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Saturday, September 09, 2006
09-08-06 - Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps "Women in Gaza tell me they are eating only one meal a day, bread with tomatoes or cheap vegetables," said Kirstie Campbell of the UN's World Food Programme, which is feeding 235,000 people. She added that in June, since when the crisis has worsened, some 70 per cent of people in Gaza could not meet their family's food needs. "People are raiding garbage dumps," she said This is a direct consequence of America's policy - at the behest of Israel.
09-08-06 - Israel ends blockade of Lebanon A spokeswoman said Israel had turned over control of monitoring the coastline to the UN. The air blockade on the country was lifted on Thursday.
09-08-06 - UN leader picks up task closed to U.S. The trip was the kind of Middle Eastern shuttle diplomacy that American secretaries of state have been accustomed to make but cannot so easily now because of the plunge in American credibility due to its policy in Iraq and because at least two places Mr. Annan visited, Iran and Syria, are no- go zones for Washington.
09-08-06 - New Yorkers to study about Israel The New York City Council's education committee approved a curriculum on Israel initiated by the public relations department of the Israeli Consulate in New York. This is totally outrageous - the Israeli government dictating to American schools what to learn, and the NYC council going along with it.
09-08-06 - Israel creating grim reality in Holy Land I returned from there July 2. Let me tell you what I have seen and experienced on this Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I went on this trip to experience the situation of Christians living in that region. I went as a person who has been very pro-Israel all of his life. I came back with a very different perspective because of what I saw and experienced....To build this wall, Israel has had to demolish the homes of thousands of Palestinians. Not terrorists. Not solely Muslims. Indeed, much of the land was stolen from the Christians, who have lived in this land since the days of Jesus.
09-08-06 - UNDP: Israeli-imposed Losses in Gaza Strip Estimated at $46 Million The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that the estimated total cost of the damages in the Gaza Strip assessed for the period between June 28 and August 27, 2006, since the start of Israeli 'Operation Summer Rains' in Gaza, is around $46 million.
09-08-06 - Syria promises battalion to police border -Annan
09-08-06 - Israel continues banning Gazans from studying in West Bank
09-08-06 - How hi-tech Hezbollah called the shots "Israeli EW (electronic warfare) systems were unable to jam the systems at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, they proved unable to jam Hezbollah's command and control links from Lebanon to Iranian facilities in Syria, they blocked the Barak ship anti-missile systems, and they hacked into Israeli operations communications in the field," Israel jammed the frequencies of the USS Liberty so that it could not send an SOS, as Israel attacked it by air and by sea for 45 minutes.
09-08-06 - Lebanon PM in political battle of wills with Hezbollah
09-08-06 - Poll Finds Waning Faith in Intervention The survey of more than 1,500 randomly selected adults also found that nearly half (46 percent) of the respondents consider U.S. support for Israel a "major reason" for the rise in anti-U.S. sentiment around the world, a significant increase since Pew last posed the question 10 months ago
09-08-06 - Support of Israel hurts U.S. As Jan Egeland, U.N. humanitarian chief, stated after returning from a visit to Lebanon, "There is something fundamentally wrong when there are more dead children than armed men."
09-08-06 - Livni to Washington Tzippi Livni is arriving Wednesday for meetings with the U.S. secretary of state and other top administration officials to discuss how to deal with Iran now that it has refused to end its enrichment of uranium and how to maintain the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire in Lebanon.
The second trip to the US in a week by an Israeli official to discuss Iran.
09-08-06 - Paper reprints Holocaust cartoons Several of the cartoons contrast the plight of the Palestinians with that of the victims of the Holocaust.
09-08-06 - Chafee scuttles Bolton vote A Republican U.S. senator cited Israel's planned settlement expansion in delaying confirmation of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador.
09-08-06 - Israeli tanks shell Al Fokharia area in Gaza
09-08-06 - Israeli forces invade Khaza, ransack homes, destroy electricity and water infrastructure De'a Qadaih, a resident of the area, said that Israeli troops searched and ransacked his family's house for the second time since yesterday. He said they also attacked and hit his family members while searching the house; he added that troops came yesterday to his house and searched it, and took his father away without giving a reason.
09-08-06 - How Human Rights Watch lost its way in Lebanon
09-08-06 - Soldiers severely abuse young Palestinian and take a picture of themselves on his cell phone
09-08-06 - West Bank pullout plans over: Israel's Peres Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres has reiterated that his government had abandoned plans to withdraw from most of the occupied West Bank. In fact, there will be MORE illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank very shortly.
