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Friday, November 17, 2006
11-16-06 - One Palestinian killed amid stepped-up operation in W. Bank
11-16-06 - Israeli troops shoot, kill Palestinian civilian in West Bank: relatives Relatives said Mohammed Ahmedan, 25, was standing on the porch of his home in the al-Ein refugee camp, near Nablus, watching the Israeli military operation when he was shot two times and killed. They said Ahmedan was unarmed.
11-16-06 - Gaza Humanitarian Crisis - A Joint Statement by Israel 's leading human rights organizations Nine Israeli human rights organizations issued an unprecedented joint call to the international community to ensure human rights in the Gaza Strip. The statement comes in light of the dire humanitarian situation there:
11-16-06 - Gaza amenities crippled, illness on rise - aid group Only one in three people in Gaza had access to running water after Israel's offensive in late June and chronic illness, trauma and mental health cases have increased sharply, a French relief group said on Thursday.
11-16-06 - Three residents injured in a car accident with an Israeli army vehicle in the Jordan Valley Palestinian medical sources reported that three residents were injured in a car accident between a Palestinian civilian car and an Israeli military vehicle in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank late Wednesday night.
11-16-06 - Child seriously injured in Hebron by army explosives Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported on Thursday that a 15-year old Palestinian child was seriously injured north of Hebron, after an explosive device left by the army apparently during training, detonated near him as he was herding sheep his family owns.
11-16-06 - Army shells houses, workshops in the Gaza Strip, four children injured
11-16-06 - Israeli warplanes carry out at least six over-night air strikes
11-16-06 - Families of Beit Hanoun plan suit against Israel ?There was no battle in the area, no homemade shells were fired at Israel?, he stated, ?The army killed those people while they were sleeping in their beds, even Israel admitted and accepted its responsibility?.
11-16-06 - US contradicts UN pessimism on Lebanon munitions removal his portrayal of the progress being made contrasted with a UN complaint last week that Israel's failure to provide detailed maps of where its forces dropped so-called "cluster bombs" in Lebanon had hamstrung clearance operations.
11-16-06 - Palestinian medical student gets five days to respond to allegations he's a terrorist Since the intifada in 2000, Israel has barred most Palestinians living in Gaza from traveling to the West Bank, and has been trying to deport from the area those whose identity cards state that their home address is in Gaza.
11-16-06 - China feels deeply concerned about Israel-Palestine situation "China calls upon Israel to stop its military action immediately, and hopes the two sides respond to the mediating efforts and prevent deterioration of the situation," she said.
11-16-06 - $120m Iran aid to Palestinians
11-16-06 - Palestinians welcome European proposal for international conference
11-16-06 - Palestinian soccer team still wants to play Singapore in Asian Cup qualifier The players could not get out of the violence-stricken Gaza Strip due to Israeli military operations, Palestinian soccer federation head Ahmed al-Afifi said Thursday.
11-16-06 - Short urges action over shooting "I think the behaviour of the Israeli army is notorious in Palestine. So the UK Government owes it to the protection of its own nationals and it also needs to stand up for decent standards in a country it treats as an ally and ships military equipment to.
11-16-06 - Israel/Occupied Territories: Governments at General Assembly must now put civilians before politics
11-16-06 - Peres: Israel can't lead efforts on Iran Israel must not take the lead in international efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program, Shimon Peres said.
11-16-06 - Israel rejects European peace plan The Associated Press quoted Livni on Thursday as telling Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos that it was unacceptable for such an initiative to be launched without the Jewish state?s coordination
11-16-06 - Hoyer wins leadership
U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), one of the pro-Israel community?s closest friends in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected majority leader.
11-16-06 - The neocons' last stand The neocon logic in favour of the Iraq war was that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad: an invasion would install an Iraqi democracy that would force the Palestinians to submit to the Israelis. Now near-unanimity exists on Baker's commission to reverse that formula. The central part of a new policy must be, they believe, that the road to Baghdad leads through Jerusalem.
11-16-06 - European states offer Middle East peace plan without UK One particular cause of frustration has been the American veto, last Saturday, of a security council resolution condemning Israel in the wake of an artillery attack in Gaza which killed 18 Palestinian civilians. France, a permanent member of the council, voted in favour, describing its text as "balanced", but Britain abstained.
11-16-06 - Euro MPs vote for international military observers in Gaza In the meantime "in order to protect the civilian population on both sides," the Euro MPs also invited the 25 EU member states to "launch an initiative to dispatch international military observers to Gaza," and called on all parties "to endorse and fully cooperate with such a proposal". Israel and thus the US would never allow it. The international community has tried this before - at the UN - but the US vetoed this measure at Israel's behest.
11-16-06 - Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel United States President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. It would appear that Bush was elected to serve Israel.
11-16-06 - Qatar's emir criticizes Western attitudes to Hamas
11-16-06 - International aid to Lebanon coming slower than planned: mininster
11-16-06 - US assails UN rights forum probe into Israeli Gaza attack
11-16-06 - We didn't pay ransom for Wiig and Centanni, says Fox Fox News president Roger Ailes today said claims Fox paid US$2m in hostage money were "absolutely false". This allegation was put forth by Aaron Klein of WND.
11-16-06 - Yemeni group to help Palestinian people
11-16-06 - Syria and UNRWA to Improve Situation of Palestinian Refugees
11-16-06 - Soldiers attack rooms of abducted Palestinian legislators and ministers
11-16-06 - Israel to compensate 11 of 13 Arab residents killed in October 2000
11-16-06 - Egypt welcomes UN body's approval of resolution on Israeli attacks in Gaza
11-16-06 - Indonesia seeks US timetable for Palestinian state "In the past, the US said it supported the establishment of Palestinian state in 2005," said Dino Pati Djalal, adding that despite the pledge the situation "is getting complicated and the peace prospects are not yet clear."
