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Three New Olive Trees Successfully Planted in Bil'in; Palestinian Man Hit by Rubber Coated Bullet
Villagers from Bil'in, supported by international and Israeli activists, succeeded in planting three new olive trees at the construction site of the illegal apartheid wall, close to their village on the West Bank. Soldiers responded to this practical and symbolic gesture with brute force and by shooting tear gas and rubber coated bullets at the non-violent demonstrators.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/12/09/three-new-olive-trees-successfully-planted-in-bil%E2%80%99in-palestinian-man-hit-by-rubber-coated-bullet/
Don`t buy Israeli Apartheid! - Consumer Boycott in the UK Steps Up
Consumers in at least 15 cities across the UK will be highlighting their boycott of Israeli goods, and persuading others to do the same, to create solidarity with the Palestinian people. Activists in city centres including London, Brighton, Bristol, Bucks/Berks, Camden, Durham, E.London, Exeter, Hackney, Oxford, Stevenage, W. Kent, W London, W Midlands, and York, will be visiting supermarkets to hand out leaflets.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1055.shtml
Book brings together articles by Brazilian intellectuals about Edward Said
Two years after the death of one of the most important Palestinian intellectuals, Edward Said, the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe), together with publishing house Casa Amarela, has release book Edward Said: Intellectual Work and Social Critique (in a free translation). The work brings together 17 articles by different Brazilian intellectuals in the areas of sociology, literature and journalism that address the matter of the importance of the Palestinian.
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=9473
Mass house Demolitions Threaten Al-Sawiya
Approximately 40 families have been threatened in Al-Sawiya with house demolitions. Claiming that the properties on Palestinian land lack “building permits”, the Occupation has resorted to a long-standing Zionist strategy of expelling Palestinians from their lands.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1054.shtml
On This Day 1961: Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
Mr Luthuli received his prize for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination dressed in traditional Zulu attire with a leopard-skin hat and necklace of lion's teeth. He described South Africa as a "museum piece" and its policy of apartheid as "a hangover from the dark ages of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_3223000/3223074.stm
Free Marwan Barghouti to curtail the power of Hamas
In May 2000, when I was serving as justice minister in Barak's government, Barghouti and Fares asked to meet with me. They warned me there were no indications that an agreement could be reached by September, and they told me that if by that time no significant steps had been taken, a popular uprising would break out - an uprising, they implied, that they themselves would lead in order to prevent Hamas from rousing the Palestinian street up against the Palestinian Authority (PA).
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=20673
260 Citizens including 52 Children Arrested in November
In a press release, PMC revealed that the arrests included international solidarity activists and young people whose ages ranged between 16-25 years old. Prisoners in the Israeli jails suffer harsh conditions, including the night search campaign, using dogs and the isolation cells.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4842
Army closes Nablus, arrests five residents
A local source in Nablus reported that soldiers arrested five residents, said to be members of Hamas, after invading several neighborhoods in the city and breaking into dozens of homes.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15400&Itemid=1
Israeli Navy kills a resident near Gaza Shore
A Palestinian security source reported, on Saturday at dawn, that the Israeli Navy fired at a Palestinian fishing boat killing near the Gaza Shore, killing one resident, while another resident went missing.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15399&Itemid=1
Foreign Ministry denounces U.S. lawsuit against ex-Shin Bet chief
The Foreign Ministry condemned on Friday a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. against former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter for the deaths of 14 Palestinian civilians who were killed in a targeted hit on a senior Hamas operative in 2002.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655820
PA's Abbas urges militant factions to extend truce with Israel
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called on Palestinian militant groups to maintain a shaky cease-fire due to expire on Dec. 31, saying attacks on Israelis were counterproductive.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=656000
Israel suspends convoy deal; U.S.: Buses must run
At a meeting held by Quartet representatives in Jerusalem on Friday morning, American officials made clear that the Palestinians are honoring their end of the Rafah deal, and that the disagreements stem from technological matters that the Israelis raised as part of new demands.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655199.html
Mideast borders deal must stay on schedule: US envoy
Washington expects a US-brokered movement and borders agreement to stay "on schedule," a top US official said just days after Israel froze talks with the Palestinians over a planned West Bank-Gaza shuttle bus.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051210/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianus_051210175020
U.K. accused of supplying nuclear component to Israel in 1950s
Two lawmakers have accused the British government of a cover-up for refusing to admit that Britain helped launch Israel's nuclear program in 1959 by secretly selling a batch of heavy water - a key ingredient in producing weapons-grade materials.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=656019
