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Min.
pushes new E. J'lem neighborhood for Jews
Housing Minister
Ze'ev Boim has given the green light for planning a new Jewish
neighborhood in East Jerusalem. But senior American officials say
that Israel had promised not to move forward with the neighborhood.
The neighborhood, near Atarot, is slated to contain more than 10,000
apartments, making it the largest Jewish neighborhood in East
Jerusalem. Earlier this month, however, the United States objected to
a plan to build a mere 300 apartments in another East Jerusalem
neighborhood, Har Homa, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
saying it did not contribute to the peace process.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=936042
Israeli
air attaks kill 13 Palestinian resistance members in occupied
Gaza
Thousands of people took to the streets in funeral
processions for the dead militants, whose bodies and coffins were
draped with black Islamic Jihad
flags.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2229283,00.html
IDF
raids Hamas post in Gaza
IAF strikes Hamas operatives in
southern Gaza following rocket barrage on western Negev; Palestinians
report of two fatalities. 'Israel must be ready for militants'
retaliation,' says Defense Minister Barak.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3484010,00.html
Israeli
Prime Minister: Airstrikes on Gaza will continue
Ehud
Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, stated Tuesday that the Israeli
airforce will continue dropping bombs on the Palestinian people in
the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinian militants continue to fire
homemade shells across the border into Israel.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52037
Israel's
Olmert: 'There is a war in Gaza'
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert said it's becoming better known that there is a war going
on in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants. Olmert made
the remarks Tuesday night to fellow Kadima Party members at his home
in Jerusalem in reference to near-daily rocket attacks from
Palestinian areas on the western Negev region, Ynetnews.com
reported.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/12/19/israels_olmert_there_is_a_war_in_gaza/5091/
Palestinians
Vow to Avenge Killings
The raids came just hours after a
conference in Paris attended by 90 countries pledged $7.4bn in aid
over three years to the Palestinian Authority.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-121807170933.htm
Barak
tells U.S. envoy Israel is bracing for militants' retaliation
Barak
mapped out Israel's security priorities, voicing hope that the IDF
would continue its "successful operations" in the Gaza
Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/935876.html
Israel:
A daily exercise in humiliation
Under the supervision of
an Israeli soldier clutching an M-16 assault rifle, Qassem Saleh
begins his daily
disrobing.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071218.wcheckpoint18/BNStory/International/?
page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071218.wcheckpoint18
Israeli
army crimes 'unpunished'
An Israeli human rights group
says the overwhelming majority of Israeli troops suspected of
criminal offences against Palestinians are never indicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7150604.stm
Israel
forms new committee to consider 'family reunification' requests
Palestinians holding West Bank or Gaza ID cards who are
married to or have family members inside Israel have long been
prevented from living with their families. But a new committee formed
by the Israeli Interior Ministry will look into 'humanitarian cases'.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52040
Israel-OPT:
Palestinian shepherds forced to move on
"The best
thing about Khirbet Qassa was the grazing land. We had open spaces.
Now we've become dependent on other people and their land," said
Abdel Halim Nattah, a shepherd in the southern West Bank.
