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Saturday, October 14, 2006
10-13-06 - Six Palestinians killed, 10 wounded in Israeli air raid
10-13-06 - 13 killed in Israeli raids on Gaza over 24 hours On Friday, a 29-year-old woman was shot dead by soldiers operating in the south and another Palestinian died overnight from wounds suffered during an air strike against the house of a Hamas militant.
10-13-06 - Palestinian Boy Killed During Clashes in Beit Lahia Mahmoud Zomlot, 15 years old, was killed and approximately 33 other residents were wounded on Friday evening after internal violence ensued between supporters of Fatah and Hamas in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, local media sources reported.
10-13-06 - Four killed in new Gaza strikes In the southern village of Abassan, a woman was shot dead outside her home, doctors said.
10-13-06 - Nonviolent resistance: I sell grapes Jerusalem is the largest market for grapes and just last week southwestern Bethlehem farmers demonstrated to be able to reach the city with their crop. But as the assault on economic sustainability continues, Israeli forces will not allow grapes and seasonal vegetables into Jerusalem..... "We want to sell grapes on our own land, in our own city, and still they accuse us of terrorism."
10-13-06 - Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers The apparently spontaneous outbursts at checkpoints around the holy city reflected Palestinians' growing anger with the continued construction of the barrier and their frustration with Israeli restrictions keeping many of them out of Jerusalem. Israeli forces dispersed the crowds with tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons.
10-13-06 - Qalandia checkpoint closed, stopping worshippers on route to Al Aqsa mosque The military checkpoint, Qalandia, separating the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem was closed by Israeli troops today, denying the access of Palestinian worshippers to attend Friday prayers in the Al Aqsa mosque.
10-13-06 - IDF sets up detention center near Gaza The army said soldiers have been instructed to treat the detainees in a humane manner and stressed that most men are released after undergoing interrogation. Released Palestinians are given a package of food staples like sugar, oil and flour. The stench of bull feces emanating from this report is overpowering.
10-13-06 - Gaza fishermen risk Israeli fire According to Mr Habeel, it did not issue any verbal warning, but opened fire first at the cables holding the nets - cutting them adrift. Then he says the Israelis circled the unarmed fishermen spraying their craft with machine gun fire from no more than 20m away.
Here's what they did to our guys, if you have trouble swallowing that.
10-13-06 - Texas buys more Israel Bonds
10-13-06 - The 'Palestinian question' on both sides of the Jordan Of course, given the current situation in the Middle East, the establishment of any sort of Palestinian state could be years away. In the meantime, the Palestinian demographic "time bomb" in both Israel and Jordan will continue to tick. 'Yayy! We have someone we can share our 'demographic problem' with!'
10-13-06 - Bush extends PLO waiver Friday's move comes weeks after an effort failed in Congress to restrict Bush?s ability to waive long-standing legislation banning any Palestine Liberation Organization presence in the United States.
10-13-06 - U.N. picks Ban He met with a number of Jewish groups and leaders in recent weeks in his quest to win Friday afternoon's vote, and was favored by the United States and Israel.
10-13-06 - Mexico probes alleged Hezbollah financing: reports Mexico started the investigation three months ago on a request from the United States, which is helping in the probe, the daily El Universal said.
10-13-06 - Hamas: Revenge will be painful
10-13-06 - A small Jerusalem is better During the past two decades, about 300,000 Jews have left the city, most from the middle or upper class. Jerusalem has turned into the poorest city in Israel, and today, Jewish neighborhoods comprise only one-third of the city's eastern part. The other two-thirds house about a quarter of a million Arabs, who have upended the demographic policy designed to reduce their proportions. Oh dear.
10-13-06 - Road Map remains best method of achieving peace in Middle East, says Annan Mr. Annan added that Israel?s decision to withhold customs and value-added tax payments it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, combined with some donor governments? withdrawal of aid because the Palestinian Government did not commit to Quartet principles, has ?resulted in an acute fiscal crisis for the Palestinian Authority.?
10-13-06 - Foreign Ministry slams envoy's comments about 'yellow race' "Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia," Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. "We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side."
10-13-06 - Keep Arabs away from us,settlers urge For decades Israeli nationalists have been establishing settlements all over the West Bank. They wanted to ensure Jewish control over it. Now they are complaining the government is building a security fence too close to their homes. The Palestinians will be on its other side posing a security threat. In some cases that fence will block their plans to expand, they say.
