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Wednesday, November 01, 2006


News for 10-31-06

10-31-06 - Israeli strikes kill 3 Palestinians, wound 23 Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen and a policeman and wounded 23 people in a series of air strikes and gun battles that erupted in northern Gaza on Wednesday, security sources and witnesses said.


10-31-06 - Rafah Border crossing opened for one day The sources said that the Crossing was opened after extensive talks with Israel in order to enable at least part of the people stranded there to cross into Egypt or back into the Gaza Strip.


10-31-06 - Israeli armoured vehicles mass near Gaza-witnesses Dozens of Israeli armoured vehicles massed at the border with Gaza on Tuesday and a military spokesman ordered Palestinians to evacuate an area close to the frontier with Egypt, witnesses said.


10-31-06 - Hamas touts 10-year ceasefire to break deadlock over Israel The most senior delegation from the Hamas government to visit Britain is in London this week to promote its offer to allow a period of "co-existence" with Israel as a way to move to an eventual settlement of the Middle East conflict.


10-31-06 - Lebanese man killed handling Israeli cluster bomb Truck driver Hafez Khalil Abbas, 35, had spotted a bomblet outside a school in the Rass el-Ain quarter of Baalbeck. It exploded after he picked it up, killing him instantly and hurting the other two.


10-31-06 - EU to Israel: Mock raids could encourage cease-fire violations The Lebanese army issued a statement Tuesday saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery at Israel Air Force warplanes as they flew over south Lebanon.


10-31-06 - Planes known to carry CIA terror suspects landed in Tel Aviv


10-31-06 - Hezbollah confirms Israel talks Hezbollah's leader has confirmed that indirect talks with Israel on a prisoner exchange are under way, describing them as "serious".


10-31-06 - Olmert to discuss Iran with Bush In the short term, two high-level Washington envoys - Elliott Abrams and David Welch - are scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday. They are also due to visit with Palestinians and then go on to Jordan.


10-31-06 - Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio Twenty-five years later, Hagee, who now advocates a strike by the United States or Israel on Iran's nuclear installations, observed the silver anniversary of the Church of the Cornerstone's annual Night to Honor Israel, an event that was part of a three-day celebration Oct. 20-22 designed to show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people and to advance the message that Israel and America are in danger.....Gabriel said Israel's enemies are America's, warned of Hamas cells in the United States -- "Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil" -- and declared, "Our enemy is in Islamic mosques throughout the U.S."...."I've never been in any placed that called itself a Christian setting where there was such hatred,"




10-31-06 - Deputy defense minister: Palestinians could end up like Bint Jbeil "We need to tell the Palestinians: A large-scale regional conflict is impending. If you do not turn against Israel, your country and economy will prosper. If you take the other side, you will look like Bint Jbeil," And here's what happened to Bint Jbeil.


10-31-06 - Kfar Salem harvests olives: Settler harasser no-show


10-31-06 - Ambassador Ayalon: Bush letter - historic During the interview Ayalon rejected the possibility of imposed pressure on Israel to accept a forced agreement under the Bush administration. According to him, the coordination between Washington and Israel will only get stronger due to the Iranian situation and international terrorism.


10-31-06 - Israeli warplanes fly low over Beirut, suburbs Israeli warplanes flew at a low altitude over Beirut, its suburbs and large areas of south Lebanon on Tuesday, witnesses and Lebanese security sources said.


10-31-06 - Golan Heights Land, Lifestyle Lure Settlers Perhaps more important, the region provides a third of Israel's drinking water......Arab grievances here center on the preferential treatment Israeli settlements receive in allocation of water, which is scarce and expensive for many Arab farmers


10-31-06 - Tel Aviv court charges a Palestinian resident of killing a collaborator


10-31-06 - Palestinians wait in vain for taken ID's


10-31-06 - US envoy, Egyptians parley with Hamas He spoke a day after US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte arrived in Cairo for a two-day visit and a Hamas delegation came for talks with Egyptian officials about a possible swap of Shalit for Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons.


10-31-06 - EU Commissioner thanks Abbas for role in freeing Spanish aid worker


10-31-06 - Olmert: Hezbollah neutralized Ehud Olmert said the Lebanon war had neutralized the threat from Hezbollah...."Except for the Iranian problem, no one now threatens Israel," Olmert said.



