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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
09-04-06 - Abbas might dissolve Hamas-led govt by Sept.
09-04-06 - Israel begins new settlement push The Israeli government says it plans to build 700 new homes in two settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank. This is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (international law), article 49. Here is an article on the subject from March by former president Jimmy Carter.
09-04-06 - Another fatal day in the 'war on terror' Abdul Rahman Imran, a Palestinian I met in Nablus in the West Bank yesterday, spoke with anger of the plight of his people while the world looks away. In July and August, 251 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army. Half of them were civilians, including women, children and the elderly, the Israeli daily Haaretz said.
09-04-06 - Across Palestinian territories, support for Hamas erodes "The crisis has reached the peak. People can't wait any longer without income," And that's precisely why Israel, and then consequently the US, enforced an aid embargo on Palestine (already one of the most impoverished places on earth) - to force them to dump the Hamas government.
09-04-06 - Palestinian lawmaker holds Israel responsible for economic crisis in territories "Israel keeps holding not less than 600 millions U.S. dollars from tax revenues that form about 70 percent of the Palestinian local income,"
09-04-06 - Bethlehem to be hemmed in on four sides, the latest for the Wall & a settler road in the southwest The Israeli forces Commander for the Central Region of the occupied West Bank, Major General Yair Naveh, has decided to confiscate 152 dunams of southern Bethlehem. The stated aims of the confiscation are "military purposes" and "the security wall."
09-04-06 - Israeli forces invade Doha village, injure two, including a child The injured civilians were identified as Riad Al-Azza, who was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the head, and a child, Muhammad Jamil Ghanayim, had a rubber-coated bullet embedded in his foot.
09-04-06 - Chirac: restarting dialogue on Palestine necessary French President Jacques Chirac said Monday it is necessary to relaunch the dialogue on Palestine issue. Israel in turn felt it necessary to relaunch the settlment-building machine.
09-04-06 - Israel attacks Gaza building, wounds 3 in W. Bank
09-04-06 - OPT: Staple foods in short supply Ging told IRIN that last year, Israel had closed the crossings into Gaza 19 per cent of the time, which was manageable. So far this year, Israel had closed the crossings more than 50 per cent of the time, he said, which made UNRWA's task impossible.
09-04-06 - Israeli Army injures a women and attacks three reporters in Hebron The Israeli army injured one women and three reporters during a search campaign of residents' houses in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday.
09-04-06 - Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused by the Jewish state's bombardment of a power station, Greenpeace has said.
09-04-06 - Lebanon to protest Israel's blockade "The Cabinet has decided to file a complaint with the Security Council against Israel for its continued blockade of Lebanon, its violation of international resolutions ... and its insistence to challenge the international will,"
09-04-06 - Patrick J. Buchanan: Bush has no authority to launch a war on Iran ** There are powerful forces in this country and Israel that wish the United States to launch a massive preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, and her military and naval assets as well. They will push the president hard to do this before he leaves office. These forces include the Israelis, their strong lobby in the United States, the neoconservatives, some conservative and centrist newspapers, and GOP prospective presidential candidates
09-04-06 - Israel afraid of retribution for war crimes against Lebanon The Foreign Ministry official said the legal-defense team, which includes representatives from the Justice and Defense ministries, is maintained by the government to help officials facing the possibility of war crimes charges abroad.
09-04-06 - European Nations Bar Heavy El Al Cargo Planes All three nations -- Britain, Germany and Italy -- have diplomatic relations with Israel and have been heavily involved in the effort to expand the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeeping mission. Nonetheless, the same nations now refuse to allow Israel?s national carrier to make stopover landings for refueling when carrying heavy cargo from U.S. army bases.
09-04-06 - George Carlin - Who Really Controls America Corporate and foreign interests. They count on OUR IGNORANCE, as I've pointed out in a few places here on my website (the foreign interests anyway). And long ago, when I (DH) had the geocities website, and before I began investigating the Israel angle, I had pointed out the bit about the corporate influence as well (top right). Solution? Get your news from overseas (UK), like I do. Do not be a sheep. We can no longer afford it. And God bless George Carlin, swear words and all.
09-04-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon is a moral imperative - and a wise strategy Israel's ongoing sea and air blockade, begun right after Hizbullah's kidnapping of its two soldiers triggered the war, has caused huge losses to Lebanon - and gains for Syria
09-04-06 - Skyshield air defense being considered
09-04-06 - Hamas on the brink of deal to lead new coalition in move to end funding crisis
09-04-06 - Israelis warned on tough talk Among terms and phrases now considered off-limits are "crushing the enemy" and "wiping out," or "cleansing," areas suspected of harboring Hezbollah or Palestinian terrorists. The wording is a secondary issue to the fact that Israel has routinely targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure in Palestine and Lebanon.
