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West Bank Christians praying for Santa to deliver peace
The onus on the priest to ensure Santa's safe arrival in Taybeh - the last entirely Christian village on the West Bank - began in 2003 when a six-year-old girl wrote a prayer asking that the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints allow Santa to pass so he could deliver his presents.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2425682005
Four Palestinians die of anxiety attacks as army shelled Gaza
Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Sunday that four residents, suffering from chronic diseases, died of anxiety attack and high blood pressure while the army was shelling the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15551&Itemid=1
Israeli Colonizer Wound Child, IOF Arrests other
The Red Crescent Society Sources said that Hazem Yamin 10, was moderately wounded when the colonizer ran him over while he was leaving school.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4927
Israel bombs Gaza Strip, kills Palestinian activist
Israeli forces bombed targets in the southern Gaza Strip early on Sunday. Four Palestinians were injured in at least nine raids, including three policeman and a baby who was hit in the face with shrapnel, Palestinian medics said.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/192706
Booby-trapped car forces West Bank hospital evacuation
Many of the patients could be seen carried out out of the hospital Sunday by wheelchair and stretcher, but they were able to return after less than 30 minutes when the explosive device in the car was defused and the scene declared safe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051218/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestnablus_051218102132
Beilin: No peace without Jerusalem division
"The public is open to hear and 49 percent (of the public) is not closed to our ideas," he said. "The problem is that it took Sharon nearly 40 years to accept the idea of a Palestinian state. We don't have another 40 years until he decides to divide Jerusalem."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3186032,00.html
Just one last withdrawal
Don't speak about the evacuation of unauthorized outposts, about stopping the targeted killings and, please, don't shout that Mofaz, now in Sharon's court, is handing another few hundred housing units to settlers or has retroactively approved residential neighborhoods.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658965.html
Youth arrested near Jerusalem
Soldiers forced dozens of families out of their homes, and arrested Mohammad Na’im Mheisin, 17, and took him to an unknown destination. A local source in the village reported that soldiers carried laptops with them and took data regarding the homes and residents.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15558&Itemid=1
Second Right of Return and Just Peace Conference: Palestinian Rights Not Negotiable
In a press statement followed three days conference in Nazareth city, north of Israel, the conferees expressed their complete refusal for plans that try to weaken the Right of Return and the rights of the Palestinian people for an end of the occupation, for freedom and independence.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4922
More than million Palestinians live in Hamas-controlled areas
Hamas was the big winner over a splintered Fatah in the fourth round of local elections in the Palestinian Authority, held Thursday, according to the results published Saturday by the PA Central Elections Committee.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/658978.html
Solana: Hamas victory may put EU aid to PA in danger
"All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by everybody," Solana told reporters during a visit to Tel Aviv. "It's very difficult that parties who do not condemn violence...can be partners for the future." ( How about "STATE" that doesn't condemn violence?! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659217.html
EU's Solana Says Hamas Victory Would Jeopardize Palestinian Aid
Solana's warning follows Palestinian local elections last week in which Hamas won control of municipal councils in three of the West Bank's biggest cities. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Dec. 16 threatening loss of U.S. aid to the Palestinians if Hamas is allowed to run in the Jan. 25 election.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aYSV3kwVUA.M&refer=europe
Abbas anger at US aid threat
"All Palestinian parties have the right to participate," the spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, said. "Otherwise, the elections wouldn't be democratic."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17606974%255E2703,00.html
Israel opposes start of Gaza-West Bank convoys
Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has been reported to have ruled out the rapid establishment of a bus link between the West Bank and Gaza that should already have been launched under a US-brokered deal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051218/wl_mideast_afp/mideastgazatransport_051218122656
MI chief: West Bank, Gaza may split into two entities
The head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Zeevi, warned cabinet ministers Sunday that it was increasingly likely that in the coming year the Palestinian Authority would split into two independent entities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/659323.html
Report: Ariel Sharon Suffers Minor Stroke
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken to a Jerusalem hospital Sunday after feeling ill while working in his office, two Israel television stations reported. One of the stations said he suffered a minor stroke and had lost consciousness.
