|
|
Saturday, December 23, 2006
12-22-06 - One dead in inter-Palestinian clashes in Gaza City A civilian, Ayman al-Girgawi, was mortally wounded in the clashes, emergency services director Dr Moawiya Hassanen told AFP.
12-22-06 - Independent Appeal: 'What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?' Since Fadia's delivery, in 2002, the United Nations confirms that a total of 36 babies have died because their mothers were detained during labour at Israeli checkpoints. All across Bethlehem - all across the West Bank - there are women whose pregnancies are being disturbed, or worse, by the military occupation of their land....."Recently, two of our pregnant patients here were tear-gassed in their homes ... The women couldn't breathe and went into premature labour. By the time we got there, the babies had been delivered stillborn."
12-22-06 - Gaza gripped by gun battles between factions
12-22-06 - Peretz approves Wall route around Maali Adumim Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, approved the original route of the Annexation Wall that surround Maali Adumim settlement by annexing more Palestinian lands and placing them inside the settlement?s enclave. The Israeli Jerusalem post reported that 64.000 Dunams of Palestinian lands will be inside the Israeli side of the Wall.
12-22-06 - Jordan's king warns window for peace fading in Mideast
12-22-06 - Robert Fisk: Banality and barefaced lies But in this context, why, I wonder, didn't The New York Times and the other gutless mainstream newspapers in the United States mention Israel's cosy relationship with that very racist apartheid regime in South Africa which Carter is not supposed to mention in his book? Didn't Israel have a wealthy diamond trade with sanctioned, racist South Africa? Didn't Israel have a fruitful and deep military relationship with that racist regime? Am I dreaming, looking-glass-like, when I recall that in April of 1976, Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa - one of the architects of this vile Nazi-like system of apartheid - paid a state visit to Israel and was honoured with an official reception from Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, war hero Moshe Dayan and future Nobel prize-winner Yitzhak Rabin? This of course, certainly did not become part of the great American debate on Carter's book.
12-22-06 - Old allegiances crumble in battle for Palestinian hearts and minds
12-22-06 - State Department Weighs Plan for Palestinian State The Bush administration is considering a plan to declare an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders by the end of 2007. It will no doubt be Israel's version of a Palestinian state. It also could be seen as a way to win support (from those who need to be swayed) for a possible attack on Iran.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Christians seek end to infighting
12-22-06 - Syrian daily hits out at US terms for dialogue "You cannot tackle the Iraq question independently of the other issues in the region, because the root cause of all the problems is Israel's occupation of Arab lands," the paper said.
12-22-06 - Appeal from a bereaved Palestinian family
12-22-06 - Palestinian aid plan is extended The United States says agreement has been reached on extending aid to the Palestinians while bypassing the Hamas-led government.
12-22-06 - More Palestinians arrive at Iraq-Syria border to escape violence in Baghdad The latest group has been stranded on the Iraqi side of the border with Syria since last Saturday, UNHCR's chief spokesperson, Ron Redmond, told reporters in Geneva, adding that Iraqi border authorities initially refused to allow them to leave Iraq, citing a lack of proper documentation
12-22-06 - Pray for the little town of Bethlehem
12-22-06 - Be'lin Weekly Demonstration Against Illegal Israeli Seperation Wall Today, like the past 2 years, the demonstrations in Be'lin started after Friday prayers with participants including residents of the village, Internationals and Israeli activists participating. This week there was a high percentage of International demonstrators, in which the majority came from the countries of Poland and Spain.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Muslims Wait at Rafah Crossing to Participate in the Hajj Today was the first day in over a week that the Israeli border guards have opened the crossing and allowed individuals to pass, the Associated Press reported today.
12-22-06 - Palestinian Lawyer Manages to Meet Detainees Confined to Solitary
12-22-06 - To live and let live, among the olive groves Israel's wall will cut off Aboud from an additional 440 hectares, or 1,100 acres, of village land. I deeply understand Israel's security needs, and its obligation to protect its citizens. I doubt, however, whether separating villages like Aboud from their land, olive trees and water will improve Israel's security, and whether the wall's route in Aboud was truly chosen for security purposes.....Since 1967, Israel has severely restricted Aboud's use of the West Bank's richest aquifer, preventing the drilling of wells to access fresh water beneath the village. Therefore, Aboud's residents must purchase their water from Israel's national water company.....the barrier is destroying acres of Aboud's olive groves, uprooting more than 10,000 olive trees and cutting residents off from many more trees
12-22-06 - Israeli Army attacks several West Bank areas and abducts 24 Palestinian men
12-22-06 - As year nears end, a call for a 'just peace on equal footings' Among the ACT-supported programs in Gaza through ACT appeal MEPL61 (Emergency Assistance to the Palestinian Population) are one-time cash grants to families to assist with food purchases. Another program is providing people with various medical services, including medical treatment at its Gaza clinic, provided at a minimal fee.
12-22-06 - PCHR Weekly Report on Israeli Violations in the Occupied Territories
12-22-06 - Israeli think tank says only military strike will stop Iran: Report ** And they want US to do it as history repeats itself.
12-22-06 - Carter uniquely qualified to write about Israel-Palestine It was predictable that in a country that systematically suppresses any information contrary to Israel, it would be attacked.
