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Friday, September 22, 2006
09-21-06 - Three Teenagers Killed In Northern Gaza Strip Palestinian security officials said the three, aged 14, 15 and 16, were shepherds herding their sheep and goats near Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza City....a 43-year-old Palestinian woman was killed earlier Thursday during an Israeli army incursion in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. Witnesses said the woman was killed in her home when shots were fired at the house.
09-21-06 - Israel army raids southern Gaza, killing one woman, wounding at least four others Later, artillery hit a home in the Rafah area of Gaza, wounding four family members, one of them seriously. The three others were in moderate condition.
09-21-06 - Beit Hanoun girl dies of wounds sustained last month Abu Odah was injured when Israeli army opened fire at her and her family killing her father and brother Ismai'l, her younger sister received three bullet wounds in the attack while Hannan was wounded by eight live rounds and was moved to a hospital in Israeli for treatment were she died, her brother Ayman reported
09-21-06 - Abbas vow on Israel recognition Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said that any new Palestinian government would recognise Israel.
09-21-06 - Israel Believes Assault On Gaza Will Be Necessary Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Dan Halutz was backed by members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday in his assessment that a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip will be necessary in the short term. Palestinians will be made an example of for the fact that Israel did not win in Lebanon. FYI, Halutz also did this.
09-21-06 - The suspension of aid has led to a serious deterioration in access to health care for Palestinians The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned about the deteriorating access to medical treatment for the population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in particular in the Hebron district in the West Bank.
09-21-06 - Israeli government issues tender for the construction of more settler homes
09-21-06 - Lebanon's president castigates UN Mr Lahoud said Israeli fighter jets and bombs had targeted mostly civilians, "killing and maiming thousands and destroying all that made Lebanon a viable state".
09-21-06 - Israel says it will open the Rafah Crossing for two days At least 10.000 Palestinian civilians are waiting on the Egyptian side of the border crossing which have been closed since July 25 after resistance fighters captured an Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
Wow, in't that nice of them?
09-21-06 - Refugees protest disparity in UN aid distribution The Palestinian Popular Committees held a sit-in on Wednesday inside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's main office in Sidon, accusing the body of distributing rotten food to Lebanon's Palestinian refugees
09-21-06 - Arab states urge IAEA to slam Israel for atomic arsenal Arab states on Wednesday relaunched a campaign to have the United Nations nuclear watchdog condemn Israel's reputed atomic arsenal.
09-21-06 - Assad warns of war The Lebanese newspaper A-Safir on Thursday quoted Bashar Assad as telling a visiting delegation from Beirut that Israel could attack Syria as part of an effort to shore up domestic self-confidence after the war on Hezbollah.
09-21-06 - Closure for Rosh Hashanah Israel's defense minister ordered the West Bank sealed off over Rosh Hashanah.
09-21-06 - New settlement homes planned Israel plans to build 164 new homes in three West Bank settlements
09-21-06 - Bush: Clock ticking on Iran "...I'm not going to discuss with you our intelligence on this subject, but time?s of the essence, in my judgment."
09-21-06 - Look at this old couple THESE are the people of the bible.
09-21-06 - Saudi, Russian see consensus for peace
09-21-06 - Iranian leader 'not anti-Semite'
09-21-06 - It can only get worse Donors have been forced to watch impotently as their investments in Palestinian infrastructure and institutions have been destroyed or eroded. Israel has seen a lucrative (and captive) market become pauperised by security arrangements.
09-21-06 - Olmert ratings plunge as right surges ahead The polls showed a clear shift to the right. Mr Olmert's biggest potential challenger appears to be the former prime minister and senior Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, who scored a 58% approval rating in the survey.
09-21-06 - Germany: Israel ready for Shebaa Farms talks
09-21-06 - Wild thoughts about the Palestinian issue Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni believes that there is no similarity between the West Bank and Lebanon, and that sending an international force to impose order, like that authorized by Security Council Resolution 1701 in Lebanon, is not feasible in the Palestinian Authority. Yet there are people in the U.S. who are looking ever more closely at this possibility.
09-21-06 - Ahmadinejad: 'Zionists Are Not Jews' When asked by a reporter from an Irish publication if Iran wants to "wipe" Israel off the map, he replied, "Zionists are not Jews. They are not Muslims. They are not Christians. They are a power hungry, power group."
09-21-06 - Israel troubled that war in Lebanon drove its enemies closer "The connection is all the global jihad," says an Israeli political official who works closely with Israel's intelligence branch and therefore could not be named Really? Then why haven't Hamas or Hezbollah attacked anyone outside of their respective territories? Thus does the PR ministry attempt to conflate its enemy list with that of the United States. And the Christian Science Monitor gives them ample coverage these days.
09-21-06 - Despite Hague ruling, Israeli government destroys more Palestinian lives and confiscates more land
09-21-06 - Lebanon threatens UN appeal over Israel pullout delay Israel's delayed pullout looked set to cast a shadow over Hezbollah preparations to celebrate a "divine victory" with a massive rally in the Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut Friday It's probably of no coicidence. Watch for any Israeli bombings of this rally.
