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Saturday, November 18, 2006
11-17-06 - Youth killed in Qalqilia invasion, at least 31 injured Dozens of youth hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading forces who randomly fired round of live ammunition at them.
11-17-06 - Palestinian leadership denies rift over unity premier
11-17-06 - Palestinian group may consider "calm" with Israel A Palestinian militant group may consider ceasing attacks against the Jewish state if Israel first halts its strikes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, an official said on Friday.
11-17-06 - Jimmy Carter may head Beit Hanoun probe
11-17-06 - Rights group says Israel engaged in "wilful killings"
11-17-06 - Israeli airstrike destroys home near residence of Hamas prime minister
11-17-06 - Army shells one house, a charitable society in Gaza City Palestinian security sources reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force carried two separate attacks that targeted on house and a charitable society in Gaza City.
11-17-06 - Israel secretly studies 'bold' peace bid Leaders of the militant Hamas movement have for many years spoken of such a long-term hudna, or ceasefire, but only on the condition of a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 armistice lines ? terms deemed unacceptable to the Israeli leadership.
11-17-06 - New Israeli Cabinet minister threatens to target heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad
11-17-06 - Israeli-Arab activist in mission to tackle Iran over Holocaust A text on the wall of his museum declares: "The Palestinians are the only people in the world who for the sake of providing shelter to the Jews have paid their homeland as a price for the sins and the deeds of the Nazis."
11-17-06 - PM uses al-Jazeera to target Mid East
11-17-06 - Mid-East peace 'crucial' - Blair
11-17-06 - Oct. 2000 victims' families: Deal won't make up for loss
11-17-06 - Soldiers, settlers obstruct families from harvesting their olive trees Several families of Tal village, west of Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, complained that Israeli soldiers and settlers are obstructing their Olive harvest in their orchards, which is costing the families significant losses.
11-17-06 - Israel's Elbit unit get $51 mln U.S. army deal
11-17-06 - Too early to say Israel against new peace plan France... A senior Israeli official appeared earlier Friday to reject the initiative outright. The only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and settle Palestinian land - and drive the Palestinians off of it.
11-17-06 - U.N. calls on Israel to end operation The resolution passed Friday by a vote of 156 to 7, with six abstentions. The U.S., Israel and Australia voted against the document, while all the European Union members supported it after last-minute changes were made to soften the tone.
11-17-06 - For West Bank, It's a Highway to Frustration As Palestinians make their way through dozens of military checkpoints, they are delayed for hours, rerouted to dirt roads and sometimes turned back altogether on their way to jobs, schools and family visits. They also face hundreds of unattended obstacles that include earth mounds, concrete blocks and trenches that have cut many roads, forcing lengthy detours.
11-17-06 - Diplomats fear US wants to arm Fatah for 'war on Hamas' "A lot of what the Americans were saying was, 'If there is going to be a fight, we might as well make sure the right person wins'. We would have a difference of opinion there. You really don?t want to be encouraging a civil war."
11-17-06 - Israelis mourn Gaza deaths Obituaries published in Haaretz express 'deep sorrow' over Beit Hanoun victims. Edna Kovarski of Herzliya tells Ynet she published obituary because of shame she felt for what Israel is doing
11-17-06 - Heart-broken victims united in bid for peace "I truly thank Gilad's father for the visit, and I pray that his son is returned home safe and sound and that it will bring an end to the tragedy we had at home,"
11-17-06 - Olmert says he favors pinpoint strikes, not broad Gaza offensive
11-17-06 - Groups Side With Bush on Bolton Bolton is viewed as a strong supporter of Israel, and exercised the American veto last week on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. While American support for Israel at the U.N. is unlikely to change with a new ambassador and a Democratic Congress, Bolton had cultivated especially close personal bonds over the years with all major Jewish groups
11-17-06 - Israel's July attack on UN post in Lebanon 'error': leaked document An Israeli attack on a UN base in Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers in July was the result of "severe professional errors" due to poor planning, according to a leaked army document. How to get away with murder - join the IDF, blame it on 'error', 'technical problem', etc etc etc.
11-17-06 - A simple solution: Rights or sovereignty for Palestinians
11-17-06 - UNIFIL protests about Israeli flights over Lebanon
11-17-06 - Settlers continue expansion of illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank In spite of the official Israeli statements of intension to evacuate illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlers continued their illegal activities of expansion of settlement outposts north of Jerusalem and near Ramallah city
11-17-06 - UN General Assembly set to slam Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip The text expected to be overwhelmingly endorsed by the General Assembly would condemn the Israeli killing of 19 Palestinians, mainly children and women, in Beit Hanun last week, as well as Palestinian rocket firing into Israel.
