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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
10-17-06 - 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli army, including stone-throwing youth
10-17-06 - Israeli troops push into Gaza, 2 Palestinians killed The residents said at least two Palestinians were killed overnight in the northern Gaza Strip and identified them as being a gunman from the governing Hamas Islamist group and a civilian.
10-17-06 - Three youth killed in Qabatia
10-17-06 - Israel threatens massive Gaza ground assault Israel has ratcheted up threats of a massive ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing war of words with the ruling Hamas movement which has vowed to teach the army a harsh lesson
10-17-06 - Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks "We don't know what it means - new weapons or something new added to a previous weapon," he said. "We had patients who died after stabilisation and that is very unusual."
10-17-06 - U.S. protests restrictions on its citizens entering West Bank The United States government has lodged a vigorous protest with Israel over its restrictions on the entry of Palestinian-Americans into the territories. State Department officials told senior Israeli diplomats in Washington that they find it "hard to understand" Israel's discriminating against American citizens based on their ethnic background.
10-17-06 - Abbas says considering poll on fate of Hamas government Abbas promoted the idea of a cabinet of technocrats as a way to ease crippling Western sanctions, but he pledged not to force it on Hamas, and the ruling party was cool to the idea.
10-17-06 - New power line to connect Israel and Gaza After Israel bombed Gaza generator, new power line to be built between Israel and Gaza. The funding: Palestinian tax funds withheld by Israel
10-17-06 - Millions around globe stand up against poverty - U.N. School children in Gaza, cricket fans in India and African church-goers have helped set a Guinness world record for "the largest number of people to 'stand up against poverty,'" U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
10-17-06 - Soldiers break into PLC headquarters, abduct two Palestinians Israeli soldiers broke on Tuesday into the Palestinian Legislative council office in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, and abducted two residents, including one employee
10-17-06 - UN calls for ending siege on the Palestinian territories Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called on international community on Tuesday to lift the siege on the Palestinian people.
10-17-06 - IDF holds first Philadelphi raid since 2005 pullout Security sources said there are serious concerns at the growing smuggling activities between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, through use of tunnels.
10-17-06 - French forces: Stop Lebanon overflights or we'll open fire The commanders of the French contingent in UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) have warned that if Israeli warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, they may have to open fire on them, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday
10-17-06 - HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL - PART 3: The political war Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert adopted Bush's language on the "war on terrorism", reminding his citizenry that Hezbollah was a part of "the axis of evil". His remarks have been reinforced by Bush, whose comments during his address before the UN General Assembly mentioned al-Qaeda once - and Hezbollah and Hamas five times each. The United States and Israel have now lumped Islamist groups willing to participate in the political processes in their own nations with those takfiris and Salafists who are bent on setting the region on fire.
A very interesting take on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of this past summer.
10-17-06 - Saddam: Kurds dividing Iraq for Israeli benefit
10-17-06 - Hamas says likely to accept forming gov't of technocrats
10-17-06 - Hebron Update: 8-14 October 2006 a Palestinian associate reported that settlers had broken
into three shops bordering the Bab iBaladeyyeh (Beit Romano) checkpoint.. They
had smashed their way in through the back walls of the stores. He also reported
that Israelis have been sneaking into and operating a stone quarry at night,
located near the village of Dahariya.. He said that the invasions constitute
illegal land confiscation and have been reported to Israeli police. He added, if
they get no satisfaction, they plan to take their complaint to Israel's high
court.
10-17-06 - Israeli politicians go on trial Correspondents say allegations of sleaze at the top of Israeli politics have shaken the establishment and caused dismay and disillusionment among already jaded voters.
10-17-06 - Plan to boost security seen as power play Omar Shaban, a Gaza political analyst, said the aid will backfire if perceived as partisan. "They have to do it in a way that they don't show it as empowering Fatah against Hamas. They can't show it as a part of the conflict," he said. "They have to say that we want to help the Palestinian people, they have to put in the context of the Palestinian state, not the president."
10-17-06 - U.N. naval force patrols Lebanese waters An international force is in place to help the Lebanese navy prevent arms smuggling.
