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Eizarya continues resistance as construction of Apartheid Wall blocked for the 10th consecutive day
Since the first day when villagers stopped the Occupation bulldozers, the construction activities on the Wall have been halted on a daily basis. Not even the visit of the Occupation War Minister Mofaz to the surrounding settlements could ensure the completion of the work which aims to swallow Eizarya's lands for the Ma`aleh Adumim colony.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1041.shtml
EC Calls on Israel to Improve Voting arrangements for Palestinian Elections
"The Council once again underlined its grave concern at Israeli activities in and around East Jerusalem, including construction of the separation barrier (Wall), settlement building and house demolitions," the Council stated. The European Council (EC) calls on Israel urgently to improve voting arrangements for the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections, including facilitating effectively voter registration, access to polling stations and campaigning
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4667
OPT: Sensitization of care givers
"Mothers become silent, especially dealing with husbands during the recent situation," said Samah. "You see a deterioration of children’s learning achievements, a change in their behavior, especially in teenage years." "I realized who much these problems and issues have an adverse impact on children and their behavior."
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KOCA-6JCJU8?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
State to fund private immigration groups
For the first time in its history, Israel will support private organizations that encourage immigration. The cabinet decided yesterday to give organizations that meet certain criteria, financial aid of up to $1,000 per immigrant.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647775.html
PPS: Prisoners Subjected Torture during investigation in Salem Prison
Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed Monday that the Palestinian detainees in Israeli Salem Prison are severely beaten up and tortured by Israeli investigators during the investigation.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4666
President Confirms Palestine Elections
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, confirmed that parliamentary elections will be held on January 25 as scheduled, said the Voice of Palestine radio station. According to plan, the election will be held in all Palestinian territories and candidates can be registered until December 3rd of this year.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B4670609E-71CC-48FC-8B84-4AD19000F764%7D)&language=EN
Erez crossing partially reopens with strict restrictions: official
A senior Palestinian security official announced on Sunday that Israel had partially reopened Erez crossing between Israel and northern Gaza Strip borders on Saturday after it was shut down for several days. However, strict and complicated restrictions are still imposed by the Israelis at the crossing
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6JC484?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Israel, PA open talks for Rafah agreement implementation
The Bush administration is demanding Israel commit to closing the border crossings only in cases of specific security threats, and that it supply reasons for every closure. The Defense Ministry is leaning toward accepting this condition, but the Justice Ministry and state prosecution oppose
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647783.html
Sharon: New party will work set borders
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in his first public address since quitting his Likud on Monday, said the party he plans to form would work to set permanent borders between Israel and the Palestinians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051121/ts_nm/mideast_party_dc_3
Lawmakers overwhelmingly approve disbanding Knesset
A massive majority of some 80 lawmakers approved eight bills to dissolve the Knesset on Monday evening. President Moshe Katsav said Monday evening he would accept a decision made by lawmakers to disband the Knesset and hold elections on March 28.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/648117.html
The HCLE Takes decisions Concerning Objections to Register Roll
Al-Shobakey called both the NGOs and international organizations which are concerned with observing the electoral process to have their monitoring role in full during all the stages of the forthcoming elections in an effort to guarantee free, fair and transparent elections, citing the decisive role they played over the three stages of the previous elections.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=11916
EU launches Gaza border mission
"We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday," said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, whose country currently holds the EU's rotating presidency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051121/wl_mideast_afp/mideasteumission_051121162451
Sharon Wants Early Israeli Vote
In a bold gamble, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday asked Israel's president to dissolve parliament, pushing for a quick March election just hours after deciding to leave his hard-line Likud Party and form a new centrist party.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories /2005/11/21/world/main1060419 .shtml
Israel's Sharon quits Likud - report
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told the leadership of his right-wing Likud party that he is breaking ranks to set up a new party, Israeli public television reported. 'I am resigning from the party and I am going to form a new one,' Sharon was reported to have written in a letter.