11-17-06 - French UN troops prepare guns against Israeli jets in Lebanon He said "UNIFIL observed and reported 14 Israeli air violations this morning, on November 17, 2006, and 11 of these violations occurred in the area of operation of the French battalion with UNIFIL." Israel will not stop violating Lebanon's airspace and menacing both the Germans and the French who are there to keep the peace. Ingrates.
11-17-06 - A minor movie about Yasser Arafat
11-17-06 - Israeli hospital refuses continued treatment for Palestinian shot by special forces
11-17-06 - 2007 budget to perpetuate gaps between Jewish, Arab schools The budget plan deals a heavy blow also to the ministry's program for the education of minorities, slashed by 27 percent, and to education in the Arab sector, which will drop by 25 percent.
11-17-06 - Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East I?ve seen the coverage given to Israel?s activities in Europe and in Israel itself ? a highly contentious debate over (Israel). There is no such debate in the United States. There?s not any debate in the Congress. There?s not any debate in the White House, at least since George Bush Sr. and I were there, and in the news media of the United States there is very rarely any editorial comment that would criticize some of the practices of Israel which I consider to be deplorable ? and that is the persecution of the Palestinians, and the occupation and confiscation and the colonization of Palestinian land.
11-17-06 - 'Blue Dogs' endorse Harman Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is set to become speaker now that Democrats have won the House, opposes Harman, who is Jewish, partly because she's incensed that Harman solicited lobbying for the post from top Jewish donors to the Democrats. Harman has been the top-ranked Democrat on the committee for four years. Harman is under investigation by the USDOJ because she "agreed to pressure the administration to "go lighter" on two former AIPAC lobbyists facing trial on classified information charges" according to TIME.
11-17-06 - Pelosi drops the ball - AIPAC takes all What a line up - AIPAC couldn't ask for anything more. It matters not if Dems or Repubs won the elections. AIPAC still wins. It always does.
11-17-06 - The New York Times Marginalizes Palestinian Women
11-17-06 - Minority-free TV
11-17-06 - Al-Arian Gets 18 More Months For Contempt
11-17-06 - ABCUSA: General Secretary Reports On Lebanon Trip, Other Topics
11-17-06 - Israeli ambassador: "Reconsider your stand" According to Fréttabladid, Shomrat said that the Icelandic government focuses too much on the incident in Beit Hanoun, in which 18 civilians were killed, and has failed to take into consideration the bigger picture.
11-17-06 - Vandals fuel hatred with death posters
11-17-06 - Friends and enemies in Israel, Palestine
11-17-06 - On Iran, U.S. may have to differ with Israel ** For the past six years there has not even been a sliver of light between the positions of the United States and Israel. It's safe to say that no administration has been as supportive of Israel's policies as the administration of President George W. Bush..... Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University, says it might be too late to stop Iran from developing weapons-grade nuclear fuel. But he says it could well be another decade or more before Iran would actually have a deliverable nuclear weapon; we are not in a crisis now, and we shouldn't be acting as if we were.
11-17-06 - Research: Dozens of Dutch companies support or facilitate Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories The investigation, which is presumably not exhaustive, identifies 35 Dutch companies that maintain direct or indirect relations with the occupation of Palestinian and/or Syrian territories: 21 companies with headquarters in the Netherlands and 14 Dutch subsidiaries of Israeli companies.
11-17-06 - Facts on my Israel-Palestine talk
11-17-06 - GOP House leaders remain the same Both men have strong Jewish community ties and Blunt, who is married to a Jewish woman, has led numerous congressional delegations to Israel.
11-17-06 - Leak case judge denies motion Prosecutors asked for an exemption from having to prove that the leaking harmed U.S. interests. In denying their motion Thursday, Ellis exhibited exasperation, because his earlier decision, rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the case, had favored the prosecutors overall
11-17-06 - From June: Alleged AIPAC informant promoted The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.
11-17-06 - Canada takes pro-Israel stance at UN pro-Israel and Jewish groups in Canada have for years lobbied that the resolutions are biased because they demand so much of Israel, but little from the Arab side in the search for Middle East peace and the current government appears to agree, prompting praise from Canada's Jewish community.
''We're very pleased Canada is staying the course and is now guided by a (new) set of principles,'' said Sara Freedman, a senior official with the Canada-Israel Committee
11-17-06 - Britain dragging its feet on treaty to ban cluster bombs, say activists
11-17-06 - FBI agent, defense clash over 1993 meeting
11-17-06 - Political Blogging as Hate Crime
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