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Qalqilya crossing new international (APARTHEID) border
Israeli authorities informed the Palestinian side that the crossing would be opened at 4:30 this morning. This was delayed, however until 6:00 am under the pretext that Israeli officers were training soldiers on how to deal with workers and their documents.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/nov/week4/281105/report2.htm
The Eastern Wall: Closing the circle of our ghettoization
Today rapid construction marks the second phase of the project surrounding Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron. Meanwhile, away from public attention, the Occupation has started the third phase of the Wall project and begun annexing and ethnically cleansing the Jordan Valley. Under the official title of “development”, the Jordan Valley has become a “Major Governmental Project” for (ILLEGAL) settlement expansion.
http://stopthewall.org/analysisandfeatures/1042.shtml
Court nixes petition to connect power for young (ARAB) cancer patient
The three-year-old girl has undergone three operations and is currently receiving chemotherapy treatment. The High Court of Justice has rejected a petition asking the state to connect an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev desert to the electricity grid, to allow a toddler who suffers from cancer to receive treatments at home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650990.html
PM's Kadima to call for demilitarized Palestinian state
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's newly-established Kadima party will call for the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside Israel and the preservation of Jerusalem and large West Bank settlement blocs under Israeli control. ( Next to Nucleary Overloaded Zionist Entity!?? )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/651003.html
EI EXCLUSIVE: Did UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw help sell out Jerusalem?
New documents obtained by EI under the UK's Freedom of Information Act (2000) from the Department of Trade and Industry indicate that Straw was asked to back the bid, while UK officials dismissed concerns that the company's work could violate British policy and UN resolutions on the status of Jerusalem. In fact, UK officials have repeatedly and misleadingly reassured the public they would not support any work by firms in Occupied East Jerusalem when the record shows just the opposite.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4319.shtml
Legal report says PA efforts to curb security chaos not enough
The report also called for providing the necessary protection to PA institutions, first and foremost the courts, judicial bodies and members of the attorney general's office so these bodies will be able to carry out their duties. It also called on the PA to conduct serious investigations into security violations and to publicly announce the results of these investigations. The violators, the report said, should be apprehended and brought to justice.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/nov/week4/281105/report3.htm
The AG's campaign against Arab MKs
According to the logic that has been guiding attorneys general (Elyakim Rubinstein and Menachem Mazuz) for several years now, Arab MKs are not allowed to do what journalists, arms dealers and exporters are allowed to do - namely, maintain contact with "an enemy country."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650611.html
Balanced reporting and the Middle East conflict
Had it not been for Ms Platt's balanced and informative reports, it would have been difficult to distinguish between the BBC coverage of the occupied territories and that of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority. Ms Platt admirably tried for many months to "balance" a simple imbalanced reality: of Israeli occupation and Palestinian victimisation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1652125,00.html
Report: Gunmen steal lion, two parrots from Gaza zoo
Zoo manager Saud al-Shawwa has offered a reward of 1,000 U.S. dollars for the return of the lion and of two Arabic-speaking parrots which were also stolen in the 30-minute heist. According to the reports, four gunmen armed with Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifles broke into the zoo and overpowered the guard.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650458.html
Train to Ramallah in works
A plan for a train line that will run from the cities of Lod and Jerusalem to the West Bank town of Ramallah has already been formulated and is being examined by the government, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Monday. The line, which is set to serve the Palestinian population
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3175999,00.html
Fatah cancels primaries in Gaza as gunmen storm polling station
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party cancelled its primaries in the Gaza Strip on Monday after militants stormed some polling places and shut them down, party officials said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650924.html
Abbas may hand-pick Fatah candidates for elections
Well-informed Palestinian sources said on Monday that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who also heads the ruling Fatah movement, might hand-pick some Fatah candidates to run in the upcoming legislative elections.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/28/content_3848558.htm
World Bank: economic performance in the West Bank below their potential
In practice, however, the available monthly revenues, after deducting debts to Israeli suppliers, is around $70.2 million. The Authority's monthly expenditure is about $122.80 million, including $80.1 million in salaries alone. Hence the monthly deficit runs at $52.63 million. This deficit is supposed to be covered by foreign donors, mostly from Arab countries.