10-17-06 - Hamas-led government renounces inter-Palestinian violence
10-17-06 - British MP apologizes for comparing Israeli tactics to the Nazis Turner slammed the British government for not calling for an immediate cease-fire during the summer conflict. He said even Human Rights Watch condemns Israel?s lawless attacks on south Lebanon that were followed by civilian casualties. "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940, attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said.
IT's the truth.
10-17-06 - Lebanon asks Arab states for more help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora appealed to Arab countries Tuesday to increase and accelerate their donations to Lebanon to help it rebuild from what he called "a series of devastating Israeli invasions" in the past 30 years.
10-17-06 - Peace being sown among olive trees this year has not been without problems. In recent weeks settlers set fire to two olive groves, Palestinian farmers say, and Israeli police arrested 10 settler youths - carrying knives, saws and brass knuckles - suspected of attacking and beating Palestinians harvesting olives, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
10-17-06 - Jordan: Unemployed refugee women face poverty More than 33 per cent of women in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan are unemployed, according to a study released on Sunday by the Amman-based Palestinian Centre for Citizenship Rights
10-17-06 - Israel Plans House Demolitions in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley We were told that 25 homes in Al Jiftlik were scheduled for demolition by the Israeli army. The owners of the homes had been given notice of the demolition in the last two months and had been called to appear before a military tribunal at the nearby colony to appeal against the decision.
10-17-06 - Israeli Settlers Annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian Lands in Susia
10-17-06 - Mussa calls on all Arab nations to help Lebanon rebuild Arab League chief Amr Mussa has called for all Arab nations to help with the massive task of Lebanese reconstruction following Israel's devastating summer offensive.
10-17-06 - Teacher?s Strike to End After Eid
10-17-06 - 'Minor' glitches delay Israel pullout from Lebanese village: UN Israeli troops continued to occupy the Lebanese northern parts of Ghajar, after their October 1 withdrawal from southern Lebanon. That came almost seven weeks after a UN-brokered truce took effect on August 14, ending 34 days of war against the Lebanese Hezbollah Shiite militant group.
10-17-06 - Jordan: UNRWA health care extends beyond refugee camps
10-17-06 - A foreign policy tailspin The administration's green light to Israel to do anything it wants to grind down the Palestinians, reversing 30 years of U.S. policy, as Powell pointed out, has caused structural damage to America's efforts toward a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem
10-17-06 - Egypt urges Hamas to back down
10-17-06 - Olmert speech doesn?t mention pullback Prime Minister Ehud Olmert laid out his agenda for the coming year in a policy speech to parliament Monday, but he made no mention of the key issue that brought him to power: a unilateral pullback from the West Bank .
10-17-06 - Poll shows Palestinians far from peace This poll sounds mighty suspect - especially seeing as how it comes on the heels of this one - which gave very different results.
10-17-06 - Israel to help NATO patrols Details of the pact have not been released, but the accord, agreed to Monday, is seen as a way to bolster ties between Israel and Arab nations with borders on the Mediterranean.
10-17-06 - Seven prisoners escape from PA jail near Ramallah
10-17-06 - Israeli emigres urged to return Israel's Immigration Ministry is trying to persuade citizens who moved abroad to return.
10-17-06 - Google eyes second Israel center The leading Internet search engine announced Tuesday that it plans to open a research and development center in Tel Aviv next year. The center will seek to build partnerships with Israeli universities and institutions, Google said in a statement. Google is evidently very friendly with Israel. They also chose to use as their search algorithm one developed by an Israeli man. Anyone that knows that algorithm could potentially be a very rich person.
10-17-06 - Jewish political partisans in U.S. engaged in pre-election outreach
10-17-06 - The Jewish left rears its head The new lobby will try to promote a known "political recipe": It will back Israeli policies when they promote the lobby's agenda, but in other cases it will try to sabotage them.
10-17-06 - Jewish group calls off Ignatieff's mid-leadership trip to Israel The Canada-Israel Committee didn't want an all-party parliamentary delegation to the Middle East to turn into a leadership side show.
10-17-06 - May we criticize Israel?
10-17-06 - President Ben Ali honoured for his defence of Palestinians
10-17-06 - Refusnik left in underwear, only
10-17-06 - Flood of late campaign donations fueled Johnson's win over McKinney The Jewish community particularly seized on the opportunity to defeat McKinney, who some critics view as anti-semitic and who has been outspoken in her support for Palestinian and Arab causes.
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