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Thursday, November 09, 2006
11-08-06 - Children among 19 killed by Israeli tank fire The dead and injured - including nine children, four women and six men - were sleeping when the first shell hit at around 6am local time. Many of the victims were taken to hospital in their pyjamas....Witnesses said that the first shell hit a home, causing deaths and injuries. Residents took shelter while rescuers attempted to retrieve the bodies and care for the wounded. Many residents were sheltering in a nearby alleyway when a second shell landed, causing most of the casualties. A further five or six shells landed in the same vicinity over a period of 15 minutes, witnesses said.
11-08-06 - Israeli shelling kills 18 in Gaza Israeli forces also killed a 17-year-old civilian near Jabaliya refugee camp, hospital officials in Gaza said.
11-08-06 - Gaza children cannot escape as Israel mounts its bloodiest attack in months The victims were killed by an estimated 10 to 12 155mm shells which landed on Beit Hanoun less than 24 hours after troops had ended a six-day ground incursion into the northern Gaza town aimed at stopping militants firing Qassam rockets into Israel
11-08-06 - Five Palestinians killed in Al Yamoun, near Jenin
11-08-06 - Gaza town stunned by shelling A father of one child who was killed told me: "One missile I believe could have been a mistake, but the number of missiles that were fired, I can't believe that was a mistake." .....It seems clear that rockets have been fired from near this area in the past, but there appears to have been nothing on that night.
11-08-06 - Italy calls Gaza killings "unacceptable"
11-08-06 - Hamas urges attacks on U.S. targets But Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, said the group had no intention of attacking American targets.
11-08-06 - Hamas chief: Truce with Israel is over
11-08-06 - Aid agencies condemn Gaza carnage The Red Cross and Unicef said they were appalled by the deaths of women and children from Israeli tank fire in the town of Beit Hanoun.
11-08-06 - In pictures: Beit Hanoun
11-08-06 - Gaza Shelling Prompts Hamas to Call for Attacks Against U.S. A young man, standing in the bloodied alleyway, said an infant girl had been blown to pieces. "I tried to look for her head, I tried to look for her head," he shrieked, then sank to the ground, weeping. Israel is provoking Hamas. And Hamas is falling for it - again.
11-08-06 - Annan just "shocked" at Israeli massacre in Gaza
11-08-06 - "We just need to live" say Beit Hanoun residents "I found bodies without heads, children's bodies without hands, some without legs. We found a husband, wife and children who were still on their bed - we thought they were still asleep until we tried to wake them up," he said....."Two of the injured were mentally-ill residents of Beit Hanoun who did not understand what was going on and were wandering around the streets when they were shot by Israeli snipers."
11-08-06 - World horrified by Israeli killings in Gaza The world's failure to staunch the bloodshed was roundly criticised by the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Territories. "This brutal collective punishment of a people, not a government, has passed largely unnoticed by the international community," said rights expert John Dugard.
11-08-06 - Wounded Gaza teenager mourns 13 family members Anyone that believes the line that Israel 'missed their target by 500 meters' is under the mistaken belief that Israel gives a sh@t about Palestinian civilians - it does not. Never did.
11-08-06 - Israel destroyed all chances of peace: Abbas "You (the Israelis) do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility," he told reporters in Gaza City following the attack in the northern town of Beit Hanun
11-08-06 - Mexico lambastes Israeli artillery barrage in Gaza
11-08-06 - Gaza on brink of explosion as plight worsens - UN "People are at the point of such frustration and anger that unless things change there very definitely can be an explosion," AbuZayd, whose agency is the largest aid body providing services in the Palestinian territories, told Reuters in Amman
11-08-06 - Palestinian: 'I will be a militant to fight them now' "I would say this action, and others like it, are intensifying a process that has been going on for four years of strengthening Hamas at the expense of Fatah and turning the Palestinian movement into a religious nationalist or even religious-revolutionary movement -- distancing the Palestinians from any peace process," And that is exactly the point. The more radicalized the Palestinians, the more Israel can refuse to negotiate with them, and that's all the more land that they can steal from all of those 'Palestinian terrorists'. The international community does absolutely nothing about any of it.
11-08-06 - In pictures Your views: Beit Hanoun deaths
11-08-06 - Bush urges swift probe into Israeli raid "The United States is deeply saddened by the injuries and loss of life in Gaza today. We send our condolences to the families of all those affected," Bush said in a statement released by the White House.
