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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
09-18-06 - Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about
09-18-06 - U.N. human rights team to start Lebanon probe The Council, composed of 47 states, voted in August for a high-level commission to investigate what it called "systematic targeting and killing" of Lebanese civilians by Israel.
09-18-06 - Palestinian woman dies at the Rafah Crossing The woman, Aghfra Mohammad Al Arja, died as a result of the bad condition the stranded residents at the crossing face after Israeli decided to close it.
09-18-06 - Protests cancel Hamas PM's speech Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya has postponed a speech to parliament after people protesting over unpaid wages mobbed his vehicle in Gaza City. Israel is loving this. They orchestrated the poverty of the Palestinians in order to turn them against the Hamas government.
09-18-06 - Appeal to save Lebanese heritage The UN's cultural organisation says the worst damage was in the northern port of Byblos, where a thick layer of oil coated ancient and medieval remains. The damage was caused by the Israeli bombing of a coastal power station.
Israel never volunteers to nor has it ever been forced to pay for the reconstruction of what it has destroyed in Palestine and Lebanon.
09-18-06 - Cancer patients in the Gaza Strip unable to reach Israeli hospitals for treatment A 50% decline has been seen in cancer patients allowed to pass for chemotherapy and other treatments unavailable in the Gaza Strip due to closures.
09-18-06 - Israeli warplane hit southern Gaza house No injuries had been reported, but the two-floor house was severely damaged.
09-18-06 - World Bank fund to help run Palestinian ministries The Bank said the grant money will be used to cover ministry running costs and to purchase supplies for hospitals, schools and shelters.
09-18-06 - 'No justice' for Palestinian crime victims The attack happened outside the village of Salem in the West Bank, which is under the jurisdiction of the Israeli police. Despite the severity of the attack, the police were reluctant to investigate and questioned Mr Shteia when he awoke in hospital only because of pressure from Israeli human rights groups.
09-18-06 - As General Assembly convenes, Jews are preparing for Ahmadinejad The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, United Jewish Communities and the UJA-Federation of New York will hold a "Stand with Israel" national solidarity rally outside the U.N. building at noon Wednesday, the first day of the General Assembly.
09-18-06 - Human rights group presses council In a release Monday, Human Rights Watch said the recently formed council has passed three resolutions against Israel, but has ignored the actions of Hezbollah and armed Palestinian groups. HRW is slowly falling under the influence of Israel as someone has pointed out in an earlier article.
09-18-06 - Report: U.S. warns Abbas on P.A. deal Yediot Achronot reported Monday that a senior U.S. official recently told the P.A. president that if he entered a planned unity government with the Islamic terrorist group in its current format, he would be shunned by Washington.
09-18-06 - Prisoner swap seen Hosni Mubarak said Monday that an Egyptian-mediated draft deal was in place for the return of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza Strip gunmen in a deadly June 25 raid.
09-18-06 - MI knew about Hezbollah kidnap plans Military Intelligence had clear information about an impending kidnap attempt by Hezbollah shortly before the Lebanese group carried out its cross-border raid on July 12, according to an internal inquiry conducted by the Israel Defense Forces.. Scroll down for that headline.
09-18-06 - Israeli visa rules trap Palestinians The less Arabs in Palestine, the better (for Israel).
09-18-06 - Hebron. Farhan Alqam, Mayor of Beit Ommar, freed
09-18-06 - U.N. commander: Won't disarm Hezbollah ** "The disarmament of Hezbollah is not the business of UNIFIL. This is a strictly Lebanese affair, which should be resolved at a national level,"
09-18-06 - Israel charges three suspected Hezbollah members Three suspected Hezbollah fighters who were captured during the Lebanon war were charged in Israel with "murder" and belonging to a "terrorist organisation".
09-18-06 - Palestinians suspect Israeli agents behind fire-bombing of Churches "Christians here are not a separate sect. They are our flesh and blood. They are our brothers. An attack on their churches is an attack on Islam and the Palestinian people." Ay. The trouble with "masked gunmen". They're masked. How easily do IDF's undercover hit squads roam about that territory?
