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Thursday, October 26, 2006


News for 10-25-06

10-25-06 - West Bank Settlers attack Palestinian farmers Ibrahim Salah said about 30 family members were tending to their field west of Nablus when some 50 settlers descended on the area wielding rocks and metal bars, and some holding guns. He said his son Basel, 31, was hit in the head by a metal bar and taken to a hospital. Witnesses said four others were lightly wounded


10-25-06 - 'US withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous for Israel' ** "...And what if the US becomes trigger-shy? No one else except the US has the military might to set back Iran's nuclear program. Maybe Israel, but it's not certain. If the US gets trigger-shy, then we're in trouble." .....The result would be that "the terror efforts currently directed against US forces in Iraq would be turned against Israel," Ahh. I see. So the US military is being used as a type of human shield.


10-25-06 - Palestinian PM unhurt in convoy attack: Hamas


10-25-06 - CRS packages help Gaza Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr Using money from a special CRS fund established over the summer to assist with needs in Gaza and Lebanon, CRS was able to assist almost 25,000 people belonging to 3,200 needy families with food packages to help them celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday


10-25-06 - Palestinian economy withers under Israeli curbs


10-25-06 - Shin Bet foils bid to smuggle 6kg of TNT from Gaza to West Bank


10-25-06 - Labor Arab MKs vow to 'settle score' over Lieberman partnership "How would Peretz and (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert respond if the government of France, for instance, had brought in a man who calls for expelling Jews from France?"


10-25-06 - UAE's Khalifa discusses Lebanon's reconstruction with Siniora


10-25-06 - Out of the shadows: Israel's Minister of Strategic Threats One of the largest blocs of Israel?s citizen army, the Russians are assigned some of the toughest spots in the West Bank and Gaza, often their first experience of meeting "Arabs".


10-25-06 - Ayalon: Focus on Palestinians before Iran "Taking care of the Iranian threat begins with achieving a diplomatic accord with the Palestinians," Ayalon told Israel Radio, adding that such an accord would help Israel enlist pan-Arab support for a tough stand against Tehran's nuclear program.


10-25-06 - Israel, Germany at odds over Lebanon air incident Israel denied a German newspaper report on Wednesday that two of its air force planes had fired twice as they flew over a German navy ship patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of an international peacekeeper force. This story sounds familiar...


10-25-06 - Military Build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf: Israel and NATO sign Framework Agreement ** This Israel-NATO framework agreement not only has a bearing on the military build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean, which in practice is directed against Syria and Lebanon, it is also related to the massive deployment of US naval forces in the Persian Gulf, oppositie Iran.


10-25-06 - Israeli Arab's rising voice of opposition Look at another nice spin job by Ilene Prusher of the CSM (who else?). She puts the main issue of this week's headlines in Israel (extremist Lieberman's inclusion into Olmert's govt) at the very bottom of the article, and instead focuses the story on Israeli Arabs to make THEM look like the extremists.


10-25-06 - Iran charged over Argentina bomb Chief prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused the Iranian authorities of directing Hezbollah to carry out the attack.


10-25-06 - Olmert's dangerous choice The Moldovan-born politician enjoys wide support among the million or so Russian speakers who came to Israel during the demise of the Soviet Union, and brought with them a strident nationalism, a taste for blunt-speaking leaders and anti-Arab prejudice


10-25-06 - Dodd: U.S. wrong to urge Palestinian vote He joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who also addressed the conference, in urging final passage before the year is out of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority....McCain said a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel.



10-25-06 - Experiments on elderly echo Nazis Three Israeli doctors are under arrest over illegal experiments on thousands of patients, including an elderly concentration camp survivor who narrowly escaped being a victim of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.


10-25-06 - Palestine banks walking an economic tightrope


10-25-06 - "I will only leave this house in a coffin" Palestinians living in Iraq have increasingly come under threat since the US-led occupation of the country began in 2003, according to a recent report by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.



10-25-06 - Iran, Syria rapidly rearming Hezbollah Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.....He met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, among others, on a visit to Washington this week in advance of U.S.-Israel security talks set for December.


