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Aisha from Budrus: “I am not afraid of them. I'm not leaving my land”
Aisha is an old woman in her 70's. Her sharp face bears out the history of Palestine and Palestinians, from disaster to resistance. When you see her you are reminded of a Roman olive tree tied to the land with its roots deep into the soil. She talks with determination and conviction, recounting her community's struggle against the Apartheid Wall and Occupation.
http://stopthewall.org/communityvoices/1051.shtml
UN slams Israeli (ILLEAGAL) settlements, (OCCUPIED) E. Jerusalem separation (WALL) fence
Each resolution received more than 100 "yes" votes from just over 165 nations that voted. But U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called them "meaningless," "not productive," and "purely symbolic." ( YOU'RE EITHER WITH OR YOU'RE AGAINST DEMOCRACY! )
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=651888
Viet Nam voices support for just cause of Palestinian people
He further said that a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the question of Palestine must be based on the relevant UN resolutions and the following essential principles: the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem, and from other occupied Arab territories;
http://www.vnagency.com.vn/NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=29&NEWS_ID=177086
Human Rights Worker refuses deportation; Threatened by Police Officer
After the refusal, a police officer from the Special Operations Unit, threatened Andrew, saying that they were going to drug him and use handcuffs and leg shackles to force him on the next available plane. They also threatened to put him in jail for two months if he would not comply. Currently, Andrew is being held at the Tzohar Detention Center near the Rafah crossing to Gaza.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/12/02/human-rights-worker-refuses-deportation-threatened-by-police-officer/
Settler woman rams a child with her car in Qalqilia
The child, Nassr Marwan Barghouth, was transferred to Rafidia hospital in Nablus. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the settler-woman was speeding on the main road in the village and rammed the child before fleeing away.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15304&Itemid=1
Child killed, two youth injured in Khan Younis
The source identified the killed child as Sayyed Abdul-Hadi Abu Libda, 16, and the two injured residents as Anwar Ata Abu Libda, 17, and Zuhdi Nafeth Shahin, 19. Israeli Tanks stationed at the southern part of the Gaza Strip fired shells and rounds of heavy ammunition at the direction of the three residents.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15300&Itemid=1
Palestinians fire two Qassams into western Negev
The medics said the Palestinian killed in the incident had been on a fishing trip. Palestinian security sources maintained that the boat had been in an authorized fishing area, and that the navy fired on the boat and on another boat without provocation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653104.html
Free Jerusalem vote key to election success-Abbas
"If we can't hold democratic elections in Jerusalem it will be difficult to do it in the other zones. At that point Israel will be responsible for the block of the democratic process in Palestine," Abbas said at the end of a two-day visit to Italy.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03787640.htm
Abbas welcomes 'radical' change in Israel
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas welcomed the "radical change" wrought on Israel's political landscape by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to set up a new party, saying it could bring peace to the Middle East if he is re-elected.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051202/wl_mideast_afp/italymideast_051202183451
Al Jazeera reporter arrested in West Bank
"The Israeli army, which claims this has nothing to do with Rajoub's work as a journalist, must say what it knows at once, otherwise there is no reason for holding him and he must be freed immediately," the press freedom organisation said.
