Report: One dead in Gaza airstrike
Israel carried out an airstrike Monday in northern Gaza on a militant cell that fired two mortar bombs toward Israel, an army spokeswoman said. The Israeli airstrike killed a Hamas militant and wounded three others near Erez, Hamas security sources said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/26/gaza.strike/

Israeli military kidnaps two Palestinians from Nablus
Israeli military forces kidnapped two Palestinians from refugee camps in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51724

Troops invade Jenin and Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus on Sunday morning, broke into several homes and ransacked them.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51712

Army shells northern Gaza, five Palestinians injured
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five Palestinian civilians were injured when the Israeli army shelled homes in Beit Hannon city located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51716

Israeli occupation troops kill Palestinians
Israeli occupation troops have shot dead three Palestinian resistance fighters, one in the West Bank and two others in the Gaza Strip.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5735743D-2AF9-4CD2-BB92-FA5B8B57107C.htm

Al-Aqsa commander killed in IDF raid in Tulkarm
Palestinian officials confirm Mohammed Qusah – who headed city's al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades infrastructure – died in shootout with Israeli troops on Sunday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3475500,00.html

Israeli army kidnaps five civilians
On Monday morning the Israeli army invaded several parts of the West Bank and kidnapped five civilians, according to Palestinian sources.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51729

Israeli army arrests 11 Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli sources said on Sunday that the Israeli army arrested 11 Palestinians in the West Bank. Three of the arrestees are from Ramallah in the central West Bank and eight others are from Nablus and Qalqilia in the north.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26459

Palestinian journalist kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Bethlehem
Palestinian media sources in Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank reported that a Palestinian journalist was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday night. He was released on Sunday afternoon.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51734

Israeli Special Forces kidnap head of Student Council at Birzeit University
On Sunday, Israeli military Special Forces kidnapped Fadi Hamad, the head of the Birzeit university student council. The incident occurred on the road linking the al Jalazoon camp with the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51733

Once Again, Settlers Attack Cordoba School in Hebron
Once again settlers have attack Cordoba school in central Hebron. When the teachers and pupils arrived at the school yesterday morning they found their garden vandalized and big rocks lying on the pathway leading to the school.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/11/26/2829/

Palestinian security arrest five Hamas members in West Bank
Hamas said Palestinian security services arrested five Hamas members across different West Bank districts on Sunday. Hamas issued a statement, saying a member of the local council in Sabastya, Bassam Makhalfa, was seized, as well as Adnan Kameel from Qabatia near Jenin.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26463

Hamas kidnaps five Fatah members
Fatah claimed on Sunday that Hamas-affiliated gunmen have kidnapped a Palestinian intelligence officer along with four other Fatah affiliates in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26465

PA bans Hamas conference in West Bank
Hamas' spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum on Sunday described banning a Hamas conference in the West Bank as formal decision by the Palestinian Authority to ban all Hamas activity in the West Bank. At a press conference in Gaza City Barhoum said, "Hamas' voice in the West Bank will resound despite the tyrannical conduct of the Palestinian Authority."
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26458

A number of Palestinian resistance factions attack Israeli targets in Gaza
The aL-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed Monday responsibility for firing mortar shells onto the Karni commercial crossing in eastern Gaza, as the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, the Saraya aL-Quds, shelled the Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza with one mortar.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51727

PA-Israeli document liquidating RoR unveiled
The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper has unveiled in its late edition on Monday a "serious" PA-Israeli document that aims at liquidating the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands. According to the paper, an Israeli group close to Israeli premier Ehud Olmert along with a Palestinian team associated with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas had negotiated the possibility of replacing the RoR with some economic projects that could cost 90 billion dollars.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7sOgHcpOJFwSFu2%2bFNif5T3wBiJSTpK58AJ%2bBNj6Ad6DtMYxsmvSqafMw87HDDydF4u5%2f%2bSm5XLxNNsOlIy4xq0gD7u%2fnZ%2blzFMuxi36IHeM%3d

Gazans fed up with harsh circumstances
To Abu Ghanem, a father of eight children, the direness of living condition in the cut-off homeland of Gaza after Hamas movement's takeover of power from President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces in June was so unbearable.  Abu Ghanem, 37, is only one of the Gazans who are so fed up with the harsh circumstances the strip has been going through, as basic necessities like food, medicine and fuel are now the only things allowed to enter the enclave.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/26/content_7144344.htm

ISRAEL-OPT: Palestinian police boost security in Nablus
Palestinian militants in the Nablus area of the West Bank are in the middle of what seems to be a pincer movement - chased not only by the Israeli military but also by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which, under Acting Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, has taken it upon itself to crack down on the fighters.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75497

An Arrest on the Border, The geographer Ghazi Falah was caught between Israel and the Arab world Ghazi-Walid Falah was not worried when Israeli security agents stopped his car on a narrow mountain road near the Lebanese border, just before sundown on July 8, 2006.  When they discover who I am, he assured himself, they will immediately release me. Mr. Falah is a prominent political geographer who studies borders. He is a tenured professor at the University of Akron. And he is a dual citizen of Israel and Canada. He thought he had nothing to fear. But his self-assurance — and his freedom — were short-lived.
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i13/13a00101.htm

Maria's Cave is a new documentary film by Palestinian director Buthayna Khouri about so-called honor killings in Palestine. (in Arabic)
http://arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.com/2007/11/film-about-honor-killing.html

Palestine: Democracy, Not Zionism
Those who truly seek justice and peace in the Middle East must dare to speak openly and honestly of the "Zionism problem"—and then to draw the moral, ethical and practical conclusions which follow.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2007/0711010.html