Several weeks earlier he and all his fellow villagers, 37 families
numbering 272 people, were evacuated by the Israeli military from
Qassa and told to find a new home somewhere else.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LRON-7A2BV3?OpenDocument&rc=3&
emid=ACOS-635PFR
So
what have we done to them
An old Jewish joke tells of a
devoted mother who briefs her son before he sets out to battle: "Kill
a Turk and rest," she advises. But the son asks: "And what
happens if in fact the Turk tries to kill me?" She opens her
eyes wide in surprise: "Why would he want to kill you? What have
you done to him?" This is exactly the kind of self-righteousness
that accompanies our attitude toward the Palestinians. It is evident
in the reports on the television, radio and in the newspapers - which
paint only a partial picture of the conflict. Because when
considerations of ratings and just plain cowardice determine
coverage, the information the public gets is biased. In this way an
extremist public opinion is created, which believes that all of the
justice is on our side only, because "what have we done to
them?"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/936024.html
Study:
Hamas maintaining its popularity in Gaza
New poll
indicates lack of confidence in recent peacemaking efforts keeps
Palestinian public firmly on Hamas' side, despite deteriorating
humanitarian situation in
Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483719,00.html
Analysis:
Making them pay a price
In March 2004, an IAF-fired
missile hit the wheelchair Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
was sitting on as he left a mosque in Gaza City following early
morning prayers. Three weeks later, his successor, Abdel Aziz
Rantisi, was killed in similar fashion. Israel went into a defensive
mode, preparing for a Kassam rocket and suicide-bomb onslaught, which
never came. Instead, Hamas asked for a cease-fire.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847375838&pagename=JPost%2F
JPArticle%2FShowFull
Divided
and ruled in Paris
The current strategy of international
involvement in Palestine has just entered its most dangerous, most
shocking and most sordid phase. Hallucinatory scenes of apocalyptic
profligacy were unfolding in Paris yesterday as French foreign
minister Bernard Kouchner grabbed a mike to badger member states to
give yet more millions in aid to the suffering Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Gaza is declared to be on the brink on an economic
collapse of catastrophic proportions by the UN, the ICRC, the World
Bank, and Oxfam.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/karma_nabulsi/2007/12/divided_and_ruled_
in_paris.html
LEBANON:
Palestinian refugees still adamant they must return home
Palestinian
and Israeli leaders may have agreed at the US-sponsored peace
conference in Annapolis on 27 November to work towards a full peace
deal by the end of next year, but in the tinderbox refugee camp of
Ain Al-Hilweh in Lebanon the lives of 75,000 Palestinians are defined
by an intractable issue at the heart of the conflict: the right of
Palestinian refugees to return home. "No-one can negotiate
on our right to return to Palestine. There is only one country called
Palestine and we will never return there except by resistance to
Israel," said Abu Yousef, a fighter with the radical Palestinian
Islamist faction Ansar Allah.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75909
Palestinian
laborers in South have little choice but to brave Israeli cluster
bombs
TYRE: Kamal Mohammad was pruning lemon trees last
winter when his red electric saw detonated an unexploded cluster
bomb, blasting shrapnel all over his body. After an operation to
remove the metal shards from his chest, Mohammad, 44, a father from
the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh in South Lebanon,
went straight back to work cultivating fields and chopping wood for
coal.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&
article_id=87577
Israeli
police are investigating three Israeli journalists who traveled to
Lebanon and Syria
Israeli citizens require permission
from the Interior Ministry to travel to an "enemy state."
The journalists being probed by the National Serious and
International Crimes Unit are travel writer Tzur Shizaf, who traveled
to Lebanon; Ynet reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, who traveled to Syria; and
freelance Canadian-Israeli reporter Lisa Goldman, who visited Lebanon
twice and reported from there for Israel's Channel
10.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105969.html
Palestinian
spray-paints recipe on Israel's West Bank barrier as protest
For
the rest of the recipe, turn over the wall, reads a felafel recipe
spray-painted on Israel's imposing West Bank separation barrier
Tuesday, in a lighthearted but serious protest against the hardships
it causes Palestinians. A Dutch group collects money over the
Internet for the project _ painting messages on the barrier Israel is
building along the West Bank. The barrier, made up of concrete walls,
barbed wire, trenches and electronic sensors, is meant to keep
Palestinian suicide bombers and other attackers out of Israel, but
Palestinians charge it juts into their land and cuts many people off
from their fields and services.
http://www.pr-inside.com/palestinian-spray-paints-recipe-on-r353960.htm
Christians
and Muslims Weep Together, A Christmas Reflection on Palestine
As
Christmas approaches this year, the thoughts of Christians all over
the world will once again turn to Bethlehem, the holy town where
Jesus was born over two millennia ago. Voices will be raised in
joyful celebration and children everywhere will re-create the
Christmas story to help us remember the circumstances in which the
Christ child was born.
