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Tuesday, November 14, 2006


News for 11-13-06

11-13-06 - US-educated professor likely to be nominated Palestinian leader


11-13-06 - Palestinian FM puts cost of Israel shelling at 50 million


11-13-06 - Grave suspicion of extrajudicial execution


11-13-06 - Palestinian hospital starts blood donation campaign to aid injured in Beit Hanoun


11-13-06 - PLO official slams U.S., Israel for irresponsibility for Palestine issue Taysseer Khaled, a senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), on Monday slammed the United States and Israel for showing their irresponsibility for the Palestine issue.


11-13-06 - Palestinian candidate says ready to accept premier's post of unity government


11-13-06 - Palestinians vow US attacks after UN Gaza veto "Through its position completing the (Israeli) aggression, America has pushed us to take a serious decision to (consider it) a legitimate target for us, exactly like Israel," America has found itself involved in Israel's war on the Arabs, and this goes back long before 9/11. Here's why. George Washington is rolling in his grave. And of course, proclamations such as these play into Israel's hands ('war on terror').


11-13-06 - Syria: An urgent appeal for Palestinians feeing Iraq Iraqi Palestinians are recipients of a collective "fatwa" (or death sentence) issued by several militia or sectarian groups, and their ethnicity - displayed on all their identification papers - is tantamount to committing a capital crime. Many have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.


11-13-06 - Fatah appoints Abbas overall head of movement A key Fatah body elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday as overall leader, officials said, in a bid to revitalise the movement hit by the election success earlier this year of rival group Hamas.


11-13-06 - U.N. rights body to hold special session on Gaza The United Nations' top human rights body will hold a special session on Wednesday to consider a call by Arab and Muslim states for action against the "gross human rights violations" of Israel in Gaza.


11-13-06 - Lebanon's Hariri probe at heart of Hezbollah walkout A UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri lies at the heart of the resignations of five Shiite ministers from the Lebanese government.


11-13-06 - Israel, US have 'complete understanding' on Iran: Olmert Olmert said that he had had a "deep conversation" with Bush and that the two leaders had "complete understanding over their objectives" regarding Iran. Bush has been given his orders. And now, like before with Iraq, Israel's minions in the US will go to work on our government to achieve Israel's wishes.


11-13-06 - Weakened Bush firm on Iran, Syria, Iraq US President George W. Bush, sticking to his guns despite a stinging election defeat, rejected calls for new overtures to Iran and Syria and opposed a fixed timetable for a US withdrawal from Iraq. And coincidentally, Bush met with Olmert today who does not want to see America pull out of Iraq. See yesterday's news batch.


11-13-06 - Nobel winners petition Israel to outlaw targeted killing Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, joined by three foreign Nobel laureates, asked the nation's high court to rule against targeted assassinations carried out by the army in the Palestinian territories, saying the attacks were killing civilians.


11-13-06 - Bush, Olmert warn of threat in Iran Bush saw Olmert on the same day he was interviewed by an independent panel studying U.S. options in the Iraq war. It matters not if the Dems are in power or if the chicanery behind the Iraq debacle has been brought to light - the same lobby is still calling the shots as it was before. And until that changes, America remains a puppet of Israel and is thus in grave physical danger.


11-13-06 - To Israel with love Why is America so much more pro-Israeli than Europe? The most obvious answer lies in the power of two very visible political forces: the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) and the religious right.


11-13-06 - All In A Day's Work


11-13-06 - No clash of civilizations, says UN report A UN-sponsored group says the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the main cause of global tensions.


11-13-06 - Hebron Update: November 5 to 11 2006 Many shops were closed in the West Bank to protest the Israeli army's
invasion of Bethlehem on Friday when two young Palestinian stone
throwers were shot and killed by soldiers. Spend some time reading the messages in that group. You'll quickly learn the ugly truth.


11-13-06 - Barrier clogs West Bank olive harvest


11-13-06 - Blair urges White House to shift focus to Israel-Palestine conflict


11-13-06 - EU ministers pound Israel over Beit Hanun Rightly so.


11-13-06 - Olmert draws fire in U.S. over praise of Iraq war Politicians from the Democratic Party said they wanted to speak to Olmert about his comments on the Iraq war before responding publicly, but said they were uncomfortable with the comments. If Olmert planned his remarks and intended them to come out as they did, a Democratic official said, then they are not acceptable and can be seen as an attempt to influence the American political dispute.....Bush expressed pride in the American veto at the UN Security Council regarding a condemnation of the Israeli shelling of the Gaza town of Beit Hanun


11-13-06 - Annan: Politics cause Muslim-West divide Political tensions, rather than religious differences, are the source of the rift between the West and the Muslim world, and any resolution must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.


11-13-06 - Bush to Olmert: No international peace convention "I said I am in favor of a compromise, if this compromise prevents them from reaching this threshold. I have no special desire to be dragged into a confrontation with the Iranians," the prime minister said, refusing to refer to a possibility of an american military operation in Iran.


