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Wednesday, December 13, 2006


News for 12-12-06

12-12-06 - Aged woman dies due to an Israeli army sound bombs fired into her house in Qalqilia Latifa Miskawi, 57, died after having a hart attack when Israeli troops invading Kfar Saba neighborhood in Qalqilia fired a sound bomb into her house, medical sources in the city reported.



12-12-06 - Vigil held in memory of boys killed in Gaza


12-12-06 - Palestinians win legal right to sue Israel for damages The ruling did not cancel the exclusion "of members of terrorist organisations" from making claims even if they were not involved at the time of the damage. And the state would still be able to argue that it was not liable in cases where civilians were victims of "acts of war".


12-12-06 - Survivor Discusses Gaza Shooting Deaths


12-12-06 - Islamic Jihad resumes launching homemade rockets at Israel In a statement faxed to the press, the brigades said that the attack came in response to the ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire and the aggression against the Palestinian people. The statement noted that Israeli troops had arrested a senior Islamic Jihad militant in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.



12-12-06 - Independent Appeal: Rusty van which supplies Gaza's life-blood Gaza's blood banks have been crumbling for years. The Israeli siege made it extremely hard to get machine parts into this congested strip of land, that is home to one-and-a-half million people. Then the international boycott that followed the election of Hamas cut off the funds that Shifa used to purchase even simple equipment, such as blood bags and testing kits. Earlier this year the blood bank ran out of hepatitis C testing kits.


12-12-06 - Gaza protest erupts in violence Supporters of rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas, are reported to have exchanged gunfire in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least four people.


12-12-06 - Blair seeks to get Palestinians to negotiate with Israel Tony Blair revealed yesterday he intended to set out a political and economic offer to the Palestinians when he visits the Middle East, detailing what they can expect in return for negotiations with Israel.


12-12-06 - Israeli settler rams a Palestinian child in Hebron Resident Jihad Jaber reported that his child Mohammad, 5, was hit by an Israeli settler's vehicle while heading to his school in the old part of Hebron city.


12-12-06 - Four schoolboys injured in Israeli invasion of Tubas


12-12-06 - Israeli High Court strikes down ban of Palestinian intifada lawsuits


12-12-06 - Mashaal offers 10-year cease-fire deal In an interview published Monday in the Italian newspaper Republica, Mashaal also offered Israel a 10-year cease-fire deal.


12-12-06 - The Cruel Line into Gaza According to the UN report published last week, Israel has violated all of the articles of the agreement. There is no passage to Israel, no passage to the West Bank and even none to Egypt, the last outlet


12-12-06 - US to double emergency equipment stored in Israel The American Congress gave Israel financial and security encouragement when the Senate and the House of Representatives gave their approval to double the emergency equipment the United States stores in Israeli stockpiles.....A great portion of the American equipment stored in Israel last year was used for combat in the summer war in Lebanon. Hey, I know. I bet they 'hate us for our freedom'.


12-12-06 - China to host peace parley China will host a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian politicians.


12-12-06 - French Troops Can Fire on Israelis The Jerusalem Post is reporting that French military forces in southern Lebanon have been given the authority to "fire at" Israeli forces "if they feel threatened."


12-12-06 - Lieberman advocates aid to Palestinians In meetings described as positive, Lieberman spoke with Negroponte for an hour, with Rice for 45 minutes and Hadley for half an hour. They compared their assessments on Iran, as well as different options, intentions and deadlines Do not be fooled. Iran was the real issue here.


12-12-06 - Debate over Carter book reaches Middle East parliament. "He's visited here several times. He's seen the situation with his own eyes. I think he has been impressed by Palestinian eagerness for freedom and democracy.".....An original printing of 300,000 copies has soared to 395,000 copies after four printings. The book is ranked No. 7 on The New York Times best seller list; No. 8 on Amazon.com; and No. 21 on BarnesandNoble.com



12-12-06 - Calls for Olmert to resign after nuclear gaffe "This causes great harm to Israel. We are in the midst of a huge (diplomatic) onslaught against Iran's attempts to make a nuclear bomb," former foreign minister Silvan Shalom, a member of the rightwing Likud party, said on Army Radio. He added: "We always face the same question which our enemies ask: 'Why is Israel allowed to (have a bomb) and not Iran?'".....By not declaring itself to be nuclear-armed, Israel gets round a US ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2bn (£1.02bn) a year in military and other aid from Washington. Hypocrisy exposed - by their own doing. D'oh!


12-12-06 - Israeli official 'not sorry' Tutu's probe into Beit Hanun strike canceled


12-12-06 - Fatah lawmaker calls on Hamas-led gov't to step down


12-12-06 - Iran: Israel 'will end like USSR' "The trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," President Ahmadinejad said. Most of our media has somehow twisted his words to (again) imply that Iran is going to attack Israel.


