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Saturday, October 07, 2006
10-06-06 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls for restoring aid to Palestinians "The attempt to coerce Hamas leaders by starving the Palestinian people has failed, and it is time for the international community to alleviate their suffering and resort to diplomacy," Carter said in a statement. Former President Jimmy Carter is legend in my book. Despite the fact that this story is by the Associated Press, it was only published on a few news websites (in Georgia), according to a Google News search. In effect, the mainstream media are still boycotting Carter's articles that deal with Palestine.
10-06-06 - Two Islamic Jihad fighters assassinated in Khan Younis Israeli forces assassinated two Islamic Jihad fighters after targeting their vehicle by a missile fired by an Israeli fighter-jet in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
10-06-06 - Tunnel collapse kills Palestinian militant at Rafah
10-06-06 - One resident killed by Israeli fire east of Khan Younis
10-06-06 - In Palestinian territories, crime is on the rise Officials blame the rising crime on the cutoff in Palestinian Authority funding. When Israel and the international community first stopped payments to the authority in March, Palestinians tapped their savings to pay the bills. Then they sold off family jewelry and other cherished items to get by. Now, more and more Palestinians are stealing from their friends and neighbors to make ends meet.
10-06-06 - Gazans take advantage of rare opportunity to leave as Israel partially opens crossing to Egypt
10-06-06 - Lebanon riot leaves 1 dead, 16 injured Police clashed Friday with hundreds of rioters protesting attempts to demolish illegal housing in a southern suburb of Beirut. One person was killed and at least 16 were wounded.
10-06-06 - Haniyeh urges Abbas back to talks But Mr Haniyeh vows no Government in which the militant Hamas movement serves will recognise Israel, a stance that is a non-starter for Mr Abbas and western nations.
10-06-06 - Israeli security forces disperse hundreds of Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem Hundreds of Palestinians who attempted to forcibly break through a crossing to join Ramadan prayer in Jerusalem's Old City were dispersed by Israeli security forces, Israel's popular Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Friday.
10-06-06 - Palestinian PM collapses at rally Mr Haniya, 43, has been observing the Muslim daytime Ramadan fast.
10-06-06 - Army invades Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip Earlier on Friday, soldiers shelled with heavy artillery several agricultural areas close to several houses in the Bedouin village, north of Beit Lahia and east of Beit Hanoun; damage was reported, no injuries.
10-06-06 - Twenty residents taken prisoners east of Khan Younis Also, soldiers bulldozed farmlands and hothouses in the area; dozens of trees and plants were uprooted, local sources reported.
10-06-06 - 55 minutes from Tel Aviv What participants will not hear from organizers is how the settlements were expanded; the methods by which lands were expropriated from Palestinian Arabs; the expansion orders given by the Israeli civilian administration and the seizing of private Palestinian land by settlers in the dark of night
10-06-06 - Illegal Palestinian workers possibly beaten before Jaffa shooting Border policemen may have beat several illegal Palestinian workers in Jaffa on Wednesday before one worker was shot and killed, according to information emerging from a probe of the incident.
10-06-06 - US pledges fall on deaf Palestinian ears In the occupied West Bank, the number of Israeli checkpoints has mushroomed and the vast separation barrier, slammed by Palestinians as an apartheid wall, has separated loved ones, landowners from land and necessitated long detours....."We don't know what the use is of the US getting involved anymore. They only come to ruin us,"
10-06-06 - Sukkot: Full closure on Gaza, West Bank A general closure was imposed Friday on Palestinian territories and will remain in affect until the end of Sukkot; police have raised their alert level ahead of the holiday.
10-06-06 - Pregnant Palestinians give birth at Israeli checkpoints Since the beginning of the second Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation, in September 2000, 68 pregnant Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, leading to 34 miscarriages and the deaths of four women, according to the Health Ministry's September report.
10-06-06 - Save up to 50% on the New Statesman for twelve months and support the Trees for Life campaign! Your subscription sponsors the planting of three new olive trees in Palestine.
10-06-06 - Families face food crisis in Palestine Please help us to reach more Palestinian Families with food & water by donating now
10-06-06 - Just Another Mother Murdered - Gunning Down Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar Neighbors report that Israeli soldiers had been beating her husband because he wasn't answering their questions. Foolishly or valiantly, how is one to say, the 35-year-old woman had interfered. She tried to explain that her husband was deaf, screamed at the soldiers that her husband couldn't hear them and attempted to stop them from hitting him. So they shot her. Several times. By Alison Weir - a media watchdog. She knows the ins and outs of that business very well.