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=105&sid=582390
Arab MK: Israel ‘robbery of century'
"I will never recognize Zionism even if all Arabs do," he said. "Why does one of the Arab countries provide a home for (Foreign Minister) Silvan Shalom, while the army destroys homes in Palestine on a daily basis?" he said, referring to the foreign minister's recent visit to his birth county of Tunisia. "If you want to surrender, do it, but don't force us to give in."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3186040,00.html
German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Israel next month
German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit Israel next month, the government said Sunday, on a trip meant in part to signal solidarity following recent anti-Israel outbursts by the president of Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659309.html
Israel asks EU to fund Haifa-Jenin-Jordan railway
The Ministry of Transport is asking the European Union (EU) to finance joint Israel-Jordan-Palestinian Authority (PA) transportation projects. The ministry is asking for an initial €30 million for the projects.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000040493&fid=1725
Fatah and breakaway faction meet to discuss uniting slates
The two sides discussed maintaining the separate lists and merging the two parties after the vote, Fares said. But the continued split could still give Hamas an advantage, since some of the seats are chosen by districts and Fatah and Future candidates could split those votes.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/658901.html
Hamas election gains chip away at PLO
Asfour, the Hamas spokesman, said the organization would keep fighting "with the enemy until the land is liberated." He did not answer directly whether Hamas would accept a peace solution in which a Palestinian state would co-exist next to Israel. "Hamas deals with reality. We can live with anyone under proper conditions," he said.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002688709_hamas17.html
The new phenomenon of triumphant Islamist democrats
Like other Islamist groups in the region which mobilize constituencies by addressing citizens' grievances, Hamas has patiently worked on several important fronts simultaneously: resisting Israeli occupation militarily, responding to social welfare needs at the local level, challenging U.S.-led Western hegemony, organizing politically to offer a better alternative to Palestine's Fatah-dominated ruling oligarchy, and gradually moving onto a larger stage by engaging in municipal and then parliamentary polls.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=20815&categ_id=17
Analysis / Congress keeps one eye on the Jewish lobby
Two days after the U.S. Congress voted by a large majority (397 to 17) to threaten the Palestinian Authority with withholding aid if it includes Hamas in the next government, U.S. officials pressured the European donor nations to transfer $60 million immediately to the PA to pay the salaries of its officials and security apparatus.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658936.html
Mofaz: PA faces severe crisis
"The Palestinian Authority is facing a severe crisis. No doubt the Palestinian establishment is at a decisive stage because of Hamas' strengthening and the crisis within the Fatah, which could bring about the postponement or cancellation of PA elections in January," Mofaz during Sunday's cabinet meeting.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3186192,00.html
Yesha leader: Netanyahu is my 'default' candidate in Likud primaries
Yesha Council Chairman Bentzi Lieberman on Sunday morning said he supports Benjamin Netanyahu in the Likud primaries but nevertheless referred to the former finance minister as a "default" candidate.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659260.html
Gulf Arab countries vow to reinforce stability in Lebanon, Syria
Well-informed sources said GCC countries, eager to maintain regional stability and sovereignty of both Syria and Lebanon, would try to exert efforts to urge Damascus to fully cooperate with the UN investigation to avoid more unrest in the region already troubled by violence-plagued Iraq.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/18/content_3935650.htm
Cheney makes surprise visit to Iraq
The high-security visit was so shrouded in secrecy that even Iraq 's prime minister said he was surprised when he showed up for what he thought was a meeting with the US ambassador, only to see Cheney waiting to greet him.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE373CE0-57D7-41BB-8D8B-E5D9DBF0D975.htm
German hostage freed in Iraq: German FM
German archaeologist Susanne Osthoff, kidnapped last month in Iraq, is free and in relatively "good health", German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051218/wl_mideast_afp/iraqgermanyhostage_051218192924
Powell sees U.S. involved in Iraq for years to come
"I don't think that the United States military at its current strength can sustain this level of deployment for an extended period of time," Powell said. "So one way or the other I think a draw down will begin in 2006," he said. "We have to stay with them until they decide ... they don't need us any longer. And even then, I suspect, there will be a continuing relationship and presence of some significance for some years to come."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/18/worldupdates/2005-12-18T051711Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-228479-1&sec=Worldupdates
What's happening to the Iraqi academics and intellectuals?
The most striking fact is that the majority of those killed where not sciencists (thus targeted for the alleged knowledge of Iraq’s weapon’s programme) but were involved in field of humanities (such as law, geography and history). The motives for these assassinations are unknown.
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm |
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