10-13-06 - Olmert urges Moscow to boost Middle East role Olmert said that Russia will no longer have a one-sided policy to the Middle East as the Soviet Union did. "But Israel does not expect that a turn in this direction will cause damage to relations between Russia and the Arab countries,"
10-13-06 - IDF: Only US operation can stop Iran **
10-13-06 - Palestinian diplomatic staff in dire straits
10-13-06 - Street interviews: This will be the worst Eid of my life. If you have children, you know what I mean
10-13-06 - Tibi Demands PA Residents be Permitted into Jerusalem
10-13-06 - British MP: Israel employed Nazi tactics in Lebanon "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940 - attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said. Turner then turned to Jewish MP Louise Ellman, saying, "I know this offends the honorable Member for Liverpool, Riverside, but I must tell the truth."
10-13-06 - Israel may prepare for large-scale operation into Gaza
10-13-06 - Popularity of Israel's right-wing rising: poll
10-13-06 - Israel punishes civilians There are plenty of things wrong with Mr. Masse's article. I happen to think so thoroughly misrepresenting Israel's human rights record is the most odious. In perpetuating this myth, Mr. Masse has taken a page from one of the most infamous twentieth century leaders: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."
10-13-06 - Whose Move in the Middle East?
10-13-06 - Mel Gibson Blames Anti-Semitic Remarks on 'Passion' Criticism The 50-year-old Gibson said his tirade also may have been triggered by Israel's war in Lebanon. The Middle East has troubled him for a long time.
"I remember thinking when I was 20, man, that place is going to drag us all into the black hole, you know, just the difficulty over there," he said. Asked by Sawyer what Jews are responsible for, Gibson replied: "What are they responsible for? I think that they're not blameless in the conflict. There's been aggression and retaliation and aggression. It's just part of being in conflict, and being at war. So, they're not blameless."
10-13-06 - Joan Rivers: Mel Gibson Should Die
10-13-06 - Parents rejoice at release of their son Unknown Palestinian groups frighten US reporters and aid workers with abductions. Strange that.
10-13-06 - 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.
10-13-06 - Protester voted out of group Coleman has publicly compared the City
Council to the KKK, called them racists, Nazis and baby-killers for not acting to protect Palestinians.
10-13-06 - New U.N. head may make body fairer to Israel, groups hope Ban has said he would make reforming the United Nations - a cause close to the hearts of Jewish organizations who say the world body treats Israel unfairly - a top priority. The terms 'fair' and 'balanced' to pro-Israelis translate to: Israel is not to be blamed for anything.
10-13-06 - Rebuke for peer's Israel remarks Jenny Tonge was told by her leader that he was dissociating himself and his party from her "unacceptable" remarks.
10-13-06 - Christians and Zionists: apocalypse row in Jerusalem The Christian Zionist movement offers Israelis financial support from born-again Bible-belt Christians, principally in the United States, Germany, South Africa, and Scandinavia. Proselytising to convert Jews to Christianity is outlawed, although clandestine efforts to Israeli Muslims have been condoned by at least one cabinet minister.
10-13-06 - Basque members of parliament visit Palestine
10-13-06 - Poll: Most Lebanese see war as attempt to remake region A Jordanian poll published Thursday showed that 84 percent of Lebanese believe that the recent war on Lebanon was a premeditated attempt by the United States and Israel to impose a new regional order in the Middle East.
10-13-06 - Ignatieff planning trip to Israel Liberal leadership front-runner Michael Ignatieff says he'll travel to the Middle East next month in the wake of comments that have enraged Canada's Jewish community and members of his own party.
10-13-06 - The maestro making music for peace
10-13-06 - Palestine film screens in Hollywood The documentary about Caiomhe Butterly, who has been injured in her campaign for peace in the region, will screen Nov. 11
10-13-06 - New Calls by Hamas Militants to Target the U.S. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv Reporter for World Net Daily - a magazine run by a Christian Zionist, Aaron Klein - now providing reports for TIME magazine. If any 'reporter' can get 'facts' from Palestinians that serve the Israeli position - and conflate the US-Israel 'war on terror - it would be Aaron Klein.
10-13-06 - The role of public opinion ** The United States is up to its neck in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cannot open another front. The U.S. weakness and the fact that even Japan and South Korea reject the use of force against North Korea - thereby accepting its nuclearization - encourages Iran to accelerate its own nuclear project. The "soft" sanctions on Iran, if they are imposed at all, will not bring forth salvation.
Translation: "we may have to fight our own battle, and so we must prepare".
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