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I would like to wish a `Eid Mibarak` to all the Muslim readers, and especially to those reading from inside Palestine.
Shadi
Local anti-Wall organizers shot with rubber-coated bullets and beaten in Bil'in protest
In an ensuing scuffle, soldiers attempted to arrest one resident, Farhan Burnat (26), though residents and activists prevented them from removing him in custody. The military beat those attempting to free Burnat with clubs. Soldiers on the rooftop of an occupied home fired large quantities of gas toward the demonstrators and shot several residents with rubber-coated bullets, including Abdullah Abu Rahme, a local organizer of the Grassroots Popular Committee Against the Wall.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23422/1/
Make no one ever feel 'out of place'
Said explains that, no matter where he would be in space and time, there was always a gut-wrenching feeling of being stranded in the middle of nowhere. Throughout the earthly life he spent searching for his true identity, Said always felt as if he was somehow transplanted into a place alien to his true self -- one that he could never call "home."
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&
c=Article&cid=1167259811854
200 trailers placed in West Bank outposts since June
Settlers are continuing to place mobile homes and trailers in West Bank outposts and settlements, without legal permits. Civil Administration reports show that since the start of the second Lebanon war in July, some 200 mobile homes have been placed. This is a substantial increase over the few dozen trailers placed in the first half of the year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807108.html
Hamas: “We will not remain idle as Israel constructs a new settlement in the Jordan Valley”
Hamas called for halting all talks with the Israeli side and said that the Israeli decision to construct the new settlement came two hours after a meeting between the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. The movement said that this decision shows the “real Israeli intensions to annex more Palestinian lands in order to construct and expand settlements in the occupied West Bank”.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23410/1/
Israel controls water resources in Gaza, West Bank -- report
Israel controls water reserves in Gaza and the West Bank and seeks to control water resources in the Golan Heights and South Lebanon, said a report released by the Arab Water Studies and Water Security Center. The report said Israel was thus present in major Arab water crises, adding that the Jewish state consumed two billon cubic feet of water of which 65 percent were rechanneled from the (OCCUPIED) Arab areas.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=938351
Documentary Play About Death of US Activist in Gaza Sparks Controversy, Revives Questions
In the last two years, controversy over My Name is Rachel Corrie has helped keep the matter in the public eye. James Hammerstein Productions opened the play in New York only after the first theater group set to produce it there bowed out, in response to what some said were complaints that the play presented a biased view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And Canada's largest non-profit theater, CanStage, recently canceled plans to present the play in Toronto amid reports of concerns that Jewish theatergoers would be offended.
http://voanews.com/english/2006-12-28-voa31.cfm
Five Palestinians abducted by Israeli Army from West Bank
On Friday morning raids in various parts of the West Bank, Israeli forces abducted five Palestinian men, according to local sources. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers opened fire randomly at residents' houses but reported no injuries.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23420/1/
Palestinian prisoners won't be freed ahead of Muslim holiday
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision came despite a personal request from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during the meeting last week. Olmert had suggested such a release could happen, even before militants in Gaza free Shalit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807306.html
No prisoner release before Eid al-Adha
Senior Palestinian officials, including chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, expressed regret Friday morning over Israel’s decision not to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday. In response to the Palestinian reaction, a senior official in the bureau commented, “Instead of expressing regret, if they maintained the ceasefire maybe they would get the prisoners.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346016,00.html
Despite promises to ease passage, Israeli military increases restrictions on travel in the West Bank
Palestinian residents of the West Bank reported on Friday that the Israeli troops stationed at the checkpoints which separate West Bank cities from each other, have tightened searches and inspections of residents and their cars, which contradicts the Israeli army announcement that it would facilitate the movements of Palestinian residents in the West Bank before and during the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha, which begins on Saturday.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23421/1/
Flooding cuts Gaza in two
The bridges spanning the riverbed, which runs from Israeli territory into the Mediterranean Sea, were bombed by Israeli jets in June... Makeshift tracks used by Palestinians drivers instead were rendered impassable by the water, which rushed down the riverbed after heavy rains swept Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday and Thursday.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/29/africa/ME_GEN_Palestinian_Gaza_Flood.php
10 Qassams fired at Israel
A Qassam rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip on Friday evening landed in a kibbutz in the western Negev, bringing to ten the number of Qassams fired Friday at Israel. Residents said windows were shattered but reported no injuries.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3345992,00.html
Gazans fear influential faction radios may lead them to civil war
The recent fighting between Hamas and Fatah militants did not just play out in the streets of the Gaza Strip. The rival groups also pummeled each other over the airwaves, calling each other's fighters "mercenary death squads," "child killers" and "Zionists."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807371.html
Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida
Access is only available via a checkpoint and Palestinians are not allowed to drive their cars in the zone. The illegal Jewish settlers however, enjoy total freedom of movement and are infamous for their constant harassment and attacks on Palestinians. A recent Israeli High Court ruling stipulates that the restriction of Palestinian movement in Shuhada street has been mistakenly enforced for the last six years and that Palestinians in fact have the right to use this road.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/12/29/shuhada-breakthrough/
Olmert ired by Livni meet with Fatah leaders
