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Best Wishes for Year 2006 to all the readers, and especially to those from inside Palestine
Petitioners warn against fence (WALL) route
Former O/C Southern Command, Maj-Gen. (Res.) Yom-Tov Samia warned on Wednesday that a section of the route of the fence (JERUSALEM WALL) near the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion would enable Palestinian snipers to hit cars on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1135696354523&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
'Israel is trying to push us out of Jordan Valley'
"Israel has been systematically making life difficult in the Jordan Valley in order to reduce the number of Palestinians living there," Ghassan Khateeb, Minister of Planning of the Palestinian Authority, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1135696362781&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Nonviolent protest against occupation, checkpoints
Israeli, Palestinian, and international Peace activists organized three peaceful protests against the Israeli military checkpoints, and the Israeli occupation, in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/15802/1/
No Buses Roll From Gaza to West Bank, Despite Deal
With much fanfare, after an unscheduled all-night negotiating session, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Nov. 15 that she had reached an agreement with Israel and the Palestinians on opening the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, and on establishing a bus convoy for Palestinians to travel between Gaza and the West Bank starting Dec. 15.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/international/middleeast/31convoy.html
With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation
It followed the G7 finance ministers' meeting at the beginning of December, which pledged its support, saying that "economic development of the West Bank and Gaza is an indispensable element of lasting peace in the region". And in the summer, the G8 summit at Gleneagles promised the Palestinian Authority an annual $3bn for three years. Next March, the donor countries will decide their allocations to the PA.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1675672,00.html
Hostages freed, captors demand pressure on Israel
A previously unknown Palestinian group called Brigades of the Mujahideen says it has freed three British hostages as a gesture of goodwill, but is demanding Britain and Europe put pressure on Israel.
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17702035%255E950,00.html
Freed U.K. aid worker plans return to Gaza Strip
"We are in good health and have been treated extremely well through the ordeal," the Burtons said in the statement. "Kate Burton plans to stay in the region and continue working with the Palestinian people," the statement continued.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051231/kateburton_gazareturn_20051231/20051231?hub=World
Israeli artillery resumes shelling Gaza Strip areas
Israeli artillery resumed shelling areas in the north and east of the Gaza Strip. Most of the shelled areas are said to be non residential areas, east of both Beit Hanoun and Al Shuja'eyya neighborhood, in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/15796/1/
IOF Bars 25 Patients from Traveling for Treatment
Ministry of Health (MOH) said Saturday that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) banned 25 patients of the Gaza Strip from traveling for treatment Israeli hospitals.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=5035
Rights activist says elections do not contradict with right of return
Badersawi said the elections are a natural right of every citizen to choose their representatives whether politicians or people to run their everyday affairs. The goal of elections is to improve living conditions of citizens in various social, health, educational, environmental and work aspects.
http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2005/dec/week5/311205/report4.htm
Gunmen occupy Gaza ministry to demand jobs
About 50 masked gunmen occupied a Palestinian government office in the Gaza Strip for several hours on Saturday to demand jobs, witnesses and a spokesman for the gunmen said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051231/wl_nm/mideast_gaza_dc_2
Fatah Jerusalem candidates withdraw from elections
"Jerusalemites should be allowed to participate in the elections the same as the other Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza," said Hatem Abdel Kader, one of the leaders of the group. "We think that if there will be no elections in Jerusalem then there should be no elections at all."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=664485
Settlers: We'll continue to erect outposts
The settlers claim to have established an additional 21 new outposts during Hanukkah and are pledging to set up another four by the end of the holiday, defining their actions as a "Hanukkah summer camp."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3192577,00.html
5 Citizens Arrested in WB
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Saturday five citizens in the West Bank (WB) cities of Tulkarem and Hebron, witnesses said. Israeli soldiers, positioned at Tulkarem road, intensified their stranglehold against the citizens restricting their movement.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=5037
Israel takes over Palestinian intelligence headquarters in Jenin
Israeli army stormed and took over on Saturday the headquarters of the Palestinian military intelligence headquarters in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian security sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/31/content_3994581.htm
Palestinian gunmen demand EU monitors to leave territories
A group of gunmen on Saturday stormed a hotel in the West Bank city of Nablus where many foreigners stayed, demanding foreigners and European Union monitors to immediately leave the Palestinian territories, Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/31/content_3995288.htm
EU to send more observers for Palestinian vote
Thirty-two "long-term observers" from 22 EU countries are to be deployed January 2 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip's main cities, the mission said. The European parliament also plans to send a delegation of 50 observers so there will be a total of 231 European observers for the poll.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051231/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianvote_051231163312
Israeli team to draft stand on Hamas takeover of PA
The team was formed in light of the anarchy spreading in the PA and the PA's inability to enforce the law, the radio said. The team, headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's adviser Dov Weissglas, will include Shin Bet and security officials as well as Foreign Ministry representatives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/664411.html
Islamic Jihad to end truce at midnight
Any future talks on renewal of calmness would be meaningless as long as the issues of ending Israeli occupation, releasing the Palestinian prisoners and stopping violence against the Palestinians were not included, the Palestinian militant group said in a written statement.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/31/content_3995485.htm
Palestinian militants say truce ends at midnight
Militant Palestinian factions said on Saturday that as of New Year's Day they would no longer be bound by a truce that has brought the quietest spell since the start of the five-year-old uprising.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31713454.htm
Gaza chaos could derail Palestinian poll-official
The abduction of a British human rights worker and her parents in Gaza could scare away foreign monitors and upset plans to hold a Palestinian parliamentary poll, a top Palestinian official said on Saturday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31268350.htm
US envoys to visit Palestinian territories over elections
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Saturday that two senior U.S. officials are scheduled to visit the Palestinian territories next week over the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections due on Jan. 25.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/31/content_3994620.htm
Official Statistics: 10.1 Million Palestinians in the World
3.8 million in the Palestinian Territory (37.9%) of the total Palestinians all over World, 1.1 million (11.2%) live in Israel, 3.0 million (29.4%) in Jordan, on the other hand, 462 thousands Palestinians (4.6%) live in Syria.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=5036
Israel's Corruption was Inevitable
America's decisive support of Israel's war, including more than 100 billion dollars and dozens of UN vetoes, has ensnared us in the same web. To sustain the unending flow of money and materiel, American politics has had to yield to the ways of the war: lies, denial, and intimidation.
http://www.counterpunch.com/brooks12312005.html
The Politics of Language
What is absent from the reportage in such "news" accounts is the sequence of events preceding the Palestinian attacks. Here we are likely to find a series of Israeli military incursions, bombings and killing of non-combatants, summary executions of political prisoners, as well as arbitrary arrests, home demolitions and illegal (even by colonial standards) land seizures.
http://www.counterpunch.com/petras12312005.html
Report: U.S. planning Iran strike
Is the Bush administration preparing for a strike on Iran? The United States is preparing for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities and has informed NATO member states to make similar preparations, the German daily Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3192864,00.html
Former Syrian VP says Assad was involved in Hariri's death
"No Syrian security service can reach a decision independently, besides the president. Bashar told me that people in Syria were involved [in the assassination] and that means that he was involved," Khaddam said in the interview with Al-Arabiya, the pan-Arab satellite broadcaster, his first since he left Syria several months ago.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=664481
Syrian parliament votes for ex-vice president's trial
The Syrian parliament on Saturday unanimously voted for the trial of former vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam on charges of high treason after he accused President Bashar al-Assad of involving in the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/01/content_3995584.htm |
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