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Thursday, October 19, 2006


News for 10-18-06

10-18-06 - Hamas militant involved in kidnapping Shalit killed by Israeli army: Hamas source


10-18-06 - OPT: West Bank patients grow increasingly desperate for medical treatment


10-18-06 - For Palestinians, this year's Ramadan is the worst ever


10-18-06 - Despite repressive measures, thousands of Palestinians reached Al Aqsa Mosque for night of prayer Tens of thousands of Palestinian Muslims spent the night in Al Aqsa Mosque praying during the last days of Ramadan. The Israeli military stepped up the repressive procedures keeping thousands more out.


10-18-06 - Is violence Palestinian "disease"?-Hamas official "(Violence) has taken away the language of brotherhood and replaced it with arms ... It has stolen our unity and divided us into two camps, or three, or ten,"


10-18-06 - Mines and brides: UN staff tread lightly on Golan Strategic experts agree that Israel's command of the Golan, much of which is heavily mined, would make any assault by the lesser-armed Syrians easy to repel


10-18-06 - Appeals Court Upholds Terrorist Label for a Jewish Group The Israeli cabinet declared Kahane Chai a terrorist organization in 1994, and the United States State Department followed suit in 1997. In 2003, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell reaffirmed the designation and added that 20 entities were aliases of Kahane Chai, including a Web site, Kahane.org.


10-18-06 - Iran must be intimidated, says Israeli leader


10-18-06 - Running from Iraq - Don't Imagine It Will Reduce the Jihadist Threat Neocons like this individual writing for the AEI- neocon central - just LOVE having American GIs taking the brunt of violence in the Middle East -it keeps the attention of the jihadis away from Israel. Now they want us to stay for awhile and continue this policy.


10-18-06 - From gunbelts to greenbelts After Hizbullah's 34-day war with Israel, Erlend Clouston tracks down its representatives and finds them keen to talk about parks and pollution


10-18-06 - A symbol of failure: The unholy state of the River Jordan What has made this even worse, since Israel started sucking out the waters of the Jordan for the water carrier it built in the 1960s, is the man-created depletion of the river which has reduced it from a level of 1.3bn cubic metres a year to what is by comparison a trickle of some 100 million cubic metres.


10-18-06 - Court presses Israeli army on ban Israel's High Court has urged the army to reconsider its denial of entry to a Palestinian woman who wants to study at an Israeli university.


10-18-06 - Lebanon businesses try to bounce back


10-18-06 - Lebanon's young begin return to normalcy Compared to many southern Lebanese schools, Ansariyeh was relatively fortunate. Israeli bombing completely flattened 50 schools, say officials from UNICEF, the UN's international children's fund.


10-18-06 - Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy: "Invadimos a Iran" The Israel lobby clearly sees Hispanic voters as a new and largely untapped force in American politics in need of leadership harnessed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) foreign policy issue framework.


10-18-06 - PM pledges 'steadfast support' for Israel No amount of political pressure will force the Canadian government into taking a neutral stance regarding Israel's fight against terrorism, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday in promising Canada's "steadfast support, encouragement and friendship" to the Jewish state.


10-18-06 - Congresswoman: Safeguard US aid to Abbas


10-18-06 - Israel: Iran targeting us with drugs Israel accused Iran of trying to flood it with drugs via Lebanon.


10-18-06 - Jordan, Syria discuss river rights Jordan and Syria are negotiating water rights from the Yarmouk River, a source Israel also claims.



10-18-06 - Festivities in support of Palestinians


10-18-06 - Hamas government urges int'l community to stop Israeli offensive on Gaza Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Wednesday that the incursion into Rafah was the biggest operation in Gaza Strip since Israel's major withdrawal in late 2005.


10-18-06 - Peretz considers granting legal status for illegal settlement outposts


10-18-06 - Even Palestinian-Americans are being turned back at the border


10-18-06 - Rectors: Let Palestinians study "How can we send Israeli students to universities abroad while we act this way when Israeli academics have been boycotted in countries like England and Canada? How can we appeal to those countries if we are doing the exact same thing?"


10-18-06 - Between Syria and Israel, a strategic breakthrough for peace is possible Virtually all Arab and Muslim leaders - whether regarded in Washington as "radical," like Assad, or "moderate," like King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, or King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - share Assad's perception that the Bush administration is seriously biased in Israel's favor, and that it will make no serious move without Jerusalem's assent.


10-18-06 - Middle-East conflict informs game Global Conflict: Palestine centres on the activities of a young journalist.


10-18-06 - Editor beaten in Bangladesh A pro-Israel editor reportedly was beaten in Bangladesh.


10-18-06 - Syracuse summit looks at finding ways to peace Among the participants were former U-S Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke and Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator and scholar and a former spokesman of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East Peace process.


10-18-06 - The prosecution Ferguson was braced for a new barrage of criticism at a hearing not long after he made the bombshell announcement last month the government was dismissing a key element of the indictment -- that Salah provided material support to a terrorist organization.

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