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President angers Greek patriarch by inviting his predecessor to bash
The patriarch, Theofilos III, will not attend the annual party because the invitation addressed him as a mere "bishop," said the church secretary, Archbishop Aristarchos. The previous patriarch, Irineos I, was ousted in May amid allegations he leased property in Jerusalem's Old City to (ILLEGAL) Jewish settler groups. Israel (OCCUPIER) has not recognized Irineos' removal nor the naming of Theofilos.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663050.html
Judaizing Jerusalem - the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian Capital
Completion in early 2006 will leave the majority of Palestinians in and around Jerusalem – around 190,000 people - facing two options. To stay in Jerusalem's ghetto neighborhoods, subjected to high Occupation taxes, imprisoned by Walls and a life under siege. Secondly, exile into what remains of the West Bank and Gaza or abroad, and permanent loss of the right to live in the Palestinian capital.
http://stopthewall.org/maps/1068.shtml
Telling it like it isn't - By Robert Fisk
This is only the tip of the semantic iceberg that has crashed into American journalism in the Middle East. Illegal Jewish settlements for Jews and Jews only on Arab land are clearly "colonies," and we used to call them that. I cannot trace the moment when we started using the word "settlements." But I can remember the moment around two years ago when the word "settlements" was replaced by "Jewish neighborhoods" — or even, in some cases, "outposts."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-fisk27dec27,0,6099761.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
Expand J'lem beyond the Green Line, panel urges
Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel and two of the top researchers at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Dr. Yisrael Kimche and Dr. Maya Hoshen, called for the hasty construction of the area known as E-1, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim. They also called for widened corridors connecting Jerusalem to Ma'aleh Adumim, Givat Ze'ev and the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, and spoke against westward expansion.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=662691
Official: IDF, settlements 'a bad mix'
"The Administration designates land, declares it State property, and approves water and electricity connection," she said. "The Administration is the body that allows, in practice, settlement activity in the territories." Sasson added the Administration was particularly problematic because it comes under the army's jurisdiction.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190569,00.html
There's a system for turning Palestinian property into Israel's state land
Building companies owned and managed by settler leaders and land dealers acquire lands from Palestinian crooks and transfer them to the Custodian of Government Property in the Israel Lands Administration. The custodian "converts" the lands to "state lands," leases them back to settler associations that then sell them to building companies. In this way it has been ensured that the Palestinians (under the law in the territories, the onus of proof is on them) will never demand their lands back.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662729.html
Tenders issued for 228 West Bank dwellings
"This was planned a long time ago," Gissin said. "These are the large settlement blocs, they will be strengthened." "The minute they think that media attention is focused on politics, they put out lots of tenders," said Dror Etkes of Peace Now. "Sharon said a few years ago don't talk - build. This is exactly what he's doing."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=662694
Report: "9200 detainees are imprisoned in Israeli prisons"
In spite of the current “truce” Israeli soldiers carried dozens of arrest raids and “random arrests”, and arrested since the Sharm Al Sheikh truce agreement, in February, 3000 residents, and opened new branches in Ofer and Shatta detention facilities.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15721&Itemid=1
Army arrests two residents from Hebron
to release resident Mahmoud Al Hroush, 53, imprisoned in Gush Atzion Interrogation Center, near Hebron, since 21/12/205. Sources at the Society reported that Al Hroush suffers bad health conditions; cancer, kidney failure, irregular heart beats, in addition to sight loss which occurred as a result of torture during interrogation.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15710&Itemid=1
1,000s of Jerusalem school children demonstrate for right to education
Three thousand Palestinian students from private schools and Islamic Waqf schools demonstrated yesterday in Jerusalem near Damascus Gate protesting the Israeli occupation government?s denial of their teachers from the West Bank from reaching their schools in East Jerusalem.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/sep/week1/060905/6sepstudents.htm
In East Jerusalem, 23 students study in a single bedroom
The State of Israel is responsible for schools in East Jerusalem since it annexed the eastern part of the city and granted permanent resident status to all Arab residents there after the Six-Day War. Today, tens of thousands of children are subject to the Israel's compulsory education law, but are discriminated against when it comes to allocating budgets for infrastructure and developing educational institutions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662728.html
Al Aqsa Brigades: “We did not break into public facilities”
Mohammad Hijazi, one of the prominent leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, in the Gaza Strip, said that Fateh is passing through a real crisis, and accused several Palestinian security officials of pushing some Fateh members in order to conduct violent acts, under the name of the brigades.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15720&Itemid=1
PICCR calls for halting political arrests
PICCR expressed its rejection of any illegal arrests, calling on the Palestinian Authority to immediately release all political prisoners, detainees arrested for their points of view or those arrested in violation of the law. PICCR also called on the PA to close its file of political arrests and to refrain from arresting citizens for their political beliefs or viewpoints.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/dec/week4/271205/report2.htm
Israel, Arab nations trade despite ban
Feiler said the Israeli origins of products is hidden by methods other than third-country exports. Arabs of Lebanese origin in Israel sell counterfeit Lebanese certificates of origin complete with forged government stamps. Some Israeli factories have departments of so-called quality control - where any Hebrew writing or 'Made in Israel' marks are removed from product components.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309651471&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Israel to notify Gaza Strip residents before strikes
