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Saturday, December 09, 2006
12-08-06 - Israeli soldiers shoot child playing with toy gun Miras al-Azza, 12, was shot in the belly when Israel soldiers opened fire on a group of children playing with a plastic rifle in the Aydah refugee camp.
12-08-06 - UN rights council slams Israel The UN Human Rights Council passed a seventh resolution criticizing Israel on Friday, this time for the Jewish state's failure to act on earlier recommendations that it end military operations in the Palestinian territories and allow a fact-finding mission to the region.
12-08-06 - Israel yet to allow Tutu fact-finding mission to Gaza Israel appears to be dragging its feet over a fact-finding mission that was to be led by Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu to the Gaza Strip.
12-08-06 - US bill meant to twist Hamas's arm The House of Representatives gave final passage Thursday to a bill aimed at forcing the Palestinians' ruling Hamas government to accept Israel and join negotiations toward a Palestinian state in formerly Israeli-occupied territory.
12-08-06 - INTERVIEW-New U.N. rights body must improve-U.N.'s Arbour The military operations, the barrier around the West Bank and the checkpoints might yield some short-term strategic gain but they were not sustainable over time, she said. "It is creating such an atmosphere of oppression that it can only radicalise sections of Palestinian society," she said.
12-08-06 - Israel is a Liability for U.S. we are still a long ways away from the end of the U.S. hegemony in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel unfortunately is still a domestic issue in the U.S. and AIPAC's strength hasn't weakened despite attempts by U.S. academics to expose them.
12-08-06 - Economic potential of a friendly divorce Predictably the study, entitled ?Untapped Potential, ? found that the economic benefit that both sides stand to gain in a peacetime economy was high. What is surprising, however, is the researchers? finding that the potential is now higher than ever before
12-08-06 - APN urges Bush to veto Hamas bill Americans for Peace Now urged President Bush to effectively veto a bill that would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
12-08-06 - Amnesty Secretary General visits Bil'in, observes weekly protest
12-08-06 - Palestine Still Main Agenda For Malaysia
12-08-06 - PLC member Qaraqa: Israeli forces detaining 150 citizens per week aiming at younger people Palestinian Legislative Council member and former Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Issa Qaraqa', said Friday that Israeli forces are continuing the massive arrest campaign, with dozens taken from single towns in a night.
12-08-06 - Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine By Jimmy Carter The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices....It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Very few would ever deign to visit the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza City or even Bethlehem and talk to the beleaguered residents. What is even more difficult to comprehend is why the editorial pages of the major newspapers and magazines in the United States exercise similar self-restraint, quite contrary to private assessments expressed quite forcefully by their correspondents in the Holy Land.
12-08-06 - Arab League damns Baker report as US face-saving The Arab League has damned a report calling for a shift in US policy on Iraq, calling it a face-saving effort, but its chief commended it for urging redoubled efforts to end the Israeli-Palestininan conflict.
12-08-06 - Israel frets over Iraq report, dispatches FM to Washington Israel's foreign minister has arrived in the United States amid worries that the Jewish state's main ally could shift course after a report urged Washington to redouble Mideast peacemeaking efforts. Israel worried that the US might fall out of line.
12-08-06 - President Carter talks about AIPAC and Israel on C-SPAN Towards the end of the video, Carter eludes to the fact that he was disinvited from some universities due to the controversial nature of what he might say as a guest lecturer.
12-08-06 - Carter plays Hardball with israel Excellent video of former president Jimmy Carter breaking it down for you. God bless him.
12-08-06 - Hamas: we will never recognise Israel
12-08-06 - Palestinian PM in Tehran nods to Iranian support Iran, like Hamas, refuses to recognize the state of Israel and has sent $120 million so far this year to the Palestinian Authority toward a shortfall caused by a Western financial blockade on the Hamas-led government. The irony - the Israeli-led US policy of imposing a seige on the Palestinians due to the election of Hamas has driven them right into Iran's arms. Another stroke of genius.
12-08-06 - Hamas supremo blames US for unity talks breakdown "With every day and each new meeting come new conditions dreamt up by the Americans," said Meshaal, referring to the deadlocked talks with President Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah faction on forming a national unity government acceptable to Western donors.
12-08-06 - Caritas Jerusalem donates medical equipment to injured Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Caritas Jerusalem is continuing its humanitarian aid campaign in support of injured Palestinians who have been hurt in recent incursions into Gaza by the Israeli army.
12-08-06 - Olmert chastises German FM for Syria visit
12-08-06 - Israeli FM rejects linking Palestinian conflict to wider Mideast crises Addressing a gathering of current and former US officials, Livni said Middle East tensions were fueled more by ideology than territory BS. And just how could we put Livni's opinion to the test if Israel hasn't stopped grabbing Palestinian land? Look at the maps - just who is pushing whom into the sea?
12-08-06 - Canada's withholding funds from Palestinians 'criminal': Carter Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says the decision by Canada and other nations to withhold money from the Hamas-led Palestinian government is "a crime." Canada, thanks to its burgeoning Israeli lobby, is Israel's newest occupied territory.
12-08-06 - Israelis Back Ceasefire in Gaza Strip
12-08-06 - Rice: 'Freedom deficit' harming Mideast which explains why Saudi Arabia - a nation with one of the most atrocious human rights records - is still our best bud.
12-08-06 - Bush rejects Iraq report's key proposals, unveils Mideast initiative "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation," he said. "I know they expect us to consider every recommendation; that we ought to pay close attention to what they advise."
