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	Scotsman.com News - Middle East conflict - Straw backs US stance as Israeli tanks pound Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ISRAELI security forces marked Jack Straw’s arrival in the region yesterday by launching the biggest military operation in Gaza since the start of the confrontation with the Palestinians a year and a half ago.
		The darts, or flechettes from the Israeli shells had spread out over a wide radius and could be found in trees, in the wall of the farm building and at the top of a telephone pole.
		Israeli tanks entered and began firing their machine guns sometime after two in the morning "in order to frighten people", he said.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=13&id=174292002 (915 words)

	Guardian \| Israeli jets pound Gaza after troops shot dead
		In retaliation, Israeli F16 jets dropped two bombs on the main Palestinian security installation near the Mediterranean coast in Gaza City and helicopters fired missiles at a foundry and other targets in the Jabalya area, in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
		The incident underscores the vulnerability of such Israeli cities in the current situation: the main Palestinian cities are blockaded by the army, but there is little serious policing of the Israel-West Bank border, which snakes through hundreds of miles of hills, plains, woods and desert.
		Israeli officials said that the use of the rockets - which are more powerful than mortars and have a longer range - would constitute a new level of fighting and bring a strong reaction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4353621-103681,00.html (712 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israeli troops pound Palestinians in Hebron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli forces have been firing at the compound for three days, warning that soldiers would overrun the complex if those inside refuse to come out.
		Israeli military officials have said 150 people inside the Palestinian government compound have surrendered, including at least 20 top fugitives, during short breaks in heavy machine-gun fire from the ground and helicopter gunships.
		Palestinian officials maintain the Israeli occupation of their cities, under which Arafat once again is confined to his Ramallah headquarters, is making it impossible to implement the reforms Bush has demanded of them, to democratize the Palestinian Authority and stamp out corruption.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/06/27/israel-hebron.htm (972 words)

	Israeli warplanes pound Gaza after suicide attack - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli warplanes launched a third successive day of strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, targeting Palestinian militant sites hours after a suicide bomber killed five people in a crowded Israeli market.
		Israeli rescue workers collect bodies from the scene of an explosion in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, October 26, 2005.
		The Israeli military said it launched the air strikes to prevent militants from firing rockets into the Jewish state during the worst flare-up of violence since Israel withdrew from Gaza last month after 38 years of occupation.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/26/israeli_warplanes_and_artillery_pound_gaza_area_1130306731 (701 words)

	Jenin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli helicopter gunships pounded a West Bank refugee camp with dozens of rockets this morning, and fire broke in the compound of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity during a gunbattle between Israeli soldiers and armed Palestinians who have been holed up there for a week.
		The accounts are chilling: stories of Israeli forces using the elderly as human shields in front of their tanks, of women and children being rounded up, of homes being demolished, of bodies littering the streets.
		Asked why the Israeli army is refusing to allow ambulances from the International Committee of the Red Cross to enter the camp and evacuate the wounded, he urged The Independent on Sunday to investigate.
	homepage.mac.com /smorourke/mystuff/jenin/page2.html (2834 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Israeli warplanes strike against Gaza
		Israeli warplanes have attacked a Palestinian security force building in Gaza, killing one man and wounding as many as 20 other people.
		The Israeli army said the air raid was in retaliation for the deaths of three Israeli soldiers - killed when their tank was destroyed by a bomb on Thursday.
		Israeli tanks on Friday destroyed an outpost of the Palestinian border police near the scene of the explosion.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1823000/1823288.stm (345 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli forces were attempting to land in the town of Ansariyeh, twelve miles north of the Israel's occupied zone, in what has been described as a commando raid when the battle occurred.
		Israeli soldiers arrested the policeman two months earlier, as he was visiting his parents in occupied zone, on the suspicion that he had links to the Muslim guerillas in Lebanon.
		Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to re-assess Israel's actions in and plans for Lebanon as these were the sixth and seventh Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon during the last ten days.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/lebdruzechro.htm (14458 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Israeli forces pound Palestinians
		Israeli forces continued pounding the Hebron headquarters of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority on Thursday to flush out wanted militants, as US President George W. Bush ramped up pressure on the Palestinians to dump their leader at next year's polls.
		Israeli military officials told public radio on Wednesday they were looking for 15 to 20 militants from the Tanzim, a group linked to Palestinian leader Arafat's Fatah faction, entrenched inside the building.
		Elsewhere in the West Bank a Palestinian teenager who fired at an Israeli tanks with a pistol was shot dead by troops on Thursday in the Ballata refugee camp near Nablus, witnesses and a Palestinian security source said.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/989801.htm (440 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Israeli troops re-enter Nablus
		Israeli tanks have made a brief incursion into the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank, shortly after Israeli aircraft pounded Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip.
		In a second wave of attacks, Israeli Apache helicopters fired at least eight missiles at a metal workshop in Jabaliya and Beit Laha in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.
		Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met his security chiefs to discuss a recent upsurge in Palestinian attacks, after returning from a three-day trip to the United States.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1812000/1812595.stm (506 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Israeli missiles pound Gaza Strip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli sources said the aircraft struck targets including an office building of the mainstream Fatah faction and another in a refugee camp in central Gaza.
		An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a target in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, destroying a bridge, Palestinian security officials said.
		Israeli troops also swept into two West Bank towns before dawn on Wednesday in a raid on offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, witnesses said.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/D27B8EDC-1516-4243-830E-D8AA84F39678.htm (755 words)

