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Israeli
forces kill 20 in Gaza during Eid attacks
Israeli
Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aggression on the Gaza
Strip since the Eid al-Adha eve, killing twenty Palestinians and
injuring 27 others, including four critically. The casualties
resulted from acts of assassination and bombardment, and an incursion
in central Gaza during which eight were killed on 20 December 2007.
IOF also leveled sixty dunums (one dunam equals 1,000 square meters)
of agricultural land and partially destroyed twelve homes in the
area.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9179.shtml
Israeli
army fire wounds a Palestinian youth in a West Bank village
An
Israeli soldier shot and wounded on Tuesday a Palestinian youth in
the West Bank village of Nahalin, Palestinian media sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52089
Israeli
Army Invade Azzoun Yet Again
At 3:45 AM on the 24th of
Dec, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) invaded Azzoun, once again
imposing curfew in the Palestinian village without any reason. A
large number of military vehicles and soldiers were spread out all
over the village, randomly attacking civilian Palestinians with
teargas, sound bombs and rubber bullets. During the curfew IOF
closed the centre of the city, not even allowing the ambulance to
drive on the main road. A Palestinian family got permission to drive
to their home in the old city, but despite the permission Israeli
soldiers opened fire at the car. The front window of the car was hit
with four rubber bullets. The parents and their 6 children (the
youngest only two years old) got away with only minor injuries from
glass splinters.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/12/25/israeli-army-invade-azzoun-yet-again/
Two
missiles fired at a civilian area in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza
Strip, no injuries reported
IMEMC Correspondent in Gaza
reported that an Israeli war plane fired two missiles at a building
in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia, on Tuesday night.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52093.html
Palestinian
farmers, including child, beaten by masked Israeli settlers near
Nablus
Palestinian sources reported Tuesday that a group
of farmers in their fields near Nablus, in the northern part of the
West Bank, were badly beaten by a group of Israeli settlers living
illegally in the area.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52096
13
Palestinians detained in Israeli operations across West Bank
Israeli
army forces detained 13Palestinians during its operations across the
West Bank which started Tuesday night, Palestinian security sources
said Wednesday. Most of the detentions took place in Nablus
city where Israeli soldiers stormed tens of houses at dawn and seized
at least 10 residents.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/26/content_7317292.htm
Palestinian
interior minister: security arrangements in the West Bank efficient
Palestinian interior minister, Abdelrazzaq aL-Yahya,
asserted that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is keeping up a security
plan across the West Bank with a 'great efficiency', and all scenes
of chaos will be eliminated soon.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52088
Hamas
concerned over Israeli army actions against resistance
A
senior leader and spokesperson of Hamas in southern Gaza, Ahmad
Arreqeb, stated Tuesday that his movement takes the Israeli threats,
to target Hamas's leaders, seriously.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52091
Who
is impeding ceasefire in Gaza?
The Palestinian government
in Gaza has recently given many indications of its willingness to
reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel. This writer has received
first-hand information from some Gaza officials, expressing genuine
readiness to reach a dignified and equitable ceasefire agreement that
would put an end to the callous Israeli blockade of Gaza and the
daily killing of Palestinians there in exchange for a stoppage of all
rocket-firing on nearby Jewish settlements.
Hamas
accuses Fatah of attempting to prolong Gaza siege
The
ruling Hamas movement in Gaza accused its rival Fatah party Wednesday
of attempting to further tighten the siege being imposed on the Gaza
Strip, where Hamas wrestles control for the past six
months.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52104
INTERVIEW-Hamas
won't budge in demands for Israeli soldier
Hamas will not
release a captured Israeli soldier unless Israel meets its demand to
free nearly 1,400 Palestinian prisoners, including 350 with life
sentences, a leader of the Islamist group in Gaza said on Wednesday.
