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Bethlehem gets a wall for Christmas
Already broke and haemorrhaging a Christian population reduced to desperation by five years of intifada, the birthplace of Christ was this week sealed off from Jerusalem — just in time for Christmas — by an 8m (25ft) wall and huge iron gate resembling a nuclear shelter.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1878695,00.html
Abood resists Apartheid Wall and breaks down Occupation Blockades
As the villagers arrived, large numbers of Occupation Forces rushed to the area. Undeterred villagers held prayers on the lands and speeches followed by representatives such as Tayseer Tamimi and Petchop Hanna Attalla who made passionate calls denouncing the racist policies of Occupation including the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1039.shtml
West Bank Road Vs. Peace
Under this plan, Israel's 410,000 (ILLEGAL) settlers will enjoy the use of main roads and good highways, while many of the roads or tunnels planned for the 2.2 million Palestinians will be narrow and indirect and will traverse hilly areas -- making them ill suited for building an economically viable Palestinian state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802317.html
Construction in West Bank continues despite road map
On a tour of the West Bank on Wednesday, Mofaz promised that the area between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem would be built up, and that the cabinet would make a decision to that effect before the elections. Tenders have been issued for 315 housing units in the territories since the beginning of the year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/646998.html
Ghost town
In the rest of the area, in other words, in all of H2, which covers about 20 percent of the area of Hebron, Palestinians are forbidden to travel in vehicles. The only Palestinians seen in the streets walk close to the walls, like shadows. "Only several dozen Palestinians have remained here, no more," says an officer who is serving in the sector at present. "The rest were chased away by the settlers."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/646948.html
Israel accused of damaging mosque
Shaikh Sabri, said: "Large visible cracks have formed in the walls due to ongoing Israeli excavation work since 1967." The Israeli occupation authorities are using heavy equipment, causing severe damage to the ancient and sacred walls which date back a few centuries, he said. "We hold the Israeli occupation authorities totally responsible for the dilapidation of Jerusalem's walls," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C62BA404-5AF7-4C81-A65C-88C73447BBB3.htm
Vanunu: 'I went to see Palestinian ghettos'
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu arrived at the Tel Aviv Magistrates court to have his remand extended after he was arrested for entering territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority. “I want to leave Israel. I went to see the Palestinian ghettos,”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3171588,00.html
Poll: 25% of (ILLEGAL) settlers east of fence prepared to leave homes
According to the poll, 74 percent of the general public supports a new "evacuation-compensation" bill that would enable settlers to leave their settlements and move within the Green Line border in return for alternative housing, and 35 percent of the settlers living east of the fence support this bill. ( Fence = Apartheid Wall! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647330.html
One person killed in clash between PA police, Khan Yunis clan
According to Palestinian sources, heavy exchanges of fire broke out between PA police officers and members of the clan, which is one of the largest in Khan Yunis, during which a police station and a police car went up in flames
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=647313
Palestinians protest over poll delay
On Sunday 13 November, the PA announced the postponement of the poll, saying Israel could not ensure unhindered voting. However, Israel denies PA claims, saying the PA had not informed the Israeli authorities of its intention to organise elections in Hebron.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/670B5867-6622-4093-8F8F-21C77999F845.htm
Time to take Palestinian opinion seriously
Until now, ending the occupation was their top goal. That has slipped to second place by a margin of 15 per cent. The poll also found the majority of Palestinians supported a permanent ceasefire, even though they remained convinced that the Gaza pull-out was due to violent “resistance”. And for the first time, a majority favours the collection of arms from militants in Gaza.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb8b2aba-579f-11da-8866-00000e25118c.html
PA police confiscate stolen cars in Nablus in effort to impose order
The police informed Palestinian militant groups - which oversee theft rings and possess illegal weapons - that they also intend to start collecting unlicensed guns, police said. The power of the police has been greatly weakened as Palestinian gunmen have taken charge of the streets during the past five years of hostilities with Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647329.html
Sources: PA Chairman Abbas plans Vatican visit, meeting with Pope
The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited the Vatican several times for meetings with Benedict's predecessor, John Paul, who made an historic trip to Israel and Palestinian territories in 2000. The Vatican supports Israel's right to exist alongside a Palestinian homeland.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647322.html
Palestinian finance minister submits resignation
"Our election law requires that cabinet members considering running for parliament should resign two months before the election date, and I am one of those," Fayyad told Reuters. He did not say whether he had made a final decision on running.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-19T172335Z_01_KNE962597_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS.xml&archived=False