11-13-06 - Olmert promises to release prisoners


11-13-06 - Annan links Arab-Israel to broad conflict U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that any effort to stop growing violence between Islamic and Western societies must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict


11-13-06 - FEATURE-Gaza students lament ban on studying in West Bank Palestinian student Huda Abu El-Roos enrolled at Bethlehem University in the occupied West Bank in 2003. But Abu El-Roos, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has never set foot inside the campus. Citing security reasons, Israel has prohibited the 21-year-old and nine colleagues from attending classes on occupational therapy in the biblical town....."Since the uprising, the handicapped have crowded health centres. We need to rehabilitate these people and enable them to practice a normal life as much as possible,"



11-13-06 - Israeli PM Brings Iran Agenda to U.S. ** The fear is that with American public opinion turning against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush would be less likely to take decisive military or diplomatic action against Iran. Whose war is it?


11-13-06 - Lebanon war's deadly legacy continues to kill On Friday, farmer Mohammed Rizk became the latest victim of the summer war. Police said he was killed and a companion was wounded as they gathered olives in the village of Kfar Roumman, near Nabatiya.


11-13-06 - Army detains an ambulance at a checkpoint near Nablus


11-13-06 - Palestinian factions haggle over cabinet seats


11-13-06 - Olmert talks of Military Action against Iran **


11-13-06 - South Africa seen as model for Palestine


11-13-06 - Facing challenges, Olmert and Bush seek to avoid regional deterioration "We in the Middle East have followed the American policy in Iraq for a long time, and we are very much impressed and encouraged by the stability which the great operation of America in Iraq brought to the Middle East," Olmert said after the meeting "We pray and hope that this policy will be fully successful so that this stability which was created for all the moderate countries in the Middle East will continue."


11-13-06 - Olmert Doesn't Represent Jewry Says Orthodox Spokesman Anti Zionist Jews to Protest Arrival of 'Israeli' Prime Minister in Washington


11-13-06 - Visas at last for musicians bound for city THREE Palestinian musicians refused visas to come to play in Edinburgh have been finally allowed into the UK.


11-13-06 - Harborite visits West Bank with peace team In her view, most Americans don't understand the situation at all. "If people could transfer themselves to the occupied territories for just a day, their opinions about who the victims of injustice are would change. ... The land that has been a promise come true for some people has also been a nightmare that never ends for others."


11-13-06 - Gissin: 'Take The Israel Media War To The Enemy'


11-13-06 - Palestinian ambassador to U.S. visits metro Detroit "I consider him to be the most eloquent spokesman regarding the Palestinian issue." George Khoury, of Huntington Woods, and coordinator of the Palestine Education Fund, said in a news release.



11-13-06 - New Indymedia film about Palestinian refugees in Lebanon


11-13-06 - The root of terror is clear Only a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict will stop al-Qaida recruitment



11-13-06 - US Called On to do More to Bring Peace to the Holy Land A leading Franciscan priest has said hope of peace has died out completely in the Holy Land and has called on the US and Europe to sieze present opportunities to work for peace in the land of Christ?s birth.


11-13-06 - A Dissenting Note on the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 If my memory serves me right, there are three times as many Jews
in the world as could possible get into Palestine if you drove out
all the population that remains there now. So that only one-third
will get back at the most, and what will happen to the remainder?


11-13-06 - U.N. negotiations continue, but can they stop Iran?s nuclear push? ** Many worry that Israel could act alone if it thinks the United States is progressing too slowly to contain Tehran. His menu of policy recommendations to the United States notwithstanding, Berman said he believes Israel will feel forced to strike within the year. "I think we're quite clearly entering a season of hard choices on the part of the Israelis," he said.



11-13-06 - Miller testifies in 'torture' case Salah's defense raised allegations that Miller left the New York Times because she was found to have perpetuated faulty evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but the judge in the case upheld a prosecution objection against such characterizations Miller the neoconette.


11-13-06 - Pelosi backs challenge to Hoyer Hoyer is considered one of Israel?s best friends in Congress, isolating Democrats within his party who have been critical of the Jewish state and leading numerous congressional missions to the region.


11-13-06 - Livni promises branding campaign Israel will "invest a lot of time and money" in an image-branding campaign, its foreign minister told the United Jewish Communities' General Assembly.


11-13-06 - Hostility to Zionism Seen as 'Major Threat' in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting "fed up" with Zionist power in America You are required to pledge allegiance to a foreign nation, or be branded a traitor. An Orwellian phenomenon that I have personally experienced. To the true patriots in my country and govt: God bless ya and fight the good fight.


11-13-06 - 'Get Your Arab On': Comedians chip away at ethnic fears


11-13-06 - Jewish Weekly slaps ban on Kasrils Censorship of this type ? reminiscent of apartheid era bannings ? is in direct violation of South Africa?s constitutional protection of free speech and the hard-fought for media liberties, central to freedom of expression.



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