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Dear Readers,
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Shadi
A man's battle to keep his home
Not only does Mr Natsheh have utility bills for the house dating back several years, but he has numerous photographs that prove it was there before the neighbouring section of the Jewish settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev was built in the 1990s. "They are saying that he built the house illegally between June and mid-August, which is clearly ridiculous. I have photographs and aerial photographs of it going back years," says his Israeli lawyer, Daniel Seidemann.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/a-mans-battle-to-keep-his-home/2005/12/11/1134235946481.html
West Bank barrier will increase bloodshed: Latin Patriarch
During the protest at the village of Abood, near Ramallah, which has lost around 4,000 dunums (988 acres or 400 hectares) of farmland to the barrier, Michel Sabbah said that the Holy Land "needs bridges not walls". "This wall just brings hatred which in turn leads to violence and bloodshed. Those who are building it are making a major mistake," he said Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051211/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelbarrier_051211133658
Breaching the Barrier
The effect, perversely, has been a steady migration of Palestinian Jerusalemites from outside the barrier to Arab neighborhoods deeper inside the city. And as the Arab neighborhoods grow overcrowded and property prices rise, a few dozen Palestinian families have begun renting or buying apartments in West Bank (ILLEGAL) settlements bordering Jerusalem.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10414612/site/newsweek/
Gov't to make Kotel more teen-friendly
The government's decision to invest in a spate of Western Wall projects in an attempt to make the Jerusalem holy site more attractive to Israeli teens comes at a time when an increasingly large number of Israeli youth stay away from a place which they find little in common with, even as the amount of visitors touring the Western Wall is at an all time high.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309558675&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Fighter of Al Aqsa Brigades killed in Nablus
The source stated that soldiers supported by 40 armored vehicles invaded, during early morning hours, the Balata refugee camp and exchanged fire with the resistance. Eyad Al Hashash, member of the Brigades was killed in the clashes.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15419&Itemid=1
The Al Aqsa Brigades will not renew the truce
The Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh slammed statements released by the Palestinian Ministry of Interior which called on the Palestinian factions to remain committed to the truce adding, that it will “continue to defend the Palestinian people and resistance”.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15421&Itemid=1
The safe passage: The history of a farce
Anyone interested in understanding the essence of our relationship with the Palestinians is invited to read what was written in the newspapers during the past 12 years about "the safe passage" Israel promised to open in 1993 between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel's behavior toward the Palestinians - the evasiveness, the lack of a modicum of goodwill and the failure to honor agreements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656079.html
'We're trapped ... books free our minds'
Tamer was founded in 1989 during the first intifada, when Palestinian children needed an education despite school closures and curfews. The Israeli army, surprised by the Palestinian protest, took brutal measures to regain control, breaking the bones of stone throwers and closing Palestinian areas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1664737,00.html
SYRIA: Workshop discusses effects of TV war coverage on children
"Children in the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Palestine, are exposed to all forms of violence – we were badly in need of holding such a workshop," he said. According to Nafti, images of war and violence can be extremely stressful for children.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1abc356bd2cd966444a74d062efe93cc.htm
Report: Palestinian economy expanding, hurdles remain
Although growth was strong this year - personal incomes rose by an estimated 12 percent - expansion was from a low base, the World Bank said. Per capita gross domestic product was still 29 percent less than in 1999, it noted, without giving the comparative figures in its summary.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656094.html
On Behalf of Present Abbas, Dr. Shaath Lays Cornerstone for Saudi Housing Project in Rafah
The project will be implemented under the umbrella of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia generous contributed of $20 million.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4850
Palestinians export first crops grown in (ILLEGAL) settlers' Gaza greenhouses
"I am very pleased. The shipment moved without problems. I hope this will be a good start," said PEDC chairman Basil Jaber. Palestinian officials hope to export a further shipment of produce to Europe via Israel next week.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/656437.html
'Look for another people to occupy'
Gaza is shriveled up geographically, crowded by any international criterion, and young with respect to the age of its population. It is inhabited by refugee camps that have burgeoned to monstrous size, imbued with religious belief and a traditional way of life that sanctifies family frameworks and a conservative way of life.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655769.html
Fatah holds clear lead over Hamas: Palestinian poll
Fatah should win 50 percent of the vote against 32 percent for Hamas while a further nine percent plan to cast their ballots for minor parties or independents, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research found Sunday. The remaining nine percent were undecided.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051211/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinian_051211155824
Peretz: Palestinian state within 4 years
He stressed that a permanent agreement could be reached within one year and would be implemented within another three years. Peretz told the ambassadors about his political doctrine, saying that he is completely opposed to dividing Jerusalem and the right of return.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3182512,00.html
Bibi: Kadima will crumble
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party is introducing “flawed norms” that have no equal anywhere in the world, Likud leadership candidate Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday in response to Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz's defection to Kadima.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3182817,00.html
Danish cop to patrol West Bank
Normally, Skovhus is a detective in the provincial city of Horsens. For the next year, however, he will be participating in the 33-man EUPOL-COPPS team, a civilian mission with the aim of contributing to the establishment of sustainable and effective policing arrangements in Palestine.
