Peres: Claims Shin Bet involved in 1976 hijacking 'baseless'

Vice Premier Shimon Peres vehently rejected claims Saturday that the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) may have been involved in the hijacking of an Air France plane in 1976 by Palestinian terrorists

Peres, who was defense minister at the time of the hijacking and Entebbe rescue, said the claims which emerged in newly declassified British government documents on Friday, were so outrageously baseless that they did not merit comment.

Some 100 passengers were held by hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda during an eight-day ordeal that concluded when General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) troops stormed the building where the captives were held.

Twenty-four people died in the shoot-out, including three hostages, 20 Ugandans and the commander of the rescue team, Yoni Netanyahu, brother of current opposition head Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud).

The hijackers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the German Baader-Meinhof gang, demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners.

But according to the newly released documents, the Shin Bet and the PFLP are alleged to have teamed up in an "unholy alliance" in an attempt to change foreign policy in the Middle East.

The allegation appeared in a document written by official DH Colvin at the British embassy in Paris, quoting a contact at the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association, as the crisis unfolded.

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Israel Launches Air Strikes on Gaza Amid New Truce Effort

Israel has launched fresh air strikes in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least seven Palestinians. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the attacks occurred as Palestinian leaders pushed for a new truce.

Israeli aircraft attacked targets of the Islamic militant group Hamas across Gaza including suspected weapons factories and warehouses and other facilities. Now in its second week, the air campaign is aimed at halting Palestinian rocket attacks. More than 150 rockets have fallen on Israel over the past week, leaving the border community of Sderot a virtual ghost town.

The rockets keep falling despite the air strikes, but Israeli spokeswoman Miri Eisen says a major ground assault on Gaza is not on the table.

"The military themselves are very clear on the fact that even a full-scale invasion would not necessarily stop all of the rocket attacks," said Eisen.

Source: VOA News
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Hillary Clinton - What Does she stand for?

I think that says it all!

"Israels Next War" - Jewish Settler Attitudes

The documentary is damage control for Israel. The settlers have run amok for years unfettered by the State. With the average non jew now cottoning on that the biggest thug on the block is Israel, they are having to "trim their sails".

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US says Israel has right to defend against Hamas

The United States said on Thursday that Israel had the right to defend itself against rocket attacks from the militant Palestinian group Hamas and praised the Jewish state for "great restraint" in recent days. Israeli air strikes on Thursday destroyed a Hamas security headquarters and a car carrying one of the group's top commanders. Israel had threatened a "severe" response to cross-border rocket attacks that have persisted despite a troop and settler pullout from Gaza in 2005. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged restraint on all sides but said Israel had the right to respond to rocket attacks from Hamas. "Israel has the right to defend itself and it has exercised great restraint in the face of these rocket attacks," McCormack told reporters. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke earlier to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as well as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about the latest violence pitting Abbas' Fatah movement against Hamas. Israel has also launched deadly air strikes against the Islamists."She wanted to talk to them directly and see how they saw the situation," said McCormack of the calls Rice made to the two leaders. "We certainly want to see a reduction or an end to the violence but let's remember how that violence started and it started with these Hamas-led forces," he added.

Source: Reuters

It looks like the US just stands by while innocent people are being killed

Israel launches Gaza air strikes

Israel's aircraft have struck a number of targets in Gaza after it vowed a severe response to rocket attacks on its soil.

A Hamas commander died in an attack on a car and another militant was killed in a housing unit, both in Gaza City.

A raid on a Hamas office also killed one person and injured at least 45.

The attacks came as efforts to end five days of fighting between rivals Hamas and Fatah again appeared to fail. At least 40 people have now died.

Correspondents say the rocket attacks into Israel appear to be an attempt to draw it into an internal Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads Fatah, on Thursday suddenly called off a trip to Gaza that had been billed as an effort to shore up the fourth Hamas-Fatah ceasefire in five days.

Officials said he might now travel from Ramallah in the West Bank on Friday.

The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi says control of the security forces appears to have been the trigger for the latest factional fighting but that it has now developed a momentum of its own.

