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Sunday, November 05, 2006


News for 11-04-06

11-04-06 - Israeli military offensive kills nine in Gaza During the brief respite the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, delivered water, food and other basic aid to the town, as its Gaza director John Ging called the situation there "desperate". "Death, destruction and despair are the terms to describe the situation," Ging told reporters



11-04-06 - Israeli offensive kills Palestinian child and teen in northern Gaza A 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy were killed on Saturday night by Israeli gunfire during its ground and air military offensive "Autumn Clouds" in northern Gaza Strip, medics said.


11-04-06 - Resident killed in Beit Hanoun, death toll rises to 49 since Wednesday


11-04-06 - 42 Palestinians killed in Israeli operation since Wednesday


11-04-06 - Abbas urges UN Security Council to convene and discuss situation in Gaza


11-04-06 - Annan 'deeply concerned' at escalating violence in Gaza


11-04-06 - Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?


11-04-06 - Israel Discount Bank to pay $12M in probe The New York State Banking Department said that the bank processed $35.4 billion in suspect wire transfers from March 2004 to March 2005. A large number of the 181,000 wire transfers showed patterns, like moving large amounts of funds through high risk countries, that are often associated with money laundering, according to court records.


11-04-06 - Wall and Restrictions Divide Jerusalem Area Christians from Their Faith and Life Zoughbi hasn't been able to go to his church in Jerusalem for 6 years. Not for Easter, not for weddings, not for funerals, not for baptisms and not for Sunday services. He used to be a member of the English-speaking congregation of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. But it's hard to be a member if you can't get there.


11-04-06 - Who's Targeting Iran ? and Why? ** So, even if Iran is telling the truth ? Iran says, 'We have no nuclear weapons program. We just want peaceful nuclear energy'? Israel says, 'So long as Iran has any enrichment capability, this constitutes a threat to Israel,' and they are pressuring the United States to take forceful action."


11-04-06 - Israel urges world action after Iran missile test ** Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz urged the world to act after Iran claimed to have fired longer-range ballistic missiles for the first time, the defence ministry said.


11-04-06 - Beit Hanoun - a resident's account


11-04-06 - Moussa condemns Israeli offensive in northern Gaza


11-04-06 - The Demographic and Economic War against Palestinians In addition to Israel's policy of denial of entry/reentry, decades of restrictions, rejection and freeze on family reunification applications, home demolitions and land confiscation for settlement expansion and the construction of the separation wall, one major factor pushing Palestinians to leave is the economic embargo.


11-04-06 - Jordan opposition parties protest Israeli "massacre" in Gaza


11-04-06 - Germany says Israel not respecting Lebanon airspace "That Israel is still trying to control the airspace over Lebanon despite the international presence of French, Italian and other soldiers, runs contrary to every agreement," Gernot Erler told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.


11-04-06 - Israel conditionally allows Palestinian forces' entry into Gaza from Jordan


11-04-06 - Iraqi-Palestinian refugees to find haven in Canada


11-04-06 - Jordan foils attempt to smuggle arms into West Bank


11-04-06 - West Bank youth launch cell phone solidarity campaign They are sending text messages via mobile phone carrying phrases of support to the besieged northern Gaza Strip town.



11-04-06 - US State Dept. defends Israeli action in Gaza The rot is everywhere at the top.


11-04-06 - Activists: Security forces fired live ammo at anti-fence protest


11-04-06 - UN calls for end to Israeli flights over Lebanon The United Nations has given a positive assessment of the situation in south Lebanon almost three months after the Israel-Hezbollah war except for continued Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace.


11-04-06 - Hardline Muslims protest Bush visit "Bush should not come to Indonesia," shouted Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, saying Bush was responsible for the violence in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.


11-04-06 - Jews and Arabs can never live together, says Israel's vice PM When Avigdor Lieberman, a populist Israeli politician frequently compared to Austria's Jörg Haider and France's Jean-Marie le Pen, proposed to bus thousands of Palestinians to the Dead Sea and drown them there, he was just a fringe member of government. As for the title of the article : they actually did, not just in Palestine, but in other Arab countries. That is, until the advent of Zionism. Why is that? What happened?. The more racist and 'hawkish' a politician is in Israel, the more they love him. That's the kicker.


11-04-06 - Palestine's Many Faces of death


11-04-06 - Poll: Bush policy threatens world peace Conversely, only 9 percent of the Israeli respondents found that Bush represented a danger to the world, while Iran's leader drew 81 percent of those polled in Israel. A few years back, a poll in Europe found that the majority of Europeans saw Israel as the threat to world peace. Now the world sees it as Bush. It's not a coincidence given that, and that the Bush administration is doing Israel's bidding in the ME, and that only 9 percent of Israel's think he's a danger. See the pattern.


11-04-06 - Somerville ballot tricks This is a dreadful idea too. The return of the 1948 refugees and their descendants, about 3 million people, would swamp the Jewish state. Those who support this proposal surely know that. This is an editorial from the Boston Herald deciding that the Palestinians' right of return should not be allowed, despite the fact that it is based on international law.


11-04-06 - Palestinian couple looks to new life in S. Florida with son, family PALESTINIAN COUPLE FROM LEBANON FIND HAVEN FROM MIDEAST CONFLICT, START NEW LIFE WITH THEIR SON, HIS WIFE AND BABY


11-04-06 - Dutch hiphop artists visit Israel and Palestine

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