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Bilin: Illegal outpost may become school
After lighting Hanukkah candles Sunday evening for the “liberation from the occupation” near the West Bank village of Bilin, leftwing activists and Palestinians built a small structure Monday near a caravan along the security fence.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190350,00.html
Norwegian county boycott of Israel ires Jewish groups
Soer-Trondelag became the first province in Norway to bar the purchase of Israeli goods when the provincial board voted on December 16 to impose the boycott. Torill Skaerseth, a board representative from the far-left Red Electoral Alliance, said she hopes the boycott will spread to other Norwegian provinces.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/661340.html
Ministry releases tenders for building 228 houses in (OCCUPIED) W. Bank
The Housing and Construction Ministry on Monday released tenders for the construction of 228 (ILLEGAL) housing units in the West Bank: 150 (ILLEGAL) units in Beitar Ilit and 78 (ILLEGAL) units in the Givat Ha'Zait (ILLEGAL) neighborhood in Efrat.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/662592.html
Palestinian: Settlers uprooted 120 trees
The people of Borin said this was not the first time settlers had uprooted their olive trees. "Last month they burnt down and destroyed about 50 acres of orchard and more than 300 trees. Earlier they also cut down hundreds of trees," Bassam Shataya of Borin told Ynet. ( If not punished, repeating it is very normal !!! )
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190257,00.html
Leftists slam West Bank construction
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's underhanded opportunism and the construction of hundreds of housing units in the occupied territories constitute a violation to the Road Map peace plan and harms Israel's interest," Peace Now said in a statement.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190278,00.html
Gaza infighting gets serious
Security sources announced today that members of Hamas placed explosives in front of the home of police captain Abu Wael Saada from the Jala' neighborhood in Gaza City late last night. An investigation has been opened into the incident and the perpetrators are being pursued, a Palestinian security source said.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15696&Itemid=1
Three militant groups vow to carry out joint anti-Israeli attacks
The vow came after the Israeli government approved on Saturday a plan to build up a 10-km security buffer zone in northern Gaza to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets from the area.Palestinians will not be allowed to reach the buffer zone, which will be monitored by reconnaissance drones, helicopters, artillery and F16 warplanes
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/27/content_3973242.htm
PA prisoners launch hunger strike
The prisoners, who are being held in Jericho, Nablus and Jenin, said they would refuse both food and medicine. Some of the prisoners have been held in detention without trial for over two years, while others have not been released although they have completed their prison terms.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309641760&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Court allows Fatah to merge Palestinian election lists
The ruling of the electoral court was needed because the official deadline for registering candidates was December 14. After an appeal, the court said it would reopen registration for a further six hours. It was not immediately clear when the six hours would begin.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662659.html
Inappropriate behavior for Jews
The arrest (which has since been reduced to house arrest) of Iz a-Din Badran, the parliamentary aide of Balad MK Azmi Bishara, due to suspicions that he organized trips by Israeli Arabs to Syria... Most of these citizens are elderly people who became separated from their family members in 1948 in the wake of the expulsion or flight from Israel. ( All of whom have Legal right of Return to the homes in Palestine! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662276.html
Will “black list” sabotage Rafah agreement?
The threat is expected to put both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt in an awkward position, reminiscent of the popular response of the Gazans after Israel evacuated its settlements and settlers and how they surged to the Egyptian border crossing over to the other side as an expression of victory and a freedom of movement for the people.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15694&Itemid=1
Sharon party wants to fix borders of Israel
At a recent party meeting, Maariv quoted MP Roni Bar-On as saying that the permanent borders will include all Jerusalem and the main (ILLEGAL) Jewish settlement blocs in the (OCCUPIED) West Bank of Ariel, Gush Etzion and Maale Adumim.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpolitics_051226091507
Netanyahu: Sharon planning withdrawal from 90% of W. Bank
In his speech, Netanyahu slammed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party, which he said was "secretly planning" a unilateral withdrawal from 90 percent of West Bank. Netanyahu also criticized the Palestinians, saying "We gave [them] everything, down to the last crumb, and they respond by firing Qassam rockets on Ashkelon," Netanyahu said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662662.html
Sharon orders IDF to use all means to stop Qassam rocket attacks from Gaza Strip
Mofaz said the IDF is using artillery fire and aerial strikes to prevent Palestinians from entering the northern Gaza Strip areas from which the rockets were launched.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662265.html
Army shells the northern Gaza Strip; homemade shells hit Sderot, Ashkelon
An Israeli military source reported that Israeli artillery fired several bombs at areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, after claiming the Palestinian resistance intended to fire homemade shells from these areas. The source stated that two homemade shells were fired, on Monday at noon, at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot, no injuries were reported.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15700&Itemid=1
