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Saturday, October 21, 2006
10-20-06 - Four Palestinian refugees killed in Iraq, eight injured An unknown armed group in Iraq fired, on Thursday night, mortar shells and rounds of live ammunition at a Palestinian neighbourhood of Al Baladiya an area in Baghdad, killing four Palestinian refugees and injuring at least eight others.
10-20-06 - Shooting mars Gaza factions deal Witnesses said a gunman had opened fire on a convoy carrying Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
10-20-06 - Muslims Flood Streets of Jerusalem for Ramadan "It's a terrible feeling," said Qassem al-Balboul, 42. He sought to pray in Jerusalem with his 8-year-old daughter, Sundus, who has been asking for years to visit Al Aksa Mosque. "We have no jobs and no money, and now we can?t even pray at our greatest mosque."
10-20-06 - Appeal from Palestinian Labor Union as poverty rate reaches 65 percent
10-20-06 - Iraqis protest against Israel on 'Jerusalem Day' More than a thousand Iraqi Shiite protesters have taken to the streets of Baghdad, Basra and Najaf to condemn Israel and demand that Jerusalem be handed over to Palestinian control.
10-20-06 - Qassam hits Sderot; 1 hurt
10-20-06 - Large arms shipment seized in Egypt near border with Gaza
10-20-06 - Some 10,500 Palestinians in Israel prisons The report said more than 500 women have been arrested since "al-Aqsa uprising," of whom 115 are still behind bars. Three of them gave birth in prison. Also, more than 5,000 children and teenagers were arrested during the same period. An estimated 400 are still in prison and some have reached the legal adult age of 18 while in jail.
Aren't they all in a jail when you get right down to it? In fact, some likely eat better in the Israeli prisons than in the prison called Palestine (where they live on less than 2 dollars a day). This is a direct result of US foreign policy.
10-20-06 - Palestinians living inside Israeli borders receive permits to visit Gaza relatives
10-20-06 - UNHCR decries Palestinian plight in Iraq Shelling of a Palestinian neighborhood in Baghdad has left four dead, prompting the U.N. refugee agency to renew appeals for local and regional responsibility.
10-20-06 - Israel hunts for tunnels in major Gaza raid
10-20-06 - LEBANON: Fishermen survive on handouts The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in August that the Ouzai Harbour was "the most polluted and damaged harbour in Lebanon, after nearly 320 boats were destroyed and sank after Israeli air raids on the harbour, fish market and cafeteria".
10-20-06 - Carter Book Slaps Israel With 'Apartheid' Tag, Provides Ammo to GOP Israel's current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book's summary, is "a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights." In a separate passage in the advance draft, the former president stated that "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land." You can pre-order this book at Amazon.
10-20-06 - Lebanon receives 300 mln USD from Kuwait for rebuilding Lebanon has received a grant of 300 million U.S. dollars from Kuwait for helping its post-war rebuilding, Lebanon's newspaper Daily Star reported Wednesday
10-20-06 - Livni: Lebanon's calls for peace talks prove war has left its mark Speaking to Kadima party members in Dimona, Livni said Berri's statement is "the best proof that the war has changed the rules of conduct in Lebanon, and now different voices are heard."
10-20-06 - Iran 'should stop student bans' Human Rights Watch says according to documents it has obtained, Iran's Ministry of Information - which performs intelligence functions - is orchestrating what it describes as a campaign to deny student activists their right to education Speaking of HRW and student bans, where is HRW's condemnation of Israel's ban of the Palestinian student (from today's news), mm? Israel is doing the same exact thing.
10-20-06 - UN: UNIFIL won?t shoot IAF planes UNIFIL forces have no intention of firing at Israeli planes patrolling Beirut?s skies, United Nations spokesperson Stefan Dujarric said Thursday. Furthermore, the UN has no plans to change the rules of engagement to permit the targeting of IAF planes.
10-20-06 - Israeli billionaire's investment plan raises fears of a hidden agenda By limiting the focus to families of the refugees who fled their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war the plan will also fuel Palestinian suspicions that its hidden agenda is to reduce the demand for a "right of return" to their family homes in what is now Israel in any future peace negotiations Prettying up the refugee camps does not change the fact that they are still refugee camps, and cramped ones at that.
10-20-06 - Israelis coming to D.C. Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter met this week with Stephen Hadley, the White House?s national security adviser. Stephen Hadley is a neocon.
10-20-06 - Russia says Hizbullah used US arms
10-20-06 - Judith Miller Agrees To Testify in Chicago Hamas Trial She also said a former New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, would testify that she witnessed part of the interrogation of Mr. Salah and saw no torture or mistreatment Judy Miller - she's everywhere the neocons need her to be... Or so it would seem.
10-20-06 - Putin jokes about Israeli sex scandal
10-20-06 - Ahmadinejad predicts Israel's collapse, warns of 'boiling wrath' "You (the Western powers) should know that any government that stands by the Zionist regime from now on will not see any result but the hatred of the people," he added. "The wrath of the region's people is boiling."
10-20-06 - Iranian leader threatens Israel's allies ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded Israeli leaders "a group of terrorists" Friday, after Israel's prime minister warned Tehran would have "a price to pay" if it does not roll back its nuclear program.