Livni met Fatah leaders Yasser Abed Rabbo and Salam Fayyad earlier this week and outlined her plan to negotiate with moderate Palestinians and shape the future of the peace process. She advocates an Israeli pullout from the West Bank east of the separation fence and the establishment of a Palestinian state - which would also be the solution to the Palestinian refugee problem - in the evacuated area.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807069.html
Abbas aide denies Fatah received arms from Egypt
Nabil Abu Rudeina said yesterday that the report of the transfer of 2,000 assault rifles is not true. However, other senior Palestinian figures did not refute the report. Saeb Erekat, head of negotiations for the PLO, said that he would not comment on it, while Selim Abu Sfiye, the official in charge of border crossings for the PA, said that he was not able to either confirm or deny it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807072.html
Israel allows £6m arms delivery to Abbas's forces
Palestinian and Egyptian spokesmen denied there had been any arms transfer but it was confirmed by Israeli government sources, and witnesses in Gaza said they saw a lorry drop a box of guns on the street close to the Karni border crossing where the arms arrived.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1979641,00.html
Rice Told Lieberman: ´Choke Hamas´
American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Washington this month that Israel must "choke off" Hamas, the Hebrew newspaper Ma'ariv reported.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118296
Haniyeh promises: Shalit release imminent
Haniyeh added that he has received positive signals from Egyptian mediators working to secure a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807061.html
The PA summit in Jordan / Saudi Arabia will offer Arab 'road map'
A date for the meeting has still not been set, but when it does take place, it may usher in two changes: Jordan, for the first time after a very long time, will lift its double boycott of Hamas and hold talks with the organization's senior representative in the territories. In addition, it is aspiring to assume a significant role in the diplomatic process.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807070.html
End of the neocons - By Azmi Bishara
American democratic evangelism ended because the policy was a complete failure. It failed in Lebanon, which liberated the Arabs from the 1967 complex for the second time, because of all the drastic misjudgements over Israeli might, over the power and resolve of the resistance, and over the feasibility of driving a sectarian wedge into Arab society around a successful anti-Israeli resistance movement -- your average Egyptian couldn't have cared less what kind of turban resistance fighters were wearing or how they held their hands during prayers.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/826/op1.htm
Non-talking heads
That was less than what the defense establishment requested, but Olmert understood that he had to give the IDF some slack in order to repel the increasing criticism of his restraint. When he was told about the boys' injury from the Qassam, he immediately decided to allow the strikes at the Palestinian launching units.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807045.html
Painting a rosier future
When the Palestinians hold elections, which appears likely to happen in the coming months, they must know what is at stake if they elect Hamas. This is not a threat, just a promise, and it should be made clear at the most practical level. At the end of the day, it is the Palestinians' decision. Currently, the Palestinian voter can see no obvious advantage in voting for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority chairman.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807087.html
US: Arafat responsible for diplomat's death
Thirty four years after Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and killed the American ambassador to Sudan, the US Department of State announced Thursday that the person who was behind the planning of the attack was none other than PLO chairman and later Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3345941,00.html
The year of the zigzag
Then we have Ehud Olmert putting in his two cents: Talking to Syria goes against the interests of George Bush, so it is not going to happen. The next day, he changes his mind: Dialogue with Syria is possible. Tzipi Livni hears this and says Syria is ready for an agreement. Barely an hour goes by and Olmert backtracks: There has been no change in the Syrian position. Then comes the Foreign Ministry's response: The signals from Damascus are genuine and Assad will agree to a "cold peace."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807086.html
Fatah Lebanon chief: Hezbollah curbed our attacks on Israel
In an interview with the Nazareth-based newspaper Kul al-Arab, al-Einin said that in some of the incidents Hezbollah operatives detained the Palestinian militants sent to carry out the attacks and handed them over the Lebanese law-enforcement authorities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807292.html
Probe results on Lebanon war do not call for Halutz resignation
Shomron's conclusions are considered "soft," and he did not recommend personal sanctions against anyone. Chief of Staff Dan Halutz is therefore not required to resign from his position. Halutz will convene the IDF's most senior officers on Monday for a two-day conference at which all the inquiries' findings will be presented.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807256.html
Two Belgian peacekeepers hurt in S. Lebanon cluster bomb explosion
Two Belgian soldiers serving with the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon were wounded Friday when they detonated a cluster bomb in southern Lebanon, a UN spokesman said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807375.html
U.S. senator: Assad will fight arms transfers to Hezbollah
Syrian President Bashar Assad told visiting United States Senator Arlen Specter that if he learns of "a single Syrian" who is transferring weapons to Hezbollah, he will make sure to stop it, Specter said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807068.html
Iraq prepares for Saddam’s execution
“Nothing and nobody can abrogate the ruling,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said, in comments released by his office on Friday. “Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/93d74920-9734-11db-a680-0000779e2340.html
Five More U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
U.S. military officials in Baghdad have announced the deaths of five more American troops in Iraq. One hundred American troops have been killed so far in December, making it the second deadliest month for U-S military personnel this year.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=29364&s2=29
British soldier killed by bomb in Iraq
It said the soldier from the 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died from injuries he received in the explosion which took place on Thursday.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/29122006/325/british-soldier-killed-bomb-iraq.html |
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