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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
09-19-06 - Two killed in the West Bank one of them a pregnant woman Two West Bank residents were killed by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning, one of them a pregnant woman who was delayed at an army checkpoint.
09-19-06 - Saudi donation to assist destitute Gaza families Many impoverished families are now living on only one meal a day, made up largely of bread and cheap vegetables
09-19-06 - Israel cluster bomb use in Lebanon "outrageous": UN While Israel has provided general information about where it believes unexploded ordnance might be, Clark said tactical maps given to the United Nations by Israeli forces withdrawing from the south were "absolutely useless" in clearance efforts. "We have asked through many channels for the headquarters of these units to provide detailed strike data," he told a briefing at the United Nations in Geneva. "It has not yet been received."
09-19-06 - US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel Nick Guest, a former British Army bomb disposal officer working for MAG, says the most common bomblets - the M42 and the M77 - are of American manufacture. Some of the bombs are round like a metallic orange and others are like a can of fruit juice. They are small enough to be difficult to detect and may go on killing children and farmers for years. Washington has a very clear picture of Israel's track record when it comes to violations of international and humanitarian law - it compiles a report each year documenting (some) of those violations. Reagan in the 80s banned the sale of cluster bombs to Israel because it was using them against Lebanese civilians back then. This would appear to be a PR move on the part of the US. For, if it were really concerned about Arab civilians, it certainly would not have prolonged the ceasefire, or shipped off jet fuel and cluster bombs to Israel when it knew that they were bombing (fleeing) civilians. Over a thousand Lebanese civilians were killed in the offensive. A million cluster bombs were fired off by Israel into Lebanese civilian areas just three days before the ceasefire (when it was established that there would be a forthcoming ceasefire).
09-19-06 - 06-09-18 Susiya elder beaten by Israeli settlers - Tuwani Khalil Nawaja, in his 70s, was not far from the tent, when a group of seven
settlers with their faces covered attacked him with sticks and pipes. An
Israeli soldier was escorting the settlers and did nothing to stop the
attack. Villagers called the Israeli police, but could not get a response.
They then called Ezra Nawi of Ta'ayush (Israeli peace group), who was able
to get through to the police on their behalf and ask for an investigation.
09-19-06 - Palestinian hospitals crippled by worker strike
09-19-06 - Israel may release funds if PA accepts demands Israel is withholding millions upon millions of dollars in customs duties that it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, and has been for months - which is why the latter are now starving.
09-19-06 - Palestinian official calls for opening Gaza-Egypt border crossing In a statement delivered to the press, the minister Bassem Naiem said that Rafah crossing point on Gaza-Egypt border has to be open to allow women, children and patients into Gaza and out of it.
09-19-06 - More Land Confiscation in Bethlehem and Hebron districts
09-19-06 - Gunmen attack Palestinian news agency in Gaza Gunmen stormed an office of a Palestinian news service under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, beating up one reporter and vandalising equipment, witnesses and the news agency said.
09-19-06 - Israel pressed on cluster targets The UN has urged Israel to say exactly where it fired cluster bombs during its recent bombardment of south Lebanon. Israel won't provide the details because they deliberately fired those bombs into civilian areas, I'm guessing.
09-19-06 - Israel's stock rises in US, Europe despite war Israel's support in the US is near its highest level since Greenberg began systematically charting the numbers in April 2003, while in Europe more and more people see Israel as a moderate force in what is increasingly being perceived as a battle between moderates and extremists in the Middle East. "Thanks, Pope Benedict and the Danish publisher of of the Mohammed cartoons :)"
09-19-06 - U.N. peacekeepers check security arrangements on Lebanese-Syrian border
09-19-06 - Israel Drawing Up Battle Plans For Next Lebanon War The defense establishment believes the next round of fighting could come within the next year, especially after the U.N. decided to keep French Gen. Alain Pellegrini on to lead an expanded U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
09-19-06 - Pope's comments on Islam hit 'civilization clash' fault line "Arabs and Muslims feel oppressed by the West. Afghanistan and Iraq are features, but most important is Palestine ... and all of this built-up anger then sometimes explodes,''
09-19-06 - Iranian president takes on U.S., Israel at U.N. "It does not matter if people are murdered in Palestine," he said of the conflicts in which Israel has been engaged in Gaza and the West Bank. "That apparently does not violate human rights."