09-18-06 - USAID Provides Scholarships to Over 2000 Palestinian Students Launched in 2002, the $15 million program has provided training and education opportunities to hundreds of Palestinian students in local and U.S universities and colleges to prepare the next generation of leaders and managers.
09-18-06 - Palestinian unity government talks continuing: PM Haniya denied reports that emerged Sunday that Abbas had frozen the negotiations pending his return from New York, where he is due to address the UN General Assembly.
09-18-06 - France warns against Hezbollah arms in Lebanon
09-18-06 - U.S., Israel reach out to Mahmoud Abbas Rice's morning session with Livni was their third meeting in a week. Bush saw the Israeli diplomat in Washington last week
09-18-06 - $3,000 raised for Lebanon relief
09-18-06 - Army confiscates four tractors in the Jordan valley The Israeli forces confiscated four tractors used by local Palestinian farmers in the northern area of the Jordan valley in the West Bank on Monday.
09-18-06 - Jewish rabbi calls for extermination of all Palestinian males Extremist rabbi Yousef Falay, who dwells at the Yitzhar settlement on illegally seized Palestinian land in the northern part of the West Bank, wrote an article in a Zionist magazine under the title "Ways of War", in which he called for the killing of all Palestinian males refusing to flee their country, describing his idea as the practical way to ensure the non-existence of the Palestinian race.
09-18-06 - Most Israelis support Palestinian Unity Government Poll after poll shows that most Israelis and Palestinians want peace. So, who or what is preventing them from achieving it?
09-18-06 - Hamas members demonstrate in Gaza in support for Haneya
09-18-06 - Educated Palestinians toil as labourers in Israel
09-18-06 - More Palestinians Desire Peace with Israel More residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip believe the Palestinian Authority should reach a truce with Israel, according to a poll by Near East Consulting. 64 per cent of respondents support a peace agreement, up 13 points since August. And this despite all of those children Israel killed for the past few months.
09-18-06 - Church services run smoothly in Bethlehem despite Pope?s speech
09-18-06 - Prominent Israeli and Palestinian women leaders to hold unprecedented meeting at UN with women Heads of State to initiate new Middle East peace negotiations
09-18-06 - Palestinian Islamic Justice criticizes Pope's speech; says attacks on churches counter to Islam Chief Islamic Justice for Palestine, Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, said Monday that attacks on churches in Palestine and anywhere in the Islamic world contravene the teachings of Islam, and that people should not allow themselves to be provoked by the inflammatory speech made by Pope Benedict XVI last week.
09-18-06 - Israel defence minister orders W. Bank demolitions All of the settlements that Israel has built on occupied territory are illegal under international law (article 49, Fourth Geneva Convention).
09-18-06 - Petition presses Calif. universities on Israel The petition was launched after anti-Semitic incidents at universities in California and a growing sentiment that there is anti-Israel and anti-Zionist rhetoric in some classes. Anti-Semitism is one thing, but criticism of Zionism and Israel is another. Attempting to lump them all together as one, or to exaggerate the former in order to dissuade people from doing the latter is more likely what is going on here.
09-18-06 - In Washington: Politically, peace pays There is a growing awareness in the US that the continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could very well blow back on us here, in terrible ways that do not need describing. Reducing the terrorist threat is the number-one concern of most Americans, and they understand that defusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would help do just that.
09-18-06 - Jewish leaders press concerns as potential U.N. heads reach out Community leaders were loath to endorse a particular candidate, but Tharoor at least made a favorable impression. "We should take him seriously as a candidate," said Shai Franklin, director of international organizations at the World Jewish Congress. "He was instrumental in putting the Holocaust on the U.N. agenda...Lows include Annan's failure to directly confront Iran's leaders on their Holocaust denial and what is perceived as his eagerness to rush to blame Israel for civilian casualties in its recent war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"We wanted to make him understand how the community felt, how important the U.N. was in dealing with Israel issues, and some of the disappointment we felt in the past in how the United Nations could have dealt with those issues," ...The ADL has virtually cut off Annan because of his statements during the war with Hezbollah.
Why would an event that happened sixty years ago NEED to be so high on the UN's agenda in order to placate these groups - unless it is being used to serve as some kind of political tool.
09-18-06 - Israel - can't keep its grubby little hands off other people's lands
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