10-06-06 - Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon Since the war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in August, nearly three people have been wounded or killed each day by cluster bombs Israel dropped in the waning days of the war, and officials now say it will take more than a year to clear the region of them.
10-06-06 - Israeli Human Rights Abuses in the Recent Israel/Hezbollah War What should be even more shocking is the fact that the United States, a source of moral influence in the world, did not once condemn Israel for committing such violations of humanitarian law during its war with Hezbollah and continued to provide it with arms for fighting the war. Amnesty International?s Secretary General Irene Khan stated that, "governments supplying Israel and Hizbullah with arms and military equipment are fuelling their capacity to commit war crimes,"
10-06-06 - Israelis Win Contract To Secure US Borders As Chertoff announced the awarding of the contract, estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a very lucrative and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with close ties to the Israeli military. This was also reported in the Jerusalem Post. Israelis or Israeli companies influencing or directly providing our airport security is also taking place and it's nothing new. Why is it that a foreign nation is protecting our borders and airports? (and also training our soldiers, and influencing our police agencies nationwide). Read on: "Huntleigh U.S.A., another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger screening at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to intercept the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit the World Trade Center, according to the government version. Now, the same administration that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is hiring an Israeli-owned company to help protect the entire U.S. land border. " Scary stuff.
10-06-06 - US offers millions to keep Abbas safe
10-06-06 - Israeli warplanes overfly Hezbollah strongholds in Bekaa Two jets screamed over the region which borders Syria on Friday, without drawing a response from guerrillas of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah or the Lebanese army. Israel has been violating Lebanese airspace on an almost daily basis since the August 14 ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah sparked by the guerrillas' capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
10-06-06 - Report Israel entry problems, group says Arab Americans turned away from Israel's border should report the matter to the U.S. State Department, an advocacy group said.
10-06-06 - Hebron Update: 23-30 September 2006 A soldier told the Palestinian she needed a pass to walk in that area.
When she questioned that a pass was required, a border police officer got up
from his seat nearby and pushed her. Burnside got in-between the two. Burnside
and the visitor asked the officer to back off. A relative and Burnside tried
to calm down the friend. The soldiers and police nearby were laughing. A female soldier yelled for them to get out and that the land would never belong
to the Palestinian people.
According to international law, it already does.
10-06-06 - Are security forces trigger-happy when it come to Arabs? Jewish suspects in comparable circumstances have not been shot to death even though there have been dozens of confrontations during this period with Jews who were illegally armed, or with Jews suspected of breaking into cars.
10-06-06 - Greenpeace Warns of Toxic Risks to Two Million in Lebanon Two million residents of Lebanon, about half the population, could face health risks posed by toxic releases from Israeli bombing in the July-August war, Greenpeace warned.
10-06-06 - Closure Denies Palestinian Residents Access to their Homes / Nablus Resident?s Basic Rights
10-06-06 - Iran behind Rice's Mid-East tour There is a need, as Philip Zelikow put it, for a "sense of progress" in the Arab-Israeli dispute, in order to reassure US Arab allies. A sense of progress, but no actual, real progress. ....the logic of this line of reasoning is that military action against Iran is now being very seriously considered in Washington.
10-06-06 - Jordan denies Israeli reports about Saudi-Israeli meeting in Amman Israeli newspapers reported that a meeting took place recently at the Jordanian royal court between senior Saudi and Israeli officials. The reports claimed that the meeting was also attended by Egyptian and Palestinian officials.
10-06-06 - FEATURE - Hamas's 'Executive Force' gains strength in Gaza
10-06-06 - Occupied Palestinian Territories: Civilians Human Rights Watch called today on the leaders of Palestinian factions and Palestinian government officials to bring an immediate end to the lawlessness and vigilante violence that has plagued the Occupied Palestinian Territories and to hold the perpetrators of this violence accountable
10-06-06 - U.S. pays to clear cluster bombs The United States is paying $9 million to clear explosives in southern Lebanon, most of them cluster bombs fired by Israel. If there was any justice, that money would come from the aid money we give to Israel each year. Or better yet, it would be cut entirely for the fact that Israel committed war crimes by firing those cluster bombs into civilian areas (see related article in today's news batch).
