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Thursday, October 05, 2006
10-04-06 - Masked gunmen kill Hamas member Witnesses said the gunmen's car had the yellow licence plates of Israeli-registered vehicles.
10-04-06 - Israeli airstrike on S Gaza kills two Palestinians The witnesses said that the car, which was full of three militants, drove at al-Manara area east of the city, adding that two aerial rockets were fried from an Israeli aircraft directly at the car
10-04-06 - Palestinian?s brother: He was murdered in cold-blood Tarqumiya resident Morad Abu Raiya, who said he witnessed the fatal shooting of his brother Iad by a Border Guard officer in Jaffa, told Ynet on Wednesday "I was a few meters from the scene; at first the officers chased after my brother and his friend, took them into the bathroom of a building and beat them severely with clubs. A few minutes later they took him outside and shot him. "There was no malfunction, no attempt to snatch the weapon; it was deliberate murder,"
10-04-06 - After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements growing again Palestinian dreams, of course, look markedly different, including the establishment of an independent state, a goal they view as incompatible with settlement expansion. To them, and to US officials hoping to coax Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table, news of settlement growth only complicates efforts. Perhaps if the Israeli government quit subsidizing the mortgages for those illegal settlements (to create more 'facts on the ground') and instead did the same for housing within Israel, then the newlyweds from the article wouldn't have this problem. But that would be too easy..The CSM's Ilene Prusher always has a pro-Israeli spin to her articles, even in the case of Israel's illegal settlements.
10-04-06 - Israeli police boosts security in Jaffa after a Palestinian killed Israel has dispatched a large group of police forces to Jaffa, a coastal city adjacent to Tel Aviv, for fear of disorder after police officers indiscreetly shot dead a Palestinian man Wednesday morning, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
10-04-06 - Gas Shortage Spreads Across West Bank A gasoline shortage that Palestinians blamed on a cutoff of supplies by an Israeli firm spread across the West Bank on Wednesday, causing long lines of angry drivers at gas stations.
10-04-06 - Palestinian coalition talks fail as Rice arrives for visit Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said yesterday that attempts to form a coalition government with the ruling Hamas movement had failed despite a mounting economic and security crisis.
10-04-06 - Rice meets Abbas as the road map to peace lies in tatters
10-04-06 - World figures urge Mid-East talks More than 130 former world leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates have called for urgent international efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
10-04-06 - Hezbollah received intel from Russian-Syrian listening post during war
10-04-06 - Judge: Police officers lied while testifying against left-wing activists Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court revealed Tuesday that police officers lied while testifying against 11 left-wing activists accused of violent acts during anti-fence demonstrations in the West Bank village of Bil'in. The court acquitted the activists.
10-04-06 - The Cooper Union "Israel Lobby" Debate no one denied the fact that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ? the epitome of the Lobby ? was one of the most powerful forces on Capitol Hill. Khalidi reminded the audience of the framing of the debate it does in Congress, from the resolutions it drafts, to the congressmen it harasses, to the candidates for public office that it vets. It works tirelessly to demonstrate that U.S. and Israeli interests are exactly the same......It was a travesty of news coverage that it was not televised, not even by C-Span, and no major media covered the event, including the major newspapers
10-04-06 - Israel sets conditions for Syria talks
10-04-06 - Scholars Land Book Deal for Attack on 'Israel Lobby' The David Duke card is being played again by the ADL in an attempt to smear the authors of the study to try to discredit it. This actually proves one of the points of the study - the smear of anti-Semitism is used by individuals and organizations like the ADL in the Israeli lobby in an attempt to silence dissenters.
10-04-06 - UNIFIL says could resort to 'use of force beyond self-defense' The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it could resort to the "use of force beyond self-defense," but did not give details on the means which will be used.
10-04-06 - Many children need professional help to shake off effects of war Another aggravating factor is the widespread presence of unexploded ordnance around the houses and in the courtyards of southern towns and villages, which prevents children from playing normally.
10-04-06 - Analysts warm to Lebanon results The war destroyed the group's positions in southern Lebanon, wiped out a good deal of its rocket arsenal, left hundreds of Lebanese civilians dead and wrecked the country's infrastructure, angering the general public.
"We really must shake ourselves out of this mood of pessimism and negative thinking," wrote Daniel Gavron on the English language Web site of the Ha'aretz newspaper. So, killing civilians was part of the success? Because this made them angry at Hezbollah? Targeting civilians to achieve a political end is in fact terrorism. And our government wholly supports it (only in the case of Israel).