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/92741.html
Papers reveal UK's nuclear aid to Israel
The Whitehall files not only confirm that Britain was a knowing party to the deal, but also contain subsequent intelligence assessments confirming that the sale of heavy water, which is used to produce plutonium, was crucial to Israel's nuclear weapons programme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1664142,00.html
Norwegian government party to launch boycott campaign on Apartheid Israel
The Socialist Left Party, a member of the center-left Norwegian government is to officially launch a solidarity campaign for Palestine beginning in the New Year. The campaign will focus on a consumer boycott of Israeli products and will push for a ban on any arms trade between the Norwegian government and the Israeli regime.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1056.shtml
School told Nobel Prize winner in economics, `You're no good at math, try auto mechanics'
However, it is rare for the scientific prizes to arouse controversy. Thus the opposition to Aumann and Schelling's award was exceptional: Close to 1,000 people, including several dozen Israelis, signed a petition proclaiming it "monstrous" to award a Nobel prize to "two war-mongers."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656067.html
Calls grow for withdrawal of Nobel prize
"Can a racist or a Holocaust denier receive the Nobel prize even if he is very talented in his scientific field? Political views are relevant." Prof Aumann, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and moved to Israel in 1956, has described the removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip as an "expulsion" and described it as "immoral, inhuman and stupid".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1664215,00.html
How might Israeli and Palestinian elections affect one another?
An even more dramatic Palestinian electoral influence on Israel's elections could revolve around Hamas' performance on January 25. If Hamas scores what would appear to Israelis to be significant electoral gains, thereby presumably guaranteeing it a hawkish input into the future policies of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, this would likely damage the election prospects of the Israeli Zionist left
http://www.iht.com/getina/files/295219.html
A Review of "Paradise Now"
Israeli occupiers prove daily to residents of the West Bank that they live in the opposite of Paradise; indeed, even a momentous distance from a contiguous and liberated Palestinian state. The beautiful future exists only in the fantasy of the two young male protagonists, and presumably those who have programmed them to take the violent route to Heaven.
http://www.counterpunch.com/landau12102005.html
In "Munich," Spielberg chooses explosive subject
Aware of the sensitivity of the subject, Spielberg made the movie under a shroud of secrecy, swearing his film crew to secrecy and giving actors only parts of the script, according to Time magazine, which secured the only interview the director gave on the subject.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051211/ts_alt_afp/afpentertainmentusfilm_051211161435
Report: Israel prepares to strike Iran
Notably, a strike on Iran at the end of March would coincide with the general elections scheduled for March 28. Israel has already attacked a foreign nuclear reactor shortly before elections time, when the Air Force struck in Iraq in 1981.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3182412,00.html
Israel: No plans to strike Iran
Sources at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem denied Sunday morning the reports that Israel is preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. "There is no such thing. This has never been planned," they said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3182678,00.html
Egypt produces 80 Chinese-designed K-8E aircraft in past five years
K-8E is an Egyptian version of the K-8 series, which is jointly developed by Chinese and Pakistani engineers. K-8, which stands for Karakoram-8, is a two-seat advanced training jet and light air-to-ground attack aircraft.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/11/content_3907977.htm
Egypt Islamists want to combat Israel through development
"We will not combat Israel using its own means, we will do it our way. If 70 million Egyptians reach a high level of education and wealth, Israel will be powerless and will not be able to do anything," Akef said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051211/wl_mideast_afp/egyptvoteislamists
Iraqi general tells of prison torture horror
"It was horrific. Thousands of detainees, often teenagers, beaten, burned, receiving electric shocks, then the majority killed," Muntazar al-Samarrai, who fled Iraq for Jordan five months ago, told AFP. In video footage Samarrai said he filmed at one detention center, men show whip marks and acid burns. One of them has lost an eye. Another's legs are broken. Still another has nails driven into his body.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051211/wl_mideast_afp/iraqrightstorture
Some Iraqis Begin Voting Monday
Voting begins Monday in hospitals, military camps and even prisons across Iraq, launching the process to choose a new parliament that the United States hopes can help quell the insurgency so U.S. forces can begin heading home.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq |
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