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Army uproots trees to install a Wall section near Bethlehem
Hamdi Ayish, head of Ertas village council, said that the bulldozing is in Hasanat and Abu Al Jaratheen areas that belong to the residents of the village. “Soldiers are uprooting hundreds of trees, and destroying the lands in order to construct settler roads and install the Wall”, Hasanat told the Palestine News Network, “Efrat settlement is only one kilometer away, and they want to annex more lands to expand it”.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22926/1/
Non-violent Bil’in activist Ayad Burnat, released on bail
Bil'in peace activist Ayad Burnat, who was arrested at a peaceful demonstration in Bil'in last Friday has been released from Ofer military prison on NIS 4,000 bail. He was detained for four days on the trumped-up charges of violating a military order, causing property damage to the apartheid wall and assaulting a military officer. The IOF has yet to issue an indictment...
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/28/ayad-burnat-release/
First person account as a foreigner witnesses a West Bank home demolition
As we approached four Palestinian men ran forward from behind the line of soldiers and entered their house. I was deeply moved by their courage. There were about 30 soldiers and it was impossible for us to pass them. The soldiers grabbed the men out of the house, holding one in a tight neck lock, and handcuffed two of them throughout the demolition. Within an hour the future home was nothing but a pile of rubble.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1091&Itemid=49
Principled Dutch ASN Bank ends relations with Veolia
Since it first announced its intentions to become involved in an Israeli project to build a light rail / tramline system, to be constructed in occupied East Jerusalem , Veolia Transport, a French multi-national corporation, faced a lot of criticism from all over the world. The tramline aims to connect the illegally-constructed settlements in East Jerusalem with towns and cities in Israel.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=11496
UN urges end to Israeli settlements
The United Nations human rights council has called on Israel to dismantle its settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, and to confiscate the arms of Jewish settlers. The council voted 45-1 on Monday in favour of a resolution submitted by a group of Muslim countries. Canada opposed the motion, while Cameroon abstained.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/349B9898-0181-4EBA-8D11-B0C1E3629553.htm
Palestinians “Prohibited” by the Shabak
Many residents of the Occupied Territories – 180,000 by some counts – are defined as “security prohibited” or “Shabak prohibited” [Shabak – General Security Service or GSS]. The restrictions imposed on these residents’ movement are greater than those imposed on any others. Thus, for example, GSS prohibited Palestinians are delayed longer at internal checkpoints on the West Bank. They are not entitled to a magnetic card (tantamount to a “certificate of good character”), and generally they cannot obtain entry permits for Israel or the settlements for work, commerce or personal needs, travel permits for vehicles within the Territories or cross the Jordan bridges to go abroad.
http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/The_Invisible_Prisoners_77.pdf
Israel's land-rights problem
"One Third of Jewish Area Is on Private Property," read the front-page headline in The New York Times. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in "settlements" that are in politically disputed territory, but the Israeli government has long insisted that settlements are only created on land that has been legally purchased. But is that so?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/27/opinion/edcarroll.php
Sides work on extending cease-fire to West Bank
The comments came hours after Olmert, in a speech at David Ben-Gurion's grave in Sde Boker marking the 33rd anniversary of his death, defined the concessions Israel would be willing to make were the Palestinians to end terrorism, give up demands for a right of refugee return
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378492106&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Palestinian force 'to police truce'
Israel has agreed in principle for a Jordan-based security force loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to deploy in the Gaza Strip and help police the ceasefire, an Israeli diplomatic source has told Reuters news agency. The request to redeploy the 1,000-strong Badr Brigade came from Abbas, the source said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DF5DDD7A-E16E-4C68-B9ED-8DBE067A3B05.htm
International Academy of Art Palestine to launch Next Week
Dr. Maria Khoury, the project's director said, "The academy will offer distinctive higher education in the field of art aiming to grant a B.A. in contemporary visual arts." The academy will also work to maintain a collective Palestinian memory, history and identity by promoting real new images of Palestine and the Palestinian people to the world.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22931/1/
Olmert speech elicits mixed reaction from Palestinians
"We need to sit down at the negotiating table in order to begin serious discussions based on the road map, the Saudi peace initiative, and primarily on United Nations Resolution 194 on the return of refugees," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793416.html
Occupied Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s teetering tower of debt
Jameela Khalil’s local supermarket has already shut its books. "I sold all my jewels after 22 years of marriage so my family could live in dignity,” said the 45-year-old PNA employee. “That was bad enough. But worse, the owner of the supermarket we have always bought from has stopped giving us goods because our liability has exceeded 4,500 shekels [US$1,000].”
