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Tuesday, October 31, 2006


News for 10-30-06

10-30-06 - One resident killed in Khan Younis shelling Dr. Hasanen stated that Mazin Abu Odeh, 21, was killed after a shell hit his house; his body was severely mutilated.


10-30-06 - Israel preparing extensive Gaza operation:MP Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the army was preparing an extensive operation in the Gaza Strip, with the government to make a decision on the offensive within days, an MP has said.


10-30-06 - Thousands march to commemorate 1956 Israeli massacre of 49 villagers


10-30-06 - Na'im: "Health sector in Gaza on the verge of collapse" Palestinian Minster of Health, Dr. Bassim Na'im, warned on Monday that the health sector in Gaza is on the verge of collapse as a result of the Israeli and international siege imposed on the Palestinian people since the election of Hamas earlier this year.



10-30-06 - Spanish aid worker freed unharmed in Gaza A Spanish aid worker was freed unharmed by kidnappers in Gaza on Monday, hours after they took him from his car near the southern town of Khan Younis


10-30-06 - Newly sworn-in Lieberman already set to visit US Lieberman is already set for his first trip abroad as a minister. He will travel to the United States on December 8 to take part in the prestigious Saban Forum at the Saban Center For Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC


10-30-06 - B'Tselem Urges the Security Forces to Prepare for the Olive Harvest


10-30-06 - Prisoners' swap deal would be more than humanitarian process


10-30-06 - Hamas official denies meeting with Israeli academicians On Sunday, Israel's state-run television reported that Yousef met with Israeli academicians and financial experts behind closed doors in London.


10-30-06 - Olive Harvest campaign starts in Hebron Despite the restrictions imposed by the settlers and the Israeli Military Forces prohibiting farmers to reach their lands, 90 volunteers and farmers including 20 foreign volunteers participated in olive picking near Asfer settlement in the town of Sa'er near Hebron .



10-30-06 - Online Exhibition: Memorial of the 50th Anniversary of the Kafr Qasem Massacre


10-30-06 - Israeli Jets Trouble German Troops on UN Mission Germany was taken by surprise by the most recent incident, as Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz recently smoothed over ruffled feathers after a confrontation on Tuesday between Israeli aircraft and a German vessel patrolling Lebanon's coast.



10-30-06 - West Bank exodus on hold In hard numbers, the settlers have far and away reversed the numerical setback of the Gaza pullout, having added another 14,000 people to their ranks in the past year for a total population of 261,000, according to the interior ministry's population registrar. All of the Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).


10-30-06 - Saudi ambassador calls for U.S. pressure on Israel


10-30-06 - Family: State ignores kidnapping of Israeli-Arab "Had it been a Jewish Israeli or a foreign citizen, the world would have jumped through hoops to get them freed. But because it is an Arab citizen, no one cares. Neither the District Coordination Office, nor the IDF nor any other authority is interested. We were not informed of anything that goes on,"


10-30-06 - Israeli air force shells a Palestinian house in Khan Younis


10-30-06 - West Bank disco one of few places where Palestinians can let loose


10-30-06 - McCormack sidesteps Israeli operation in Gaza question, says it is


10-30-06 - UN investigates Israel's 'uranium weapons' The Harwell laboratory for mass spectrometry in Oxfordshire confirmed the concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples, but the European experts were puzzled about what weapons Israel might have been using and why.


10-30-06 - Rice: I think I know what the ?Palestinians? want Condi grilled by bible-thumping Christian Zionist Cal Thomas. The more these folks lambaste her, the more I know that she is doing something right.


10-30-06 - "Never Forget, Never Forgive": Kafr Qasem 50 Years Later


10-30-06 - Israeli troops arrest local Hamas leader


10-30-06 - Security Council urges disarming of Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias


10-30-06 - Confrontation off Lebanon Leads to Questions The Alster though is no run-of-the-mill battleship. It is a spy boat loaded with highly sophisticated technology. Sensitive antennas are able to not only identify radar locations and monitor flights, but they can also listen in on radio and mobile-phone conversations. And the crew is not just made up of sailors, but also German secret service agents. Don't get the Liberty treatment.


