Free Republic

Channel 4 News can reveal the tensions within the Israeli defence force as Lebanese refugees go home on the second day of the truce between Israel and Hezbollah.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Slamming the Centre's "mild" response against "Israeli aggression" on Lebanon, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Thursday asked the government to demand international sanctions against Israel and to suspend arms purchases from that country. "We have been mild on Israel. The government of India should demand that Israel stop aggression on Lebanon and press for international sanctions being imposed on Israel," Karat told a meet-the-press programme here. Holding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had been soft towards Israel as he did not speak against that country when it raided the Gaza Strip in the past, Karat said on this...

Last Update: 01/09/2004 17:35 News Updates Wed., September 01, 2004 Elul 15, 5764 Israel Time: 17:35 (GMT+3) IDF warns Syria, PA, Hezbollah after 16 killed in Be'er Sheva By Haaretz Staff A day after 16 people were killed in a double suicide bombing in the southern city of Be'er Sheva, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff wearned that Israel would "take care of those who support terror," singling out the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Hezbollah. "We will take care of those who support terror," Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon told a meeting of the Knesset House Committee. "That is those...

The Palestine Problem: It`s All In A Name By Sidney Zion The only thing about the Middle East that goes without argument and even without saying is that the Palestinian Arabs are a stateless, homeless people. You can`t pick a fight on that anywhere in the world, including Tel Aviv. The fact that four wars have been fought for the ostensible purpose of resolving the plight of the Palestinians has solidified this consensus. Everyone believes it. The Oslo peace process lies in ruin, and the road map plan is off to a shaky start, due to the inability of the...

Arab aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the six-month period ending September totaled $145 million dollars, less than half their 330-million-dollar commitment, an Arab League official said on Monday. "Of the total $330 million that were pledged, the PA only received 145 million dollars," an official at the Cairo-based League told AFP. He said Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman were the only members to have disbursed their full share of the assistance. The 22-member Arab League agreed to provide the PA with $55 million in monthly assistance during its last Beirut summit, held in March. Aid was to be...

Palestinian leader, Ahmad Jibril said Jordanian intelligence may have helped its Israeli counterpart assassinate his son in Beirut, charging that the two collaborate closely. "We say it is the Israelis who carried out" the assassination of Jihad Jibril, who was killed when his booby-trapped car exploded in west Beirut, Jibril told Al-Jazeera satellite channel from Damascus. "But there are local collaborators who facilitated the enemy's task," said Jibril, who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). "The Israeli enemy's intelligence relies on US intelligence and Jordanian intelligence," and the three closely coordinate their activities, forming an...

BONDY, FRANCE – School's out in the immigrant projects in this working-class suburb north of Paris. Between the serried ranks of tower blocks, kids play pick-up soccer, challenge each other beneath basketball hoops, or just hang out. Last Wednesday night, though, a gang of these youths were a lot less peaceable. Wearing masks and hoods; wielding iron bars, heavy steel balls and lengths of barbed wire, they swarmed onto a soccer field just down the road and set about beating up the Jewish team practicing there. The goalkeeper, a 15-year-old boy, ended up in a hospital, needing seven stitches in...