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Friday, October 13, 2006
10-12-06 - Nine killed as Israel escalates air-ground military actions in Gaza Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that an Israeli army aircraft targeted a house in eastern Gaza City on Thursday night, killing three Palestinians, including a father and his 2-year-old baby girl, and wounded nine others, said Palestinian medics.
10-12-06 - Seven killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Seven people, including an eight-year-old girl and a teenage boy, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as troops mounted a fresh incursion as part of a four-month offensive.
10-12-06 - Gaza: Child killed in IDF strike Who is doing all of the killing? Week after week after week, Palestinians are killed almost daily by Israel.
10-12-06 - PA security officer shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Gaza
10-12-06 - Settlers attack a holy site in Nablus Around 20 settlers from Israeli settlements located south of Balata, stormed a shrine, Sidnah Yousif, which is in the centre of a highly populated area. Under the protection of the Israeli army the settlers conducted prayers, while local residents were restricted from accessing the site by soldiers who had closed the area.
10-12-06 - Police arrest 10 settler youths who beat Palestinians harvesting olives Police on Thursday arrested 10 youths from the West Bank settlement of Hashmonaim who are suspected of attacking and beating local Palestinians harvesting olives. Three Palestinians filed complaints with police after they were attacked while working in orchards adjacent to Hashmonaim, which is located near Modi'in. It's what happens when Israel bans police and international escorts for the farmers. And again. And again.
10-12-06 - Rights group: Shin Bet denies vital treatment to Palestinians
10-12-06 - US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007 ** Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a military option is not on the cards for the Bush administration because of the situation in Iraq "Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf" - no s%#t? Really? I never would have guessed.
10-12-06 - Anti-rocket systems said years away Israel is not expected to have defense systems against tactical rockets within the next four years, a newspaper reported.
10-12-06 - Arab villages want equal compensation
10-12-06 - Former general: Israel testing its limits
10-12-06 - Olmert urges action against Iran
10-12-06 - FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon By contrast with the absence of Israel's conduct in Lebanon, the report says: "We remain deeply concerned by Syria's ongoing support for Hizbullah. Hizbullah's role in the major outbreak of violence this year with Israel included abducting and detaining two Israeli soldiers and firing unguided rockets into Israeli towns and cities. In total, Hizbullah fired nearly 4,000 rockets into Israeli territory."
10-12-06 - Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps: Check your stereotypes at the door ?The Palestinian refugee issue could have been solved decades ago, like so many other cases, if only the Arab states stopped using UNRWA to keep the Palestinians as political pawns,? said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based group that monitors the United Nations. THe problem could have been solved if Israel had implemented article 11 of UN resolution 194. These folks just cannot ever lay any responsibility at the foot of Israel when it was Israel that created this 'refugee problem' in the first place. Disgusting.
10-12-06 - State Prosecutor won't reopen case against policemen 'absolved' of killing Arab Israeli in 2003
10-12-06 - Hamas says recognising Israel politically futile "Let's ... force Israel to compromise. Let us keep some cards in our possession. We have seen the fate of those who accepted recognition as a precondition for negotiations. They have gained nothing,"
10-12-06 - Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran ** Is the Israeli government using Shalev, wittingly or not, and is he in turn using the BBC, to spread Israeli propaganda? Propaganda that may soon propel us towards the "clash of civilisations" so longed for by Israel's leadership. This is in reference to the BBC's program of the same topic from this week.
10-12-06 - US probes Israeli restrictions on travel of Palestinian-Americans Rice referred to the problem during a speech Wednesday night to the American Task Force on Palestine, a Palestinian-American charity.
10-12-06 - Bahrain urges relaunch of Mideast peace talks
10-12-06 - Report: Peres torpedoed Gaza desalination plant in '92
10-12-06 - Media group accuses Israeli soldiers of unprovoked violence against journalists
10-12-06 - Pope condemns use of religion for hate In his speech Thursday, the pope also reiterated his condemnation of anti-Semitism, saying that "the church deplores all forms of hatred or persecution directed against the Jews and all displays of anti-Semitism at any time and from any source." Foxman said he had asked Benedict to be "a strong, constant voice against anti-Semitism," adding that the pope responded privately: "I will always be available for you as a voice against anti-Semitism."