Audio: Crossing the Line speaks with Jewish activst Rita Corriel
This week on Crossing The Line: Shiva is the traditional seven-day period of mourning which follows a Jewish funeral. In an article recently published on EI, peace activist and psychotherapist Rita Corriel recently asked the question, "When do we stop sitting shiva for the Holocaust?" Host Christopher Brown speaks with Corriel about the idea of Israel as the "shiva house" which many use to justify the injustice done to Palestinians.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9121.shtml

An excursion through the West Bank is a trip to disbelief
When you witness it, you are left in disbelief; how can it be happening? But it is occurring daily; what seems to be purposeful hindrances to West Bank residents that reduce Palestinians, who have meager demands and normal needs, to total despair and deprivation.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2670.shtml

Meanwhile in Annapolis...

Key Players at Annapolis Mideast Summit (Everyone except the Palestinians)
Predecessors have tried and failed. But at the end of a tenure marked by a relatively hands-off policy on the conflict, President Bush hopes to be the U.S. leader who finally succeeds in brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Critics say he's doing too little, too late, but Israel and the Palestinians have both expressed interest in clinching a peace deal before Bush leaves office in January 2009.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw0_SL1qxpmVevMkYdnM8cxOEc8gD8T49UCO1

Hezbollah joins Tehran and Hamas in denouncing Annapolis talks
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group joined Iran on Sunday in denouncing this week's U.S.-hosted Middle East peace conference, calling it a "media show" in support of Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=927767&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Ahmadinejad: Support Annapolis - support Zionist occupation
Iran, Hizbullah write off Annapolis peace conference moments before parties sit down for historic talks. Ahmadinejad slams participation of Arab League nations, says their endorsement sanctions Israel's behavior while ignoring Palestinian interests.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3475503,00.html

Arabs march to Annapolis
This afternoon, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah are expected in Sharm El-Sheikh for talks with President Hosni Mubarak. The three-way Arab summit might expand to include some other Arab leaders. It will be followed, this evening and tomorrow morning, by a ministerial meeting of the 13-member Arab Peace Initiative Committee in which Abbas and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa will participate.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/872/eg1.htm

Livni: Arab world will not be involved in negotiations
Upon landing in Washington, FM Tzipi Livni outlines what she expects from the Arab world. 'They are not to define the terms of negotiations, or even be involved in them, only to stand behind the Palestinians'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3475436,00.html

Hope for Leaders' Cooperation, but Little for Results
...diplomatic consensus that a new Palestinian state should have a police force but no army...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/world/middleeast/25annapolis.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

We have not given up, The Palestinian people will not yield to the west's cynical pressure on them to surrender If you want bad symbolism, you need look no further than the venue. The US naval academy of Annapolis is the current representation of unrestrained global supremacy, from where young cadets are being sent forth to occupy Arab land by force of arms. Appropriate place, then, for the US to host the meeting between Palestinian officials and the Israeli state, with every important government and international institution in obedient attendance. No one has misunderstood the nature of this meeting or is vaguely fooled by what is taking place. What we have at Annapolis is yet another ultimatum to the Palestinian people to surrender their sovereign rights.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,2217017,00.html

Bush: Annapolis is a chance to redouble bid for 2-state solution
The upcoming Middle East peace conference offers all sides a chance to "redouble their efforts" of achieving a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. President George W Bush said Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=928106&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Posing For A Peace Snap
About the only things on which Palestinians and Israelis agree as they head into this week's U.S.-orchestrated peace talks is their mutual love of falafel and belief the conclave at Annapolis, Md., will be little more than a photo op. After creating disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Palestine, and fanning worldwide anger against America, President George Bush desperately needs a foreign policy success in the final year of his ill-starred term.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/25/5418/

FACTBOX: Where past Middle East peace talks faltered
The United States is due to host a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday aimed at launching long-stalled talks on Palestinian statehood. Here are some facts about previous efforts to make peace in the Middle East and where they faltered.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2522017020071125

Rightists target mainstream to fight concessions at Annapolis
On the eve of the Annapolis peace summit, right-wing activists are being forced to contend with defeatism as well as internal disputes in their efforts to block territorial concessions to the Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=928105&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

A definite blow
Thus far, the biggest achievement of the Annapolis conference appears to be the damage it has done to Hamas. The announcement that Arab foreign ministers will attend the conference has bolstered the political standing of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927519.html

Palestinians want peace-deal monitor: New York (PTI)
Ahead of this week's Middle East peace conference in the US, Palestinians are reportedly pressing Washington to appoint a full time monitor tasked with assessing whether the two sides are living up to their promises on security and a freeze on Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The reason, says Newsweek in its upcoming issue, is that Israelis and Palestinians have always been better at making peace-deal promises than following through on them.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200711260922.htm

Hamas's MPs sign a document, in rejection of Annapolis summit
A number of Hamas's members of Palestinian parliament, headed by the dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, signed in Gaza today a document, in rejection of Tuesday's Annapolis summit.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51731

A guide to 4 main issues that divide Israel and the Palestinians
JERUSALEM — The clock is winding down on yet another U.S. president who's trying to broker an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has outlasted 10 of his predecessors and will be 60 years old on May 14, Israel's 60th birthday.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/21919.html

Great Expectations
Is it just me or does everyone think the Annapolis conference guaranteed to be a success? All sides have lowered expectations so much that if the handshakes are "firm" the summit will have wildly surpassed our greatest hopes.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/11/great-expectations.html