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Protesters in Bil'in demand access to the isolated orchards to plant them
Abu Rahma added that the residents have been trying to access their orchards to plant them since three weeks, but the army barred them from driving their tractors and other heavy tools into their orchards which threatens the agricultural season for the villagers who depend on agriculture as their main source of livelihood.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23012/1/
Jerusalem Barrier Causes Major Upheaval
The manager of a clinic switches from car to motorcycle to speed blood samples to the lab. A homeowner abandons his suburban villa for a small city apartment. A college student leaves home two hours early for what used to be a 30-minute trip to class. The lives of tens of thousands of Jerusalem's Arabs have been changed in ways big and small by a 60-mile, $465 million ring of walls and fences _ Israel's biggest undertaking in the city since it captured and annexed the Arab sector in the 1967 Mideast War.
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2006/12/02/ap/international/d8lor4s01.txt
Palestinian activists resist settlers calling for further confiscation
Approximately 150 Israeli settlers from the Efrat Settlement bloc, illegally built in the West Bank's Bethlehem District, arrived in Al Khader Friday. The settlers drove their cars on the settler-only Road 60 to the southwestern Bethlehem village. They raised banners in Hebrew calling to destroy Al Khader with more settlement roads and the Wall running through the center of the town.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1117
The highest proportion of the disabled are Palestinian
Sunday marks the day to remember the disabled throughout the international community. At this time, Palestinians mark the occasion by bringing attention to the plight of the local community. Throughout the international community, the highest proportion of disabled are Palestinian due to the Israeli policy of shooting to maim, rather than kill. Israeli soldiers are taught to aim at the knees of children instead of to kill them, bringing generations of handicapped into Palestinian society.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1124
Solana: Hamas missed opportunity to help Gaza
Solana also met with Palestinian Minister for Civil Affairs Mohammad Dahlan, who said that Abbas may resort to extreme measures following the unity failure. Dahlan declined to elaborate further, though it is widely assumed that Dahlan was hinting, like other Fatah officials in recent days, that Abbas may dismantle the current government and establish a technocrat government in its place.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335175,00.html
Hamas rejects demands by PLO leaders
Hamas on Saturday rejected demands by PLO leaders that its government resign over the failure to form a moderate coalition acceptable to the West... Hamas accused Fatah, which controls the Palestine Liberation Organization and was defeated in parliament elections a year ago, of trying to overthrow the government. A leading Fatah official called for early elections to resolve the standoff.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335126,00.html
Hamas slams PLO decision to stop forming national unity government
Calling on Abbas to come back to the negotiation table, Hamas has heavily attacked the PLO. "It seems the PLO needs to be reformed, and Hamas has often demanded this," Barhoom said. He added that the PLO's executive committee "convenes only to topple Hamas and the government it leads, and always approves Fatah's determination."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/02/content_5423859.htm
CAN JIMMY CARTER DO FOR PALESTINE WHAT JACK MURTHA DID FOR IRAQ?
Other than 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate, Jimmy Carter, no American politician has spoken honestly about Israel's occupation of Palestine. No American politician has addressed Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians. Not because the mistreatment doesn't exist. But because acknowledging it brings accusations of anti-semitism and the potential to lose an election.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_061202_can_jimmy_carter_do_.htm
Newbury News: “Peace worker’s tales of war”
Sharon was put in prison after being banned from a peace conference in Bethlehem on December 21 last year, spending 11 days behind bars. Although her time in prison was hard, she wasn’t subjected to the same abuse as some of her fellow peace workers. “My colleague Vic was beaten by seven guards to try and convince him to get on the plane back. They just shouted at the girls,” she said.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/12/02/sharon-newbury-news/
Palestinians: Israel Navy fires on fishing vessel off Gaza shore
The vessel caught fire, but no one was hurt, the security officials said. Also in Gaza, an 11-year-old boy died of injuries he sustained two weeks ago in an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, hospital doctors said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795349.html
Palestinian banks to go on strike in the West Bank and Gaza on Sunday
The banks association's statement which was published in the newspapers in the Palestinian Territories said the strike is not to protest the explosion of a bomb in one of the banks in Gaza, but it is to "mourn the dignity of a country". Unknown militants blew up an explosive device inside Al-Arabi Bank's entrance
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093135027
Gunbattle near Abbas' Gaza residence wounds nine
The fighting started about 3 p.m., when police tried to arrest several members of the Abu Amra family in connection with drug and weapons smuggling and charges of stealing government land. Members of the family, which live in large, Bedouin-style tents on government land near Abbas' residence, responded with a major counterattack, using assault rifles, and rocket propelled grenades to try to drive off the police, security officials said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881802435&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Checkpoint Generation
For nearly a month now, a young Palestinian has been hospitalized at Beilinson Hospital; soldiers shot him at a checkpoint in northern Nablus on Saturday, November 4. Haitem Yassin, 25, is conscious now, but he is still hooked up to a respirator. In recent days, he has been suffering from a high fever, apparently caused by an infection in his abdomen, which was wounded in the shooting. His family is still waiting for a report from the hospital about the number or type of bullets that caused the serious injury.
