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Thursday, October 12, 2006
10-11-06 - Two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, West Bank Near the West Bank city of Nablus, Abdallah Mansur, 29, was struck by a stray bullet during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants while he was at a window of his house, a Palestinian security official said Wednesday
10-11-06 - Army kills one resident near Eretz border crossing in Gaza Medics in the ambulance car said that the man, who is in his 20s, remains unidentified due to severe mutilation of his skull and face. The man was hit with heavy artillery fire in the back of his head, medics added.
10-11-06 - Settlers attack residents of Tall Al Rimada in Hebron A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents of Hebron, in the Tell Al area in the West Bank, on Wednesday, at dawn.
10-11-06 - Gaza sliding into civil war Years of rivalry between the Islamic Hamas movement, which now dominates the government, and the more secular Fatah, which was ousted from power in January elections, is spilling over into a struggle for power.
10-11-06 - U.N. humanitarian chief says Gaza crossings must be opened to avert 'social explosion' 750,000 young people in Gaza were particularly hard hit by the border closure and the increasing humanitarian crisis
10-11-06 - Israel willfully kills two civilians at Nablus checkpoints
10-11-06 - Israeli authorities impose additional restrictions on farmers in southern Qalqilia Farmers will be allowed to harvest their olives for three days only. Israeli settlers from the Oranit Settlement, built on Qalqilia lands, are expected to again attack Palestinian farmers.
10-11-06 - Rice says U.S. wants end to Palestinian "humiliation" "The Palestinian people deserve a better life, a life that is rooted in liberty, democracy, uncompromised by violence and terrorism, unburdened by corruption and misrule and forever free of the daily humiliation of occupation," And only the US has the power to see to that. Yet it is unable to do so. Here's why.
10-11-06 - Israel says 2 bombers intercepted Each man had a pipe bomb weighing about 2.2 pounds, and they admitted during interrogation that they planned to use the explosives to attack Israeli soldiers.
10-11-06 - Israeli warplanes rocket hits northern Gaza House
10-11-06 - Fatah-linked group rescues, releases US student
10-11-06 - Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip An investigative report to be aired on Italian television today raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns. The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military called DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius.
10-11-06 - U.N. notes increase in Israel roadblocks Israel's network of military checkpoints and road barriers in the West Bank has grown by 40 percent in the past year, part of an increasingly sophisticated system of controls that disrupts all aspects of Palestinian life, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
10-11-06 - Evangelicals invest $40m. in aliya A Jerusalem-based Evangelical Christian organization announced Tuesday that it has helped 100,000 Jews move to Israel during the past decade and a half. Here's why.
10-11-06 - Peace Now head guards settlement He is on a three-week tour of duty with his army reserve unit.
10-11-06 - Israel group gets $2 million NIF is targeting what it calls "invisible Israelis" - Arabs, Sephardi Jews and immigrants - as it helps residents of the North recover from this summer's war against Hezbollah.
10-11-06 - Will Israel bomb Iran? ** with its ongoing commitments in Iraq, some of Israel's strategic thinkers believe America has too much at stake to intervene militarily....According to Israeli intelligence sources, Iran's scientists are now within a year of reaching the technical point when they could enrich uranium to the level required for atomic arms.....The former chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, Moshe Yaalon concludes: "As a last resort, the West should be ready to launch military strikes to deal with Iranian nuclear capabilities ...but Israel should be ready to deal with this kind of threat, if anyone else doesn't do it."
10-11-06 - Design Meets Diplomacy Doug Suisman's Arc project isn't a roadmap to peace in the Middle East-it's a blueprint of what a peaceful Palestinian state would look like
10-11-06 - Hebron Update: 1-7 October 2006 It turned out that the father had been taken from the house by the soldiers and
beaten in the street. There was a large fresh bump on his forehead which he had
gotten, he said, had been inflicted when some of the soldiers slammed him
repeatedly against a wall.
10-11-06 - The undocumented / Fifth in a series - Bedouin trackers: Israeli enough for the IDF, but not for an ID card
10-11-06 - Prisoners' association shut down in Israel and West Bank
10-11-06 - Jewish group offers 007 Middle East "missions" For a little less than $2,000 and a donation to a center that sues countries and groups it accuses of militant links, participants are promised briefings from Israeli spies, a visit to a West Bank checkpoint, tours of the Lebanese frontlines and trips in light aircraft over northern Israel. You know, just when you thought you'd seen it all with regard to the behavior of some people in Israel. Wow.
10-11-06 - Bleak Ramadan in Palestine
10-11-06 - Crown Prince denies secret Saudi-Israeli meeting Israel's top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot reported last week that Olmert had held a secret meeting lasting several hours with Saudi officials at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
10-11-06 - Lebanon: We seized arms from Hizbullah
10-11-06 - NGO statement reaffirm the right to return, restitution and compensation of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced as the preferred solution
10-11-06 - A New Fence Is Added to a Border Town Already Split To the Lebanese, the fence, erected over the past several weeks to separate the northern side of the village from the rest of Lebanon, amounts to a new occupation of their territory, potentially worsening tensions over the disputed Shabaa Farms area nearby.....Lebanese officials say the continued presence of Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil is a violation of United Nations Resolution 1701, which settled this summer?s conflict. Well now.
