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Thursday, September 21, 2006
09-20-06 - Palestinian killed by Israeli shells in northern Gaza Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that one resident was killed, another was injured, after the Israeli army fired a tank shell at a group of residents who were present close to the border line in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
09-20-06 - Soldiers indicted for beating Palestinian Two soldiers from Haruv Battalion charged for severely assaulting Palestinian adolescent for no reason, threatening to kill him ?if he talks?
09-20-06 - Two states solution to refugee problem: Israel Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has urged the world to convince the Palestinians the answer to their refugee problem lies in a Palestinian state and not inside Israel's borders Article 11 of UN resolution 194 which was never implemented by Israel: Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible;
09-20-06 - Israelis use bulldozers to wreck crops in South Israeli bulldozers started to level the soil and cut down olive trees in Yarin in the Tyre region on Monday, spoiling several cultivated fields and preventing farmers from inspecting their lands. "Israeli bulldozers have spoiled my land, cutting down the fruit trees I've planted," said farmer Shaker Afleh on Tuesday, as he and his daughter watched the bulldozers on his land from a kilometer away. I have to use a proxy server in order to get to that site (Daily Star, Lebanon). I'm not sure how well you will be able to connect to it.
09-20-06 - US resolve prolongs Gazan despair "Today we go to the employment offices like beggars," he said. "We go to the welfare associations like beggars. Even our own sense of self-worth has been lost." The Nazis would be proud. Really, what more is there to say?
09-20-06 - Israelis seize Palestinian funds Palestinian sources have said that millions of dollars, documents and files were "stolen" in the raids. This is at least the second time that Israel has robbed Palestinian banks. And these people are already some of the poorest in the world (thanks to the Israeli occupation).
09-20-06 - Israeli court tells army to explain shooting of U.S. activist Avery said he and a colleague were wearing bright red doctor vests and were standing still with their hands over their heads when soldiers in approaching military vehicles opened fire with no warning shots. An internal army inquiry said his allegations were baseless. Over three years later...
09-20-06 - Palestinians in 'dire need' of US help: Abbas
09-20-06 - Rockets fired at Israel, Israeli army storms northern Gaza Palestinian militants fired on Wednesday three homemade rockets from Gaza at Israel, where an Israeli army ground force incurred into northern and eastern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said.
09-20-06 - Israeli forces raid Palestinian stronghold in Gaza Two Palestinians wounded in the fighting were not immediate identified as troops would not allow medics near.
09-20-06 - Fateh: Assaults aimed at destroying capabilities of those providing loans during siege "An iron chain is being used to strangle the remaining outlets of financial help for the Palestinian citizens who have shown their resolve by standing firm on this earth."
09-20-06 - Arab MK suspended for calling Peretz ?murderer?
09-20-06 - Congressman Nye and Jack Abramoff: Justice versus lobbies Abramoff used the organization for his pet projects. These included over $4 million to a Jewish school allied with the Zionist movement, $248,742 for Abramoff?s house in Silver Spring, Maryland and hundreds of thousands for sniper training of extremist and illegal Israeli colonial settlers living on Palestinian land. Ironically, Native Americans were defrauded into funding oppression and colonization of other native people. Abramoff also used his influence with Congressman Bob Ney to get a government contract worth $3 million for an obscure Israeli security company
09-20-06 - Bush's backing imperils Israel The main product of the war in Lebanon has been hatred, as noted by Israel?s most prominent gadfly, Uri Avnery. The death and destruction wrought by Israel against civilian targets broadcast for 33 successive days by al-Jazeera and other television networks have reinforced hatred of Israel among Arabs and Muslims, which may take generations to undo Bush being blamed for doing what Israel is telling him to do..
09-20-06 - Israel calls Iran its greatest threat ** Israel = Israel's greatest threat. In nearly sixty years, it has not learned how to get along with its neighbors Hint - stop stealing their land and killing their children (with American cluster bombs).
09-20-06 - Israeli War Crimes in Lebanon and Gaza?
09-20-06 - Lebanese voices after the war Another woman has two teenage brothers with severe facial injuries. They were trying to rescue objects from their house when a cluster bomb exploded in their faces.