The Israel Defense Forces intends to drop flyers from IAF planes warning residents before striking Gaza Strip targets as it begins enforcing a buffer zone to prevent Qassam rocket fire into its territory. ( And tell them where to hide, to be safe? )
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=662733
Hundreds of (ILLEGAL) settler youths erect 14 illegal outposts in West Bank
Israel Defense Forces sources dismissed the developments in the West Bank, saying the youths were merely enjoying "a holiday resort of children that will disperse itself," and that the military does not currenly have plans to evacuate the outposts. ( Jews Are OK With Destruction of Palestinian Owned Land ! ! ! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663047.html
Palestinian ministry denies receiving Israeli warning to evacuate posts
Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfik Abu Khousa told reporters that the ministry had not received any Israeli warnings, adding that the ministry had issued firm instructions to Palestinian security forces and police to stay in their outposts and not to leave under any circumstances.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DPAS-6KGDP4?OpenDocument
Palestinian gunmen seize West Bank election office
The gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Abbas's Fatah movement, said they seized the al-Ram office to demand the inclusion of candidates representing adjacent Jerusalem on the list of those contesting the Jan. 25 vote.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/27/worldupdates/
2005-12-27T190001Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-229565-1&sec=Worldupdates
A vote for Arab women
The poll's results are supported by the nature of increased political activism within the Arab sector prior to the elections, especially with regard to women's representation. Arab parties, institutions, social organizations and press are intensively discussing the need to ensure Arab female representation in the next Knesset, which, in turn, is being stepped up by widespread public support.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662711.html
Israel bans Arab-Israeli author from leaving
Shalahat, 59, a known literary critic who wrote dozens of books, received the decree, signed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is also acting interior minister, which stated that his leaving the country could harm the State's security.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190787,00.html
Report: Israel building Arab ghettos
The report found that barriers have been erected between Caesarea and Jisr e-Zarka, Jouarish and the Geneh Dan neighborhood in Ramle, and the Pardes Shanir neighborhood in Lod and Nor Tzvi. “The purpose of these fences is to separate Jewish quarters from Palestinian quarters, prevent physical and eye contact, and ‘protect’ the Jewish majority from the Arab minority,” the report read.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3191008,00.html
Bethlehem hosts nonviolence conference with 350 attendees from around the world
This evening, the International Nonviolence Conference will open in Bethlehem under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust. The conference will continue over a three day period with the participation of approximately 350 guests from around the world who represent a vast platform of institutions, religions and social sectors.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/dec/week4/271205/report1.htm
Immigration from West hits all-time record level
Some 23,000 people have moved to Israel this year, 4 percent more than in 2004. By contrast, immigration from North America has risen by 15 percent since last year and immigration from France has risen by 23 percent in the same period.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662688.html
Arab parliament meets in Cairo
The interim parliament has no binding legislative authority and can give its opinion only on matters referred to it by the Arab League council, which represents Arab governments. Based in Syria, it will meet twice a year. Mubarak called the inaugural session "a historical occasion which opens new horizons for joint Arab action".
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9C0B6509-D352-41C6-9800-6B398D62671D.htm
Study: J'lem must expand east, not west
The study, which was carried out by the Zionist Council in Israel and included some of the city's senior researchers and demographers, called on the government to carry out the politically-sensitive eastward expansion of Jerusalem in its stead.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309654068&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Rafsanjani calls on all Muslim countries to support Palestinians'independence cause
"All Muslim countries are duty-bound to support Palestine. On this basis, Iran considers support for the Palestinian people and objection to the violation of their rights as its Islamic task," Rafsanjani was quoted as saying at a meeting with Palestinian Ambassador to Tehran Salah Zawawi.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/27/content_3977235.htm
Palestinian architect of Munich attack slams Spielberg's film
"If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone,"... "Spielberg showed the movie to widows of the Israeli victims, but he neglected the families of Palestinian victims," said Daoud.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663054.html
Mossad: 1 nuclear bomb won't suffice Iran
The Mossad head said that "there is much importance in bringing the matter in front of the Security Council, which will impose economic sanctions on Iran. Forty percent of Iran's fuel needs are imported, and sanctions like these would be very significant."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190940,00.html
Chalabi Lacks Votes Needed to Win Spot in Iraqi Assembly
Unexpectedly low support from overseas voters has left Ahmed Chalabi -- the returned Iraqi exile once backed by the United States to lead Iraq -- facing a shutout from power in this month's vote for the country's first full-term parliament since the 2003 invasion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600299.html
U.S. Allies Reducing Troop Levels in Iraq
The last Ukrainian and Bulgarian troops have left Iraq, and Poland plans deep cuts in its deployment next year, the countries said Tuesday, the latest of several U.S. allies to draw down force levels as public demand weighs on government leaders.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_coalition |
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