Similar demands were rejected months ago by Israel, highlighting the
gaps that remain between the two sides in trying to reach a swap deal
for Sergeant Gilad Shalit, captured by Gaza militants in a
cross-border raid in June 2006.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26289464.htm
Barak,
in Egypt, will seek calm with Hamas
Defense Minister Ehud
Barak travels to Egypt today for meetings with the Egyptian
leadership on the continued arms smuggling from Sinai into the Gaza
Strip, and the efforts to achieve a tahadiyeh (calm) between the
Palestinian militant groups and Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=938349
Ahead
of Abbas-Olmert meeting, the PFLP calls for halting peace talks
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
demanded Tuesday the Palestinian Authority to stop underway
Palestinian-Israeli talks, branding the talks 'aimless'.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52090
PM,
Abbas to meet in bid to defuse Har Homa spat
Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in an attempt to solve the so-called
settlement crisis that has plagued negotiations since the Annapolis
summit late last month.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=938573
High
Court slams state for not providing Gaza power cuts data
The
High Court of Justice assailed the State Prosecutor's Office Tuesday
for failing to provide it with data on the government's plans to
limit the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip. "The fact
that the work of the task force [on this issue] was completed but not
presented to us is troubling," wrote Justices Dorit Beinisch,
Esther Hayut and Yosef Elon. They also decided that a hearing on the
electricity cuts will be held during the second half of January,
2008.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=938328
Egypt
hits back at Israeli charges over Gaza
Egypt rejected
Israeli complaints about weapons smuggling into Gaza on Wednesday,
after talks between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli
Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26392967.htm
Egypt
ask for national troop deployment in Sinai, Israeli refuse
The
Israeli delegation officials that are visiting Egypt said that they
will refuse the demands made by Egypt to deploy 2000 of its troops in
the Sinai Peninsula.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52103
Ramallah
Government Pays Gaza's Civil Servants—If They Promise Not to Work
A PLUME OF smoke, its scent redolent of roasted apples,
wafts out the paneless window into the autumn air. A rhythmic
bubbling can be heard as 47-year-old Abu Khaled inhales from the
ornate hookah set beside him. As he exhales deeply, his heavy eyes
watch the latest snakelike plume follow its predecessor. Once a man
of action, today he simply sits, sentenced by political maneuvering
to a sedentary existence and lamenting the life he until recently
led.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2007/0712014.html
Palestinian
Christians lament treatment
..."We do not believe
what these evangelical and fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. are
doing. This is not right. This is not the word of Jesus Christ. Our
Lord was not a real estate agent," said Batarseh,
72.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/12/25/christians1225.html
Israel
continues policy of denying visas to Christian clergy
As
Christians around the world and in Bethlehem celebrate Christmas this
year, the Israeli government is blocking clergy from reaching
Bethlehem and other locations in the Holy Land this
Christmas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52094
In
Gaza, Santa is insolvent
"Santa Claus is empty handed
this year ... insolvent," says Father Manuel Musallam, head of
the Holy Family School in Gaza City. "All forms of celebration
are absent," he says, raising his empty palms skywards. "We
Christians and Muslims all live in fear and instability. The Israeli
tanks, bulldozers and warplanes have laid siege on us all." His
school, which has both Muslim and Christian students, likes to
celebrate including all; this year few celebrations were planned, for
fewer children.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9178.shtml
Christians,
too, suffer the evilness of the occupation
Christmas is a
season of good will. However, for Israel and its notoriously
mendacious propaganda machine, Christmas is also a hasbara
opportunity for spreading lies and disseminating disinformation
and half truths about Christians in the Holy Land.