11-08-06 - 'I cannot see a day when we live in peace with them'
11-08-06 - Shrouded in silence As always in such cases, the Israeli Defence Army claims there was a mistake. Their shelling of the residential compound was "deflected by 500m" and hit the wrong place
11-08-06 - The blood of innocents Yesterday's victims were all civilians and mostly women and children. Their deaths will fan the flames of a conflagration in danger of getting out of control
11-08-06 - Massacre In Beit Hanoun - It's Alright, It Wasn't Intentional as B'Tselem points out, this does not excuse the IDF of responsibility. Firstly, by the IDF's own admission, the shells were not fired in self-defence. It was fired at a 'launching space' from which previous attacks had occurred and was not in response to a Palestinian rocket-attack that was in progress.
11-08-06 - Britain 'gravely disturbed' by Palestinian deaths in Gaza "I am gravely disturbed by the deaths of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip,"
11-08-06 - Gush Shalom: After Gaza Atrocity
11-08-06 - World welcomes shift in U.S. politics
11-08-06 - Syria urges UN sanctions for Israel ?state terrorism? Syria called for UN sanctions against Israel for its act of ?state terrorism? after 18 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, when Israeli shells slammed into their Gaza homes on Wednesday.
11-08-06 - French UN troops 'seconds' away from firing at Israeli aircraft over Lebanon "Two seconds later there would have been a shot against the aircraft which were directly menacing our forces," ..."When Israeli aircraft recently 'dived' on French UNIFIL soldiers, it is a miracle that nothing serious happened, because there could have been a response on the part of French troops," Here these UN troops are, attempting to alleviate the situation on behalf of Israel, and this is the thanks that they get (and that includes the fact that Israel fired on German ships). Ingrates.
11-08-06 - Israeli group demands inquiry into attack Some of the casualties were hit by secondary shellfire as they left their beds to survey the scene of the initial explosions.
11-08-06 - We overcame our fear But as though this occupation and collective punishment were not enough, we Palestinians find ourselves the targets of a systematic siege imposed by the so-called free world. We are being starved and suffocated as a punishment for daring to exercise our democratic right to choose who rules and represents us. Nothing
11-08-06 - Study: 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by IDF since June
11-08-06 - U.N. Calls Meeting on Israeli Offensive Qatar, the only Arab nation on the Security Council, had asked for an emergency council meeting Monday on the Israeli offensive along the northern Gaza border. Israel says the offensive is aimed at halting Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities near the coastal strip. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Qatar's request was discussed by the council on Tuesday "and there was no support for it."
11-08-06 - Security Council to hear Gaza shelling concerns But the US, Israel's closest ally and one of five permanent council members with veto power, typically opposes council intervention in the Middle East conflict.
11-08-06 - Gaza attack threatens Palestinian unity talks
11-08-06 - Eyewitness: Gaza bloodshed Yesterday they killed my aunt. She lives in eastern Jabaliya camp (near Beit Hanoun). She was cleaning inside her home when a shell hit the room she was in. She died instantly.
11-08-06 - Rice expresses sorrow to Abbas over Gaza deaths: spokesman
11-08-06 - Islamic body says Israel's Gaza attack a war crime The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, accused Israel of war crimes on Wednesday after Palestinians said 18 civilians were killed in an attack on Gaza.
11-08-06 - The Killing of Civilians in Beit Hanun is a War Crime
11-08-06 - Nation on highest alert with 80 attack warnings All of the Palestinian factions, with no exceptions, threatened terror attacks to avenge the lethal strike.
11-08-06 - Israel: Respect civilian lives in Gaza Strip
11-08-06 - Violent spell rivals worst times for Palestinian children
11-08-06 - Amnesty International delegate visits scene of Gaza Strip killings The organization called for an immediate, independent investigation and for those responsible to be held accountable. It said previous Israeli investigations, such as that carried out into the killings of a Palestinian family on a beach in the Gaza Strip last June, had been seriously inadequate and failed to meet international standards for such investigations, which must be independent, impartial and thorough.
11-08-06 - Running as independent, Lieberman overcomes primary loss to keep seat The Jewish vote, which was widely believed to hinge on whether support for Israel was a voter's principle issue, went to Lieberman, as had significant financial support from pro-Israel factors across the country.