10-31-06 - Debris of war compounds ecological nightmare in Lebanon


10-31-06 - Israel presses Lebanon overflights despite growing criticism A number of aircraft also made sonic booms over the southern port city of Tyre, an AFP correspondent reported


10-31-06 - Palestinian businessmen call for interim gov't of experts


10-31-06 - Israel Labour leader ready for talks on Arab peace plan The leader of the second party in Israel's governing coalition, Defence Minister Amir Peretz, said that he was open to negotiations on a four-year-old Arab peace initiative.


10-31-06 - U.S. National Intelligence chief arrives in Cairo Things are starting to move here with Negroponte visiting Cairo and a Blair aide visiting the Syrian president.


10-31-06 - ANALYSIS-Israel's Olmert riding high despite Lebanon setback A senior Israeli official said that is likely to be the main focus of his November 13 talks with Bush.
Israel has said it wants to take a back seat to international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear programme, which Tehran says is aimed at electricity generation.
They and their cohorts in the US are pushing us into another war. And they will at some point in the future deny they pushed for it, like they are doing with regard to their support during the run-up to the Iraq war.


10-31-06 - Teacher:Speaker cancellation violates First Amendment The head of the teachers union has threatened a First Amendment lawsuit against the School Department because Andover High School cancelled a visit by pro-Palestinian speakers.....The Anti-Defamation League and Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel in Andover both voiced their opposition to Andover High last week. Andrew Tarsay, the ADL's regional director, applauded the school's decision. But to suggest that the ADL and other pro-Israeli lobbies seek to silence any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Mmmm k.


10-31-06 - PCHR slams the abductions carried by gunmen in P.A territories


10-31-06 - On Washington tour, Palestinian cites both sides for Christian plight He said that instability in the region derives from Israel's presence in the West Bank and noted the disruption occasioned by the security barrier, which he says is frustrating commerce and travel between the Bethlehem area, a Christian center, and the rest of the West Bank.


10-31-06 - Hoping to shed conflict image, Israel launches branding campaign What kind of image does the average American have of Israel? Suspicion confirmed. There IS a pro-Israeli PR campaign underway in America.


10-31-06 - Harris: I'm a Jewish wannabe A Washington Post profile published Tuesday described Israel as one of Harris' "greatest passions" and quoted her as saying she is a Jewish "wannabe."



10-31-06 - Study: Israelis hate the pious most The Gesher poll concluded that 37 percent of Israelis think fervently Orthodox Jews are the most disliked, 15 percent said the same of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and 13 percent named settlers.



10-31-06 - Texas Versus Tel Aviv: US Policy in the Middle East If it is true that the primary purpose of the Baker Commission is to take back US Middle East policy-making from the ?Israel Firsters? and secondly to subordinate military approaches to empire building to market interests, the question arises as to what strategic policies, tactical alliances, regional realignments and specific proposals dealing with the US military presence in Iraq Baker will propose?


10-31-06 - Shanghai's Jewish 'ghetto' looks to reinvent itself


10-31-06 - Ambassador to Canada: Israelis are fooling you the embassy was irritated by the fact that those Israelis received refugee status under false pretenses about life in Israel.


10-31-06 - King unites his opponents Brodersen, 54, decided to run when she felt she wasn't getting straight answers about the death of her niece. Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed March 16, 2003, while trying to stop an Israeli military bulldozer operator from demolishing a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip


10-31-06 - Radio host speaks on lies, misconceptions of Israel It would seem to me that there is a major PR effort underway in America by the Israeli lobby, given the amount of campus visits and other propagandizing of the members therein.


10-31-06 - ZOA still smarting over now infamous speech by Rice Damage control continues. In my book, Condi gets extra points for pissing off the whole Hee Haw gang here.


10-31-06 - 'Censorship and bias' tracked by news tool The tool could now attract media watchers and others keen to monitor fairness and balance, such as those concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or with election reporting.


10-31-06 - How to cut and run Fourth, real progress must be made on the Palestinian issue as a foundation for Middle East peace. The invasion of Iraq and the U.S. tilt toward Israel have dangerously reduced Washington's power to broker peace or to guarantee Israel's security. We now need Europe's help. And good relations with Iran would help dramatically.


10-31-06 - Kazakh oil fund pours millions into israel

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