Erekat criticizes remarks on ending truce by Hamas leader-in-exile
Responding to Mesha'al's statements, Erekat said that all Palestinian sides have to know that the reached calmness is a high national consensus and no Palestinian faction has the right to decide by itself. "There is only one political authority," Erekat stressed.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/10/content_3903735.htm
Adalah boycotts forum due to presence of ex-police chief
The Israeli Arab advocacy organization Adalah will not participate in an upcoming conference organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in protest of the participation of retired Major General Alik Ron, who was the commander of the police's northern district during the October 2000 riots. ( Murder of 13 Arab-Israelis ! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656037.html
Labor officials slam Peretz for packing Knesset list with allies
Out of 97 Labor candidates vying for a Knesset seat, at least 20 of them are identified as being close to Peretz. In addition, Peretz and his advisors have made every possible mistake in managing the campaign which has resulted in the party's dip in the polls, Labor officials charge.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655998
Mofaz Denies Plan for Economic Siege over Gaza
In the news broadcast by Israeli Channel 10 yesterday, Mofaz said Palestine did not fulfill any part of the agreement and unless Palestine meets the terms about Rafah border gate, Mofaz threatened to close down the crossing point at Gaza.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20051210&hn=27374
Good morning, third-graders
"Bridge over the Wadi" is the third school of its type in Israel and the first in an Arab town. The school is in its second year of operation. It was established with lots of good will and with the continual presence of television cameras. The creators of the series, Barak and Tomer Heiman, present a possible model of "coexistence," but the parents and teachers for some reason insist on the "binational" character of the school
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655554.html
Two UK lawmakers accuse government of supplying nuclear component to Israel in 1950s
“The documents which were classified revealed that 20 tons of heavy water were part of a delivery that Britain brought from Norway but later decided was surplus to requirements”, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15409&Itemid=1
IDF finds tunnel used for smuggling terrorists from Gaza to Israel
The tunnel was dug under the Beit Hanun municipality's garbage dump, an area that cannot be observed by IDF troops. Soldiers discovered the tunnel while carrying out construction work near the site.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=656020
Violence and Racism -
Murder in Jerusalem
The readers, however, were right about one crucial point: Israel is neither France nor Europe, since in Israel police violence toward Arabs tends to be much more lethal. Indeed, both Samir's killing and the readers' responses reflect some of the most disturbing and dangerous aspects of contemporary Israeli culture. Most prominent among these is the deep-seated racism that encourages violence.
http://www.counterpunch.com/gordon12102005.html
The hope that turned false
This was in opposition to many among the Palestinian and Fatah leadership such as Fatah's Kadura Farez, who presents himself in fluent Hebrew as a moderate but recently has argued in favor of the Palestinian right to use force (another word for terror) if they don't achieve their rights.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655822
IDF denies involvement in bombing of Hezbollah man's car
"The Zionist enemy is fully responsible for the operation's planning and execution," Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast on its Al-Manar Television. "The Islamic resistance will fully shoulder its responsibility in this regard and do what is necessary," the statement added.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=656018
Pendulum swinging in favor of Palestinians
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said here on Saturday that over the past several decades the situation in Palestine has become more dynamic, and the pendulum is beginning to swing in favor of the Palestinian people to the detriment of international Zionism.
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=263813
Poland 'key base for CIA jails'
Marc Garlasco, an analyst for Human Rights Watch, interviewed in Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper, said: "Poland was the main base for CIA interrogations in Europe, while Romania played more of a role in the transfer of detained prisoners." ( NEW EUROPE! "bush 2003!" )
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F4517C9C-CA19-4A0F-9576-C878273FE9CD.htm
Officials pledge to protect voters in volatile Iraqi province
"We call on the inhabitants of Diyala to go to the polls and to not be afraid of terrorism," said Colonel Samane Talabani Saturday, the Iraqi army's provincial commander, adding that a protection plan had been drawn up with local police.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051210/wl_mideast_afp/iraqvoteunrestbaquba_051210150731
Video 'shows security staff shooting at cars'
The US military and a British private security firm, Aegis Specialist Risk Management, are investigating a video posted on a website managed by some of Aegis' former employees that appears to show indiscriminate gunfire at civilian vehicles in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article332204.ece
1990: Iraq frees British hostages
The first of the hostages held in the Gulf for four-and-a-half months have arrived in Britain after their release by Saddam Hussein. A total of 100 British hostages were freed and landed at Heathrow airport today with the promise of a further 400 to follow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_2544000/2544281.stm |
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