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Sunday, September 24, 2006
09-23-06 - Palestinians 'back to square one' The Israeli, American and European Union's economic sanctions on the current Hamas-controlled government have had a crushing impact. They are squeezing the life out of what was always a very weak Palestinian economy.
09-23-06 - Washington sees "ferment" against Hamas government "Quite clearly there's a high degree of disatisfaction with the fact that Hamas has failed to live up to what it said it would do -- that is govern effectively in favor of the Palestinian people," said State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack. This was the intended outcome. "Israel's policy was summed up by Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, earlier this year. 'The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,' he said. The hunger pangs are supposed to encourage the Palestinians to force Hamas to change its attitude towards Israel or force Hamas out of government."
09-23-06 - Gaza's border with Egypt opens for second day The Rafah border terminal between Egypt and Gaza, the Palestinian territory's only gateway to the world that bypasses Israel, opened for a second consecutive day.
09-23-06 - Palestinian officials protest over not being paid More than 1,000 Palestinian officials demonstrated peacefully outside the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas to demand payment of salary arrears.
09-23-06 - Palestinian farmers fear advance of West Bank wall "When Israel closes the roads, I sometimes carry the meat on my back to try to get to customers," says Mr Sous, who is 50. "Israel has already confiscated about 15 dunums (four acres) of my land and they built the checkpoint on some of it."....Mr Sous?s pig farm is also near the Cremisan winery, run by monks of the Silesian order. In June, Israeli bulldozers began tearing down olive trees there as they began to mark out the next phase of the wall. Israel has also published tenders to build new settler homes across the West Bank.
09-23-06 - Syria key to stability in Mideast: Peretz "Every war creates opportunities for a broadened political process ... We must establish talks with Lebanon and prepare the conditions for a dialogue with Syria," Peretz said. Peretz easing concerns about a conflict with Syria?
09-23-06 - Police Say Man Took Photos Of Baltimore Tunnel According to the news release, the man was visiting the country legally and troopers were told that he was taking pictures of the tunnel because he was not used to seeing facilities like it in Israel
09-23-06 - Popular Committee Member Targetted in Bil'in
09-23-06 - Palestinian and International Activists Remove Roadblock
09-23-06 - Detainee facing death as health condition sharply deteriorates In an urgent letter sent by the detainees to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the detainees in Be'er Sheva Israeli prison appealed human rights organizations to save the life of detainee Abdul-Raouf Mustafa Abu Atsha, 39, from Silwad.
09-23-06 - Bush Presses Israel in Apparent Bid to Maintain Anti-Iranian Front Uzi Arad, who advised former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is still close to the head of the rightwing opposition Likud party, told the Forward that if Israelis agree - as they should - that all efforts ought to be devoted to stopping Iran's nuclear quest, then "it would be wise to adopt a slightly more flexible policy toward the Palestinian issue." He added that "there is much that could be done" to engage with the Palestinians, short of making significant concessions. Same thing happened in the run-up to the Iraq war.
09-23-06 - Tarqumia "Terminal" - A Checkpoint by Any Other Name
09-23-06 - Bush names delegation to help Lebanon reconstruction
09-23-06 - Lebanese troops deploy on border
09-23-06 - A global crisis of understanding Gove also rewrites history when he alleges it was the "appeasement" of the Palestinians represented by the Oslo peace process that encouraged Al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks. In fact it was the violent repression that followed Israel's unilateral ending of peace talks that formed the backdrop to the attacks.....Throughout Gove's book, neocon myths are reheated and served up, despite being long discredited, most recently by the 2005 CIA report just released by the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Anyone that tells you that we were attacked on 911 for 'our freedom', is either grossly misinformed or a liar.
09-23-06 - They're back - Divestment group gets question on the ballot The first question asks voters to call on Provost to support the state of Massachusetts issuing a statement in support of the right of return for Palestinian refugees. The second question asks voters if they support Massachusetts divesting from Israeli bonds and military companies tied to Israel?s occupation.
09-23-06 - Assailants fire at church in Rafidia, P.A police deploys to defend churches The recent attack took place on Friday at night when unknown gunmen fired at the church located at Tunis Junction in Rafidia. P.A police exchanged fired with the assailants, no arrests or injuries were reported.
09-23-06 - CPI-M happy with Palestinian fund collection
09-23-06 - Methodist preacher takes part in sponsored Bible-read The Methodist local preacher was taking part in a sponsored Bible-read to raise money for a medical charity helping Palestinians.
09-23-06 - From the New "Anti-Semitism" to Nuclear Holocaust How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations"
09-23-06 - Video: Buchanan on Ali G It is funny.
09-23-06 - Video: Buchanan and Mclaughlin laugh as Bush declares victory
09-23-06 - Video: Buchanan on Israel
09-23-06 - Lebanon's divided Christians feel rudderless
09-23-06 - Abandoned pets to go to U.S. sanctuaries Some 300 homeless dogs and cats, many left behind by owners who fled Lebanon during the Hezbollah- Israel war, will be heading to new sanctuaries in the United States for adoption, an animal rights activist said Friday.
09-23-06 - Arab MK: Pope contributing to culture war
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