09-19-06 - Leaders focus on Middle East peace at UN The first day of the debate by world leaders has been marked by renewed calls to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. ....Mr Annan, making his final speech to a General Assembly after 10 years as UN secretary-general, has singled out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the most important security challenges facing the world.
09-19-06 - Not a lot of motivation to help the Palestinians The olive trees are the livelihood of many Palestinians. Before the advent of Zionism, Palestinians were of an agrarian way of life. Some still are. Israeli extremists seek to destroy that too.
09-19-06 - EU cancels Lebanon tour after entry refused to Israeli MK
09-19-06 - China ups Lebanon force to 1,000
09-19-06 - U.S. security coordinator: No security without Gaza commerce Without the restoration of commercial activity in the Gaza Strip, there will be no security in the area, U.S. Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Keith Dayton told a group of Israeli and Palestinian businessmen last week.
09-19-06 - 06-09-12 to 06-09-16 At-Tuwani Update Walking down the hillside,
Chandler and Gulledge saw that a group of Israeli soldiers had stopped two
Palestinian men. Chandler and Gulledge witnessed one Israeli soldier kick
one man in the knee and force him to the ground by the head and shoulders.
The soldier who kicked him became upset by the observers when they arrived,
and demanded that they stop filming
09-19-06 - Israeli Arab population grows Israel's Arab sector is growing at a faster pace than its Jewish counterpart, government figures show.
Oh dear.
09-19-06 - ICRC appeals for funds to cover shortfall in operations Those countries and regions that urgently need international help include Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and etc..
09-19-06 - Appeal to petition Israeli government to respect the right to education Defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza to education calls us to act now, at the beginning of the school year, and appeal to those in power to end the oppression and the violence of the militaristic policies and protect one of the basic human rights -- the right to education.
09-19-06 - Balad member, former MK Miari: 'Syria is not an enemy country' While in Syria, Miari traveled to Palestinian refugee camps where he met some fifty members of his extended family who left Israel during the War of Independence in 1948.
09-19-06 - Bedouin Family Suffers From Israeli Settler Violence Two months ago the settlers set fire to, and burnt down a tent and shelter. A family were inside at the time. In the same area, last year, the Palestinians planted 1000 olive trees. As soon as they left, the same day, the settlers tore them up.
09-19-06 - Gaza's tiny Christian community fears it will disappear "I was afraid. First they attacked the church, and then there was that protest against the pope," she said. "Some of the protesters tried to come down this street, and we were terrified they'd attack the houses. But our Muslim neighbors stopped the protesters."
09-19-06 - Bush defends Mid-East line at UN Mr Annan's opening speech to the assembly was his last as secretary general. His second five-year term in office ends at the end of the year. On the Israel-Palestinian conflict, he said: "As long as the Palestinians live under occupation, exposed to daily frustration and humiliation, and as long as Israelis are blown up in buses and in dance halls, so long will passions everywhere be inflamed."
09-19-06 - Israel outraged by Non-Aligned Mov't "This is clearly unacceptable, and totally out of line with the good bilateral relations we have with some of the NAM countries,"
09-19-06 - Bush tasks Rice with new Middle East effort US President George W. Bush said he had directed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to lead a new diplomatic effort with US Arab allies to reform Palestinian security services.
09-19-06 - Hamas blamed for involving in murdering senior intelligence officer: report
09-19-06 - World Bank to Grant US $46.6 Million for Essential Services in GS, WB The ESSP will finance urgent supplies and running costs in hospitals, primary health care centers, schools, social shelters and rehabilitation centers managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs
09-19-06 - Children of terror victims sue for Hamas' assets Palestinians have been barred by Israeli law from seeking like compensatory litigation (from the Israeli government).