09-20-06 - Israel 'trains Iraqi Kurd forces' Iran and Syria, which have long accused the Kurds of allowing the Israelis to operate on Iraqi territory, will demand an explanation from the government in Baghdad.
09-20-06 - Sudan blames Israel and Jews for many of its woes "The main purpose is the security of Israel. Any state in the region should be weakened, dismembered in order to protect the Israelis, to guarantee the Israeli security,"
09-20-06 - Quartet backs Palestinian efforts
09-20-06 - EU Parliamentarians Establish an "Israel Lobby" 300 European Union parliamentarians and supporters took part this week in a gala celebrating the establishment of a European "Israel Lobby", the first of its kind.
09-20-06 - Militant group threatens Gaza Christians over pope's remarks Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal said security forces in Gaza had been ordered to protect Christian sites in light of the latest uproar. He said he did not see Tuesday's statement as evidence of a serious threat.
09-20-06 - TOMORROW: Brian Avery Shooting Investigation Appeal The preliminary investigation conducted by the Israeli military concluded that no Israeli military personnel were responsible for the shooting, stating that its forces were not in the area at the time They're lying. Brian Avery, an American, had his face blown off by an IDF tank.
09-20-06 - What's Wrong With American Foreign Policy? Finally, if the president is so eager to champion "Lebanese sovereignty over Lebanese soil," then why did he give the green light to Israeli aggression ? and even rush military aid to the aggressors? If Lebanon becomes, once again, a model of democracy and pluralism in the region, it will be no thanks to this president and his foreign policy.
To answer the title of the article - it's crafted in Tel Aviv.
09-20-06 - Envoy upset at Ahmadinejad's U.N. visit Israel's U.N. envoy criticized the United States for allowing Iran's president to attend the U.N. General Assembly summit.
Oh dear.
09-20-06 - IDF tackling Iran's WMD threat Part of the reason for the shift in the HFC's focus was due to the defense establishment's realization that following the war in Lebanon - during which close to 4,000 missiles were fired at the North - Israel was facing a major threat from ballistic missiles. Iran has developed the Shihab-3 missile that can reportedly carry a 500 kg.-650 kg. warhead and has a range of between 1,550 to 1,620 km.
09-20-06 - Expert: Tactical nukes needed to blast Iranian defenses ** "American experts have said they are not sure that conventional weapons would be able to infiltrate these sites," he said. "Based on information from public sources, any attack should use tactical nuclear weapons."
09-20-06 - Kurdish soldiers trained by Israelis ** One constraint facing the Israelis, should they ever want to hit Iran, is distance. Most Israeli jets are short range and they have few in-flight tankers. Some studies have suggested that Israel could make refuelling stops at a modern airfield in Kurdistan.
This is nothing new. It has been reported years ago by the Guardian and Israel's Ynet News. And again.
09-20-06 - Israel delays Lebanon pullout
09-20-06 - Damien Hirst's £50 masterpiece How has a small Palestinian gallery managed to attract the art world's biggest names? Saeed Taji Farouky on an inspiring coup
09-20-06 - Palestinian airlines to use Egyptian airport: official Palestinian Minister of Transportation announced on Wednesday that Egypt has agreed to let Palestinian airlines use an Egyptian airport instead of the disused Gaza International Airport.
09-20-06 - U.S. seen easing on Palestinians
09-20-06 - Hamas PM rejects quartet conditions for aid
09-20-06 - The Israeli-Kurdish Alliance ? On Video Seymour Hersh did the initial reporting on this development, and now the BBC has the pictures ? a stunning video showing Israeli ?ex?-military personnel training Kurdish pershmerga and setting up a base in Kurdistan. The idea is to establish an outpost from which Israeli planes can strike at Iran?s alleged nuclear facilities, and also create a presence on the ground that can strike, at will, across the Kurdish-Iranian border.
09-20-06 - In Gaza, chaos becomes the reigning force
09-20-06 - Gasoline and licensing overhauls ease public?s burden at expense of the government The Palestinian Ministry of Transport issued a draft to the Council of Ministers for a new system that uses a less expensive form of gas as auto fuel.