Armed supporters on the ground may no longer be paying attention to orders from their political leadership, he adds.

On Thursday, US President George W Bush said both he and visiting UK Prime Minister Tony Blair were urging all parties to work for peace.

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Israel Soldiers Hurt In Secret Anthrax Experiment

Dozens of Israeli soldiers are today suffering from a wide range of illnesses, some incurable, after participating in a secret experiment to develop an anthrax vaccine.

Israel's Channel 2 News reported that the soldiers have developed skin tumors, severe lung infections, serious migraine headaches, bronchitis and even epilepsy.

Some 800 Israeli soldiers from have participated in the program since 1999. They were sworn to secrecy, and forbidden to tell even their families about the program even after they began displaying serious medical symptoms.

The investigative reporter behind the expose charged that Israel's Defense Ministry has so far refused to take responsibility for the medical care of the soldiers in an effort to maintain the program's secrecy.

Syria, which some military experts fear may soon engage Israel in a war involving heavy use of long-range ballistic missiles, is believed to have a large stockpile of anthrax.

Source: AHN Media Group

Israel Jerusalem policy condemned

The international Red Cross has privately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law.

A leaked ICRC report says Israeli policy has far-reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in East Jerusalem.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967, and the territory is regarded as occupied land under international law.

But Israel rejects this, and says the report's premise is, therefore, wrong.

The report says Israel shows "general disregard" for its obligations under international humanitarian law and the law of military occupation in particular.

Violations that change the status of East Jerusalem include the West Bank barrier, an outer ring of Jewish settlements around the city and roads to connect Israeli districts and settlements, the report says.

An ICRC spokesman confirmed that leaked quotations in a US newspaper were from a confidential report transmitted in February 2007 to Israel and some other governments.

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Today a Terrorist Talks in London

Today there will be a celebration of 40 years of Occupation of Jerusalem, with the guest speaker Moshe Arens who left America as a young man to join the Zionist terror group the Irgun (see 1st source) which carried out terrorist attacks against Arab civilians and the British authorities in Palestine. Its most infamous attack was the King David Hotel Bombing which killed 91 people. After the Nakba the Irgun terrorists joined the 'Israeli Defence Force' and Moshe Arens went on to hold top posts in the Israeli government, including Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Ambassador to the United States. And tonight he is speaking to assembled guests in North London, to celebrate the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians of Jerusalem.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Arens
http://www.zionist.org.uk/Event/posterpage.php?evid=174

Poster:


Yet all mainstream media are not showing this event. The question you have to ask is why?

EU boycotts 'provocative' Israeli anniversary party

Ambassadors from European Union states are to boycott celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Israel's conquest of Arab East Jerusalem this week - in the opening shot of what promises to be a challenging summer for Israeli diplomacy.

The United States ambassador, Richard Jones, is also expected to join the Europeans in snubbing the celebrations .

What Israelis commemorate as the "reunification" of their historic Jewish capital is seen by most of the international community, not to mention the Palestinians, as a unilateral attempt to pre-empt a key issue in any peaceful solution. One-third of the city's 725,000 residents are Palestinians, who have opted to reject offers of Israeli citizenship. Along with most other countries, the Europeans keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian parliament, yesterday welcomed the European boycott as a blow for international law and peace. "The Israelis," she said, "cannot get away with creating facts on the ground and then forcing everybody to fall in line".

Foreign diplomats are likely to be equally wary of celebrating the anniversary of the 1967 June war. Most Israelis cherish it as a glorious victory, but left-wing demonstrators reminded them last week that it heralded 40 years of occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands.

On the Europeans' behalf, Germany, which holds the rotating presidency of the 27-member union, rejected invitations to a Jerusalem Day event at Israel's parliament on Wednesday.

A spokesman for the European Commission said: "... we do not recognise the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. We believe that the future of Jerusalem should be settled by negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians".

The British embassy confirmed that Tom Phillips, the ambassador, would not attend the event. "We think it is not appropriate," a spokeswoman explained, "because Jerusalem is one of the unsettled final-status issues."