10-04-06 - Nominee for top Israeli post in D.C. draws praise from American Jews Speaking last year to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Meridor said his concern for the health of Israel's democracy trumped his love for the land. "Israel was created to be a state of and for the Jewish people," he said "And in order to have a Jewish and democratic state, you have to maintain" a "significant, large, Jewish majority." ....As the World Zionist Organization settlement chief from 1992-1997, and then as Jewish Agency boss, Meridor presided over an end to the long-standing agency policy of not directing funds to West Bank settlements
All of the settlements in occupied territory are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49). Israel's new ambassador to the US - a West Bank settler.
10-04-06 - U.S. and EU warn Israel over closure of Gaza border Rice personally brokered the deal last year to boost the flow of people and goods into and out of Gaza after Israel's withdrawal from the impoverished coastal strip. "The fact that the members of the (monitoring) mission have been prevented from performing their duties for three months is not in accordance with the spirit of the agreement," Dayton and Pistolese wrote. "The Rafah crossing is not a security risk."
10-04-06 - Stay Home, Ms. Rice Will she insist that Israel stop murdering innocent Palestinian civilians; stop expanding its settlements; and commit itself to the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state? Nothing could be further from her mind.
10-04-06 - Israel takes fresh look at Golan
10-04-06 - Abbas agrees with Rice on new government programme US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas presented a united front, saying any Palestinian government should respect the peace principles set out by the world powers.
10-04-06 - Washington says its efforts in Palestinian territories go unrecognised "While I recognize that sometimes the coverage tends to portray the situation in a little different terms, I feel that the United States and President Bush don't always get much credit for the support that we provide to the Palestinian people," The US has backed Israel in its attempts to starve the Palestinian people into ousting Hamas by withholding customs duties from the Palestinians, and by threatening to sanction any bank that attempts to send them aid. Thanks to the Israeli lobby, the US is partly responsible for the mess in Palestine (and Lebanon).
10-04-06 - U.S. State Secretary Rice worried about condition of Palestinians Where's she been for the past 6 months?
10-04-06 - Saudi Ambassador raps US on reform calls
10-04-06 - Syria still against Lebanese government: Israeli DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told cabinet ministers on Wednesday that Syria still works against the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Saniora and is calling for peace "while keeping open the option of war." This coming from the folks that just put Lebanon back ten years.
10-04-06 - Amid protests, building continues for "Museum of Tolerance" on top of an Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem
10-04-06 - Rice's visit to the Middle East is "unwelcome": Hamas
10-04-06 - Canadian assists emergency training for Palestinian Red Crescent
10-04-06 - Off Limits? Talk By Israel Critic Canceled ADL National Director Abraham Foxman acknowledged his group spoke with Kasprzyk about the issue, but strongly denied exerting any such pressure.....Pro-Israel advocates also claimed their lobbying of Yale University donors succeeded in preventing Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Middle Eastern studies professor, from receiving a tenured appointment at Yale earlier this year. University officials denied they played a role.
Just a big 'conspiracy theory'. Nothing to see here.
10-04-06 - FEATURE - Abbas builds up forces amid Palestinian crisis
10-04-06 - Sderot: Israelis leave, Palestinians arrive Many of the older, Jewish residents of the city are not happy with the "new settlers". One woman told Ynet that, "with all due respect to them, I'm afraid. Even on Yom Kippur I forbade my daughter from leaving the house." "I don't think that such coexistence is positive, rather it's even dangerous. Even now, there are some young girls who have gotten pregnant from them,"
10-04-06 - Livingstone not anti-semitic, judge tells hearing over mayor's diatribe Mr Livingstone has accused the Board of Deputies of British Jews of making the original complaint to try to silence his views on the Middle East and the need for "a viable Palestinian state" alongside Israel.
10-04-06 - US support for Israel threatening peace: Iran Iran warned yesterday that the current Middle East tour of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will end in failure unless Washington ends its support of Israel ? Tehran?s arch-foe in the region. That view was shared by a number of newspapers in the Arab world. ....?Its own policies have helped promote the extremism it now fears, and have weakened the impact and credibility of the so-called moderate Arabs it now seeks to bolster,?
10-04-06 - Cleanup to Start at Old Sites in Lebanon
10-04-06 - European Commission funds support for Palestinian children caught in conflict
10-04-06 - Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, to Speak About Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
10-04-06 - Saudi doctors battle for hearts and minds in Lebanon
10-04-06 - Oregon House speaker discloses trip to Israel paid for by private group The state treasurer said he had reported the $4,000 that came from private citizens, who are associated with the Jewish Federation, to pay for his trip to Israel. He said the trip was valuable because it allowed him to visit personally with managers of a Tel Aviv-based buyout company with whom the state has invested $50 million.
10-04-06 - Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
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