http://www.counterpunch.org/hass12022006.html
Twilight Zone / Shock corridor
For three months now, the government health services serving Palestinians in the West Bank have been closed down. Dozens of rural clinics are no longer open and government hospitals are barely operating. Health-service workers who have not received most of their salaries for the past nine months - because of the boycott which Israel and the world declared on the Palestinian Authority government - have declared a strike, which has gotten worse: Since Monday the hospitals have only been accepting patients whose life is in immediate danger.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794385.html
New UN resolutions back Palestinian right to a state
In a separate resolution topping 150 "yes" votes declared any attempt to impose Israel's laws, jurisdiction and administration on Jerusalem illegal, and therefore null and void. It was approved by a vote of 157-6 with 10 abstentions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795347.html
Israel: UN resolutions don't advance peace
The resolutions, which were accepted by a decisive majority, called Israel to dismantle the (ILLEGAL) settlements, withdraw from (OCCUPIED) East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as well as all territories (OCCUPIED) captured in (SINCE) 1967. The GA also called for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335093,00.html
German FM reiterates political support to Abbas
In a joint news conference after an hour-long meeting with Abbas in Gaza city, Steinmeier said that he believed Abbas was the capable person to reach understandings with Israel on the way towards reinforcing stability in the region.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/02/content_5424271.htm
60 years after Partitioning of Palestine, residents stranded between checkpoints, Wall & settlements
Last Wednesday, November 29, was the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, the UN Partition Plan for partitioning Palestine of November 29, 1947. It was considered the first decision that called for partitioning Palestine and the creation of two Arab and Jewish states. Now, as 2006 is passing away, the Palestinians are living between checkpoints, isolated behind the huge concrete Walls and more than 160 settlements hotting several hundreds of thousands o settlers have been constructed.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23017/1/
President Stresses Muslim Support for Palestine
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah in Doha on Friday stressed the need for strong support by the world Muslims for the Palestinians.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8509110467
Egypt searches Sinai for Palestinians suspected of planning attack
Egyptian security forces raided dozens of seaside villas and apartments in the Sinai peninsula on Saturday, hunting four Palestinians suspected of planning attacks on Israeli tourists, security sources said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795363.html
Carter urges oil independence
"Now we're importing 12 million barrels a day," Carter said, "and that makes us heavily dependent on the approval and cooperation of nations that are sometimes not completely compatible with our own foreign policy." Those nations, he said, include Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela. The problem, Carter said, is that oil company interests, not "the people's interests," have set U.S. energy policy for the past six years. He said he hopes the newly elected Democratic Congress will change that.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1165055148326760.xml&coll=2
U.S. Jews protest proposed Law of Return
The heads of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) sent an unusually harsh letter yesterday to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, warning that if a proposed change goes through in the Law of Return excluding converts in the definition of a Jew, it could seriously impair support for Israel among American Jews.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793964.html
French presidential candidate condemns Hezbollah lawmaker's anti-Israel remarks
French presidential candidate Segolene Royal, visiting the Middle East on Saturday, condemned comments by a Lebanese Hezbollah legislator who compared Israel's former occupation of south Lebanon to the Nazi occupation of France. ( Nazis never stayed in France for decades!? )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795356.html
Ex-Iranian president declared fugitive by Argentine judge
Some 85 people were killed and more than 200 were injured 12 years ago when a bomb exploded in a van outside the seven-story AMIA center in the Argentine capital. Iran has denied any involvement in the bombing.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795345.html
UN powers still to meet on UN sanctions: France
Earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by news agencies as saying that the meeting had been cancelled. "A meeting of the six political leaders on Iran is planned for the start of next week. We are in contact to decide the date and place," said French foreign ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061202/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearunfrance_061202200250
Baghdad triple car bomb kills more than 50
The massive blasts ripped through the crowded commercial district as many Iraqis hurried home before nightfall, killing 51 people and wounding another 90, security officials said. Many of the dead were women. Together with corpses found around the city, the toll for Saturday was a staggering 110 killed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061202/ts_afp/iraq_061202163839
Bush, Hakim to discuss Iran influence on Baghdad militias
Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim is to make an unprecedented call on US President George W. Bush amid reports Washington is to adjust its strategy in Iraq to counter mounting Iranian influence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061202/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusbushhakim_061202171807
Iraq takes over army division from US
Iraq's government on Friday took command over another army division in the north, a US general announced, in an apparent demonstration of the US's commitment to accelerate the handover of military control to Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0591d02e-817f-11db-864e-0000779e2340.html
Triple trouble
The incriminating memorandum was published in The New York Times on Wednesday morning. U.S. President George W. Bush's national security advisor, Stephen Hadley - so the report went - said he doubts whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki can control the sectarian violence in his country. A few hours later, Bush was scheduled to meet with Al-Maliki in Jordan. The Iraqi prime minister was insulted, and canceled the planned dinner with Bush and Jordan's King Abdullah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794987.html |
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