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Monday, October 23, 2006


News for 10-22-06

10-22-06 - Resident killed, four residents prisoner taken prisoner, seventeen injured near Tubas


10-22-06 - Palestinians celebrate Eid al-Fittr holiday in gloom


10-22-06 - Israelis threaten to retake Gaza-Egypt border


10-22-06 - Stricter Policy Splits West Bank Families "It is a policy that can only be seen in the context of population control," said Nabeel Kassis, president of Bir Zeit University near this city, who along with 10 other Palestinian university presidents warned in an open letter this month that the policy is depleting faculties, student bodies and exchange programs. "They are taking away a segment of the population that could help most with state-building."


10-22-06 - Palestinian Strike Imperils School Year Many Palestinians put a premium on education as a means of survival _ a response to their turbulent history of uprooting and exile. The West Bank and Gaza Strip have one of the highest literacy rates in the Arab world, and Palestinian professionals hold key positions in wealthy Gulf economies, often supporting families back home.



10-22-06 - Coup in the works? Some Hamas sources say yes


10-22-06 - Kuwait donates $30m to Palestinians


10-22-06 - Empty pockets promise grim Eid feast for Gazans "This year, there will be no presents."


10-22-06 - Palestinian missile fired towards Israel, occupation troops advance into


10-22-06 - Palestinian security forces demonstrate in Gaza Dozens of Palestinian security officers loyal to president Mahmud Abbas have blocked Gaza's principal thoroughfares demanding unpaid wages, Palestinian security sources said.


10-22-06 - Boy killed by Israeli cluster bomb in Lebanon


10-22-06 - Israel admits it used phosphorus weapons Unexploded cluster bombs in Lebanon have regularly killed and maimed civilians since the end of the war. Rami Ali Hussein Shibly, 12, was killed and his nine-year-old brother brother, Khodr, injured yesterday by a cluster bomb as they picked olives in Halta. He was 21st person to be killed by the bomblets since the fighting ended


10-22-06 - Campaign to compensate Jewish refugees Some of the conference participants want the Jewish refugees? claims to be given equal weight to those of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war for Israeli independence For nearly 60 years, Israel has refused to implement UN resolution 194. In particular, article 11 which states: "Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible;" Chutzpah.


10-22-06 - Meridor confirmed as Israeli ambassador to U.S. Meridor supports the settlements


10-22-06 - A call to abolish cluster bombs Cluster munitions are not banned weapons, but their use in civilian areas violates the international ban on the use of indiscriminate weapons. According to the UN, 90 percent of the cluster bombs were dropped in the last 72 hours of the war - when all parties knew a cease-fire was imminent......A congressional investigation into the munitions' use after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon pressured the Reagan administration to ban sales of cluster weapons to Israel for six years.


10-22-06 - Olmert, Abbas agree to continue working on future talks


10-22-06 - Robert Fisk: We've all been veiled from the truth at no point is it made clear that Deir Yassin was just one among many villages in which the inhabitants were butchered - this was particularly the case in Galilee - and the women raped by Jewish fighters. Israel's "new" historians have already bravely disclosed these facts, along with the irrefutable evidence that they served Israel's purpose of dispossessing 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes in what was to become Israel.


10-22-06 - Report: Spy heading U.N. hostage efforts The United Nations reportedly appointed a German spy to help secure the release of two Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hezbollah.


10-22-06 - Israel founded using fake British banknotes


10-22-06 - Israel admits phosphorus bombing Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in late July: "According to the Geneva Convention, when they use phosphorus bombs and laser bombs, is that allowed against civilians and children?" We used phosphorous too - in Iraq. But due to the inordinate amount of civilians Israel killed in Lebanon (disproportionate to the amount of Hezbollah fighters that they killed), it's safe to say that it was likely used against the Lebanese civvies. Our army isn't perfect, but for the most part, our guys don't harbor the animosity toward Arabs that the Israelis do.


10-22-06 - The post-Israel Middle East The Zionists have put all their eggs in the basket of American support, but that basket has developed two holes. One is the paradox that support for the Zionist series of wars and conflicts has so weakened the United States that it is no longer a reliable ally. Faced with a real crisis in Korea, the Americans are powerless to do anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. Some Israelis are already setting up shop in China. And then there's this. I predicted as much a couple of years ago on a message board.


10-22-06 - Sombre mood as south Lebanon gears up for Eid


10-22-06 - Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground' In mosques in America, it's fairly common for imams to preach assimilation, says Mr. Zogby. That's not as true in Europe, particularly in poorer neighborhoods where sermons can be laced with extremism.


10-22-06 - Poll: Jewish support for Iran strike declining Thirty-eight percent of American Jews would support U.S. military action against Iran, according to the American Jewish Committee?s annual survey of U.S. Jewish opinion, down from 49 percent last year.


10-22-06 - Peace with Syria should be explored: Israeli DM However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dismissed Assad's remarks about peace with Israel and declared that he would never give back the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights were seized by Israel during the Six Day War - a war that Syria did not start. Some say that Israel's plans to seize this prized piece of land were the reason they attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - because the US would not have supported this plan if she discovered it (via the Liberty's surveillance).


10-22-06 - Israel: Flights over Lebanon to continue French Maj. Gen. Alain Pelligrini, who leads the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, said last week that the overflights are a major concern. A day later, France's Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie called the overflights "extremely dangerous" because the peacekeepers on the ground could see them as hostile acts and fire in self-defense.


10-22-06 - Israeli activists help Palestinians harvest their olive crop


10-22-06 - High Priestess of the Palestinian State Condi comes under attack by more pro-Israel extremists - this time FrontPage mag.


10-22-06 - Extreme right-winger to join Israeli government A FAR-RIGHT politician dubbed "the most dangerous politician in the history of Israel" because of his anti-Arab and authoritarian views last night looked set to join the Israeli government.


10-22-06 - Sven-Goran Eriksson is a big hit in Kiryat Gat Around 120 Israeli and Palestinian children, between the ages of six and 13, took part in the day-long program organized by The Peres Center for Peace.


10-22-06 - Four Israelis die after receiving French flu vaccination


10-22-06 - Report: Olmert Met with Saudi Officials The Prime Minister's office said earlier this month that there was no truth to reports of the meeting, but various sources have confirmed that he and two top intelligence and military officers flew to the palace of King Abdullah


10-22-06 - Parish disinvests from Church of England over morals "We cannot turn our backs on our sisters and brothers in Palestine any longer. We cannot close our ears to their pleas for help. How can we profit from policies which we believe to be both threatening the viability of a Palestinian state and also damaging prospects for peace and security for the Israeli people?"


10-22-06 - Israel downplays Russian's Hamas comment


10-22-06 - The Second Palestinian Intifada by Ramzy Baroud Now Available Covering the five year span of the uprising, ?The Second Palestinian Uprising?, documents history making events from 2000-2005, from the brutal Israeli invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 to the untimely death of some of the greatest icons in the quest for Palestinian statehood.


10-22-06 - Indonesia to buy four Israeli spy drones


10-22-06 - N. Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea worst for press freedom The study also criticizes the Palestinian Authority (134th) for failing to maintain internal stability and Israel (135th) for behavior outside its borders that "seriously threaten freedom of expression in the Middle East," it said.

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