09-04-06 - UN 'to mediate in soldiers row' UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says Israel and Hezbollah have accepted his offer to mediate in the dispute over two captured Israeli soldiers.
09-04-06 - 9th - 16th of November 2006: 4th National & international week against THE APARTHEID WALL As the ghetto walls close around our people, the voice of the Palestinian and Arab resistance continues to echo within the Bantustans and beyond. Like every year since bulldozers started to level our land for the Wall?s path, the Week against the Apartheid Wall (November 9-16) will unite Palestinian communities struggling against the land grab and expulsion in mass protests.
09-04-06 - Red Cross slams Downer hoax claim THE International Committee of the Red Cross has rebuked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for relying on an unverified internet blog to claim an Israeli missile strike on one of its ambulances in southern Lebanon was a hoax. Now why would good old Mr. Downer pander to the Israeli lobby in that manner?
09-04-06 - Campaign to Free Pollard for Rosh HaShanah Ministers have been asked to make a concerted effort to ask U.S. President Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard in time for the Jewish New Year, 25 days from now.
09-04-06 - For Peace in the Middle East, Stop AIPAC!
09-04-06 - Israel Lobby Watch
09-04-06 - Lebanon army nears control of border with Israel: UN Lebanese troops should soon control their southern border for the first time in decades, a UN force commander has said, as Qatar became the first Arab country to offer back-up peacekeepers.
09-04-06 - Qatar pledges 200-300 troops to UN Lebanon force Qatar on Monday became the first Arab country to commit troops to the expanded U.N. force set up to keep the peace between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
09-04-06 - Strikes creating more uncertainty in Palestinian students? already uncertain lives
09-04-06 - Armed men attack Driver of a senior Fateh official and legislato Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses reported, on Sunday evening, that an unknown group of gunmen stopped the car of Dr. Nabil Shaath, a senior Fateh official and a Palestinian legislator and attacked his driver after forcing him out of the car.
09-04-06 - Israel talks snub for Sinn Fein The Israeli government has refused to meet Gerry Adams during his peace mission in the Middle East this week.
09-04-06 - Palestinian Cabinet minister retracts resignation A Palestinian businessman who serves in the Hamas-led Cabinet retracted his resignation on Monday
09-04-06 - Iran's ex-president Khatami believes US attack on Iran unlikely Asked about Ahmadinejad's remarks on Israel, he said: "I personally never said that Israel should be wiped off the map. "I always said and backed fair and equal peace in the region with the main pillar -- one of the main pillars of which would have to be fair treatment of Palestinians and also the repatriation rights of the Palestinian refugees."
09-04-06 - Olmert to Knesset defense panel: We'd use more force in war with Syria This subcommittee will deal with Israel's public relations campaign abroad during the war, the extent to which it was effective during the war in countering Hezbollah's propaganda and the diplomatic backlash of civilian casualties at Kafr Qana. It's a shame that Israel cares more about its image than about the civilians that its army (routinely) kills.
09-04-06 - Qatar plane lands in Beirut despite Israel blockade
09-04-06 - Typecasting Muslims as a Race "Muslims are the new Jews," said Paul Silverstein, an anthropology professor at Reed College in Oregon who studies the intersection of race, immigration and Islam. "They're the object of a series of stereotypes, caricatures and fears which are not based in a reality and are independent of a person's experience with Muslims." ..."The U.S. is so heavily allied with Israel that the kind of day-in, day-out demonization of Arabs that is associated with that conflict comes home with a vengeance to the United States,"
09-04-06 - Christian Zionists angry over slur Christian Zionists (and their Jewish counterparts like Abramoff, as one example), send money and support to illegal Israeli settlers - some of whom are very violent. They abet war crimes, since, the settlements are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).
09-04-06 - Netanyahu to meet with US VP on talks on Iran Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will leave to Washington on Monday for meetings with US Vice President Dick Cheney and senators about the threat from Iran.
09-04-06 - Jewish delegation meets Egyptian officials "The main message we take away from our meetings in Cairo is that Egypt and Israel need each other more than ever ? that the two nations share concerns about Iran, regional extremism and the urgency of advancing peace, concerns heightened by the war in Lebanon,"
09-04-06 - Europeans bar El Al planes with arms The decision made by England, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy will require Israel to significantly cut down the size of arms shipments.
09-04-06 - No prisoner swap, Olmert says
09-04-06 - U.N. general says Israel's Lebanon pullout on track
09-04-06 - The economics of Mid East peace If Shimon Peres (Comment, September 4) truly desired peace, why is the government of which he is deputy premier seeking to extend West Bank settlements
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