http://www.forbes.com/business /feeds/afx/2005/11/21/afx234757 9.html
Beilin: Sharon's resignation is opportunity for peace camp
The leader of the left-wing Meretz-Yahad faction Monday described Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to quit the Likud and form a new party as a "real opportunity" for the peace camp. In comments aired on Israel Radio, Yossi Beilin called Sharon's resignation "a big victory for supporters of sharing the land."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com /hasen/spages/648095.html
Peretz's disengagement
Peretz's legislation says that incentives for the continued voluntary evacuation of Israeli citizens located in the West Bank will help leverage the successful implementation of the disengagement plan for the purposes of the continued push forward toward final-status agreements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647798.html
Mofaz to run for Likud leadership
"I think that, these days, the Likud needs a leader who can combine security experience, statesmanship, and social issues," Mofaz told journalists. "I represent these aspects and I intend on running for the Likud leadership, and winning," he added.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3172781,00.html
Kuwait committed to Arab League resolutions on relations with Israel
"As for Kuwait there is nothing new in this matter. Kuwait believes that peace and diplomatic relations with Israel lacked its basic elements, foremost the ongoing Palestinian suffering. Thus there is nothing new in this matter. Our committment to King Abdullah's initiative is clear", he added in response to a question.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=789340
Four Hezbollah men killed attempting to kidnap IDF troops
Al-Manar, Hezbollah's television network, broadcast a statement made by the organization according to which Monday's fighting broke out after an IDF jeep crossed into Lebanese territory in Rajar. This marked the first clash between the two sides in five months.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647682.html
FM: Arabs must build bridges with Israel to help Palestinians
"You ask yourself, `Is this really happening?"' Shalom said, adding that in the past a high-level Israeli presence at an international gathering would have prompted a walkout by Arab leaders. "For them to sit with me and eat dinner - I think we've made tremendous progress."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647782.html
Pessimism over Rafah
This issue is of supreme importance, because control of the border crossings is a central component of political independence. Whoever controls the crossings and determines what and who enters and leaves - is the sovereign. This is both a symbolic and a practical matter.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647795.html
The poverty line vs. the security line
Security tensions grant Sharon a critical advantage in running against Peretz. Voters who are anxious about the fate of a child who is late again when returning home from the mall, will forget that waiting at home are unemployed parents with an empty refrigerator.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647797.html
Israeli political shifts herald new era
Ariel Sharon, who at 77 can look back on a roller-coaster career of risk and confrontation, realised his opponents within Likud would not let him make the concessions to the Palestinians and to US pressure which he now believes are necessary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4456766.stm
Arik's dream team
Therefore, exactly as he has done since being elected, Peretz must remain on the offensive; continue to show that Sharon's corrupt hands are responsible for hurting the weaker classes of society. Otherwise, Sharon and co. will eat him and his party alive.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3172428,00.html
Israel threatens to leave EuroMed parliament
"Israel has made a major step towards peace by pulling out completely from the Gaza strip ... but we are criticised for everything that happens in the Middle East. "We are fed up with being used as a punchbag for Arab members while the Europeans just sit and watch," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051121/wl_mideast_afp/moroccoisraeleu_051121191109
Silent exodus leaves 500,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria in need of protection and aid
Little known to the rest of the world, the recent war in Iraq has created large numbers of refugees who have fled to Syria, escaping the lawlessness, harassment, and persecution that has followed. Now totaling an estimated 500,000, only a small fraction of these refugees have approached the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to apply for temporary protection from refoulement.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=18039&s2=21
US troops kill five civilians in Iraq
Five family members, including three children, were killed outside a military base near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, as they returned from a funeral. "The soldiers started shooting at us from all over," said Ahmed Kamel al-Sawamra, a 22-year-old student who was driving the car and who escaped injury. "I slowed down and pulled off the road, but they continued firing."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051121/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_051121182011
Iraq asks Russia for help against Iran, Syria interference
"Russia, which has good relations with Syria and Iran, will help Iraq come to an agreement with them on questions regarding security in the country," Zebari was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS news agency following the meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051121/wl_mideast_afp/russiairaqdiplomacy_051121190647
The Bosnian Example for Iraq
Start with the U.S. and other NATO troops who began arriving in Bosnia shortly before Christmas 1995. There were 60,000 of them at first in a country of 4 million, or more than twice as many per capita as now are deployed in Iraq. Ten years later they are still there -- the American contingent left only a year ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005 /11/20/AR2005112000863.html
Iraq plans to build new oil refineries
Iraq has the world's third largest known reserves of oil but decades of war, sanctions, under-investment and now widespread violence and sabotage have left it critically short of fuel. It has to import nearly half of its gasoline.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=114486 |
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