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Monday, December 11, 2006
12-10-06 - Israeli troops wound two Palestinians in northern Gaza Israeli forces wounded two Palestinians in Gaza Strip on Sunday morning despite ceasefire, sources from hospital said. Israeli soldiers opened gunfire near the borders in northern and eastern Gaza Strip, wounding two farmers, according to security sources and witnesses.
12-10-06 - Palestinian man and his wife killed and their son critically wounded due to an explosion in Hebron Eyewitnesses said that an unknown device, apparently left by the Israeli army, caused the explosion that took the lives of the couple. Palestinian security spokespeople stated that in the initial investigation of the incident, it appeared to be an unexploded Israeli tank shell that caused the explosion.
12-10-06 - Hamas minister escapes after attackers shoot up convoy Gunmen shot at the Palestinian interior minister's convoy in the Gaza Strip yesterday amid growing tension between the governing Hamas Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas
12-10-06 - Palestinian PM says early polls will lead to chaos
12-10-06 - Peres: Unite against Iran and prevent war ** "If there was an international coalition, there would be no need to go to war against Iran, and Iran would return to its natural dimensions." I was not aware that Iran was going to START any wars. In fact, it's just the opposite. Israel has warned of attacking Iran (in case we won't do it for them). Note that this was being discussed at the 'closed forum'. The closed forum at the Brooking Institute, no doubt.
12-10-06 - Hamas promises to decorate Bethlehem for Christmas
12-10-06 - Former chief justice to rule on IDF, gov't actions in territories These include rulings on a petition to abolish Israel's assassination policy in the territories; on the legality of the so-called "intifada law," which bans claims of damages resulting from Israel Defense Forces activity in the territories; on the reduction of the IDF's safety zone for shelling the Gaza Strip; and on the legality of the Matityahu East neighborhood built on land that used to be part of the West Bank village of Bil'in.
12-10-06 - Hamas denies Saudi Arabia asks it to cut relations with Iran
12-10-06 - Humanitarian assistance for vulnerable Palestinian families
12-10-06 - Hawking says Mideast situation has deteriorated since last visit Hawking is also scheduled to lecture at Ramallah's Bir Zeit University and to hold a video conference with young Palestinian scientists from the West Bank
12-10-06 - OPT: UAE donates 0.5 million US dollars to UNRWA The United Arab Emirates pledged a 500.000 US dollars in donation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), said member of the UAE delegation to the United Nations Salama Salim Al Dhaheri.
12-10-06 - MI officer: Syria preparing its army for war with Israel We've been hearing this for a few months now (from the usual corner).
12-10-06 - Amnesty - 'israel should be disarmed'
12-10-06 - Palestinian journalists call for immediate union elections One hundred Palestinian journalists from the Gaza Strip and West Bank signed on to a measure calling for immediate and fair elections in the Journalists Union
12-10-06 - Right of Return Center Director: UNRWA has failed the refugees
12-10-06 - Bil?in village land out of bounds for internationals In recent days internationals have been told by soldiers stationed at the checkpoint at the wall cutting through the village, that orders have been given forbidding access to this land.
12-10-06 - Why is Israel separating me from my wife? Israel has decreed that my wife and I can no longer live together. I am Palestinian and she is Swiss and we have been married for 28 years
12-10-06 - Neocons Leery of Baker?s Return As secretary of state from 1989 to 1992, during the first Bush administration, Baker often clashed with Jerusalem and the top pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
12-10-06 - Peretz endorses Saudi peace initiative Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz says any Palestinian peace initiative must be based on a Saudi plan which calls for two states along the 1967 borders. Rolling rolling rolling, get them settlers rolling, rawhide. Head 'em up, move 'em out, move 'em out head 'em up. ride 'em in rawhide
12-10-06 - Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent
12-10-06 - Senior Hamas leader calls on Abbas to resign
12-10-06 - Olmert: Bush won't change stance on Syria, Iran
12-10-06 - Amnesty and Israel clash over arms and human rights
12-10-06 - Issa Qaraqa': Israeli prison system funded by imposing fines on political prisoners
12-10-06 - Israel sees al Qaeda hitting Lebanon peacekeepers Al Qaeda has recently boosted its presence in Lebanon and could attack foreign peacekeepers who have been stationed there since Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas, a top Israeli intelligence analyst said on Sunday. Mmm k. Kind of like this, you mean?
12-10-06 - Under-cover Forces abduct P.A Intelligence Office in Beit Sahour
12-10-06 - Abed-Rabbo appointed as PLO Secretary General Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed-Rabbo, was appointed on Sunday as the Secretary General of the PLO.
12-10-06 - Caritas brings medical aid to injured in Gaza Caritas Jerusalem has just completed a distribution of 72 wheelchairs, walkers and medical beds to injured people in Gaza. By recent incursions by the Israeli army.
12-10-06 - Baker vs. "The Lobby" The only group left touting Bush's failed policy is the "Israel first" camp which continues to wave the bloody shirt of incitement from their perch at the Weekly Standard and the American Enterprise Institute. These same diehards are leading the charge for a preemptive attack on Iran; a criminal act which will have catastrophic effects on America's long-term energy needs.
12-10-06 - US must try to engage Iraq, Syria: Baker report authors
12-10-06 - Feds: Illinois man contemplated shul attacks A transcript of a conversation with an informant reported Shareef saying that Israel?s war with Hezbollah this summer enraged him and he had identified synagogues in the DeKalb area for a stabbing attack.