12-12-06 - Study: "Wall forced 17% of Jerusalem families out of the city"


12-12-06 - Olmert says Palestinian militants test restraint


12-12-06 - Meal of poisonous fish claims youngster in Ain al-Hilweh


12-12-06 - Checkpoints in the West Bank: This is the day of Women


12-12-06 - UNRWA Thanks UK for Donation to Help palestinian Refugees


12-12-06 - Israeli army invades Walaja village near Bethlehem and levels Palestinian home


12-12-06 - Security Council urges negotiated two-state solution in Middle East


12-12-06 - Move to bring genocide case against Ahmadinejad as Iran president repeats call to wipe out Israel Barely a week after he announced his resignation from the UN post, Mr Bolton will appear tomorrow among a panel of diplomats and lawyers calling for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be prosecuted. The panel has been convened by a Jewish umbrella group in the US, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations. Bolton immediately goes back to work for Israel.


12-12-06 - Olmert back-pedals on the Israeli nuclear capability Mr Olmert had said on German television: "We have never threatened any nation with annihilation You didn't have to. But that's nearly what you did in Lebanon. And, the creation of the state of Israel has nearly wiped Palestine completely 'off the map'. Check the maps of 1946-47.


12-12-06 - U.N. probe IDs suspects in Hariri death Investigators are looking at numerous motives including assassination by an extremist group because of Hariri's links to other states in the region and in the West, before his possible success in May 2005 elections, because of his likely expose of a bank fraud, and as "a convenient cover" to cast suspicion on others.



12-12-06 - ISG fallout continues with query: Is Israeli-Arab peace the linchpin? Iran's ambitions dominated much of the Saban Forum. Shimon Peres, the vice prime minister, spoke darkly of the possibility of war in a Saturday-night panel with former President Clinton.


12-12-06 - The truth about MEMRI


12-12-06 - France deploys UAVs to stop IAF flights In an effort to put a stop to Israeli overflights in Lebanon, the French Armed Forces has deployed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) squadron in southern Lebanon to conduct intelligence-gathering missions in place of the IDF.


12-12-06 - Bush, Baker and Iraq: Why the Patient Can Not Be Saved Israel?s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is so confident that Bush won?t change his position on Iran and Syria that he told his cabinet to keep mum on the issue, lest they make it look as if Israel is inappropriately intervening.


12-12-06 - U.S. made Hezbollah stronger, analysts say America?s failure to stop Israeli attacks weakened the Lebanese government, critics argue


12-12-06 - U.S. condemns Holocaust denier meeting


12-12-06 - Colonialism, apartheid and Palestine


12-12-06 - Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference? A handful of Orthodox Jews have attended Iran's controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of the Jews - not because they deny the Holocaust but because they object to using it as justification for the existence of Israel.


12-12-06 - Back to Lebanon until we liberate our policy from the depredations of Israel Firsters, there is no chance of formulating a foreign policy that serves both American interests and the interests of all the peoples of the region.




12-12-06 - Rabbis denounce house demolitions Members of Rabbis for Human Rights sent a letter protesting Israel?s demolition of an Arab house in eastern Jerusalem.


12-12-06 - Annan hints refugees should not be given right of return to Israel


12-12-06 - Prosecution Rests at Hamas Trial Salah claims he was tortured by Israel's Shin Bet security service into admitting he was aiding Hamas. Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, however, testified that he appeared "jaunty" at the interrogation and that she saw no evidence he was being tortured


12-12-06 - Baker redux Keep disregarding the Bakers of this world, and continue to listen to the Sharons and Netanyahus instead. Perhaps after another 60 years you'll finally get it.


12-12-06 - Israelis Content with Gaza Strip Ceasefire


12-12-06 - Germany, Israel see eye-to-eye on Palestinians, Iran Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during a state visit to Berlin did not rule out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said as far as she was concerned, a military option was "not on the table." Olmert is making his rounds to shore up support for some kind of action on Iran. Merkel and Blair are now singing his tune.


12-12-06 - Catholic church to replace Nativity scene with replica of Israeli wall A priest from the Diocese of East Anglia, England, has decided to replace a live Nativity scene for a replica of the wall encircling Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli separation barrier.


12-12-06 - UN warns Palestinian plight increases radicalism


12-12-06 - Livni to EU: Don't let Iran get nukes


12-12-06 - In Effort to Smear Democrats, FOX Hosts Report Unsubstantiated Rumor as News The WorldNet Daily story - from which FOX News drew this piece of trash talk masquerading as "news" - did not give the name of its Palestinian source


12-12-06 - N.Y. suburb: Holiday decorations look too Jewish
dozens of residents called Town Hall to complain, saying the colors were those of the Israeli flag and that at least one of the snowflakes looks like a Star of David.


12-12-06 - What in the

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