09-08-06 - Russian FM slams Israel arrest of Palestinian ministers, MPs Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed Israel's arrest of Palestinian ministers and MPs from the governing Hamas, after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
09-08-06 - Interview with Faisal Sawalha over the unrecognized Arab villages in Israel immediately after 1948 approximately 90 per cent of the Arabs in the Negev were forced out of the country. The government brought all the Arab residents who remained in the Negev and put them in a triangle between Dimona, Beer Shiva and Arad and they lived under military government from 1948 up to 1966, which means that they were not allowed to leave this area. As a result of this concentration, the Arabs lost their land outside this area since they could not use it
09-08-06 - Blair 'not welcome' in West Bank Correspondents say the UK's stance during Israel's bombardment of Lebanon - refusing to criticise Israel's military tactics or to back calls for an immediate ceasefire - caused anger across the Arab world.
09-08-06 - Factbox - Facts about Palestinian schools
09-08-06 - A policy of punishment Despite the historic responsibility of successive British governments for what has befallen our people, from the Balfour declaration to the catastrophe of dispossession, Palestinians had hoped that the new generation of British politicians might break with the past and stand for truth and justice in the Middle East.
09-08-06 - Rethinking Jewish American deterrence Much as Israel's decreasing centrality to American Jewish life requires that our institutions adjust to this new reality, American Jewry's public affairs organizations should also take the United States' diminished international stature into consideration as they set strategic goals and policy agendas And there it is folks: the real reason for the recent establishment of the Israeli lobby in Europe. What these delusional folks fail to grasp is that the reason that America is isolated in the first place is because of our unconditional support for Israel, and because of the policies of the neoconservatives in this Bush administration. The gall of these folks is astounding.
09-08-06 - In pictures: Clearing weapons from south Lebanon
09-08-06 - Meshal: Freeing Shalit will cost Israel; Egpyt says exchange deal not imminent
09-08-06 - Iran's Khatami says suicide bombers hurt Islam "I believe the Holocaust is the crime of Nazism. But it is possible that the Holocaust, which is an absolute fact, a historical fact, would be misused. The Holocaust should not be, in any way, an excuse for the suppression of Palestinian rights," he said.
09-08-06 - UN approves counter-terrorism plan Israeli and Arab diplomats feuded bitterly on the U.N. General Assembly floor on Friday after the United Nations approved a largely symbolic global plan to combat terrorism three days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
09-08-06 - Millions spent on 'virtual fences' The government is considering creating an unprecedented security system for the Jewish community of Hebron, including never-before-used hi-tech laser radars, as part of a new NIS 400 million allocation for security systems at settlements, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
09-08-06 - Bush: U.S. defends democracies, Israel The United States stands by Israel because it is a democracy, President Bush said. BS. The US stands behind Israel because its lobby here sees to that. And Israel is no more a democracy than fire is water.
09-08-06 - Police raid office of Galilee group said used as Hamas front Security officials said the group was involved in transferring Hamas funds to Palestinian prisoners convicted of security offenses.
09-08-06 - Israel tests ceasefire with Lebanon arrests Israeli troops in southern Lebanon detained four men yesterday for questioning in what appeared to be the first arrests since a ceasefire ended the war with Hizbullah.
09-08-06 - Strike sends Palestinian youths to Islamic schools
09-08-06 - Bolting Bolton? Chafee signaled that he was not ready to vote for Bolton. He said he had questions about "what's happening in the Middle East with the expansion of settlements in the West Bank." At a hearing in July, Chafee had questioned Bolton's assertion that the root cause of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict was terrorism.
09-08-06 - Nonviolent resistance against Wall in Al Khader continues despite routine aggression Dozens of foreign supporters joined Palestinians and together protested Israeli isolation of 90 percent of Al Khader land. The Wall is now being built inside the town on confiscated land, adding to the siege already imposed by a major roadblock and the settler Road 60 that runs north-south on the west side of town.
09-08-06 - Abbas meets German FM They discussed regional developments and the situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the daily Israeli invasions and colonizing activities.
09-08-06 - Hamas-led govt will not resign, says PM
09-08-06 - Nine U.S. leaders tour Israel Nine non-Jewish community leaders from across the United States will tour Israel?s north to examine the impact of the Israel-Hezbollah war. Why aren't they also touring the total devastation in Lebanon (that we helped Israel to commit, by sending them jet fuel and cluster bombs)?
09-08-06 - Israeli military stops cycling peace activists from entering Jenin Twenty-three peace activists cycling from London to Jerusalem to get wheels turning in the Middle East peace process will make a second attempt to enter Jenin in the West Bank today, having been denied entry by Israeli officials for the past two days.
09-08-06 - Palestinian residents, Israeli and International peace activists protest the Wall in Bil'in
09-08-06 - Mich. teen details Web romance, fallout from Middle East trip
09-08-06 - Bil?in: Solidarity With Unpaid Workers Demo
09-08-06 - Blair's peacemaking hopes fade
09-08-06 - Israeli Diplomat Released On Bond
09-08-06 - Lunar Eclipse passes Palestine Last night's Palestinian sky took on particular importance. At exactly 9:05 pm and three seconds the moon entered the Earth?s shadow. Most of the Arab world witnessed the same phenomenon.
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