12-10-06 - U.S. says Hezbollah has Iraq role Speaking on background, a Bush administration official confirmed to JTA on Saturday that the reports have been substantiated. Mm k.
12-10-06 - Open door It's becoming more evident to me that the Guardian UK is coming under intense pressure by the Lobby to be more pro-Israel. This article comes after not one but two pieces were published on its website dealing with female Palestinian 'martyrs' - in the absence of any other news stories coming from that 3 or 4-day span and during which Palestinians had been killed. Something is rotten in Denmark. Recall this article from a month or so ago.
12-10-06 - Blow to Blair mission as Palestinian PM vows never to recognise Israel Although the Iraq Study Group proposed just such a solution, the US political right reacted viciously yesterday towards the group. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post doctored a photograph to show James Baker and the study group's co-chairman, Lee Hamilton, in furry suits and called them "Surrender Monkeys". Such sentiments are believed to reflect the views of the vice-president, Dick Cheney, who is now isolated but still in a powerful position
12-10-06 - Beirut rally attracts huge crowd Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are taking part in the latest protest to press the government to cede more power to the opposition or step down.
12-10-06 - Peacemaking, Iran to dominate agenda of Olmert trip to Germany, Italy
12-10-06 - Israeli government worst labor law violator: report Ninety-two percent of Israeli employers violate labor laws with impunity, according to a report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
12-10-06 - Next battleground will be a familiar one, Israelis say Thirty-three years later, Ben-David, an officer in a volunteer Israeli Border Police unit, has come to the Golan Heights to help prepare for the next war. According to Israeli military intelligence, the battle will erupt here within the next two years. And the status of the Golan broke into the news Wednesday, when the Iraq Study Group advised President Bush to pressure Israel to return the disputed land to Syria if it cooperates on other matters of importance in the Middle East.
12-10-06 - Wall is a barrier to peace
12-10-06 - Livni: Promote alternative to Hamas Israel and the West must help Palestinian moderates create an alternative to the Hamas government, Israel?s foreign minister said. Israel and then consequently the West have refused to promote Palestinians moderates in the past (all along).
12-10-06 - Israeli arms sales up Israel's arms exports are reportedly at an all-time high despite the setbacks of the Lebanon war.
12-10-06 - The battle over America's Middle East policy The neocons want the US to make war on Iran, not to engage it in dialogue. They want the US to bring about "regime change" in Syria, not to reward it with the Golan.
12-10-06 - U.S.: Israel can help moderate Palestinians "I think Palestinian public opinion would be powerfully affected by working to relieve restrictions on access and mobility as called for in an agreement reached with United States help last November," And they are just realizing this now. We've got some real geniuses in Washington, folks.
12-10-06 - Israeli officer: War talk 'irresponsible' "We don't have any information that Syria plans to go to war this summer, or to heat up the border with acts of resistance or fighting,"
12-10-06 - Olmert's Peace Proposal Splits Views in Israel
12-10-06 - Usual suspects come out against "biased" Middle East simulations This is a story about a partisan Zionist organisation forcing its will on educational freedom and wanting to censor perspectives they deem inappropriate. Oh come now. They would never do THAT. Why, that's tantamount to discovering whale feces at the bottom of the ocean. Preposterous!
12-10-06 - President Clinton, Ted Koppel, Shimon Peres and Haim Saban at the 2006 Saban Forum in Washington, D.C. The three-day closed-door Forum, entitled ?America and Israel: Confronting a Middle East in Turmoil,? continues through Sunday, December 10, and features panels and candid discussions confronting the complex challenges facing the United States and Israel in the Middle East. Participants include Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; President William J. Clinton; Israeli Vice Premier and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres; Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY); Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman; Israeli Minister of Education Yuli Tamir; senior Bush Administration diplomat David Welch; Secretary of State Senior Adviser on Iraq David Satterfield; George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence; James Wolfensohn, former Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement and former President of the World Bank; Senator Joseph Lieberman, (D-CT); Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA); Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN); Congresswoman Jane Harman, (D-CA); Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA); Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY); Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT); member of Parliament (Canada) Michael Ignatieff, among others.
12-10-06 - Kaplinsky: Iran to have nuclear arms 'in near future' But Kaplinsky, who said that he based this assessment on information obtained by the defense establishment, declined to give a more specific time frame, noting that analysts worldwide disagree on precisely when this will happen. K.
12-10-06 - Israelis Reject New Conflict with Hezbollah
12-10-06 - Israel should hold talks with Syria: Israeli official
12-10-06 - Lieberman: "Expel any citizen who does not recognize Israel and a Zionist state" Lieberman, who is slated to meet with the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday
12-10-06 - Cohen backs Baker report on peace talks
12-10-06 - Congress condemns Iran conference "The Iranian regime's public anti-Semitic, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel policies underscore the threat posed by a nuclear Iran," Hastings said in a statement. Really. Those on Capitol Hill would appear to have nothing better to do than to pass legislation on behalf of Israel.
12-10-06 - Former Rep. DeLay, indicted on state campaign finance charges, begins new 'career' as blogger Sunday's first political post at TomDeLay.com slams Jimmy Carter - "perhaps our nation's worst President" - for blaming "the problems in the Middle East not on Islamic extremism, but on Israel" in his new book Palestinian Peace, not Apartheid, which the budding blogger misspells as "Aparthied." Delay is an End Times Christian fundamentalist.
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