The ADL says "Jump!", the Pope asks, "How high?".
10-12-06 - Abu Mazen Apologizes for Abduction of American
10-12-06 - Hamas wants 1 for 1,000 prisoner swap In an interview with London's al-Hayat newspaper, Khaled Mashaal said he had not ordered the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a June 25 Hamas border raid and suggested it had been an impromptu act, which he praised.
10-12-06 - Women discuss challenges of living in war-torn Gaza Ageel's family was expelled from their home in 1948 and forced to live in a refugee camp. She remembers waiting for food rations and secondhand clothes as a child. Her college dreams were put on hold for six years as she waited for Israel to reopen universities.
10-12-06 - My Friend, the Enemy Bashir Khairi was a child of 6 when, in July 1948, he, his family and almost all the citizens of the towns of al-Ramla and Lydda were forcibly expelled from their homes by the Israeli army. It was the single largest such eviction of the war, numbering 30,000-50,000 Palestinians, ordered by the newly declared state's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion
10-12-06 - Harvest of death is reaped where the cluster bombs were scattered Dalya Farran, of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre, said that there were 770 new cluster bomb sites across south Lebanon but complained that they had received little help from Israel. ?All we got were maps giving areas ?highly likely? to contain unexploded ordnance, but they didn?t mention what type and said they were not exhaustive,? she said
10-12-06 - ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: October 2006
10-12-06 - UTLA quashes Israel divestment push "Some of the Jewish establishment is absolutely intolerant of any discussion of any sort that has to do with Palestinian human rights; anything that's critical of Israel," The Israeli lobby doesn't exist. It's an anti-Semitic myth.
10-12-06 - Qassam rocket hits southern Israeli town, causing blackout
10-12-06 - If Peres truly wants peace with Syria, let him make a genuine overture
10-12-06 - ADL presses pope on Iran The leader of the Anti-Defamation League asked Pope Benedict XVI to help protect Jews from Iranian threats.
10-12-06 - Israel Renounces Violence, Recognizes Palestinian?s Right to Exist
10-12-06 - Civic leaders condemn attack on Calif. Muslim candidate A powerful Republican Party operative who earlier this week accused a Muslim City Council candidate of supporting Islamic extremists on Thursday challenged the Syrian-born man to a debate on his views of Hezbollah and the Middle East.
10-12-06 - Comments on Israel harm Canadian pol A leading Canadian politician is under fire after calling an Israeli bombing of a Lebanese town this summer a war crime
10-12-06 - Voters to face anti-Israel questions in Somerville Francis added that the grassroots group?s main goal is to get people educated about Israeli and Palestinian concerns.
10-12-06 - AIPAC Runs Right
10-12-06 - Christian Zionists descend on Israel for festival They love the state of Israel because they say the Bible foretells the return of the Jews to the Holy Lands before the final battle takes place, Armageddon, when the anti-Christ will be defeated. Most of the Christian Zionists are American. They've raised millions of dollars for Israel and they've cultivated ties with the right of Israeli politics. .....DAVID HARDAKER: After a terrific start he became tetchy when asked to explain why his group supports Israeli settlements being built on Palestinian land.
10-12-06 - New pro-Israel initiative doesn't aim to compete with AIPAC, organizers say Top AIPAC officials said they saw the organization as complementing AIPAC's pro-Israel mission from different perspectives, as the Zionist Organization of America now does from the right and Americans for Peace Now does from the left. Both organizations are represented on AIPAC's executive committee.
10-12-06 - Rachel Corrie The Play, At Last With some members of the audience still applauding the now-empty stage, others quickly engaged in political scuffles. "You," one woman hissed at two excitable teenagers, clapping hard, "clearly didn't understand the play," implying that the teenagers' enthusiasm was due to an incomplete understanding of the intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The teenagers muttered something in response.
10-12-06 - U. of Maryland dedicatesInstitute for Israel StudiesCenter named for Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Alma Gildenhorn points out that while the university has a large Jewish population ? an estimated 6,000 students, or more than 20 percent of the student body ? "not all of them are well-informed, and it is up to us to help them."
10-12-06 - Hickman forum dwells on Mideast conflict
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