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Wednesday, November 15, 2006


News for 11-14-06

11-14-06 - Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian militant in W. Bank Bahaa Saleh, 26, was gunned down by Israeli soldiers who attacked al-Ein refugee camp in the west of Nablus, Palestinian security sources said.


11-14-06 - Hamas: No recognition of Israel "It was not asked from the two Germanys to recognise each other, while the whole world recognised them.
"Why should Palestine, which is not yet a state, recognise Israel?" he said, also citing as examples China and Taiwan.



11-14-06 - Egypt detains Palestinian legislator A Palestinian legislator was briefly detained Tuesday at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip when he was found carrying US$2 million in a suitcase, security officials said.


11-14-06 - A resident of Beit Hanoun dies of wounds sustained last week Palestinian medical sources reported that Mohamed Mekhiz, 21, died on Tuesday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip last Wednesday.



11-14-06 - Jordan to offer foodstuffs to Palestinians The Jordanian Charity Fund will provide two new aid convoys comprising 33 trucks full of food stuffs to the Palestinian territories, the Jordanian official Petra news agency reported on Tuesday.


11-14-06 - Historic black Methodist church delegation visits Holy Land A delegation of leaders from historic African-American churches who just returned from Jerusalem and the Holy Land says conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank painfully echo the injustices suffered by people of color during South Africa's apartheid era and during the pre-civil rights era in America.



11-14-06 - Hamas: Boycott to end even if PA gov't doesn't recognize Israel "I don't wish any Jewish mother to go through what I'm going through, this disaster of seeing her son die before her eyes," she continued. "I only hope that we will be the last victims of this war." Nor did other family members sound hungry for revenge. "I don't want this to happen to anyone in the world," said Riad Atamna. "Not to Jews, not to Christians and not to Muslims. Enough blood. Enough."


11-14-06 - Olmert: World has reached the pivotal moment of truth on Iran "America's leadership in preventing Iran's nuclearization is indisputable and unequaled," said Olmert in his speech. "But America must have the support of the international community if we are to successfully defuse this mortal threat."
All of this bluster on Iran by Israel and its officials in the US are for one reason alone: preparing America for a war on Iran. Will Americans fall for it (again)? History is now repeating itself.


11-14-06 - Worried about Gates' views on Iran, Israel backers hope he toes Bush line Neumann of JINSA said that however Gates turned out, Rumsfeld - known for his closeness to Israel - would be missed. He cited a recent revelation by Colin Powell that some State Department staff referred to Rumsfeld and his staff as the "JINSA crowd." "The administration today was stronger on Israel than any administration in my life," Neumann said.



11-14-06 - Nixed Signals - When Hamas hinted at peace, U.S. media wouldn?t take the message


11-14-06 - Sneh: Rules on Palestinian Americans to be modified Ephraim Sneh met Monday with Ziad Asali, president of the American Task Force on Palestine, and discussed visa restrictions on Palestinians who hold American citizenship who travel to and from Palestinian areas.



11-14-06 - Shin Bet chief warns of large-scale confrontation in Gaza


11-14-06 - Bush assures Israel Iran seen as threat Olmert, who also met with Vice President Dick Cheney and members of Congress, was heading to Los Angeles on Tuesday to speak to Jewish groups.


11-14-06 - Lebanon: Palestinians doubtful of camp improvement initiatives ?None of this will happen. No one here helps the Palestinians,? said Ahmed Hassan, an unemployed Palestinian refugee who lives in Chatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut.


11-14-06 - Military sales to Israel challenged Saleh Hasan, a Palestinian who lives in Bethlehem, argues that the sales are in breach of the government's guidelines covering arms exports and are unlawful. The guidelines say exports should be blocked when there is a "clear risk" they "might be used for internal repression".


11-14-06 - Palestine Independence Day


11-14-06 - Blair presses case for solution in Palestine Tony Blair used a one-hour video testimony to the Iraq Study Group in Washington yesterday to repeatedly press his case that a settlement of the Palestinian-Israel dispute would be the single best way of calming the chaos in Iraq.


11-14-06 - Army installs a barbed wire fence near Azone Village


11-14-06 - Scott Ritter on 'My Good Friend,' Israel He said that Israel is our close ally; and if Iran actually intends to develop nuclear weapons, not nuclear power (as the Iranian Ambassador had said, in the speech preceding Ritter's), and if Iran fails to repudiate Ahmedinejad's hateful rhetoric about Israel, well then, Israel's "legitimate national security concerns" are ours, and could even bring war.


11-14-06 - For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is 'God?s Foreign Policy'


11-14-06 - Netanyahu: Iran Preparing Another Holocaust The boy that cried wolf and Chicken Little have just morphed into one.


11-14-06 - Peace Not Apartheid - By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Just bought this book myself. You can too from Amazon.


11-14-06 - Getting to know the neighbours Residents of al-Ein said on Tuesday that in the 14 days of November, there have only been two nights when Israeli forces did not enter the small and crowded camp. On Tuesday, the army arrived at 2.30am. The soldiers fanned out and entered houses all over camp, ordering families into small rooms. The soldiers then either set up a sniper's nest, by smashing holes in the wall or windows, or smashed through walls in order to enter neighbouring houses. It harkens back to the British raids in towns and cities of the American colonies. In today's world, our revolutionary forces would be called 'terrorists' that 'hide among the civilian populations' too (and they would NOT target civilians just as some of the Palestinians do not do so- 'streetfighters').


