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The Wall in a Week – The Occupation attempt to Annihilate Palestinian Past, Present and Future
In East Hebron, the Occupation forces have dispatched new confiscation orders. 1,355 dunams will be confiscated, including 18 water wells on which the area depends in their daily life. In Jerusalem, Occupation Forces began to destroy a sacred graveyard containing remains which are hundreds of centuries old. Maman Allah is the biggest Muslim graveyard in Jerusalem and is located in the western part of the city, 2 km away from Khalili Gate.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1065.shtml
12 locations of (ILLEGAL) settlements waste dumps threaten environment in Qalqilia
The Palestinian Central Census department reported that Qalqilia city, north of the West Bank, is facing an environmental threat caused by the garbage of twenty (ILLEGAL) settlements in the area, especially since Qalqilia includes the largest concentration of (ILLEGAL) settlements.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15582&Itemid=1
Palestine: Breaking Down the Wall
It is estimated that Israel's Annexation Wall will be completed in the early part of 2006. When it is finished it will annex 47% of the West Bank, and hand it over to the settler population. At least 15% of Palestinians will be left outside the wall1, completely isolated from the rest of society, and over 222,098 refugees for the second or third times will experience, "land confiscation, destruction of property, and denial of access to their lands thus directly affecting their means of livelihood"
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4355.shtml
Tourism Ministry opens checkpoint office
“The monstrous structure gives the people passing through it the sense of being in a prison: the long hallways with no signs or instructions, the lack of direct communication with the people running the checkpoint, and the long and tiring security checks. Christian tourists who come to the new checkpoint feel hurt and angry.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3184867,00.html
A lesson in citizenship
This is because in the Galilee, like everywhere else, what doesn't go to the Arabs goes to the Jews. Here, the big winner is the Misgav Regional Council. Following the panel's decision, the amount of municipal land per inhabitant (Jewish, of course) in Misgav will come to 36 times the amount of land per (Arab) inhabitant in Sakhnin.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659905.html
Right-wing group prepares to build 15 new illegal outposts
Datya Yitzhak, a Gush Katif evacuee, said on behalf of the group that their goal is to encourage the national camp, which after the harsh blow it suffered after the disengagement, is still in a state of shock. "This is the true Zionist reply - continued construction across the land and expansion in Judea, Samaria and the Land of Israel," Yitzhak said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659860.html
Army arrests 11 of Hamas activists in the West Bank
Nine residents were arrested in the West Bank village of Qibyah, near Ramallah; army claims uncovering a gun and ammunition. One resident was arrested on Qabatia near Jenin, and another resident was arrested in Hebron.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15584&Itemid=1
The Harsh Reality of Occupied Palestine
On tape, the Israeli watchtower can be heard identifying her: "A girl about 10, shes behind the embankment, scared to death." Moments later she was shot by an army sniper. An Israeli officer, identified only as Captain R, declared that he was going out "to confirm the kill." Nearing the girl, he shot her twice in the head, began to walk away, then turned back and emptied the magazine of his automatic rifle into her body.
http://rwor.org/a/028/gaza-border-deal.htm
OPT: 2,000 join Gaza protest against security mess
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has consistently pledged, but so far failed, to tame the security chaos in the West Bank and Gaza Strip where gunmen are often able to act with impunity, in the name of "resistance" to Israel.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DPAS-6K9HWW?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Bush to Sharon: I need you healthy
The president told Sharon that he views him as a full partner, a brave leader and a visionary of peace, expressing his desire to fight terror together with Sharon. "I need you healthy. People love strong leadership built on principles, and you have proved this," Bush said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187556,00.html
U.S. building Hamas town
The U.S. Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the Islamic Development Bank, reportedly contributed USD 392,000 for construction of roads and public facilities in Bani Suhaila, a Gaza village outside the populated Palestinian city of Khan Yunis.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187404,00.html
Rule of law includes the right of return
As the international community commemorates the 57th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10) and Palestinians commemorate the adoption of Resolution 194(III) (December 11) calling for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes
http://www.badil.org/Publications/Press/2005/press402-05.htm
Rival Fatah groups to cooperate in Palestinian poll
Rival groups within the ruling Palestinian party Fatah agreed on Tuesday to cooperate as closely as possible, despite their differences, to defeat Hamas Islamic militants in parliamentary elections in January.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20747659.htm
Egypt seeks to delay PA elections
Officially, Egypt does not interfere in the Authority's internal issues, such as setting and delaying the elections date. However, PA sources said that if Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas should ask Suleiman to mediate on the issue, Egypt would positively consider the request.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187386,00.html
EU in Palestine election row
"It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow", he said according to press reports. His statements refer to the fact that Islamic resistance movement Hamas could win next month's Palestinian election, with the group on a list of terror organisations in both the EU and US.
