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Christmas Solidarity: Activists, Media and Churches Unite with Palestinian People and Boycott Apartheid Israel
In Oslo, the Norwegian Boycott Campaign distributed Spanish and Moroccan clementines and oranges as “Christmas presents” to festive shoppers in order to highlight just how easy it is to find alternatives and boycott Apartheid Israel. 50 kilos of clementines were handed out, together with boycott leaflets to an overwhelmingly supportive Norwegian public.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1069.shtml
Court halts fence (WALL) building near Arab village
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday issued an interim order partially halting the building of the separation fence in the area between (OCCUPIED) Jerusalem and the town (ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT) of Maale Adumim.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3191593,00.html
Salah: Museum of Tolerance being built on Muslim graves
Two months after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled the cornerstone of the new Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, the Islamic Movement northern branch leader Sheikh Ra'ad Salah on Wednesday called on authorities to stop its construction, claiming it is being built on the site of a Muslim cemetery.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663493.html
Peace Now movement visits Modi'n Elite settlement
This project will lead to further land grab and annexation of Palestinian areas. General Director of Peace Now movement in Israel, Yariv Hyper, said that the Israeli authorities are constructing housing units in Modi’n Elite settlement, west of Ramallah. The work started after Israel approved the construction of 1500 units
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15733&Itemid=1
Labor peace plan: Lease West Bank settlement blocs from PA
The platform's "Hong Kong principle" refers to the agreement between Great Britain and China in 1898, according to which Great Britain leased the islands of Hong Kong for 99 years. When the lease ended in 1997, China took back the islands with a pledge to preserve their democracy. Using this model, the large blocs of settlements, Ma'ale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel, would remain under Israeli control in exchange for monetary or territorial compensation to the Palestinian state.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663107
Israeli army shells northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers began shelling several targets in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, and moved into these areas in order to implement the “buffer zone” after forcing the residents out.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15744&Itemid=1
Settler youths erect 14 illegal outposts in W. Bank
"We intend to expand and build on these; we will build on what has been destroyed and show that settlement activity will resume," she said. The outposts were erected alongside existing settlements, in the hope that such a move would increase the chances that the new enclaves would be recognized as legitimate neighborhoods instead of illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663123.html
Israel: Expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (HRW)
You recently reiterated Israel's obligations to stop expanding settlements when you said, on October 20, 2005, following your meeting with Palestinian President Abbas: "Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes its road map obligations, or prejudices the final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. This means that Israel must remove unauthorized outposts and stop settlement expansion."
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6KH3PB?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
(BORDERLESS) State seeks solution for E. J'lem voters in PLC elections
The participation of East Jerusalem residents in Palestinian elections is seeped in symbolism. Under an arrangement reached in the Oslo Accords, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem are allowed to vote in the West Bank, or at polling stations set up at post offices in the eastern part of the capital (of Palestine)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663125.html
Israel calls on northern Gaza (LEGAL) residents to evacuate
The leaflets, featuring a map indicating limits of a buffer zone Israel will enforce, were dropped in the area of the former (ILLEGAL) settlements of Nissanit, Elei Sinai and Dugit... "Whoever ignores this warning is putting his life in genuine danger," the leaflets said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/28/content_3982416.htm
It's not all in the details
Through the checkpoints, road closures, movement ban, and traffic restrictions, through the concrete walls and barbed wire fences, through the land expropriations , through the disconnecting of villages from their lands and from a connecting road, through the construction of a wall in a residential neighborhood and in the backyards of homes, and through the transformation of the West Bank into a cluster of "territorial cells,"...