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/70804/
PCBS: Monthly Income Decreased in OPT
It concluded that the results indicated that 34.0% of the households have access problem to health services because of military checkpoints, 37.7% due to the Israeli closure, 45.4% because of the high cost of medical treatment.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4782
Um al Qataf village protests against housing the collaborators
Residents of Um Al Qataf village, in Wadi Ara area in Haifa district, protested on Saturday against the attempts of the Israeli government to house the collaborators who were moved by Israel from the west Bank and Gaza, to their village.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15303&Itemid=1
Palestinian named to Greek Holy Synod
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theofilos III made a series of appointments yesterday that introduced Palestinian and Arab Israeli clerics into the predominantly Greek church hierarchy. The patriarch also appointed two bishops of Greek origin, and promoted four priests to archimandrites.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/652767.html
Fatah calls off primary voting in two towns over armed violence
The ruling Fatah movement called off primary voting in two large West Bank towns Friday after gunmen fired into the air and burned ballot boxes, in the latest setback for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of January's parliamentary elections.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=20482
Free Jerusalem vote key to election success: Abbas
“If we can't hold democratic elections in Jerusalem it will be difficult to do it in the other zones. At that point Israel will be responsible for the block of the democratic process in Palestine,” Abbas said at the end of a two-day visit to Italy.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/December/middleeast_December82.xml§ion=middleeast
Abbas meets Pope, invites him to Jerusalem and holy places
Abbas' visit to the Vatican, which included separate talks with the pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, was his last major appointment of a three-day visit to Italy. Middle East peace prospects were expected to be on the agenda of talks Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653116.html
Canada votes against 3 anti-Israeli resolutions at the UN
Canada voted down along with the USA, Australia and Israel, among others, the resolutions on the "Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People", the maintaining of the "Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretary"
http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0158
Palestine pushes G7 for $200m funding
The PA will need $US200 ($NZ287.23) million to meet basic needs over the December-February period, Salam Fayyad told reporters after meeting with Group of Seven finance ministers in London.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3500398a6026,00.html
Candidates register for Palestinian election
Candidates began signing up on Saturday for a Palestinian legislative election next month at which President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction will face its first major challenge from powerful Islamist rival Hamas.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1369341
PA security advisor Jibril Rajoub wins Fatah primary in Hebron
Hebron is the largest election district in the PA, and the winner there gets the second-place position on the ruling Fatah party's parliamentary list. First on the list is Marwan Barghouti, who is serving in an Israeli prison.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653031.html
Signs point to former PM Barak not running for Knesset seat
Barak said there's no point in holding a meeting just for the sake of holding a meeting, adding that he would meet with the Labor Party chairman once Peretz takes a clear position regarding what role, if any, Barak can play in helping to lead the party, Israel Radio reported Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653121.html
New Palestinian party?
According to the reports, the party will be headed by Palestinian Finance Minister Salem Fayad, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi and former Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, one of the Israeli-Palestinian Geneva Initiative sponsors.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3178580,00.html
Political Reality Changes in Israeli Towns
After Prime Minister Ariel Sharon bolted Likud and set up a more moderate party and the Moroccan-born Amir Peretz took over the dovish Labor Party, Likud loyalists are seriously looking at other options in the March 28 general election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_smalltown_politics_1
Chomsky and Dershowitz debate Middle East peace process at Kennedy School
"The time has come for compromise," Dershowitz.. Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said current proposals for a Palestinian state will lead to "the breaking of its organic links to Jerusalem and the disintegration of the remnants of Palestinian society."
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/12.01/31-chomsky.html
RPT-Arab nations deeply suspicious of US motives -poll
Arab nations are acutely suspicious of the Bush administration's "democracy" agenda in the Middle East and believe the U.S. invasion of Iraq has made the region less secure, said a poll released on Friday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02305592.htm
Russia: Weapons supplied to Iran for defensive purposes only
All Russian weaponry supplied to Iran is purely for defensive purpose, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday, responding to news reports that Moscow was selling more than $1 billion worth of missiles and other defense systems to Tehran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653023.html
“Kidnappings are the direct result of the illegal occupation”
The four Westerners, two Canadians, a Briton and an American, all members of the group which has had activists in IRAQ since October 2002 appealed to Washington and the British government to immediately withdraw the occupying troops from the country.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10063
Iraqi Sunnis threatens to leave reconciliation talks
The Muslim Scholars Association, an influential organization of Sunni religious leaders, has said Saturday that it will leave the Arab League-sponsored talks that began in Cairo in November "if operations against civilians aren't halted." The committee's statement condemned US forces who are "committing the most extreme crimes against human rights.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051203/wl_mideast_afp/iraqsunniunrest_051203164509
Roadside Bomb, Attack Kill 19 Iraqi Troops
Iraq - Insurgents launched a coordinated ambush against Iraqi soldiers northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, detonating a roadside bomb and then firing on the patrol, killing 19 and wounding two, officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
14 US soldiers killed over 2 days in Iraq
Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in separate incidents during the past 48 hours, the US military said on Saturday. The incident took place at about 3:00 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Friday, it added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/03/content_3872053.htm |
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