Watching the Gazan Fiasco . . . the shame of it al...- August 21, 2005 Watching the Gazan Fiasco . . . the shame of it all (Jennifer Loewenstein, Counterpunch, August 17, 2005) A great charade is taking place in front of the world media in the Gaza Strip. It is the staged evacuation of 8000 Jewish settlers from their illegal settlement homes, and it has been carefully designed to create imagery to support Israel's US-backed takeover of the West Bank andhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2005_08_01_archivepalestine.html#112466317260510722 Israel plans new West Bank homes (BBC NEWS, 4 Aug...- August 5, 2005 Israel plans new West Bank homes (BBC NEWS, 4 August 2005) Israel's housing ministry has issued tenders for 72 new homes on a settlement in the West Bank. . . . Housing Ministry official Kobi Bleich said the buildings would extend the Beitar Ilit, south of Jerusalem, near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. . . . Palestinian Planning Minister Ghassan al-Khattib described the planned developmenthttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2005_08_01_archivepalestine.html#112320100910062449 Israeli bus killer lynched by mob (BBC NEWS, 4 Au...- August 5, 2005 Israeli bus killer lynched by mob (BBC NEWS, 4 August 2005) An Israeli soldier has shot dead four people on a bus in an Israeli Arab town and then been lynched by a crowd. . . . The 19-year-old, who is believed to have deserted in protest against the Gaza pullout this month, opened fire as the bus passed through Shfaram. . . . The gunman was beaten to death by the crowd when he ran out ofhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2005_08_01_archivepalestine.html#112320076743138473 Israeli settler murders 3 Palestinians on bus (Cy...- August 4, 2005 Israeli settler murders 3 Palestinians on bus (Cynthia Johnston, Reuters, 4 August 2005) An Israeli in military uniform shot dead three people aboard a bus in an Arab town in the northern Galilee region on Thursday and wounded four others before being set on by passengers, police said. . . . Israeli media reported that the gunman was a settler from the West Bank who had left his unit afterhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2005_08_01_archivepalestine.html#112317613585427686 |