Fatah: We have better missiles
Senior al-Aqsa Brigades figure Abu Fadi warned that “if Israel sets up a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip our group will not sit idly by. We will use these weapons and the occupation government will be the biggest loser due to its own actions.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190411,00.html
IDF, Shin Bet set up joint team to hunt for Hebron "terror" cell
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service recently set up a special joint investigative team in an effort to capture the Hamas cell responsible for murdering six Israelis in the southern West Bank over the past six months. The relatively rare measure was taken due to the difficulties they have had in tracking down the cell of shooters.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662298.html
No talks on renewing truce: official
"Most likely, the one-year calmness will not be renewed for another term," said al-Batsh, adding that "the subject of renewing the truce has been on the agenda of any new dialogue, but till now nothing started."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/27/content_3973241.htm
EU have no power to ban travelling through Rafah crossing
He made the comment after Jamal Abu Samahadana, commander ofthe militant group Popular Resistance Committees, was barred from crossing into Egypt on Sunday. Al-Khatib told radio Voice of Palestine that whoever finds trouble at the crossing can appeal to the judicial authority.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/26/content_3972892.htm
Israel, Arab World Engage in Hidden Trade
The hidden trade is worth about $400 million a year — about two and a half times what Israel sold to its official Arab trading partners, Egypt and Jordan, in 2004 — said Gil Feiler, the director of Info-Prod Research, a Tel Aviv consultancy specializing in Arab markets, and an economic professor at Bar Ilan University.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arab_israel_hidden_trade
Palestinians set terms for proceeding with January vote
"We are committed to holding these elections on January 25 but only if all the conditions to ensure their success are met," Qorei told a weekly cabinet meeting Monday. "If these necessary conditions are not met, then we cannot say in all honesty that we will be able to organise them."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianvoteqorei_051226162807
North American immigration hits highest level since 1983
The immigration rate from North America this year is the highest it has been since 1983, according to the Jewish Agency: More than 3,100 North Americans will have moved to Israel by the end of 2005.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/662566.html
InterPal wins case over Jewish lobby
President of the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund, InterPal Ibrahim Hewitt, announced from his headquarters in London that the Fund won a case against the Jewish Agency, which it says has tried to distort its humanitarian message. Hewitt also said the Jewish agency tried to bar it from carrying out its activities and relief and assistance work that it offers to the Palestinian people.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/dec/week4/261205/report2.htm
Beilin: Meretz will join next gov't even if Sharon is premier
"I view the next term as a critical one regarding the question of partitioning the country," Beilin said. "We want to be there, even if we do not demand that the government accept our entire point of view."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662605.html
PA elections poll: Hamas leading
The statistics also show that the Third Way party list, headed by PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad and Hanan Ashrawi, would win 4.7 percent of votes. Meanwhile, the Independent Party, headed by former leadership candidate Dr. Mustafa al-Barghouti, is projected to take 10 percent of the vote.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190516,00.html
Sharon to have heart treatment in hospital
Professor Haim Lotan told reporters that Sharon would undergo "a catheterization in the next two or three weeks" to repair the hole which was discovered during his treatment last week in the aftermath of a minor stroke.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelsharon_051226153309
Report: Shin Bet sets up 'Chinese unit'
An academic paper submitted by a senior Shin Bet official studying at Derby University revealed that Israel's internal intelligence agency has launched a unit specializing in China.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190307,00.html
Gunmen kill Iraqi forces, bombs shake Baghdad
It was one of the bloodiest days in Iraq since the largely peaceful election on December 15, when rival ethnic and sectarian groups took part in a vote for a new parliament. By nightfall, at least 20 were killed and over 40 injured.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-26T154114Z_01_SPI550206_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml&archived=False
Kurds win most votes in Iraqi diaspora elections
According to election commission spokesman Farid Ayar on Monday, the Kurdish Alliance took 36.56 percent of the vote while the conservative Shiite United Iraqi Alliance took 30.28 percent. The list of former prime minister Iyad Allawi came in third with 11.10 percent.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/iraqvoteresults_051226161654
Freed German hostage says Iraq captors not criminals
A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq said her kidnappers were not criminals and had demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions. Speaking to Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, Susanne Osthoff said her captors told her not to be afraid as her kidnapping was "politically motivated."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/iraqgermanyhostage_051226181950 |
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