12-08-06 - Army attacks two local radio stations in Hebron, abducts one journalist The Israeli army invaded two radio stations in Hebron and took one of their staff prisoner in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday night, Palestinian sources reproted.
12-08-06 - Thousands of Palestinians attend pro-Hamas rally Thousands of Palestinian supporters of the ruling Islamist Hamas movement have demonstrated in support of prime minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza City.
12-08-06 - Rudd 'good for the Jews', but Gillard still untested Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) president Philip Chester said Rudd, who has served as Labor's foreign affairs spokesperson since 2001, "understands the issues" facing the Jewish community and Israel.
12-08-06 - Standing Up for Jimmy Carter's Use of the Word 'Apartheid'
12-08-06 - How Israel lost to the Iranians There are three separate litigations, which are taking place simultaneously in several European countries, all of them pertaining to a complex legal and business entity called Trans-Asiatic Oil Limited, and relating to one of the biggest secrets between Israel and Iran: the past oil connections between the two countries. Three years ago one of the arbitrations ruled that Israeli fuel companies have to pay the Iranian National Oil Company tens of millions of dollars. Interesting.
12-08-06 - A "Grand Settlement" Versus the Jewish Lobby There are several cases of notorious Phalangists being murdered just prior to their scheduled testimony in Brussels before a case brought by Palestinian survivors against top Israelis involved in the notorious massacres in Lebanon, especially at the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. On January 24, 2002, Elie Hobeika, a Phalangist warlord directly involved in the massacre, was blown up in his Beirut neighborhood along with 3 bodyguards just two days after agreeing to testify against the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinian survivors. Hobeika, who was the Phalangist chief liaison with the IDF during their occupation of Beirut, claimed to have worked with the Israeli Mossad in orchestrating the massacre.
12-08-06 - Olmert to meet pope next week in Europe Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with Pope Benedict XVI during a trip to Europe next week, officials said Thursday.
12-08-06 - Jimmy Carter Fires Back at Longtime Aide Over Book The Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles, has received more than 16,000 signatures to an online petition to "act now against President Carter's one-sided bias against Israel." Note to self: create petition to "act now against the Congress', the Executive Branch's, and most of the rest of the US govt's bias TOWARD Israel"
12-08-06 - With military options limited, it's time for Plan B: Diplomacy The group pointed out a truth rarely heard by Americans (even as it is front and center in the Arab world and Europe): U.S. disengagement from Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts is a huge source of tension and anti-Americanism, like a raging toothache inflaming everything else. U.S. allies in the region, including the powerful Sunni leadership in Saudi Arabia, say that it underlies other Mideast problems and that rancor from the impasse makes them harder to solve.
12-08-06 - Germany summons Iranian diplomat over Holocaust conference The German government summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires in Berlin to express its opposition to a planned conference on the Holocaust in Tehran next week.
12-08-06 - Analysts: U.S. at root of effort to topple Lebanese government Many in Beirut say that U.S. failure to stop Israel's onslaught against Hezbollah last summer crippled the Lebanese government - a U.S. ally - while strengthening Hezbollah - a U.S. enemy. That created an environment in which the Shiite Muslim militia could call for overthrowing Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and his Cabinet.
12-08-06 - Hope in spite of siege The Austria Palestine Association held a conference this week in solidarity with the Palestinian people
12-08-06 - Hezbollah chief 'plotting coup'
12-08-06 - Protests blow to Beirut economy
12-08-06 - Carter: Universities blocked book promo Carter's book, which blames most of the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Israel's settlement policy, is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller, and he has promoted it in multiple media appearances.
12-08-06 - London mayor finally apologizes Livingstone's relationship with the Jewish community long has been strained because of his vehement criticism of Israel
12-08-06 - Al-Zarqawi Said Shiites Most Dangerous Al-Zarqawi accuses Nasrallah of being two-faced in his opposition to Israel and suggests it is not an accident that Israeli aircraft have not killed him as they have killed several leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
12-08-06 - Rabbi activist carries message He is particularly well-known for working alongside Palestinian farmers picking olives after neighboring Israeli settlers hurled rocks or cut down trees following the Palestinian uprising of 2000.
12-08-06 - Saudi warns of Mideast arms race "The fact that Israel has nuclear weapons is the most dangerous threat against Gulf security," Intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz told a security conference in Bahrain.
12-08-06 - Why the Dead Sea is dying
12-08-06 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies In 2002, at a seminar in Washington sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America, Kikpatrick warned that a Palestinian state would be "a catastrophic mistake" and a danger to Israel
12-08-06 - Lawyer testifies on goal to steer money from Hamas Defense attorneys have claimed U.S. prosecutors were goaded into charging Salah by the powerful Israeli lobby
12-08-06 - Carter book useful for start of Mideast debate If Israelis can discuss these issues so can we. I do not know why there is so much resistance to having a debate, but those responsible for it need to get over it. Things have gotten too serious and too dangerous to ignore the facts on the ground. Let us talk and find a sensible solution to this vexing problem.
12-08-06 - Teachers praise principal's reversal Principal Peter Anderson's decision to change his mind and allow pro-Palestinian speakers to come to Andover High School is "a victory for freedom of speech," the teachers who organized the visit said in a statement yesterday.
12-08-06 - The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter
12-08-06 - Hebron reflection 06-12-06: I have no enemies
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