The Israeli reaction was calculatedly low-key. It is not spoiling for a fight over Jerusalem at this stage. Mark Regev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said: "We are disappointed and unhappy that not all governments will be sending representatives."

He reiterated Israel's long-standing policy: "We have agreed that the issue of Jerusalem is part of final-status talks. We will bring our position to the table. The Palestinians will bring [theirs]. But our position is that Jerusalem will remain the united capital of the Jewish state."

The Israeli cabinet, which met yesterday in the Menachem Begin Heritage Centre overlooking the Old City, approved a 5.75 billion-shekel (£7m) package designed to strengthen Israel's hold on Jerusalem over the next five years. It includes tax relief for charities, hospitals and educational institutions; and transferring more government offices to the city.

Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister, said the measures would "advance and encourage Jerusalem". But Mohammed Baradeh, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, protested: "Holding the government meeting across from the walls of the Old City, celebrating the occupation, is a provocation. There will be no peace without two capital cities in Jerusalem."

Source: The Independent UK

Israelis confess to killing Palestinian-police

Israeli police arrested on Monday two Israelis who said they had murdered a Palestinian found dead in Tel Aviv, a police spokesman said. Police spotted the men, aged 21 and 25 and also citizens of France, walking in the city with blood-stained hands, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The men told the officers they had killed a man and led them to an apartment, where a body was found. Police then arrested them. The man was identified as a 35-year-old taxi driver and an Arab resident of East Jerusalem, Rosenfeld said. "The murder was carried out on a nationalistic level," Rosenfeld said. "Police are continuing the investigation." Israeli media said the Palestinian had been stabbed in the neck. Rosenfeld said he could not elaborate on how the man was killed but said he suffered several wounds.

Source: Reuters

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Lahoud: It is time for Israel to abide by all UN resolutions

It is time for Israel to take responsibility and abide by United Nations resolutions, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Thursday in his address to the UN General Assembly.

Lahoud called the Israel Defense Forces' 34-day operation on southern Lebanon a "barbaric aggression," and said "this savagery did not weaken our people's resolve."

"It is time to ask Israel to finally abide by past and current UN resolutions," Lahoud said. The president also called on the international community to "safeguard" resolution 1701, which led to the cease-fire between IDF troops and Hezbollah guerillas, though he accused the United Nations of having been "powerless to stop slaughter of the war."

Source: Haaretz
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US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel

The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel.

Bomb disposal experts are working around the clock to clear the lethal leftovers after Israel fired 1.2 million bomblets in the last three days of the war. The pods containing the 650 bomblets, which burst apart at a pre-determined height, have a failure rate of up to 30 per cent, leaving clear evidence of their American origin.

Source: Independent Online
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Israel blames mistake in map for strike on UN post in Lebanon

Israel said on Friday that its air force accidentally struck a United Nations position in southern Lebanon during its recent war with the radical Hezbollah movement, because of an inaccurate map which failed to clearly position the UN base.

Four UN staff members from China, Canada, Finland and Austria died in the July 25 airstrike in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam.

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Pressure mounts on Olmert to quit

Similar to America with Senate Armed Services Committee and President Bush, Israel's former military chief launched a devastating attack on the country's leadership on Thursday, calling for the prime minister and the top general to quit over failings in the Lebanon war.
The challenge from Moshe Ya'alon, who was Israel's chief of staff until June last year, comes as several senior figures, including the prime minister, the president and the justice minister, face accusations in a series of embarrassing scandals over corruption and impropriety.

"Going to war was scandalous, and he is directly responsible for that. The war's management was a failure and he is responsible for that, He was warned and did not heed the warnings. Therefore he must resign."

Source: Mail&Guardian
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Israel abused Palestinians under 'Shadow of War'

This was posted on Reuters on the 29th August 2006. An Israeli human rights group has accused the country's military of a surge in abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank over the past two months, when media attention was turned to conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon. B'Tselem, an independent body that monitors Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories, said it had gathered evidence of a "substantial increase" in the beating, abuse and humiliation of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and border police.

Here is the full news: Reuters News