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663138
Israeli violence may blow up peace efforts: Palestine
Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) Speaker Rawhi Fatouh warned on Wednesday that the Israeli escalation of violence would blow up efforts to revive peace talks between the two sides.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/28/content_3981614.htm
IAF hits Brigades offices in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said the bridge that was attacked had been used by Qassam-launching cells to reach the evacuated settlements of Elei Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit and fire rockets toward Ashkelon. The IAF also attacked six roads in the region. ( Bridge was built for them, no one else used it! )
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663128
Report: Israel building Arab ghettos
“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. "The Arab Association for Human Rights believes these fences and barriers are a reflection of a ‘racial segregation’ and ghetto mentality, which is rooted in institutions and pervasive among Jewish communities against the Palestinian minority.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3191008,00.html
Three Britons kidnapped in Gaza
Three members of a British family became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Gaza after being abducted near the Egyptian border, diplomatic and Palestinian security sources said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051228/wl_uk_afp/mideastgazabritain
Gaza electoral offices open, gunmen end siege
"We have reopened all the offices," said a senior source in the central electoral commission (CEC) Wednesday, adding that the ruling Fatah party was expected to submit a revised list of candidates for the January election shortly.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051228/wl_afp/mideastpalestinianvoteunrest_051228121658
Hamas: Palestinians suffering moral crisis
You know that our society has been seriously inflicted with all sorts of corruption: There is political corruption, there is financial corruption, there is administrative corruption, and there is moral corruption as well. We are more or less suffering a moral crisis.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D42132C8-E8A9-4900-B5FC-F3023F21F9BE.htm
Palestinian Outgoing Finance Minister Urges Greater Support for Private Sector
Outgoing Minister of Finance Salam Fayyadh called for an independent financial decision-making as the basis for the Palestinian political independence, a transparent financial policy, a reduction in “dependence on external grants,” greater support for the private sector, and cautioned against compromising the “national dignity” in accepting donor's aid.
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1066
Rival Fatah factions reunite, submit joint election list
Fatah officials said they hoped the decision to reunite would end bickering within the party and strengthen its prospects in the parliamentary ballot against Hamas, which is running for the first time and presents a formidable challenge.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663445.html
Israel immigration marks first jump since uprising
About 23,000 people immigrated in 2005, up from a 15-year low of 21,000 in 2004 and compared to 61,000 in 2000. No figures for emigration were immediately available.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28779485.htm
Kadima MK accused of violating pre-campaign election protocol
"The trip will include meetings and conferences with many sheikhs from the Bedouin sector, public officials, council heads, supporters, activists and field coordinators," the Kadima letter said. "In these meetings you will be able to see firsthand, directly, the extent of the support for the Kadima list among the non-Jewish population
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663295
OPT: Refugee stories - More than just a school
In fact, there are so many children that the school has to be divided into two shifts. There are more than one thousand children in each session, and the shift system means that, effectively, two schools are taught every day in one building. At lunchtime, children and the teachers swap, and a new session begins.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6KH4UG?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Arabs will hate 'Munich'
Even if Israelis hate the film, Arabs will hate it more... Are not those more important questions to ask? Can’t the Arabs come up with a great movie that will move audiences to tears and support for our causes, than to simply respond by always blaming “the Jews”? All I ever hear is that “the Jews control the media.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3191326,00.html
Let them vote
That is not only because it undertook to do so in the Oslo Accords, but also because it does not want them as citizens of the state, and because it is the only way for the city's 250,000 Arabs to exercise their right to political expression.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663141.html
The Right / Religious Zionism sets its sights on leading the country
"It's the political-existential Zionism that is in a profound crisis. The idea that once the state arose it would remove the central dangers to the Jews' existence was not borne out. The state did not solve the Jews' problem; on the contrary, it made it worse. And the scapegoat for secular Zionism's frustration is religious Zionism."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=663131
Politics & Policies: Mideast predictions--past and future
The "road map" -- that ephemeral document that was to bring about a lasting peace to the region -- turned out to be nothing more than lip service from the U.S. president to appease his British ally, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and ensure his support for the Iraq war. As predicted when it was first introduced, it led nowhere other than another dead end in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051227-104136-2462r
At least the U.S. admits its mistakes
Bush not only declared victory, but also issued a confession and apology. Three years late, the president admitted the basically flawed intelligence that prepared the groundwork, and the hearts and minds, for the war: there never were weapons of mass destruction, he confessed, and no trace of any relationship between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein was unearthed.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663139.html
Lebanese PM slams rocket fire on northern Israel, IAF response
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora on Wednesday denounced the launching of Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel the night before as an attempted distraction from efforts to resolve "internal issues."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663101.html
Iraq Kidnappers Denounce French Presence
Militants on Wednesday released a video of a French engineer kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago and denounced the "illegal French presence" in the country, the Arab news channel Al-Arabiya reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_french_hostage
2 U.S. Pilots Killed in Iraq Copter Crash
Two U.S. pilots were killed after their Apache collided in mid-air with another helicopter just west of Baghdad, according to a senior Defense Department official.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_helicopter_crash |
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