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56536&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=OPT
Report: Rice, Abbas to meet in Jericho on Thursday
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Washington's heft behind new Mideast peace overtures on Tuesday, scheduling a last-minute meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank later this week.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378504401&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Haneya leaves Gaza for regional tour
The sources at Haneya's office said that the premier would visit Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and finally Iran before he comes back to the Gaza Strip.
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/28/eng20061128_326083.html
Qassam rocket lands in western Negev despite Gaza cease-fire
Defense Minister Amir Peretz earlier Tuesday warned the Palestinian Authority to enforce the truce, saying that failure to do so could force a "fierce" Israeli response.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793399.html
Al-Aqsa Brigades present new rocket
As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians goes into its third day, dozens of members of the of the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade gathered in Nablus for a military parade showing off what they say is the new and improved rockets of the organization in the West Bank.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3333755,00.html
Families of abducted soldiers ask Europe to help secure release
The families of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit on Tuesday arrived in Brussels to urge European officials to exert influence to help release their sons.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793821.html
Egyptian intelligence chief to visit Israel
Israel is expecting Suleiman to bring with him information about potential negotiations with the Palestinians, especially after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh embarked on a trip around the Middle East, including visits to Cairo and Rabat Amon.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3333775,00.html
Abdullah: No peace deal at Jordan's expense
"Jordan will not accept an unjust settlement of the issue, nor will Jordan accept any settlement that comes at its expense," Abdullah told lawmakers, who applauded loudly. Roughly half of Jordan's 5.5 million population consists of Palestinian families who fled, or were driven out of, their homes in the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3333640,00.html
Syria accuses Israel of building dam
Damascus accused Israel on Monday of building a dam on the Golan Heights to steal water and deprive Syria and Jordan from badly needed resources, Syria's official news agency reported.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378496663&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Immigrants: We were foolish to come here
"My oldest son is 25 years-old, my youngest is five. They promised us that if we make aliyah, we will have a place to live, a good life. But instead they tossed us aside and no one cares… my children are mad at me and don't want to speak to me because I convinced them to immigrate to Israel, while the Satmar hassidim wanted us to stay in New York," she said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3333668,00.html
Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help
As President Bush and his top diplomats try to halt the downward spiral in Iraq and Lebanon, they seem intent on their strategy of talking only to Arab friends, despite increasing calls inside and outside the administration for them to reach out to Iran and Syria as well. Mr. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are traveling to Jordan this week for talks that are to include Iraq's prime minister and a number of Sunni Arab leaders but exclude the Iranians and Syrians, despite the influence they wield in Iraq and Lebanon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/middleeast/28diplo.html?ref=world
Netanyahu probed on alleged personal use of state funds
Netanyahu is suspected of using Education Ministry funds to pay for dozens of surveys conducted for him personally by former ministry official Yaakov Katz, who is considered to be the Likud chairman's "personal pollster."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793835.html
Olmert's Speech / Olmert has an agenda
Olmert has been preaching this for three years now, but the packaging has changed: The unilateral convergence plan that he proposed during his early days in office has been shelved, and now he wants to accomplish his goals through "dialogue" with the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793420.html
AJC: Chief Rabbi attempting to delegitimize US Jews
The American Jewish Committee says in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the organization is ‘deep concern over recent reports of the proposal put forward by Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar to remove converts from the jurisdiction of the Law of Return.'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3333768,00.html
Israeli, Palestinian DJs plan joint performance in London
The London party, titled "Bridge of Peace," is being organized by Einhorn along with the World Zionist Organization. Einhorn invited Kalis to perform at the London party as well, but Kalis refused, because it was being organized by the WZO.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793682.html
Mofaz: Arafat agreed to house secret Iranian bases inside PA
Iran and the Palestinian Authority, then headed by Yasser Arafat, reached a secret agreement in 2002, which called for the creation of branch Iranian revolutionary guard corps bases in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in exchange for military aid to the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793850.html
US kills girls and baby in Iraq
Five young girls and a baby have been killed in a US raid on a house in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the US military has told Al Jazeera English. The US military blamed the fighters for the incident.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB52316F-0AF2-41BE-8566-DF565DE59F2F.htm
Bush to press Iraqi leader on 'strategy'
"My question to him will be, 'What do we need to succeed?''' Bush said of his meetings planned on Wednesday and Thursday in Amman, Jordan. "What do we need to do ... about sectarian violence? ... I will ask him, 'What is required, and what is your strategy to be a country that can govern itself and sustain itself?'''
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-061128bush,1,4796841.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Damascus summit to gather Iraqi clerics
Damascus is to host a meeting of Iraqi religious leaders including Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as well as the Sunni Iraq Islamic Party, the Al-Watan daily reported Monday. "The Syrian association for inter-religious rapprochement has proposed holding a conference in Damascus bringing together all Iraqi religious authorities to sign an agreement to unify the Iraqi position," it said
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=77198 |
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