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Wednesday, November 22, 2006


News for 11-21-06

11-21-06 - Two Palestinians die in Gaza raid Sadia Haraz, 70, was killed by Israeli tank fire, medics said


11-21-06 - Red Cross suspends work in Gaza The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended its field operations in the Gaza Strip after two of its staff were briefly abducted.


11-21-06 - Man dies of wounds sustained in Qassam strike on Sderot


11-21-06 - Report: 101 Palestinians killed during November by Israeli attacks in Gaza Out of the 101 killed, 26 (26%) are children and 15 (15%) are women.



11-21-06 - Israel issues final visas, splitting families All foreign passports belonging to spouses and children of Palestinian ID-holders who had applied for visa extensions have recently been marked as "last permit" by the Israeli authorities.


11-21-06 - Hamas, Fatah negotiations postponed


11-21-06 - Israeli Foreign Minister demands annulment of Palestinian refugees' right to return The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has urged the world community, especially countries hosting Palestinian refugees, to annul those refugees' internationally-recognized right of return to their homeland (what is now Israel).


11-21-06 - Israel launches offensive in Gaza City Troops entered the town of Jebaliya after dawn. Bulldozers plowed over farms, ripping up irrigation systems and destroying greenhouses and fields. A main electricity transformer, which provides about 60 percent of the power to the Zeitoun neighborhood, was also destroyed.


11-21-06 - Israelis Support Large Scale War in Gaza Strip


11-21-06 - 39% of Israeli settlements 'on private land' In a key ruling in 1979, the Israeli high court said settlements should only be built on state land. The other issue here is : 'state land'. How did Israel procure this 'state land' in the West Bank? By military seizure? This is commonplace with regard to land confiscation by the Israeli army.


11-21-06 - Olmert repeatedly banned Peretz from meeting Abbas Peretz again asked to meet with the Abbas recently, due to the delays in setting up a meeting between the PA chairman and the prime minister. Peretz's request was denied by Olmert.



11-21-06 - Army takes four children prisoner in Abu Dis village east of Jerusalem


11-21-06 - Bedouin petition High Court requesting access to water supply A group fighting for the legal rights of Arabs in Israel on Monday petitioned the High Court of Justice with a request to connect unrecognized Bedouin communities to the national water infrastructure.



11-21-06 - Iraq and Syria restore relations Correspondents say Iraq hopes the move will help to stem a flow of militants across the border with Syria. What will the AIPACers do if they can't blame Syria for this? Wait a minute, wait a minute. What happened today.... in Lebanon..


11-21-06 - American foes step into the Iraq fray The US has repeatedly accused Iran and Syria of stirring up violence inside Iraq, but recently the notion of isolating them as punishment has lost favor in Washington. A growing number President Bush's advisers are urging direct dialogue with both nations. Not going to happen now, is it?


11-21-06 - Israel's Domestic Political Game Raises the Danger of a U.S.-Iran War ** One reason it won't be debated publicly because it's based on a fallacy promoted by a calculated campaign of hysteria by Israel's leadership


11-21-06 - Palestinians Support Operations Inside Israel


11-21-06 - Israeli protestors throw stones at UN commissioner's convoy


11-21-06 - Lebanon mourns murdered minister BBC Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen says the assassination seems to have been designed to inflame sectarian tensions at a time when Lebanon was already going through a profound political crisis. Cui bono? - who benefits? - is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror.- Patrick J. Buchanan


11-21-06 - Detained Palestinian Minister of Finance appears in Israeli Court chained


11-21-06 - Human rights organizations criticize ongoing Israeli detention of human rights worker


11-21-06 - Conference addresses 'forgotten faithful' in Israel-Palestine


11-21-06 - Italy wants Britain, Germany in Mideast initiative Israel was cool to the idea and the United States is working on its own planning, which could include an international peace conference in Jordan at the end of the month


11-21-06 - Fourth Committee defers action on 10 draft resolutions until 28 November Finland?s representative, speaking on behalf of the European Union, supported the Palestinian request.


11-21-06 - Israel backers say no need to worry as Iraq Study Group prepares report


11-21-06 - American priest and nun join Palestinian non-violent resistance in Gaza


11-21-06 - Jordan Valley farmers resist new portion of Wall by refusing to accept land confiscation Residents of the northeastern West Bank are living in a heightened state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces confiscate and control more Palestinian land for the Wall, reported the Land Defense Committee on Tuesday


11-21-06 - Sweden: Israeli response to Hebron attack lacking The Swedish government is dissatisfied with Israel's investigation of an attack in the contentious West Bank city of Hebron that left a Swedish activist with a broken cheekbone, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday....None of the assailants were apprehended, police said


11-21-06 - Netanyahu and the End Times In a congressional spinoff, the FBI and Justice Department are investigating claims of collusion between AIPAC and Rep. Jane Harman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. In return for lobby support for her reappointment, Harman allegedly agreed to press the government to go easy on Rosen and Weissman


11-21-06 - Palestinians learn emergency medicine in Israel The emergency medicine course is sponsored by the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights, a private group dedicated to professional cooperation with Palestinian doctors. Funding comes mainly from international donors.


11-21-06 - ...not an anti-semite


11-21-06 - The Geriatric Squad It has occurred to me that perhaps the real goal of the invasion of Iraq has already been accomplished. That is, the real goal all along might well have been to half-destroy the country and create chaos. A country in chaos is not a strong country. It's been taken out of the play. That might explain Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement that the Iraq invasion has contributed greatly to Israel's security.




11-21-06 - 'Israel should embrace, not fear, James Baker' In 1989, Baker also stunned many by telling an AIPAC conference that "now is the time to lay aside once and for all the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel. Israeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on [UN Security Council] Resolution 242. Forswear annexation; stop settlement activity; allow schools to reopen; reach out to the Palestinian as neighbors who deserve political rights." Demand Israel abide by international law? The horror!


11-21-06 - Support Information Clearinghouse This man has many many videos and daily updates of news of Palestine, neocons, etc.


11-21-06 - Lerner's Letter Ignores Palestinians' Pain All Palestinians want is freedom and democracy. Once Israel stops being an apartheid state, where two people share the same land but are completely separated by a large wall, we can start talking about a democracy


11-21-06 - E.C. won?t back academic boycotts The European Commission said it does not back boycotts of Israeli academic institutions.


11-21-06 - U.S. to address cluster bombs


11-21-06 - El Al bomb-plot foiled, but plotters go free


11-21-06 - Writers Forum to Hear Voices of Palestine, Africa Opens


11-21-06 - Rev. Frederick R. Trost: Israel supporters should be outraged


11-21-06 - Reid "can't afford not to (support israel)"


11-21-06 - Muppets return to Israel

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