UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza’s arable land

On 3 June, 2009, in Current events, by joe

 
 

 
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: MI:
 
Iran will have enough uranium for nukes by year’s end:
 

 
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Netanyahu: Iranian Nuclear Threat Top Priority:
 
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his fellow Likud MKs at a party meeting on Monday that the Iranian nuclear threat stands at the top of his priorities. He also repeated that he would not freeze construction in Judea and Samaria.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/165875
 
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UN war investigators arrive in Gaza:
 
The team plans to complete its fact-finding mission in a week, but Goldstone said they were likely to return within a month, before presenting a report in August.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096195239754821.html
 
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Nearly half Israeli outpost land is Palestinian:
 
Forty-four percent of the land where the wildcat settlements were built belong to private Palestinian owners, Peace Now said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090531/wl_afp/mideastconflictsettlerpeacenow
 
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Netanyahu to ignore ‘unreasonable’ US:
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the US of making ‘unreasonable’ requests, vowing to continue the settlement expansion in defiance of Washington.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96705&sectionid=351020202
 
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UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza’s arable land:
 
Once a plush scene of rolling olive, citrus, and pomegranate groves, much of the border region is now just a barren landscape, marked only by the presence of IDF tanks, military watchtowers, and the occasional pop of gunfire.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0601/p06s04-wome.html
 
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‘US may reduce Israel support in UN’:
 
Other measures include refraining from the instant Security Council veto of United Nations resolutions that Israel opposes and making use of Mr. Obama’s bully pulpit to criticize the settlements, officials said. Placing conditions on loan guarantees to Israel, as the first President Bush did nearly 20 years ago, is not under discussion, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01prexy.html?ref=middleeast
 
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What will happen if Israel ‘defeats’ Obama? :
 
What will happen if we destroy the prestige of the strongest man in the world and portray him as an empty vessel, incapable of halting the settlement program of a U.S. protege? Will an Israeli “victory” strengthen the status of the U.S. in the international campaign against Iran?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089478.html
 
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Israel failed to kill Nasrallah:
 
Former IDF chief of general staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz on Sunday evening revealed that Israel attempted to assassinate Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1243346516642&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
 
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‘Lieberman shouldn’t have been minister’:
 
Attorney-general says civilized country should not appoint man under criminal investigation to cabinet.
http://snipurl.com/j8aed
 
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US man who spied for Israel goes free: :
 
An 85-year-old former civilian employee of the U.S. Army was fined but avoided prison time on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to giving classified documents to Israel in the 1980s in a case the sentencing judge said was “shrouded in mystery.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE54S65H20090529
 
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Sri Lankan army accused of massacring 20,000 Tamil civilians in final assault:
 

 
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India ‘complicit’ in killing of 20,000 civilians in Sri Lanka:
 
India has been accused of complicity in the deaths of 20,000 civilians in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers.
http://snipurl.com/j8akb
 
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U.N. calls U.S. human rights record “deplorable”:
 
A new report suggests the U.S. may have committed war crimes — and endorses the formation of a truth commission.
http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/05/29/un_report/print.html
 
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Identity of men on CIA rendition flights to British island revealed:
 
Two terror suspects who were flown by the CIA to the British territory of Diego Garcia and later allegedly tortured have been named and evidence about their treatment has been revealed for the first time.
http://snipurl.com/j8anc
 
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Stop the US torture ship:
 
British human rights campaigners Reprieve have urged the Spanish authorities to board and search US torture ship USS Bataan after it moored at the Palma de Mallorca holiday resort.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/britain/stop_the_us_torture_ship
 
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