10-11-06 - Palestinian newborns, even the dead, hit by strike
10-11-06 - Hamas rep in Lebanon calls for Abbas to step down
10-11-06 - Hamas accuses Abbas of wrecking unity govt talks
10-11-06 - Syria supports formation of Palestinian unity government: FM
10-11-06 - PFLP slams Qatari proposal on forming Palestinian coalition government
10-11-06 - Jordanian King warns Palestinians of sliding towards civil war Abdullah said the Palestinian aspiration of statehood could vanish within months unless they would curb sliding towards civil war.
10-11-06 - Israel Starving Palestinians Into Submission
10-11-06 - Two Palestinians injured, two taken prisoner in Jenin Wednesday evening, under-cover units of the Israeli army, invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, took two fighters prisoners, shot and injured two residents including a resistance fighter.
10-11-06 - USAID Funds Holy Family Hospital inBethlehem The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said that it has funded the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem to launch construction of an additional floor to serve Palestinian patients.
10-11-06 - Israel and North Korea / Maybe now they'll take Iran seriously the key to imposing sanctions on Iran lies in Russia, which has avoided effective handling of Iran's nuclear ambitions until now. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will visit President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow and again try to change his mind.
10-11-06 - Hamas may recognize earlier agreements Several Israeli media quote a London Arabic newspaper as saying Hamas may recognize previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
10-11-06 - Professionalism vs. patriotism
10-11-06 - Soros pairing with dovish Jews to consider an alternative to AIPAC That success was an impetus to the current initiative, participants in the late September meeting said: It fed their perception that AIPAC is not adequately representing American Jews, who polls show have overwhelmingly backed past peace plans
10-11-06 - Mideast politics enter Calif. local race A letter by former state Republican Party chairman Shawn Steel has been circulating on the Internet accusing Syrian immigrant Belal "Bill" Dalati of helping sponsor an anti-Israel rally and associating with "zany left wing groups."
10-11-06 - Palestinian and Jew seek insight on stage One of the many poignant moments in the play occurs when an old Palestinian man, dying of cancer, holds up a rusted key to a home he was forced to leave and says, "This is my life." A young Israeli woman responds by opening a box of similar rusted keys belonging to Jewish family homes that the characters were forced to leave in Europe
While we can feel sympathy for both parties, the real issue here is : the Palestinians did not displace the Jews of the Holocaust, they did not take their properties. The Nazis did. So why should the Palestinians have to pay for the crimes of others? That is in essence what has happened here. And the spectre of the Holocaust is always wielded every time this particular Palestinian grievance is raised. Palestinians didn't do it, and it's not right to treat them as if they did, nor is it right to expect them to forfeit their legitimate rights to return to their property or to receive compensation thereof should they seek not to return (as per article 11 of UN resolution 194).
10-11-06 - UNRWA Must Be Brought in Line with UN High Commissioner for Refugees While not advocating the de-funding of UNRWA, JINSA believes its mandate should be changed to resemble the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an agency that sees the resettlement of refugees as its priority. Both Sen. Coleman and Rep. Kirk agreed that UNRWA?s mandate was problematic while acknowledging that the organization provides valuable services for Palestinians refugees. So says the pro-Israeli outfit JINSA and its minions on Capitol Hill. JINSA- neocon central, placing matters to the fore of US politics in line with a policy that can best be summed up by two words: Israel first!
10-11-06 - Sharansky quitting politics He entered politics in 1996 with the new immigrant party Yisrael Ba'Aliyah, eventually serving as a Cabinet minister. He resigned from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government last year to protest the looming Gaza Strip withdrawal. That move coincided with the publication of his book "The Case for Democracy," which was co-authored by Israeli diplomat Ron Dermer and drew praise from President Bush. Sharansky is widely expected to write a new book on geopolitics. Sharansky's idea of spreading of 'democracy'in the Middle East was taken up by Bush.
10-11-06 - The Non-Lobby Not at Work
10-11-06 - Brandeis made error, committee says A Brandeis faculty committee has found university officials committed a "serious error" when they removed a student-organized exhibit that displayed the artwork of Palestinian youth.
10-11-06 - South African Jews have adjusted to post-apartheid state, study finds 85 percent perceived anti-Zionism as more of an issue in South Africa. Sixty percent of respondents - up from 49 percent in 1998 - agreed with the statement that Israel should "give up some territory in exchange for credible guarantees of peace." I see a connection between that and this
10-11-06 - Israel to help India arms probe
10-11-06 - Richardson man gets 7 years in '04 export case Bayan Elashi, former chief executive officer of InfoCom Corp., said in his first public comments about the case that federal prosecutors couldn't find anything related to terrorism ? so they went after him for common errors normally punished with administrative fines.
10-11-06 - China beats Palestine 2-0 to qualify for Asian Cup
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