11-14-06 - 'We must reject hatred of U.S.' Mr Howard, in his address, said creation of a secure Palestinian state would do more to counter fundamentalist terrorism in the Middle East than co-opting Syria and Iran to assist in Iraq.


11-14-06 - Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails increasing: lawmaker


11-14-06 - Kuwait donates 500,000 US dollars to Palestinians


11-14-06 - MKs: New phenomena - illegal Arab settlements The West Bank does not belong to Israel, it is Israeli-OCCUPIED territory. Those settlements built on occupied territory are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).


11-14-06 - Israel army denies shooting unarmed suspects in West Bank The Israeli army denied charges by a human rights watchdog that it had shot dead two unarmed Palestinian suspects as they lay wounded last week in the occupied West Bank.


11-14-06 - Algeria offers emergency assistance to Palestine


11-14-06 - Fateh condemns US for vetoing UNSC resolution against Israeli massacre in Beit Hanoun


11-14-06 - EU extends Gaza border mission for 6 months


11-14-06 - Israel prepares to allow Palestinian troops into Gaza Israel is on the brink of a policy U-turn that would authorise 1,500 armed Palestinian soldiers based in Jordan to move into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


11-14-06 - Army does not allow patients with severe conditions to enter Israel for treatment


11-14-06 - Palestinian forces arrest two Israeli secret agents in Gaza Sources from the Palestinian preventative security forces working in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the forces managed to arrest two Gaza residents working as agents for the Israeli secret service Shin Bet.



11-14-06 - Budget-saving, American-made cluster bombs left vicious legacy in Lebanon This would appear to be another 'Blame America' article.


11-14-06 - Blair calls for new focus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict


11-14-06 - King receives Palestinian President


11-14-06 - Robert Fisk: Conflict in the Middle East is Mission Implausible the Hizbollah - here is a fact which will not sit happily with the John Boltons of this world at the UN - are watching every car that drives south of the Litani river. For they know that if a suicide bomber attacks the French, they - the Hizbollah - will be blamed. They will not be to blame. It will be the Sunni Muslim al-Qa'idists to the north who wish to attack Nato. So Hizbollah will be the most powerful defenders of the European armies in southern Lebanon. Now there's something to think about.


11-14-06 - Israel's Supreme Court rejects jailed U.S. spy's former Mossad handler from Cabinet post Israel's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by jailed Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard to boot his former Mossad handler from his Cabinet post.


11-14-06 - Gaza to produce natural gas soon: sources


11-14-06 - Hagee preaches support for Israel What better way for these End Times fundies to show their support for Israel than to move there and act as human shields?


11-14-06 - Hizbullah leader sees collapse of government A poll published last week by the Beirut Centre for Research and Information suggests nearly 60% of Lebanese support the opposition, with 70% seeking the formation of a new national government.


11-14-06 - Report: Israel chose cheap bombs Israel reportedly decided against using a local, safe variety of cluster-bombs during its war against Hezbollah for cost reasons.


11-14-06 - FBI: Pollard passed info to Pakistan and Australia In a presentation given by FBI agent Ronald Olive, which was broadcast on Channel 10, it was revealed that Pollard was also involved illegally in arms sales to Taiwan, France, Kenya, Afghanistan, and Argentina.


11-14-06 - Divestment talk at Wisconsin college The University of Wisconsin?s board of regents considered divesting from Israel.


11-14-06 - Ethnic cleansing's friend in Israel Peter Edelman, left, is president and Larry Garber is chief executive of the New Israel Fund, a Washington D.C.-based organization focused on social justice and human rights inside Israel.



11-14-06 - CNN adds Palestinian remarks to US veto story, two days later Good job, CNN Exposed.


11-14-06 - After 18 Months, Israeli Judge to Rule on Palestinian's Detention Mr. Abu-Haniyeh has been adopted as an appeal case by Amnesty International and is supported by the American National Lawyers Guild. He is one of at least three known Palestinian human rights workers currently detained by Israel.


11-14-06 - Olmert does Congress He met with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is set to become majority leader in the Senate, after Democrats won both houses in elections last week.



11-14-06 - E.U. commissioner slams Iran Benita Ferrero-Waldner made the remarks Sunday in Paris to the governing board of the World Jewish Congress.


11-14-06 - Jewish leaders ask Chirac to use influence Jewish officials asked France?s president to put pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority and Hezbollah to stop endangering Israeli civilians.


11-14-06 - Poll: Lebanese opinion of U.S. worse A Gallup World Poll conducted Sept. 18 to Oct. 12 found that 64 percent of Lebanese surveyed said their opinion of the United States was worse following the summer war, during which the Israeli army damaged Lebanese infrastructure while retaliating, with U.S. backing, for Hezbollah attacks launched from Lebanon. Winning the battle for hearts and minds, one Arab country at a time we are.


11-14-06 - Dershowitz criticizes Israeli bombing Alan Dershowitz criticized Israel's use of cluster bombs during the war with Lebanon.
Aww gee, wasn't that noble of him?


11-14-06 - King Abdullah receives poet Sameh Kasem


11-14-06 - Rachel Corrie's Parents, Etc., Part of 11/14 Talkback Moderated by ABC News anchor/correspondent Dan Harris, this panel discussion will occur following the 8pm performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie, as part of its ongoing series


11-14-06 - Another Israeli 'mistake'


11-14-06 - Video: Pollard steals secret documents Ron Olive, the FBI agent who apprehended Jonathan Pollard has released footage taken from a surveillance camera showing the convicted spy taking suitcases full of top secret documents to his Israeli operatives.

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