests to this 'salad,' if you'll pardon the expression, would in my opinion complicate a process that is acceptable to everyone."


09-03-06 - 'Hezbollah is arming Gaza for a new war on Israel', says Israel's spy chief Mmm k.


09-03-06 - Critics of Israel 'fuelling hatred of British Jews'


09-03-06 - Chief Rabbis to meet Archbishop of Canterbury Campaigners have expressed their hopes that a meeting this week between Israel's Chief Rabbis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, will not lead to a softening of the Archbishop's stance on disinvestment in companies profiting from the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

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