Lieberman urges right to unite to face Sharon
National Union leader Avigdor Lieberman proposed Saturday afternoon that Likud, National Religious Party and the National Union merge into a single right-wing bloc in the upcoming general elections, if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decides to quit Likud.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/646423.html
Report: Delegation from Pakistan visits Israel, PA
According to the Pakistan Times, the 174-strong "non-official" delegation made the visit with the knowledge of the Pakistani government. Islamabad has denied sending or sponsoring the delegation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647318.html
Reports: Germany to sell Israel submarines at discount price
Der Spiegel and Focus magazines said the two Dolphin class submarines would be built in Kiel for a total of about one billion euros (e1.17 billion) and the federal government, leaving office on Tuesday, would pick up one-third of the cost.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647321.html
Keeping dialogue open
Ilan Pappe, who even his enemies must concede to be a very patient man, argued that the debate about academic boycott achieved three things. It relocated the question of the occupation to the front pages of the international press; it offered a new agenda for peace in the form of a popular solidarity movement based on the anti-apartheid movement; and most importantly of all, it offered hope to the Palestinians...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/columnist/story/0,9826,1645777,00.html
Amman massacre - By Azmi Bishara
The people who carried out the Amman bombings were unmoved by the victims they claimed. They were impervious to the dreams and joys of the wedding couples that they would so summarily terminate. They gave no pause to the fact that many of the receptionists, porters and other hotel staff had also been children of refugee camps.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/769/op11.htm
Heated debate on Palestinian disarmament at AUB
Salah Salah of the Palestinian National Council rejected demands for disarming Palestinian refugees before granting them full civil and humanitarian rights at a heated debate at the American University of Beirut Thursday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=20176
Peretz to campaign in Russian
As part of his preparations for the upcoming general elections, Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz is taking intensive Russian classes, hoping to address immigrants from the former Soviet Union in their native language in the run-up to the general election.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3171582,00.html
Senior UN political official visits Israel, occupied Palestinian territory
The top United Nations political official has begun a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, meeting with Israeli National Security Adviser Giora Eiland yesterday and touring Gaza to see firsthand the situation on the ground in the aftermath of Israel's disengagement from the area in August.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16615&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
On This Day 1977: Egyptian leader's Israel trip makes history
speech to his parliament on 9 November, to travel to Israel was widely regarded as no more than a literary flourish. When Prime Minister Begin responded by issuing an official invitation nobody believed Mr Sadat would accept.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stores/november/19/newsid_2520000/2520467.stm
'Bombings aimed at Israeli intelligence'
"We chose these hotels after over two months of thorough checks with trusted sources inside the hotels and elsewhere showed that they were centers for the Jewish, U.S. and Jordanian security apparatus," Zarqawi said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3171354,00.html
Sunnis Skeptical of U.S. Detainee Efforts
"I am convinced that every political party has its own prison in order to help the occupiers," said Abdullah Mohammed al-Dulaimi, a Sunni merchant in Ramadi. "All this happens with the knowledge of the Americans. This is a campaign against the Sunnis."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_sunnis
Iraqi Conference Resumes After Walk-Out
Hours after the conference began, an Iraqi Christian delegate, Ibrahim Menas al-Youssefi, took the podium and accused fellow delegates of being American stooges. He said the entire Iraqi political process was illegitimate and orchestrated by Washington. Shiite and Kurdish delegates left the closed session in disgust.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_reconciliation
Blasts Kill 49 in Iraq; U.S. Troops Killed
A suicide attacker killed at least 36 people and wounded 50 more in a Shiite funeral procession Saturday north of Baghdad... The U.S. military also said five soldiers were killed Saturday and five were wounded in a pair of roadside bombings in northern Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Kuwait rules out major border dispute with Iraq
Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah reiterated on Saturday that the border between Iraq and Kuwait has already been laid down by a United Nations Security Council resolution, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/19/content_3805694.htm
US House votes down troop withdrawal, but war divisions widen
In a vote Friday, ruling Republicans sought to rally support for the president after a surprise initiative by a Democratic lawmaker calling for a pullout, which brought the angry divide between Republicans and Democrats over Iraq policy to the surface.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051119/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqpolitics_051119171213 |
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