http://www.counterpunch.org/karkar12192007.html
Jerusalem's
Latin Patriarch rejects Israel's Jewish identity
Israel's
identity as a Jewish state discriminates against non-Jews, the Holy
Land's top Roman Catholic clergyman said in a pre-Christmas address
on Wednesday. "If there's a state of one religion, other
religions are naturally discriminated against," Latin Patriarch
Michel Sabbah told reporters at the annual press conference he holds
in Jerusalem before the Christian holiday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/936311.html
Mideast
Catholic leader says peace depends on Israel
The Catholic
leader in the Holy Land said on Wednesday in a Christmas message that
peace depended on Israel and rejected the idea of a religious state
on land revered by Christians, Jews and Muslims. "To attain
peace, it is necessary to believe that Israelis and Palestinians are
equal in all things, that they have the same rights and the same
duties," Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah said in Jerusalem.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071219/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacychristmas_071219121014
Bethlehem
Christmas cancelled: The Wall must
fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMyjywN-8Ac
Palestine's
universities: partners or prisoners?
At a workshop
conducted at Birzeit University (BZU) on December 13 by AMIDEAST
(American-MidEast Educational and Training Services) for Palestinian
universities through its Faculty Development Program, the talk turned
from the announced topic of the workshop (Palestinian-American
University Partnerships) to the question of Palestinian-Palestinian
university partnerships or the lack thereof. The occasion had brought
together important representatives (at the level of Deans and VPs)
from every Palestinian West Bank University. Gaza was unrepresented,
however. In spite of the availability of video conferencing
technology at BZU in the very room where the workshop took place,
there was no video hook-up with any university in Gaza for reasons
better known to AMIDEAST.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9170.shtml
Gordon
and Tzfadia: Privatising Zionism
The use of teenagers to
evict Bedouins from their homes is not only a reflection of this
insidious process of privatisation, but also the unrelenting
corrosion of moral accountability.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-121807172249.htm
Mustafa
Barghouthi: Prerequisites for Peace
Palestinians
participated in Annapolis in good faith. But we cannot simply abandon
the rights of our people, including
refugees.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-121807172014.htm
Struggle
for equality
In recent months a small group of Palestinian
and Israeli academics, mainly in the diaspora, have prepared an
intellectual bombshell to challenge the Palestinian leadership on the
almost 40-year basic premise of an independent Palestinian state
alongside the state of Israel. The division over the question of one
state or two states is now as dramatic as the Hamas-Fatah fighting of
the last year, which split the armed resistance.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nadia_hijab_and_victoria_brittain/2007/12/
struggle_for_equality.html
The
Arab linguistic crisis
Arab students face greater
linguistic challenges than Jews but enjoy fewer
funds.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3484406,00.html
Just
one state
On the weekend of 17-18 November, a conference
took place in London that I hope and believe will prove a historic
event. The reason is that it discussed the one state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Organised by the SOAS Palestine Society
and the London One State Group, it was held in the largest hall at
SOAS, and was sold out in advance -- an indicator of the thirst for
discussion of this vision. For me it was the most inspiring event on
Palestine I have ever attended.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/876/op9.htm
The
end of Israel?
I am feeling optimistic about Palestine. I
know it sounds crazy. How can I use "optimistic" and
"Palestine" in the same sentence when conditions on the
ground only seem to get worse? Israeli settlements continue to expand
on a daily basis, the checkpoints and segregated road system are
becoming more and more institutionalized, more than 10,000
Palestinian political prisoners are being held in Israeli jails, Gaza
is under heavy attack and the borders are entirely controlled by
Israel, preventing people from getting their most basic human needs
met.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9169.shtml
Gov't
official: No 'smoking gun' on Iran
Israel does not have
"smoking gun" intelligence that will force an American
reassessment of its National Intelligence Estimate that Iran halted
its nuclear weapons plan in 2003, a government official told The
Jerusalem Post Monday. The official's comments came as a delegation
from Military Intelligence is in the US for meetings with American
officials about Iran.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1196847366234&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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