09-21-06 - Lebanon begins to clean ravaged coast Israel insists the circumstances of the spill are unclear and it has not accepted responsibility. "It's not clear that Israel was directly responsible for the oil slick. We certainly did not intentionally attack the oil containers," said Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev Wow.
09-21-06 - U.S. Army defends Raytheon contract amid storm Army officials opted in April to forego a rival Israeli system to boost combat vehicle protection from rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles, even though it is closer to being ready for use.....NBC, in its report, quoted unnamed Pentagon sources as saying the Army "cooked the books" to justify its choice of Raytheon's "Quick Kill" technology. Well well well. Are some neocons in the Pentagon boohooing over lost Israel deal? The neocons may have had an economic interest in the Israeli company, which is not uncommon when it comes to neocons, Israel and the arms business.
09-21-06 - UN Security Council holds ministerial meeting on Middle East The UN Security Council, acting at the request of Arab countries, is set to hold a rare ministerial meeting here to discuss how to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
09-21-06 - Hezbollah gears up for massive 'victory' rally
09-21-06 - Abbas urges UN action to implement plan for Palestinian state
09-21-06 - Why Israel will never Truly let go of Gaza Whatever the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army?s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman reported, the army was preparing for an attack months earlier and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas infrastructure and its Government Just like in Lebanon. Read on.
09-21-06 - Rice says she will go to Middle East soon Rice said she would try to "accelerate progress" on the U.S.-led "road map" for Middle East peace and for implementation of an agreement she helped broker last November allowing for the free access of people and goods into Gaza. These newfound moves toward Middle East peace are in my opinion similar to the ones just before the Iraq war that were conducted as a means to ensure European support for said war.
09-21-06 - IDF?s complicity with settlers must end The army?s bond with the settlers leads to a policy of non-action as far as maintaining the law and the security of Palestinians, who are subject to constant violent harassment by their illegal neighbors.
09-21-06 - Pro-Israel Rally Virtually Ignored at U.N.
09-21-06 - Palestinian FM calls for release of prisoners for captive soldier
09-21-06 - FEATURE - Israel opens ancient site near Jerusalem shrine "They (the Israelis) are weakening the foundations of the mosque and they are doing much damage to the buildings above the tunnels,"
09-21-06 - Lahoud questions UN's credibility on enforcing 1701 "Israel still refuses to submit to the UN the maps indicating the location of thousands of mines it left behind on Lebanese territory, while the fate of the Lebanese detainees in Israel remains unknown,"
09-21-06 - German warships head for Lebanon for Lebanon peacekeeping mission. What'd you think they were for?
09-21-06 - Controverisal Israeli security approach takes flight in U.S It is spreading because of its results -- and because it seems to have won over TSA Director Kip Hawley and his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who have recently begun using the same kind of language that Ron uses to describe the aviation security approach that the United States should have. "People have responded very well to bringing in Israeli methods," Ron said. The Israelization of the United States continues. And oddly, our unconditional support for Israel is why it is necessary in the first place. We've been made a party to Israel's war with the Arabs, whether we like it or not.
09-21-06 - Barely hidden joy in Jerusalem over Swedish election He said that the new government was likely to bring Sweden's Middle East policy from the far left into the center in the EU, and that he believed the new government's public declarations about Israel and the Middle East would be far less critical.
09-21-06 - Demonstrators: Refuse being soldiers of occupation "we arrived here to the Kirya, the symbol of Israeli occupation in the center of Tel Aviv to protest the occupation of the Palestinian People. To be drafted into the army will not improve the security of the Israeli citizens but will only contribute to the cycle of violence between the two peoples."
09-21-06 - Parents of activist Rachel Corrie speak in Ashland Gary Acheatel of Ashland, co-founder of Advocates for Israel, took out newspaper ads here saying that eight Israelis named Rachel have been killed by radical Palestinian terrorists...In an interview, Acheatel said the Corrie presentation is a staged propaganda event that speaks of the tragic killing of Rachel Corrie as murder, when in fact it was an accident. Wow.
09-21-06 - Mubarak says Egypt will develop nuclear energy
09-21-06 - Viewing Middle East Affairs From Woodbury Home Base "For example, in recent months, the demands that the U.S. government is making on Hamas (are unfair). First of all, they have to recognize Israel, but there's no demand that Israel recognize the Palestinians and their right to a state. We demand that Hamas renounce violence, but we do not demand that Israel renounce violence, and Israel is 100 times more violent than Hamas,"
09-21-06 - Gladwin man fights home demolition in Occupied Territories O'Rourke participated in a peaceful resistance movement with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), a group which uses non-violent, direct action to resist the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories
09-21-06 - Pro-Palestinian mural nixed at California college Of particular concern, says Rabbi Doug Kahn, executive director of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council, was the mural?s depiction of the Palestinian cartoon figure Handala.
I guess in the end, censorship at the behest of pro-Israeli groups is mightier than the sword, eh?
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