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Friday, December 15, 2006
12-14-06 - One Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in northern West Bank The Israeli troops have withdrawn from the city after the killing of the civilian, witnesses said.
12-14-06 - Second Palestinian militant killed by Israeli army in West Bank
12-14-06 - Israel shuts Gaza crossing to protect finance boycott Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, was blocked from bringing millions of dollars of desperately needed donations home last night after Israeli forces closed Gaza's border with Egypt.
12-14-06 - Two police officers injured in clash with Gaza militants
12-14-06 - Haaretz: "Peretz said Israel will free P.A taxes if Hamas stops its military attacks"
12-14-06 - Man held over Gaza child killings In retaliation for Thursday's arrest, PRC members said they kidnapped the Fatah-linked security officer in Gaza City.
12-14-06 - Gaza border shots 'targeted PM' Ismail Haniya's convoy came under fire when it was allowed to cross, after being held there for several hours.....On Thursday Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz had ordered European Union monitors to close the Rafah crossing point
12-14-06 - Gaza City: 'Free the women and you free the whole country' "It's an amazing feeling, to be able to stand on your own feet: to be an independent woman,"
12-14-06 - Israel to refuse Egyptian troop request Israel, according to government sources, does not feel Egypt needs additional troops on the border, but rather needs to make more effective use of the troops already there.
12-14-06 - US: We won't compare Israel to Iran US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack responded Tuesday evening to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert 's slip of the tongue on the nuclear issue. There is no change in Israel 's policy, he said "...It leads also to concessions to the favourite Nation of priviledges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom eql. priviledges are withheld"
12-14-06 - Israel court backs targeted kills The court noted that not every killing complied with international law, but said the legality of operations should be assessed on a "case by case basis". Why do they demand that others abide by int'l law when they themselves do not?
12-14-06 - IDF told to dismantle small barrier hampering Palestinians "The true reason for the construction of the barrier is to bar the Palestinians' access to their lands and allow the gradual takeover by settlers. The barrier prevents the passage of pedestrians, the ill, women, children and cattle. But a terrorist can jump over it easily,"
12-14-06 - Is James Baker a Match for AIPAC? Obviously not, since Bush has refused to implement the relevant recommendations by the ISG.
12-14-06 - Dec. 14 1982: THE GOLAN HEIGHTS ANNEXED BY ISRAEL IN AN ABRUPT MOVE The annexation was greeted with jubilation by Jewish settlers on the heights, who number about 6,000 and have been pressing for this move for a long time. It was regarded, in part, as a Government effort to mollify militant settlers in Sinai, who have vowed to resist physically when Israel returns the final strip of the desert peninsula to Egypt next April 25, as required by the peace treaty.
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad says Zionists are criminals Ahmadinejad said not all Jews are Zionists, and called for "a referendum in order to determine the type of regime the Palestinians prefer, with the participation of all Palestinians -- including Jews, Christians and Muslims," Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported.
12-14-06 - Support for Israel in Congress is Based on Fear I can tell you from personal experience that the support Israel has in the Congress is based completely on political fear -- fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress -- at least when I served there -- have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby.
12-14-06 - They Only Look Dead What won?t be dropped is the neoconservatives? attachment to Israel and the tendency to conflate the Jewish state?s interests (as defined in right-wing Israeli terms) with America?s. So one can look forward to neoconservative agitation on two fronts: a powerful campaign to draw the United States into a war to eliminate Iran?s nuclear potential and an equally loud effort in support of maintaining Israeli dominance over the West Bank and denying the Palestinians meaningful statehood
12-14-06 - Jewish and Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy European organisations today defied the refusal of EU Ministers to publish a report complied by their own diplomats regarding Israeli violations of international law with regard to East Jerusalem. Over 30 Jewish, Palestinian, peace and anti-poverty groups from around Europe will publish the suppressed Report on their websites.
12-14-06 - Abbas to declare Hamas gov't as interim administration Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will declare the Hamas-led government as an interim administration until holding referendum next year, local Maan news agency reported on Thursday.
12-14-06 - High Court: Investigate Iman al-Hams' death
12-14-06 - Nonviolent protest in Damon Prison against strip searches For the third day in a row Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli Damon Prison are on hunger strike. This nonviolent action is in protest of the prison administration's arbitrary attempts to force Palestinians to submit to strip searches before visiting relatives.