10-06-06 - The Israeli army seizes 16 residents during dawn raids and invasions across the West Bank
10-06-06 - UN rights body adjourns second session till November The UN Human Rights Council ended on Friday three weeks of discussion on various human rights issues, notably Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territories and the Darfur crisis, but failed to take any action on these issues
10-06-06 - Israeli academic speaks out about Palestinian conflict
10-06-06 - UN sets up camps for Palestinian children affected by Teachers Strike UNICEF has set up youth clubs to provide extracurricular activities, safe indoor and outdoor play areas, and centres to provide literacy and computer training for Palestinian children, who have been unable to start school this year, due to the closure of the Palestinian government - including the schools.
10-06-06 - UN warcrimes prosecutor attacks international double standards "We are faced with conflicts where, according to credible reports, serious violations of international humanitarian law were committed, for instance during the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict, but no independent criminal investigation is taking place," she told a seminar of international prosecutors here.
10-06-06 - We Can't Go Home Again The NYT publishes account of Palestinian-Americans being barred from entering Palestine.
10-06-06 - Tens of thousands of Palestinians rally in Gaza to support Hamas
10-06-06 - Indonesian troops President Bush budgeted $3 million to assist Indonesian forces in Lebanon.
10-06-06 - U.S. asking donors to expand Abbas force The United States reportedly is asking international donors to contribute $26 million to bolster forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas.
Again, take the money from the aid we give to Israel.
10-06-06 - Israeli DM promises to transfer tax revenues to Palestinians if captured soldier returns
10-06-06 - A serious tour well off the beaten path Jelani's Abu Hassan Alternative Tours offers not only the day trip into Hebron -- a close-up look at the nearly abandoned market, a visit with a Palestinian family, a trip to the mosque, followed by lunch and a shopping trip to the city's famous pottery and glass-blowing factories -- but also tours of the concrete wall and electrified fence that makes up the barrier between Israel and West Bank, visits to the West Bank village of Qalqilya to experience life under occupation, tours of the ancient city of Jericho and trips to Palestinian refugee camps.
10-06-06 - Israel Lobby Debate at the Cooper Union A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.
10-06-06 - Bishop Riah calls for Peace with Justice Speaking after dinner at Morris' Egyptian restaurant, Bishop Riah urged all who attended to do whatever they could to help bring justice to the Palestinian people. He said that justice for Palestine was the key to peace in the Middle East.
10-06-06 - Removing Hamas -Brinkmanship Tactics or Coup D'Etat? One could not but wonder whether the real Israeli-U.S.-backed provocateurs' aim is to bring about the downfall of both Abbas and Hamas in order to maintain and sustain a pre-Hamas comfortable status quo, where their interests and privileges are preserved and the interests of their backers are ideally served
10-06-06 - 'You Never Know What's Next' Lubin probed more and began to see that Eretz Israel (Greater Israel) was built on land owned by Palestinians. Since her awakening, Lubin has been a tireless promoter of Palestinian rights and recognition.
10-06-06 - L.A. Palestinian rally nixed Under pressure from Jewish organizations, however, union president A.J. Duffy said the rally could not be held at headquarters
10-06-06 - Muslim leader gets interfaith award in U.S. despite Jewish protests The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations gave an interfaith award to a prominent Southern California Muslim leader despite strong objections from Jewish organizations who criticized him for comments made about Israel.
10-06-06 - My Name Is Rachel Corrie Begins New York Debut Off-Broadway Oct. 5 The limited engagement will play 48 performances through Nov. 19. Opening is Oct. 15.
10-06-06 - Lieberman Is No Friend of Israel
10-06-06 - Israel 'must explain' war probes Israel's highest court has ordered the government to explain its decision not to set up a state commission to probe the handling of the war in Lebanon.
10-06-06 - Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jeff Halper at U of M Halper, an Israeli, and Ghassan Andoni, a Palestinian from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee. The winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 13, the same day that Halper will visit the university.
10-06-06 - Greenberg Lecture Focus: Hamas and Hezbollah "Hamas and Hezbollah: Risk, Conflict, and Democracy" is the title of the latest Greenberg Middle East series of events at Skidmore. Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa program director for the International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C., will give the talk, scheduled at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
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