http://www.port2port.com/Index.asp?CategoryID=46&ArticleID=677
Palestine: Inflation up 1.93% during October
According to the press release, the prices of remaining West Bank (The West Bank except for those parts of Jerusalem, which were annexed after 1967 occupation by Israel), have gone up by 1.95%, prices in Jerusalem increased by 1.66 %, and prices in Gaza Strip (GS) increased by 1.54%.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/191370
OPT: EU election observation mission for Palestinian legislative council elections
The EU EOM, will assess whether the electoral process is conducted in accordance with international standards. The Commission welcomes the holding of these elections as a further step in democracy building within the Palestinian Territories. The EOM will be led by Véronique de Keyser, Member of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee and the EP Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6JKDSZ?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
E.U. won't press Israel on Barghouti
Cibrian-Uzal added that if Hamas runs in the elections E.U. official will ensure contact with Hamas candidates be limited to issues pertaining to the elections, conforming that the Islamist group will remain on the E.U. list of terror groups “until some conditions change, namely a commitment from Hamas to solve the conflict through non-violent means.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3176313,00.html
U.S. Supreme Court declines to block judgment against PLO over deaths of Jewish couple
Clark said U.S. courts "are marching off to the conflicts of the Middle East and elsewhere carrying with them the integrity of the U.S. judiciary and risking the foreign perception that U.S. courts will extend their jurisdiction globally deciding the most sensitive political questions affecting the foreign policies of the U.S. and other nations as they go.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/651019.html
Saudi king says Peretz could promote talks with Palestinians
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said new Labor Party leader Amir Peretz may help unite Israel's peace camp and lead to progress in talks with the Palestinians, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650995.html
Deputy PM Olmert urges Palestinians to disarm Hamas
"Olmert wished Mahmoud Abbas luck in the forthcoming elections of the Palestinian Council," the official said, referring to parliamentary polls due in January. "At the same time he stressed that Israel sees a danger in the participation of Hamas (in the election)."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650564.html
Sarid may quit; Meretz says it would join a Kadima-led gov't
Meretz-Yahad Chair Yossi Beilin announced at his party's convention Sunday that Meretz would consider joining forces with Ariel Sharon's party Kadima if he forms the next government. "Meretz will be a member of the future coalition," Beilin declared.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650862.html
Knesset legal advisor tells panel to weigh MK Sharon suspension
The Knesset legal advisor Nurit Elstein on Monday instructed the House Committee to convene without delay to discuss the suspension of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son, MK Omri Sharon, following his recent conviction of corruption charges.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650979.html
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer raises lending rate 0.5 percent
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer on Monday raised lending rates on central bank sources for December 2005 by half a percent, to 4.5 percent. The Bank of Israel has an inflation target range of 1 percent to 3 percent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/651023.html
5 million voters are registered; lists will allow for correction
The Population Administration announced Sunday, as part of the Interior Ministry's preparations for elections to the 17th Knesset, that 5,018,287 people are registered to vote, according to the initial voter registry.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/650865.html
Sharon may offer Peres peace envoy: report
If Shar on were to win re-election, such an appointment would place Peres at the center of all regional and international contacts toward diplomatic progress toward peace with the Arabs, said the report.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/28/content_3847587.htm
Israelis, Palestinians to play for Mideast peace
Israeli and Palestinian soccer players, accompanied by a host of sports and political dignitaries, flew to Spain on Monday to promote Middle East peace in a friendly match against Barcelona.
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=7143
EU-Mediterranean leaders reach compromise on terrorism
The EU had wanted to condemn terrorism without quibbles, stating that the right to self-determination did not justify acts of violence, while the Arab states in the Euromed (Euro-Mediterranean) group wanted to include "legitimate resistance against any occupying foreign military force" in the terror definition. None of the definitions were finally adopted however...
http://euobserver.com/9/20428
Jury clears siblings of UK's first suicide bomber
The brother and sister of a British would-be suicide bomber were cleared by a court on Monday of failing to tell police their brother planned to take part in an attack that killed three in a packed Israeli bar.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29653529.htm
27 percent increase in tourism to Israel
From January through October there were 1,589,700 visitors to Israel, a 27 percent increase over the same period last year. More visitors came by land, sea, and by air, but the 50 percent increase in the numbers of those coming by land, and the 30 percent increase in those arriving on direct flights to Eilat was especially notable.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3172600,00.html
Gunmen kill Sunni political leader near Fallujah
"Ayad al-Izzi was shot dead in drive-by shooting by unidentified armed men in Innaz area east of Fallujah," Abdul Rahman, a local journalist, told Xinhua by telephone. Two persons accompanying Izzi were also killed in the attack, he added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/28/content_3848977.htm
US embassy confirms kidnapping of American in Iraq
Earlier reports said four foreign aid workers including two Canadians, a Briton and an American were abducted by unknown gunmen in Baghdad on Saturday. The British and Canadian governments have also confirmed the kidnapping.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/28/content_3847642.htm |
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