09-19-06 - As U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinians are on leaders' minds The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is attempting to fill that vacuum, using the General Assembly to urge Quartet members - particularly the European Union - to closely examine the conditions for any Palestinian unity government.
09-19-06 - U.N. Council to meet on Arab peace plan "We still don't see the real utility of the meeting," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. "We have not agreed completely with the idea."
09-19-06 - Wrong address for pressure Some Israelis are angered over the fact that the US may have the audacity to pressure Israel into a peace agreement. Oh how the horror of it all!
09-19-06 - Israel confirms: Letter received from Shalit
09-19-06 - Peretz: Israel's hand extended to Lebanon, Syria
09-19-06 - FEATURE-Gaza youth have little to celebrate at Ramadan Naser al-Rizi was 16 with hopes of becoming a physical education teacher when the Palestinian uprising began in 2000. Joining a crowd throwing rocks at Israeli troops guarding a Jewish settlement, he was shot in the back and lost the use of his legs.
09-19-06 - Islamic Jihad launches two homemade rockets into southern Israel The group defended its attacks in the leaflet by saying that " it's our right to resist the occupier that occupies our lands and kill our people everyday" and vowed to continue such attacks against Israel.
09-19-06 - Israeli army detains senior Islamic Jihad militant near Jenin
09-19-06 - Israeli occupation must end in order to achieve Mideast peace, Jordan?s King tells UN He called for immediate efforts to help with reconstruction in Lebanon, but stressed at the same time that solving the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict requires the restoration of internationally recognized Palestinian rights.
09-19-06 - Israeli troops to leave Lebanon by the weekend
09-19-06 - Hamas supporters urge Abbas not to make concessions to U.S. Thousands of Hamas supporters on Tuesday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to make any concessions to U.S. President George W. Bush at an upcoming meeting between the two leaders in New York.
09-19-06 - Kidnap of soldiers in July was Hezbollah's fifth attempt Two months before the July 12 raid in which Hezbollah abducted the two soldiers and killed three others, Israel had learned of another plan by the group to carry out an attack against an IDF patrol at the same location
09-19-06 - Clinton sees new Mideast peace plan in two months
09-19-06 - Peace wheels roll into MSU Kelly and other presenters on the Wheels of Justice Tour seek to address environmental degradation, foreign policy and humanitarian issues in Iraq, Palestine and Israel, said Kelly, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
09-19-06 - L.A. Panel Reaffirms Muslim's Award The furious fight over what has normally been a quiet award selection process was sparked when some Jewish groups charged that Hathout, a 70-year-old retired cardiologist, was a closet extremist who denounced Israel as an apartheid state and was soft on terrorism. Their opposition prompted the commission to reopen its July decision selecting Hathout.
09-19-06 - The Smart Way To Support Israel It is time for those of us who consider ourselves pro-Israel to tell our representatives that we expect them to do something more difficult than rubber stamping every rah-rah Israel resolution that finds its way to their desk. A new hoop for our Congressheep to jump through to prove their loyalty to a foreign nation.
09-19-06 - Hollywood terrorism film casts Mideast in new light
09-19-06 - UPJ Marches In Protest Of President Bush War Policy Protesters touched on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even 9/11, but the war in Iraq was the main issue on people's minds.
09-19-06 - Republicans target candidate over Muslim ties Ellison is himself a Muslim who has repudiated his earlier ties to the Nation of Islam and has received the endorsement of some Minnesota Jewish leaders
09-19-06 - Honoring 'Unbreakable Covenant' Between Christians & Jews, United Church of Christ Leader Acknowledges 'Vulnerable, Volatile' Relations Even as he condemned all terrorist bombings and kidnappings, Thomas said Israel's occupation and militarization of Palestinian lands have led to "growing frustration and despair" among Palestinians, leading to desperate, violent responses. Thomas also said Israel's "devastating" military recourse, increasing restrictions on Palestinian life, and the construction of the separation barrier have "led to an intensifying of rhetoric and to the sharpening of advocacy positions that leaves Jewish- Christian relationships in a very vulnerable, even volatile place, far from achieving the hopes of 20 years ago."
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