11-16-06 - German academics: Enough of special treatment for Israel The petition said, ?A large part of the German society has turned the shame and grief of the Holocaust into a ceremonial matter. That is how a problematic philo-Semitism has developed in Germany.?
11-16-06 - Father of captured Israeli soldier visits wounded Palestinians "These families are victims of the brutality of war, the same as the inhabitants of Sderot," said Shalit, referring to the Israeli town where Palestinian rockets on Wednesday killed a woman and wounded five Israelis.
11-16-06 - Hamas says talks on Israeli soldier frozen
11-16-06 - Germany refuses to alter Israel ties In a lengthy petition published in the Frankfurter Rundschau regional newspaper Wednesday, the scholars said that, "The roots of this bloody 60-year confrontation in the Middle East are German and European. The Palestinian population doesn't have the responsibility to take on European problems in the Middle East," according to translations in English-language media.
11-16-06 - Bin Laden not top Islamist thinker: study The Militant Ideology Atlas, compiled by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, instead showed Palestinian cleric Mohammed al-Maqdisi as the most influential living Islamist thinker.
11-16-06 - Israel's Peretz pledges to continue pressure on Gaza
11-16-06 - Lebanon inflation to rise to 7 percent due to Israel war Inflation in Lebanon is forecast to rise sharply to seven percent by the end of 2006 due to Israel's devastating summer offensive, the central bank governor has said.
11-16-06 - Jesuit priest apologises for 'ghetto' remark at Holocaust ceremony A JESUIT priest who referred to the "ghetto-like conditions of Bethlehem" during a Holocaust memorial ceremony last week has apologised to the Jewish community.
11-16-06 - Judging a book by its cover and its contents By Abraham Foxman Carter's new book on Palestine has Abe's BVDs in a bunch - a sure sign that Carter hit a homer. You can buy this book here.
11-16-06 - Newspapers Endorse John Bolton Now you know which rags are run by the staunchest of Israel-supporters, folks.
11-16-06 - Consulate of Israel attacks BC for slanted Palestine week The Jewish community's concerns over anti-Israel sentiments at BC comes at a time when the Northeastern University School of Law National Lawyers Guild Chapter and the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights is scheduled to host the talk "Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine" on Sunday.
11-16-06 - A project of dispossession can never be a noble cause
11-16-06 - Harper's pro-Israel position sparks a debate Canada has fallen under the influence.
11-16-06 - Falling In Line On Israel The election of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate is unlikely to result in any serious challenge to the Bush administration?s support for Israeli attacks against the civilian populations of its Arab neighbors and the Israeli government?s ongoing violations of international humanitarian law.
11-16-06 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Protest Outside "Israeli" Consulate, NYC on November 9, 2006
11-16-06 - Palestinian protesters force castle closure
11-16-06 - U.S. citizenship of former graduate student born in West Bank revoked
11-16-06 - Pentagon hands back clearance to bomb expert ?The renewal of Dr. Baum?s security clearance is clearly consistent with our national interest, as it allows him access to classified information needed to perform duties in support of contracts with the United States,? said Susan Weinberg, the JCRC president.
11-16-06 - Occupation opponents plan rallies In an e-mail Wednesday, the Washington chapter of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation called on likeminded groups to help organize the Washington rally on Dec. 2
11-16-06 - Emanuel to leadership In his victory statement, Emanuel recalled the arrival to the United States of his grandparents from the Russia-Romania border and of his father from Israel.
11-16-06 - Israeli Occupation Foils Mid-East Peace
11-16-06 - Wanted: A moderate pro-Israel lobby Indeed, AIPAC sometimes tries to be more Israeli than the Israeli government, urging American Jews and their elected representatives in Washington to oppose moderate, responsible positions on Israel, while hewing to the hardest line on the Israeli and American Jewish political spectrum.
I don't understand why AIPAC officials are allowed to say such things and yet AIPAC is still not forced to register as a foreign agent.
11-16-06 - Students Gather For Gaza Vigil The students, dressed in black, held signs listing the names of 18 civilians killed by Israeli shells on Nov. 8, along with their ages and the circumstances of their deaths. The vigil was organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Coalition (PSC), a Harvard student group.
11-16-06 - Ambassador speaks on Palestinian life
11-16-06 - Tilt toward Ehrlich doesn't take place; in area, Jews favor Dems Some pro-Israel activists, though, are raising questions about Webb's position on the Jewish state.
Morris Amitay, the founder of the pro-Israel Washington PAC and a former American Israel Public Affairs Committee executive director, said that Webb's endorsement during the campaign of negotiations with Iran and Syria as part of a regional approach on the Iraq war could indicate support for a similar approach on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
11-16-06 - Will Other Democrats Listen to Carter on Palestine?
11-16-06 - Between sessions and schmoozing, harsh warnings about Israel?s future The Jerusalem Post reported that Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, had observed that "One day the penny will drop for American Jews and they will realize they have no future as Jews in the United States due to assimilation and intermarriage."
11-16-06 - SJP wall divides Red Square Likeness of West Bank barrier stirs debate
11-16-06 - Speaker alleges pro-Israel bias
11-16-06 - Lobbyists' hearing scheduled Three other trial launch dates ? in January, April and August of this year ? have all lapsed
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