09-20-06 - Hamas fails to meet needs of people: Fatah lawmaker
09-20-06 - UK baroness accused of anti-Semitic comments Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, a pro-Palestinian fringe organization, Baroness Jenny Tonge said, "The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the western world, its financial grips. I think they have probably got a certain grip on our party."
09-20-06 - Palestinians Oppose Abduction of Foreigners 86 per cent of respondents are opposed to the practice.
09-20-06 - Americans sympathise with Israel: Scholar The average Joe on the street in the US will continue to sympathise with Israel as the Jewish state is perceived as a nation of Holocaust survivors and their descendants. They need to see this "Holocaust Survivors Living in Poverty" and this
09-20-06 - Bush administration appeals OK of citizenship to Palestinian man The Justice Department filed its notice of appeal on Sept. 14 without giving a reason for the action.
09-20-06 - Displaced Jews urged to register According to the organization, the number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries far surpasses the number of Palestinians who became refugees in 1948.
The victimhood of the Palestinian refugees must always be overshadowed and outdone.
09-20-06 - 'Quartet' presses Israel on revenue In addition to calling for the release of the more than $500 million in revenue, which Israel stopped turning over to the Palestinians after Hamas took over the Palestinian Authority That money belongs to the Palestinians. And Israel just helped themselves to more of the Palestinians' money today.
09-20-06 - Britons lead clearance of Israeli cluster bombs in Lebanon "We appreciate their humanitarian gesture," he said. "We know the British government supported Israel but these men, we thank them." Contrary to what was reported in this article, Israel did not provide detailed maps of where it fired those bombs.
09-20-06 - Thousands protest U.N., Iran Other speakers included the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
09-20-06 - Bush wasting his time with address to Mideast population: analysts
09-20-06 - Fashion makes comeback in post-war Lebanon "Like the Phoenix, Beirut shall never die."
09-20-06 - The First Palestinian Circus School: The Dream of Shadi Zmorrod
09-20-06 - Acclaimed UMD professor Melanson dies Dr. Melanson, with a matter-of-fact style of writing, has been one of the chief skeptics of the official story that 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan B. Sirhan was the lone assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968.
He built his case on evidence obtained through dogged pursuit of once-sealed documents from the Los Angeles Police Department and the city's District Attorney's Office.
09-20-06 - Siegman on the U.S.-Israel Alliance, Published in England, Of Course
09-20-06 - Dispelling Brutality Col. Dan Smith is a military affairs analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, a retired U.S. Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation
09-20-06 - NDP resolution slams Israel The resolutions at the centre of the controversy focus on Lebanon and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The Lebanon resolution called Israel?s response to Hezbollah?s kidnapping of two of its soldiers and the killing of others ?drastically disproportionate.?
09-20-06 - CUPE sponsors parade float urging Israel boycott The 30,000 union members and activists who marched in the annual Toronto Labour Day Parade were treated to music, costumes, jugglers ? and a CUPE Ontario float dedicated to the union?s resolution calling for a boycott against Israel.
09-20-06 - Pacifica woman opens her home and heart to Palestinian foreign exchange student from Gaza
09-20-06 - Book review: Palestine, by Joe Sacco
09-20-06 - Author Finkelstein to talk about Palestine-Israel conflict at UVM Peace Vermont, Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, and the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series will present a lecture by Norman Finkelstein on Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Benedict Auditorium, 235 Marsh Life Sciences, at the University of Vermont
09-20-06 - CAIR Asks Muslims to Help Repair Damaged Churches The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on Muslims in America and worldwide to donate to help repair Palestinian churches damaged following recent remarks by Pope Benedict XVI perceived as critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
09-20-06 - Lofty talk on Middle East Aspiring democrats in the Middle East are also aware that the Bush administration, unhappy with the election of a Hamas government in Gaza and the West Bank, has been undermining that government with an economic blockade. And throughout the Muslim world, indelible images of humiliated detainees at Abu Ghraib have become emblematic of US hypocrisy, suggesting that American principles such as the rule of law and the presumption of innocence are not for export
09-20-06 - Henry Siegman must be one of the good guys The pro-Israeli propaganda committees have lambasted him. That automatically earns him points.
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