	GN Online: Israeli tanks pound targets in Gaza
		Israeli tanks pounded Palestinian targets in Gaza and its helicopters swept into action yesterday to retaliate for mortar attacks in Israel as the cycle of bloodshed continued despite security talks this week.
		The Israeli army said two Israeli women were slightly wounded when stones were hurled at their car near Bethlehem.
		Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said the goal of Israel's military operations was to push Arafat back to the negotiating table.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=13990 (858 words)

	GN Online: Israeli missiles pound Gaza, West Bank posts
		Israeli helicopter gunships bombarded security posts in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with missiles late yesterday, the third such attack in a week of spiralling violence.
		Earlier yesterday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip, and tanks and bulldozers rumbled into at least two Palestinian-ruled areas of Gaza in the latest of several incursions that have fuelled Palestinian anger.
		The Israeli force returned fire, and Palestinian sources said a 67-year-old civilian was critically wounded on his balcony at the time of the exchange of fire.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=17387 (583 words)

	MILNET: Israeli-Palestinian Chronology
		Israeli soldiers, after surrounding Arafat's headquarters pound it with fire then enter some ground floor offices, leaving Arafat in his offices with aids but in the dark.
		A Hamas spokesman said on a FOX interiew that no Israeli is innocent and proudly called the attack a courageous act in response to over a year of violence against the Palestinians.
		Israeli Prime Minister’s trip to discuss how to end the violence as a guest Egypt, meeting with Mubarek and Arafat is marred by continued violence in the Occupied Territories.
	www.milnet.com /wc/Israeli-Palestinian-Chronology2.html (4989 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Israel and the Private Investor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...Israeli factories were slowing down, even closing, for lack of funds with which to purchase raw materials abroad, while the disastrous gap between essential imports and currency-earning exports was widening...
		...The Israelis are especially impressed by the American worker's systematic use of his tools, his pride in them, his interest in improving them, and his exclusion of political discussions, trade union debates, and other fascinating matters from the hours dedicated to the work bench...
		...Accordingly the Israeli government-supported by the moderate majority leadership in Histadrut-succeeded in persuading labor at large after launching its "austerity" program in 949 not only to cease asking for higher pay but to accept voluntary cuts in the supplementary cost-of-living allowance customarily added to basic pay, to be imposed in conjunction with price reductions...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V11I3P32-1.htm (8483 words)

	Israeli copters pound Gaza after bombing: 11/21/00
		The bus bombing in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli response dashed hopes that Israelis and Palestinians might be moving toward a truce and a resumption of peace talks.
		Israeli helicopters unleashed an hour-long rocket barrage at nightfall, targeting Fatah and Palestinian security offices, including police headquarters and a building not far from the office where Arafat was working at the time.
		The Israeli military said three Palestinians set off the bomb several dozen yards from the bus and fled on foot into Palestinian-controlled territory.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-00/11-21-00/a02wn020.htm (531 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Israeli jets pound Lebanese village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Earlier on Sunday, one Israeli was killed and five wounded in what Israel said was the second border attack in three days by Lebanon-based Hizb Allah militia after a seven-month lull, fuelling fears in the Jewish state of the reopening of a northern front.
		Two Israelis were wounded by falling anti-aircraft fire in July, but military sources stressed that Hizb Allah had fired 57mm artillery rounds on Sunday in a deliberate attack on Israeli territory.
		Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, had warned before the Sunday attack that any casualties in one of Hizb Allah's border attacks would trigger a tough response.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/8DBE4DE0-2410-4FF6-A559-8A46C0D63DAC.htm (643 words)

	U.S. reports reverse chronology of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was only after the massive Israeli air raids on Lebanon on June 24, which caused the deaths of nine Lebanese, that Hezbollah's rocket retaliations took two Israeli lives.
		NPR added an interview on June 27 with an Israeli journalist, the introduction of which again suggested that Israelis were killed before the massive attack on Lebanon.
		In the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz (www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/1_1.htm), readers would have learned that, although almost all of the U.S. media emphasized his lack of involvement in the airstrikes, incoming Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was in fact "in the loop" and had no objection to the attack.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1571940 (1367 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Israeli Warplanes Pound Hizbullah Targets in Bekaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli planes attacked Hizbullah targets in south Lebanon on Tuesday after an Israeli soldier was killed a day earlier, threatening escalation on a border that has been calm for nearly four years.
		After first insisting that the bulldozer had not crossed the border, the Israeli army commander in the area, Col.Yair Golan, told Israel Radio on Tuesday that part of the vehicle had crossed into Lebanon while digging up the explosives.
		Israeli military spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Feingold said that the bases targeted in Tuesday's air strikes were used by Hizbullah to stage attacks on Israel.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Lebanon/979FB8430400482142256E21005D28E5?OpenDocument (504 words)