http://euobserver.com/9/20594
Fatah officials urge Abbas to postpone January 25 election
Abbas plans to raise the issue in a meeting with Egyptian intelligence Omar Suleiman, who is visiting the West Bank on Wednesday, the aide said. Egyptian officials said Suleiman's main mission is to prop up an Israeli-Palestinian truce following a new flare-up on the Gaza-Israel border.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/660319.html
Standoff between Fatah gunmen and police in Bethlehem resolved peacefully
Some of the armed men were members of the security forces and others belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent Fatah offshoot. The Al Aqsa gunmen demanded to be put on the government payroll and the security officers demanded back wages, Taameri said. Abbas "will take their demands into consideration," he said.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051220/w122052.html
Sharon congratulates Netanyahu on Likud primaries victory
Shortly after returning to his Jerusalem residence, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory in Monday's Likud primaries, local newspaper Ha'aretz said on its on-line edition on Tuesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/20/content_3948674.htm
Israel's Likud party intends regaining power
Finance Minister Ehud Olmert, a member of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party, attacked that the Likud had now become an extreme right-wing, uncompromising party. Olmert called Netanyahu the "imprisoned boy" caught between parliament member Uzi Landau's and Feigilin's extremism.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/20/content_3947529.htm
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides US $21 million to support the Empowerment of Palestinian Local Authorities Program (EPLA)
Over the next three years, the EPLA consortium will continue to work closely with the Ministry of Local Government and with select Local Government Units to develop and articulate a Palestinian vision, policies, an institutional framework and legal structures for democratic local governance and to build interest, trust and sustainable opportunities for cooperation between local/national government and citizens, the private sector and educational institutions in the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6K93CL?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
The Fourth Stage of Palestinian Municipal Elections
The fourth stage of the local elections, the results of which represent a sweeping victory by Hamas in all of the major cities in the West Bank (with the exception of Ramallah) indicate the depth of the socio-political transformations that have taken place in Palestinian society.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=337&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1
Peretz: Sharon has created 'two nations within our own country'
"A Palestinian state has become a consensus. The slogan 'two states for the two nations' is also heard in Likud. But Mr. prime minister, we've never agreed to create two nations within our own country," said Peretz, referring to the growing gaps between the poor and the wealthy sectors.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/660315.html
Can Amir Peretz survive as a political nonconformist?
The fact that Peretz is a Sephardic Jew, however, is less a matter of going against the tide, since the Sephardim have been working their way up in Israel for years. In Likud, Netanyahu is competing today with Tunisian-born Silvan Shalom and, until recently, Iranian-born Shaul Mofaz. Even the Labor party, the bastion of Western, Ashkenazi Jews, was briefly led by the Iraqi-born Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=20844
European-Israeli honeymoon
This differentiation stemmed from a worldview that saw Palestinian attacks as a response to "occupation;" in other words, Israel brought them on itself, and as long as the occupation continued, Palestinian terrorism (ACT AGAINST OCCUPATION) was to some degree "justified."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3186988,00.html
Fake court to try Sharon, Bush, Blair
The Arab Lawyers Union, a Cairo-based organization which includes twenty-four national bar associations of Arab countries, has decided to hold a symbolic court hearing against “war criminals who harmed Arabs and Muslims,” the Arab media reported Tuesday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187521,00.html
Court: Dirani may demand compensation, but not receive it
An Israeli court Tuesday upheld the right of a freed Lebanese militant commander to demand compensation for alleged torture and rape he endured in an Israeli prison, but barred him, as a resident of an enemy nation, from receiving any funds as a result.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/660239.html
Syria said mulling plan to cede Shaba Farms to Lebanon
Syria is considering a proposal to give Lebanon sovereignty over the Shaba Farms, on the slopes of Mount Hermon, by signing a new border deal with Lebanon, according to information that has reached Israel from several sources in the last few days.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/659932.html
Germany Releases Hezbollah Hijacker Wanted by US
Apparently ignoring Washington's extradition request for Mohammed Ali Hamadi, German authorities have secretly released the Lebanese Hezbollah member who was serving a life sentence in the country for the hijacking of a TWA jet and for the murder of a US navy diver.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1829531,00.html
IDF: Iranian threat on Israel substantial
Farkash referred to the Iranian issue in Sunday's cabinet meeting as well, saying "Iran is determined to reach nuclear capabilities and obtain ground to ground missiles. It is turning into a regional power."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187457,00.html
Muslim, Israeli officials establish close relations
In addition, the staffs of Afghanistan embassies in the same country and in two other countries have been holding close talks with the Israeli ambassadors and have invited them to several events at their homes. In the meantime, a warm-up was has also been noted in Bangladesh's relations with Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3187290,00.html
Sunni Arab body calls for re-elections in Iraq
He said his group obtained evidences of fraud acts in the elections, including several hours of footage of the fraudulence. However, he said "these evidences would not be submitted to the commission, but we demand an international investigation submit those evidences to a neutral committee."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/20/content_3948681.htm |
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