12-22-06 - Face to faith "As the world continues to talk peace, Israel continues to build the wall and while Christians continue singing 'O little town of Bethlehem', Israel makes sure that this town stays as 'little' as possible. As 'little' as 2 square miles of open-air prison, surrounded by walls, fences and trenches, with no future expansion possibilities."
12-22-06 - Meeting between Israeli religious leaders ends with spat over occupation "Are you prepared to fundamentally condemn the occupation?" the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, asked Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar. Evidently he was not. Therein lies the principle obstacle to peace between the two parties - one side believes it has divine right at the expense of the other.
12-22-06 - Ratings of Israel's right surge Israel's main right-wing opposition party, Likud, has seen its ratings surge on the back of disappointment with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition and would win an election should one be held now, according to an opinion poll.
12-22-06 - Professor: Carter will hurt center Although the book has gone through several printings and is on several best-sellers lists, it has been skewered by Jewish organizations and scholars as being anti-Semitic, inaccurate, misleading and absent of key facts. There also have been new charges that Carter promotes terrorism. The damage control by the usual suspects is in full swing. I would expect there may even be some black ops to get the American sheeple back in line. Israel (and consequently its minions in the US) cares more about its image than about int'l law (and other things). Carter and his book have done a world of damage to the Hasbara machine.
12-22-06 - What Price a Retirement Made in Hebron? When Israel sowed division rather than talk to the PLO they eventually got a Hamas government. Many fear that repeating the process now will lead to an Al Qaida-style Palestinian Jihadist opposition in the years to come
12-22-06 - "Corrie" Kerfuffle in Canada! Yes, just when we thought "My Name is Rachel Corrie" had come and gone without incident, and proved New York Theatre Workshop wrong for canceling it, the CanStage company in Toronto has now nixed it off their season
12-22-06 - Theatre scraps play on Mideast 'martyr' "I was asked what I thought, and I told them I would react very badly to a play that was offensive to Jews," says veteran cultural activist Bluma Appel, whose name is affixed to the theatre where CanStage presents its mainstage productions. "I would react just as badly to a play that was offensive to blacks or Muslims or white Christians," Appel said from her winter home in Florida..... Developer Jack Rose, a member of the CanStage board who, like Appel, has not read or seen the play, says: "I had one phone conversation about this. There was a question whether it would be a mistake to proceed with it, and my view was it would provoke a negative reaction in the Jewish community."
12-22-06 - America's Double Standard on Democracy in the Middle East while the Bush Administration continues talk the talk of promoting democracy in the Middle East, many in the Arab world have a jaundiced view of Washington's intentions: Democracy, yes, but only when the outcome serves the interests of the U.S.
12-22-06 - ZOA Criticizes President Bush For Again Refusing To Move U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem - Reneging On Campaign Promise Maybe they can get their man Bolton on the case?....
12-22-06 - That story from yesterday smearing Carter was originally published on this extreme rightwing Israel 'news' site and the Washington Times saw fit to print it. Imagine that.
12-22-06 - A little town oppressed by military occupation
12-22-06 - Bible College in Bethlehem Now Using Media to Combat Violence, Bring Light and Hope to Palestinians
12-22-06 - Neocons: Fighting To Prevent Our Exit From Iraq
12-22-06 - Army sets sights on missile defense Defense Ministry officials are pinning their hopes on a joint venture between Israel's Rafael Armament Development Authority and Raytheon Co.
12-22-06 - Israeli killer commits suicide A Jewish settler jailed for life for killing four Palestinians in a shooting spree in the occupied West Bank committed suicide on Friday.
12-22-06 - Israel barrier saddens Archbishop
12-22-06 - A look at charges of anti-Semitism In your paper every day, there is either an opinion or article about anti-Semitic beliefs. Jimmy Carter writes a book? Anti-Semitic. Iran holds a conference? Anti-Semitic. Professors write a paper condemning Israel's foreign policy? Anti-Semitic.
12-22-06 - Rate of cluster bomb casualties falling However, with at least 900,000 bomblets still contaminating southern Lebanon, according to MACC, there is still a high risk to inhabitants of the area.
12-22-06 - Custos Invites Palestinian Leader for Christmas Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Franciscan minister provincial in the Middle East, traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday to invite the Palestinian representative to dine with the Franciscan community on Christmas Eve in the Bethlehem convent, and then to attend Midnight Mass.
12-22-06 - Future House power says Dems back a dialogue with Iran, Syria U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said both parties? support for Israel would remain unstinting..... Hoyer scored a decisive win in a caucus vote last month to become majority leader. Jewish groups watched the race closely, since Hoyer has proven to be one of Israel's best friends in Congress, leading multiple delegations to the Jewish state and isolating the caucus' few anti-Israel voices.
12-22-06 - Stalin's Jews In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.
12-22-06 - Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews attend conference: "The Holocaust - Global Vision"
12-22-06 - ADL Lists Top 10 Issues Affecting Jews in 2006 The Anti-Semitic Myth of the "Israel Lobby"
That is hilarious. Maybe if the gloating about how much power the pro-Israelis have over both houses of Congress wasn't coming from THAT VERY COMMUNITY, maybe THEN these people would have a leg to stand on. That it IS happening only proves this 'anti-Semitic myth' is a charge leveled by the aforementioned in order to SHUT PEOPLE UP. Not working anymore. Come back 10 year!
12-22-06 - Israel, Palestine display damaged
posted by Somebody @ 11:41 AM Permanent Link
 
0 Comments:
<< Home
|
| |