11-08-06 - Riding Jewish support and opposition to war, Klein takes close Florida race In the weeks leading up to the elections, the Republican Jewish Coalition had placed full-page advertisements in local Jewish newspapers urging voters to look out for Israeli security first
11-08-06 - New leadership in the House could breathe life into Jewish domestic concerns Jewish groups have also established strong ties with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the frontrunner for majority leader, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a Jewish lawmaker who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and is now considered a shoo-in for a leadership position. Hoyer is close to Howard Friedman, the Baltimore-based president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and is considered one of Israel's best and most influential friends on Capitol Hill. Hoyer makes it a point to educate freshmen lawmakers about Israel issues and he has led delegations to the Jewish state multiple times. He prides himself on making Israel a bipartisan issue, vetting proposed legislation with his GOP counterpart, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri.
11-08-06 - Pelosi's support for Israel is heartfelt, supporters say With Pelosi as speaker, Jewish activists and officials are confident that the U.S. Congress will remain strongly pro-Israel...... At an AIPAC members luncheon in San Francisco right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Pelosi was speaking when an alarm sounded.
"Everybody started getting nervous, scrambling toward the door," Lauter recalled. One person, though, was reading the words of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, above the din. It was Pelosi. True patriots beware.
11-08-06 - Santorum concedes defeat
11-08-06 - Pelosi slated for speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
11-08-06 - Lieberman retains his seat He had drawn significant pro-Israel funds, and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
11-08-06 - Jerusalem mayor mobbed A fervently Orthodox mob opposed to the upcoming Jerusalem gay pride parade tried to attack the city?s mayor.
11-08-06 - Fit to Print - The top censored news stories of 2005-2006 Halliburton and Iran , World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
11-08-06 - Arabs react to U.S. election results ** "Israelis perceive the Iranian threat as imminent," said Prof. Menahem Blondheim of Hebrew University. "Without political support at home and in his party and among American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move against Iran seems less and less likely."
11-08-06 - Boston area voters refuse ballot call for divestment from Israel The questions asked voters whether the district's representative in the state legislature should be called on to back divestment from Israel bond holdings and the Palestinian right of return should they come up for a vote in the State House. On the former, residents voted 70 percent to 30% against, also defeating the latter 55-45.
The divestment group tried like hell, and that's more than most. My hat's off to them.
11-08-06 - Protecting Palestinian females: HRW misses the mark The level of "research" carried out by HRW for this study is laughably inadequate, and certainly nowhere near sufficient to have propelled the study into so many of the august tribunes of the western MSM HRW has become a tool of Israel.
11-08-06 - New Delhi prevents Zionist "rescue campaign" the Indians automatically were eligible to become citizens of Israel under the Zionist "Right-of-Return"-law and the Jewish Agency in Israel had already prepared for the settlement of the new immigrants in Carmiel and Nazareth, where they were destined to boost the Jewish presence in an Arab Palestinian environment. The US-based Friendship Fund of the Evangelical Christians, who funded the project of mass immigration of allegedly Indian Jews to Israel, had prepared for a spectacular mass-media covering of the organized departure of the group from India on 12th November and of the celebrations planned to greet their arrival in Israel
11-08-06 - Taibeh architect to design Palestinian culture museum The Umm al-Fahm museum will be the first of its kind in Israel, and will be broader in scope than the contemporary art gallery
11-08-06 - Something's rotten in Israel Latest drop in global corruption index yet another warning sign
11-08-06 - Upgrade of Palestinian bureau to embassy?
11-08-06 - Israel Wins at the Polls .S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse
drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel's settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion
11-08-06 - Large Hebron sympathy protest turns into dangerous confrontation with Israeli
11-08-06 - Galilee archbishop scheduled as guest
11-08-06 - DM Peretz Seeking a True Peace Partner Peretz made his comments as part of statements relating to the Wednesday morning artillery mishap in the Beit Hanoun area of Gaza that claimed the lives of 18 PA (Palestinian Authority) residents.
He's joking, right?
11-08-06 - Israelis divided over Gaza attack
11-08-06 - Dershowitz to Discuss Israel at UCLA Dershowitz has repeatedly defended the actions of the Israeli military against accusations of human rights violations Good luck with it.
11-08-06 - Jewish Democrats win big, both as candidates and as voters Pro-Israel money was also a factor in Rhode Island, where Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the Republican chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was projected to lose to Sheldon Whitehouse. Chafee was a tough critic of Israel's settlement policy, and blocked the nomination of John Bolton - who is very friendly to Israel - as ambassador to the United Nations to protest a planned settlement expansion. Pro-Israel contributors boosted Whitehouse's bid. They also helped Brad Ellsworth, a Democrat, defeat U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.). Hostettler was a social conservative who was cool on Israel. the United States of Israel
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