10-30-06 - Iran sounds an awful lot like Iraq ** Recent months have seen the creation of an "Iran directorate" at the Pentagon, using some of the same personnel as the Office of Special Plans, the shadowy Pentagon outfit led by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith that was accused of massaging raw intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war look far more solid than in fact it was.
Iran has now supplanted Iraq as the greatest single threat to the United States, according to the National Security Strategy released earlier this year. Articles in the New Yorker and Time describe an accelerated rate of contingency military planning in an environment in which many senior officials ? on the military and civilian sides ? consider war with Iran more a question of when rather than if. And just why has Iran been placed at the fore, folks? I wonder. And again. More. Another. You get the point.


10-30-06 - Labour minister quits over Lieberman's role He said that Yisrael Biteinu had a platform with "racist ingredients" and its leaders were tainted "by racist declarations and declarations that harm the democratic character of Israel".


10-30-06 - Egypt eases security measures along Gaza border Egypt relaxed security on its border with Gaza on Monday, days after sending thousands of police there following a report Israel might bomb tunnels it said were used to smuggle arms to Palestinians,an official said. "The number of police was reduced after the Israeli threats receded, the border area was calm and no unnatural movements were observed," a border official said, asking not to be named.


10-30-06 - Cheney Pushing Israel Towards Fascism


10-30-06 - Canada: Israel?s new friend in North America MacKay made it clear that a threat on Israel meant a threat on Canada in his speech at an event honoring Canadian businessman Ralph Benatar, one of Canada?s veteran leaders of the North American Jewish community


10-30-06 - Shift in Lebanon's sectarian politics


10-30-06 - Israeli attack on Germany Israel doesn't like those surveillance ships getting too close for comfort - even if they're in international waters. Ask these guys. It is my belief that Israel sought to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - leaving no eyewitnesses to report just who it was that attacked it. It was because of the sheer heroism of our men that that ship and the survivors made it out alive. God bless 'em.


10-30-06 - Presbyterian-Jewish Forum to Shape Understanding of Interfaith Relation The General Assembly had approved to initiate the divestment process from multinational corporations that the denomination believed were unduly profiting form violence surrounding the Israeli government?s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and from construction of the "security barrier" between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The issue had sparked debate in the PCUSA and drew criticism from Jewish groups and Presbyterian opponents. One op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times had called PCUSA's action a "grievous sin" as it contributed to anti-Jewish bigotry.


10-30-06 - My Name is Rachel Corrie extends The Off-Broadway production of My Name is Rachel Corrie has extended its limited run through December 30th. The engagement was set to end on November 19th.


10-30-06 - Terrorist scampers naked to elude capture Another article by guess who? A 'Palestinian terrorist's' favorite confidante, or so we are to believe.


10-30-06 - In Lieberman race, Jewish vote seems to turn on Israel support


10-30-06 - Jewish groups urged to boycott Hunger Walk Church World Service, an American group with ties to Protestant and Orthodox churches, has been critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians and the Lebanese Oh dear.


10-30-06 - Israel Refuses Entry to Le Pen's Daughter He was convicted and fined in 1990 for inciting racial hatred and for saying in 1996 that the gas chambers used by the Nazis were "merely a detail in the history of World War II."



10-30-06 - MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE riveting play under the deft direction of Alan Rickman, who also co-edited it, with the journalist Katharine Viner. The bright, fine-boned Megan Dodds, who radiates a sense of both privilege and pluck, resuscitates from diary entries and e-mails the voice and being of the American pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who, at the age of twenty-three, was crushed to death by an Israeli Caterpillar when she tried to shield the home of a Palestinian civilian in the Gaza Strip


10-30-06 - UN to map disputed Shaba farms area on Israel-Lebanon border


10-30-06 - Israeli Arab lawmaker raps Ahmadinejad A leading Israeli Arab lawmaker came out against the anti-Jewish statements of Iran?s president.


10-30-06 - Doves urge U.S. intervention in Gaza Americans for Peace Now urged President Bush to intervene immediately in the Gaza Strip.


10-30-06 - Former Israeli Prime Minister to Speak at IU Hasbara coming to a campus near you.

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