	IslamicAwakening.Com: Israeli Jets Pound Hizbollah Positions in Lebanon
		Israeli government spokesman Avi Pazner said the raids should be “considered a warning to Hizbollah and Syria.
		The Israeli army, changing its account of Monday’s border incident, said on Tuesday the Israeli soldier killed by Hizbollah guerrillas was several metres inside Lebanon at the time.
		Israeli troops on Tuesday used tear gas grenades to disperse a crowd of Palestinian workers who were trying to cross from Gaza into Israel via the Erez border crossing, Palestinian witnesses told AFP.
	www.as-sahwah.com /viewnews.php?newsID=664 (654 words)

	CBC News:Israeli missiles pound Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Last week, seven Israeli soldiers were killed in the area by Palestinians.
		Israeli soldiers Tuesday focused their efforts on the Tel Sultan area of Rafah, conducting house-to-house searches.
		Israeli troops sealed off Rafah from the rest of Gaza on Monday, as panicked residents loaded down with their belongings tried to flee.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/05/18/world/rafah_040518 (408 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Hard Road to Israeli Self-Dependence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...The Israeli manufacturers are forever passing high-sounding resolutions reiterating their unflinchable belief in the private enterprise, free competitive system, and in the very same breath reaffirming their abhorrence of government tenders...
		...The Israeli economy as a whole is shielded from the need to face grim economic realitie by the unmatched ability of its leaders to find external means to finance 85 per cent of its total import bill...
		...The fundamental anomaly in the Israeli economy is the relation subsisting between the price of a unit of labor-power (wage) at home, and the official price of the Israeli pound (rate of exchange) abroad...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V16I2P47-1.htm (4729 words)

	Chronology of key events during Palestinian intifada
		Oct 12: Two Israeli army reservists are lynched by a crowd of Palestinians in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
		May 18: Israeli F-16 warplanes bomb the Palestinian territories for the first time since the 1967 Middle East War, in retaliation for a suicide bombing in northern Israel that killed five.
		Dec 3: Israeli warplanes pound the West Bank and Gaza Strip after more than 20 Israelis are killed in suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040322152325.eg39t9lh.html (973 words)

	Israeli Pound - TheBestLinks.com - Hebrew language, May 15, Zionism, 1960s, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli Pound, Hebrew language, Israel, May 15, Zionism, 1960s, 1948, 1980...
		On these banknotes the term Lira replaces the Pound, and the Hebrew name Pruta relaces the Mil.
		The high rate of inflation during that time forced the Israeli government to change the currency again in 1985, when the New Sheqel was issued at a rate of 1000 old sheqalim for 1 new sheqalim.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Israeli_Pound.html (371 words)

	CNN.com - Israeli rockets pound Gaza City - November 21, 2000
		Targets were hit near Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's seaside office, the headquarters of his Fatah faction and an office of a Palestinian preventive security service, which was demolished by at least six missiles, CNN Correspondent Tom Mintier reported.
		During the retaliatory strike, a Palestinian spokesman called for the United States to intervene to try to stop the Israeli attack, which he blamed on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
		A spokesman for the Israeli Defense Force said a 120 mm mortar shell was used in the bus attack, possibly detonated by the means of attached wires.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/11/21/mideast.violence (762 words)

	CNN.com - World - Israeli jets pound suspected Hezbollah hideouts - April 28, 2000
		The guerrilla group said it killed four members of the pro- Israeli South Lebanon Army and injured three others, in what the SLA claimed was a suicide attack.
		The group said its forces "scored direct hits" with rockets and mortars on Israeli and SLA outposts on the edge of the occupied zone in Aramta, injuring three more SLA troops and one Israeli soldier.
		Israeli gunners also fired artillery at suspected guerrilla positions on the outskirts of the market town of Nabatiyeh to the southwest.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/04/28/lebanon.israel.01 (497 words)

	cbsnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In other reprisals, Israeli warplanes pound Palestinian security installations in the West Bank town of Ramallah and the refugee camp of Rafah in Gaza.
		In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, three Palestinian civilians, including a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, are killed when an Israeli tank shell hits their homes, Palestinian witnesses say.
		In the West Bank, Israeli undercover troops approach the Balata refugee camp, a stronghold of the Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah movement, members of the militia say.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/mideast/html/attack_israeli_18.html (159 words)

	SFO Magazine Official Journal for Personal Investing in Stocks, Futures and Options
		The Israeli government, unwilling to admit how weak the Israeli pound (now the “shekel”) truly was, fixed its value at an unrealistically high rate relative to the dollar.
		Israeli banks were prohibited from exchanging pounds at other than the official rate.
		In the span of 26 years, I went from trading dollars for Israeli pounds with the moneychangers of the Jerusalem souk, to trading dollars for Deutschemarks in the pits of Chicago, to trading dollars for a dozen different currencies in the vast infinity of cyberspace.
	www.sfomag.com /homefeaturedetail.asp?ID=-106888669&MonthNameID=March&YearID=2005 (2857 words)

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