10-20-06 - Palestinian woman battles blanket ban to study in Israel In the 10 months since she won the scholarship, Salameh has applied eight times in vain for a permit to enter Jerusalem. The answer has always been "no". What about online schooling (some colleges offer this)? I know that theirs is a situation with limited power supplies, but it may be one way around Israel's restrictions. Adapt, overcome, improvise.
10-20-06 - Hamas' most influential leader, Khaled Mashaal, seen as key to conflict Although that doesn't meet the demands of the United States and other countries that Hamas recognize Israel, Hamidi said it was a significant shift for Mashaal to agree to a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.
10-20-06 - Four detained in Saudi Arabia for supporting Hezbollah Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, fears the rising influence of Shi'ite power in Iran and in the Arab world. It has criticized Israeli military action in Lebanon but has also blamed the Iranian-backed Hezbollah for provoking the crisis.
10-20-06 - Art of resistance There is now a vibrant and growing body of work that can be said to be an art "of Palestine". Created by Palestinians and non-Palestinians, it is essentially an art of resistance. This has existed for decades in the Arab world but now it's coming from the west as well.
10-20-06 - Israeli planes steering clear of Lebanon: France The French cabinet minister told a news conference at U.N. headquarters that the Israeli air incursions were "extremely dangerous" and should stop permanently.
10-20-06 - Solidarity delegation denied entry while attempting to join farmers for olive harvest Today's intention was for the foreign group, including members from France and Sweden, to join the farmers near the Wall in Jenin to harvest their olive crop.
10-20-06 - Israel, U.S. agree: Not the time for Syria talks
10-20-06 - Palestinian majority wants elections A majority of Palestinians favors early parliamentary elections and opposes Hamas? rejection of Israel?s existence, a poll found.
10-20-06 - Peace Now: Most outposts partly built on private Palestinian land Nearly three-quarters of the 102 outposts in the West Bank - 74 percent - are at least partly built on private Palestinian land..... An additional 7.6 percent of the area on which the outposts are built is territory whose recognition as state lands is pending.
"territory whose recognition as state lands is pending" = more stolen Palestinian land, I bet.
10-20-06 - N. Korea, Mideast states, refuse chemical arms ban
10-20-06 - NCC president finds fear, frustration in Lebanon In the town of Cana, just below a home that had been so recently bombed, there were pictures of the several families that were killed lining the walls of the makeshift cemetery where the bodies were buried. Many of the pictures were of children, one after another. I got about half way through, walking alongside the mayor of Cana, and was overwhelmed with grief
10-20-06 - Protest in Syria to mark 'Jerusalem Day'
10-20-06 - Russia welcomes Fatah-Hamas vow to end internal violence
10-20-06 - Hamas to France: We suffer from fence, not you The French foreign minister's comments suggest a change in France?s position on the security fence. In July 2004 France ?gloated? over its achievements in the UN after it succeeded in passing a decision in the General Assembly to demand Israel dismantle the fence.
10-20-06 - Palestinians sneak past checkpoints for Jerusalem prayers for Palestinians in the West Bank, reaching this revered mosque is no simple matter. Since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, Israel has imposed harsh travel restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
10-20-06 - Lebanon's Hezbollah Marks Jerusalem Day
10-20-06 - Palestinian Christians meet in D.C. Top Palestinian Christians met in Washington to discuss peace in the Holy Land.
10-20-06 - Egypt's Brotherhood: World starving Palestinians "We follow with sorrow ... the strangling blockade and aggressive starvation of the Palestinians, punishing them for their democratic and honest choice," the
10-20-06 - Terror suspect says CIA recruited him
10-20-06 - Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman calls for end to cultural boycott of Israel
10-20-06 - Palestinian virtuoso brings Arabic music to the West Regrettably, record industry politics involving Sting?s ex-manager obstructed the proposed session, and Shaheen was forced to supplant Sting?s vocal with solo violin.
10-20-06 - Arab group wants action from Harper in Mideast
10-20-06 - Supporting Israel to Death I asked him what he wanted to see happen. He said that he wanted the Bush administration to bring Israelis and Palestinians together "and not quit until there is an agreement."
He said that is what the United States did in the late 1970s to achieve the Egypt-Israeli treaty His friend needs to study the accords that Israel agreed to at that very point in time; some DID deal with the Palestinian conflict. But Israel failed to uphold the terms of THOSE accords(not surprising, is it?)...
10-20-06 - Presbyterian Peacemaker shares his story with schools and churches he tells a story about his father-in-law, Audeh Rentisi, a Palestinian who was forced from his home at age 12 in 1948. "As they left, the soldiers fired shots over their heads and pushed them into the hills. He became a refugee and for three years he lived in a tent,"
I bet it's the same man as the one on the middle of this page.
10-20-06 - Turkish troops arrive in Lebanon Turkey is the first contributor with a majority Muslim population.
10-20-06 - Pollard to PM: Your silence costing me my life
10-20-06 - Controversial Mideast play enjoys early NY success The New York Observer's John Heilpern said "after all the uproar and bitter controversy," Corrie's writings "turns out to be a poignant, modest and humane play" while USA Today said "if her views provoke emotions and inspire debate, isn't that the purpose of art?"
10-20-06 - Muslim, Hindu, among new accompaniers Ecumenical accompaniers, who serve a minimum of three months, work in various capacities with local churches, Palestinian and Israeli NGOs, as well as Palestinian communities to try to reduce the brutality of the Israeli occupation and improve the daily lives of both peoples.
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