10-25-06 - Israeli jets fire over German navy ship off Lebanon The daily Der Tagesspiegel quoted a German junior defence minister as telling a parliamentary committee that two Israeli F-16 fighters had flown low over the ship, firing twice.


10-25-06 - The newly formed executive force starts to recruit personal in Bethlehem


10-25-06 - NATO: Israel ties must remain strong


10-25-06 - 'Syria increasing preparedness following IDF maneuvers' According to the report, a Syrian source added that Israel?s military activity is increasing tensions in the region. He mentioned Chief of Staff Dan Halutz?s Monday to a Golan Heights division exercise as contributing to the heightened tensions.


10-25-06 - AP photographer recounts Gaza kidnapping


10-25-06 - Mideast solution possible: ElBaradei A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is within grasp if the international community commits to a blueprint and pursues dialogue, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday.


10-25-06 - Qatar offers to host Israeli delegation Long-term, Israeli leaders want to build contacts with moderate Arab states to counter the influence of Iran's anti- Israel government.


10-25-06 - Solana testy with Israeli politician "I am here to meet with a man I have disagreed with my entire life," Solana told reporters as he sat next to Lieberman in the Knesset, or parliament. "Now that he is a member of the government, I would like to see the position he has."


10-25-06 - Cross on Israel Museum brochure sparks religious stir A religious Jerusalem city councilman on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation of the director of the Israel Museum following the distribution of a museum brochure featuring a girl wearing a cross on its cover.


10-25-06 - U.S. Jews skeptical of Arabs, trust Israel on Iran, survey shows Harris contends that Jewish voters are willing to let other issues determine their vote, provided they believe both parties are "rock solid" in their support for Israel.


10-25-06 - Jewish Billionaires versus AIPAC Despite the misleading double-talk, this campaign represents a real and serious threat to Israel. AIPAC is possibly the greatest success story of any American lobbying group. It has one overriding role: To support Israel and Israel government policies Were AIPAC to initiate policies conflicting or inconsistent with the objectives of the Israel government it would lose its grassroots support overnight. Note the source. After such a frank admission, doesn't it follow that AIPAC should register as a FOREIGN agent?


10-25-06 - Lowy implicated in Israeli PM corruption row


10-25-06 - Report: UN mediator in talks with Hezbollah so far unsuccessful


10-25-06 - AIPAC condemns Republicans for 'loyalty' jibe The American Israel Public Affairs Committee condemned Republican activists who said failure to support their candidate amounted to "disloyalty" to Israel.


10-25-06 - U.S. lawmaker chides Carter on 'apartheid' In his statement Tuesday, Conyers said he called Carter "to express my concerns about the title of the book, and to request that the title be changed. President Carter does not build upon his career as a proponent of peace in the Middle East with this comparison and I hope he and his publisher will reconsider this decision."


10-25-06 - Candidates speak out on the issues On Israel What role should the United States play in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, and their "benefactors," Iran and Syria?


10-25-06 - Israel's experience with harsh questioning may provide guidance Mohammed Barghouthi - the labor minister for the Palestinian Authority, which is led by the militant group Hamas - was held and questioned for 48 days this summer before being released without charge. He said he was shackled to a chair in a painful position for hours at a time. But more painful, he said, were the threats against his family, the screams of interrogators and the humiliation of other Palestinian lawmakers that he was forced to witness. The problem is, Dion, this is exactly where the US got the ideas in the first place. It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from and it's why it was used on Iraqi prisoners. This nation is heavily under the influence of a foreign entity.


10-25-06 - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror Sen. Clinton: First, I don't think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake.
If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win instead of signing off on an electoral system that advantaged Hamas.
"If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win"........


10-25-06 - Palestinian man finally wins fight to call U.S. home Mohamed Aboushaban, 53, a Palestinian refugee, said he doesn't know why it took a court order to get the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to complete the paperwork he needed to get permanent residency, but he's happy it will now be done


10-25-06 - Hamas expert's testimony continues in Salah trial On cross-examination, Levitt testified that many Palestinians also have been killed in the conflict and that living conditions in Gaza and the West Bank are often desperate


10-25-06 - Israeli illegals arrested in Egypt They apparently had walked across, circumventing the border terminal.

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