12-14-06 - Fatah getting U.S. anti-terror training The training began with the Presidential Guard, made up entirely of Fatah activists loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, a San Francisco Chronicle correspondent reported Thursday.
12-14-06 - Arab Israeli lawmakers slam high court for ruling on targeted killing
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Weak support for right of return Some 44.5 percent of those asked said the Palestinians should be allowed to return to live in Israel or be compensated for land that was lost
12-14-06 - John Berger rallies artists for cultural boycott of Israel
12-14-06 - UK visit to Bethlehem welcomed by local church and civic leaders
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Plenty of blame to go around Nearly half -- 46.7 percent -- of the 6,296 U.S. participants in a Dec. 4-6 Zogby interactive poll said both sides share responsibility for the breakdown of the Middle East peace process. More than a third (37.2 percent), however, cite the Palestinians alone and 10.3 percent pointed at the Israelis
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Strong support for 'Palestine'
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Aid hangs on Hamas changes
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad tells West to 'pack up' Israel
12-14-06 - Art becomes yet another victim of war
12-14-06 - On human rights holiday, group seeks commitment to tikkun olam "Yes, we do oppose the policy of administrative home demolition, but that's not a security concern," he said. "In fact, I would argue the demolition of homes is in some ways a policy that endangers the security of Israel."
12-14-06 - More Evidence That Mearsheimer and Walt Are Largely Right This New York Times article quotes no one at all in support of Carter's position, only critics. Since when does the Times write in its news pages about controversies entirely from one side of the controversy, particularly when it's about someone who was president of the United States?
12-14-06 - UPI Poll: Israeli lobby's U.S. influence With 47.5 percent of the 6,296 U.S. respondents saying there is a significant level of pro-Israel influence with 33.3 percent saying it has a "moderate" level of influence. Some 80.8 percent said there is some pro-Israel influence My fellow Americans, in light of the poll results, I would say that half the battle is won. Now then, what do you propose we do about this influence?
12-14-06 - Where do you go when the news makes you want to throw up your hands? Donate Now:
12-14-06 - Roger Waters joins the War on Want
12-14-06 - Ahmadinejad accused of incitement to genocide A group of prominent lawyers, politicians and Jewish leaders are attempting to have Iran?s president indicted on charges of incitement to genocide. Let's say that he really did commit incitement to genocide, what do you call what Israel has done to the Palestinians (starting with this)? And what of Avigdor Lieberman's comments calling on Israel to transfer the Arabs out of that country, hmm? He was just put in a very powerful position in the Israeli government. Can you say HYPOCRISY.
12-14-06 - New U.N. chief blasts Iran?s Holocaust denial The incoming United Nations secretary-general said it was unacceptable for Iran to deny the Holocaust and threaten Israel.
12-14-06 - Still Jews only The concept of a state having any rights is not only strange but also alien to international law. People have rights, not states. And that is precisely the point: when Israel demands that its "right to exist" be recognised, the subtext is that we are not speaking of recognition of Israel as a normal nation state but as the state of a specific people, the Jews.
12-14-06 - Rice lying low at the Middle East crossroads A new low was plumbed in the US's international standing when, on the 10th day of Lebanon's summer war, with civilian casualties mounting from Israeli attacks, Ms Rice declared the world was witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East".
12-14-06 - Neturei Karta defends Holocaust denial conference Asked on Israel Radio how he could rub shoulders with those who say the Holocaust was fabricated or exaggerated, Deutch said, "For the sake of saving Jews from Zionism, you have to do these things sometimes."
12-14-06 - Carter invite fizzles "I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said. ''There is no need to for me to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine." Good point.
12-14-06 - Listen to Carter on Israel
12-14-06 - The Rise of Avignor Lieberman Lieberman is more than kosher as far as Washington is concerned. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice welcomed him at the State Department on December 11, a day after he was featured at a forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center, that also included Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other members of Congress
12-14-06 - Attitudes of Arabic people toward U.S. more negative The poll, conducted by Zogby International in mid-November in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Saudi Arabia, showed that a majority of people in the countries had an unfavorable opinion of the United States
12-14-06 - Israel boycott may be the way to peace
12-14-06 - Hezbollah still operating in Canada Using freedom-of-information legislation, Post reporter Stewart Bell has amassed what is probably the largest collection of terrorism-related Canadian intelligence documents in private hands.
12-14-06 - Professor sues over anti-Semitism charge
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