Christmas
celebrated in Bethlehem
A recent lull in violence and
renewed Middle East peace talks have bolstered tourist and pilgrim
numbers, with the Palestinian town in the West Bank enjoying its
busiest Christmas since the second intifada began seven years ago.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/05A2C75F-6171-4D2B-B890-41AFA9D80D27.htm
Hamas:
Past negotiations bring nothing for Palestinians
A
spokesman for Hamas said Tuesday that years of negotiations between
Israel and the Palestinians gave everything to the occupation but
nothing to the Palestinians. "The negotiations enhance the image
of the occupation in front of the international community by showing
the meetings with the Palestinian side which gets only illusive
promises," spokesman Fawzi Barhoom said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/25/content_7311866.htm
Fatah
loyalists break out of Egyptian police camps
Dozens of
Palestinian security men affiliated to Fatah staged a mass break-out
on Tuesday from the camp where they have been held in the Egyptian
town of Rafah, security sources said. Around 130 men from various
Fatah security groups have been held in Egyptian police custody since
they crossed the border from the Gaza Strip in June, fleeing in the
aftermath of rival Hamas' seizure of the territory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071225/wl_nm/egypt_fatah_dc_1
Apology
in Kafr Qasem
Most Israelis still find it hard to
acknowledge that they bear historical responsibility for the creation
of the Palestinian refugee problem. The Zionist vision is based,
among other things, on the assumption that its fulfillment need not
cause injustice to anyone... This historical fiction is very harmful
because as long as we convince ourselves that we have no part in the
responsibility for the creation of the Palestinian tragedy, we have
no real reason to try to correct the injustice. This is the
importance of acknowledging our
responsibility.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/938370.html
Cold
reality for Fatah
He didn't try to hide his resentment as
a reporter on the local radio cited a Hamas leader as saying that the
movement had reached an agreement with Fatah to initiate dialogue
with the aim of ending their current crisis. For Wael Khalil, the
35-year-old officer who is investigating recent bombings in Gaza,
Fatah is not acting in good faith. "Had we not been working
around the clock, we wouldn't have been able to foil most of the
bombing attempts ordered by Fatah in Ramallah, Khalil told me.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/867/re71.htm
"Jerusalem
in Exile"—An Invitation to Palestinians
THE
"JERUSALEM in Exile" project is searching for the mental
image of Jerusalem that exists in the minds of the Palestinian people
in the Diaspora. (The Diaspora now seems to include Palestinians in
Palestine, who are barred from traveling to Jerusalem.) This mental
image will be later transformed into a photographic image.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2007/0712055.html
Ron
Paul insists: 'Israel encourages Americans to go into Iran'
Ron
Paul was on Meet the Press this morning, and for some reason, Israel
was at the top of the agenda. As I wrote in the past, Paul was very
careful not to single out Israel when it comes to foreign aid. Will
you cut off all foreign aid to Israel, he was asked. "Absolutely,"
he said. But he didn't forget to add that he meant Israel "and
the Arabs." Paul did raise some questions about his views
regarding Israel when he talked about Israel and Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=937480
Al-Shefa
Hospital in
pictures
http://www.freegaza.ps/english/index.php?scid=100&id=215&extra=news&type=40
Avoiding
Responsibility
The Israeli demand to be recognized as a
"Jewish state" was not only one of the main reasons for the
failure of the Annapolis conference, it was one of the most
controversial issues of the negotiations. This demand is rejected by
Palestinians and all Arab governments. Hence, the support for the
Israeli position on this controversial issue by President George W.
Bush in his opening speech at Annapolis marked a snub to the Arabs
and a failure of their diplomacy.
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=15716&CategoryId=5
South
Africa found peace, why not Middle East? by Desmond Tutu
December
21, 2007: At the height of the struggle, when apartheid's repression
was at its most vicious and it seemed as if the apartheid rulers were
firmly ensconced in power, we turned to the inspiration of our Hebrew
tradition and antecedents. I could have spent a great deal of time
rehearsing how I experienced a deja-vu when I saw a security
checkpoint at which Palestinians had to negotiate most of their
lives, that I was reminded so painfully of the same checkpoints in
apartheid South Africa. I have not gone that route.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14586
Palestine:
A Peace-killing Linkage, De-linkage
Linking the "aliyah"
to what the Jewish literature has been describing as Eretz Israel or
Yisrael HaShleima (Greater Israel) to the Israeli colonial settlement
of the Palestinian land, which the Hebrew state occupied in 1967,
while at the same time negating the Palestinian Right of Return, is
torpedoing whatever prospect is left for a peaceful solution for the
Arab – Israeli conflict, undermining the latest U.S.-sponsored
launch of the Palestinian - Israeli talks in Annapolis and further
splintering, so far politically, the only viable Palestinian partner
to Israel in any viable peace process, namely the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7682
Palestinian
cooking ‹ LOW PROFILE, HIGH FLAVOR
BETHLEHEM, West Bank
-- It's the most talked about conflict in the world -- but the food
remains a mystery. Despite decades of attention to the Mideast,
Palestinian cooking is all but unknown to a world more familiar with
images of angry Palestinians with AK-47s than chefs creating delicate
salads or carefully roasted stuffed pigeon. "We do have
(Palestinian) fighters," said Fadi Kattan, organizer of the
Second Palestinian Culinary Competition, a recent effort to raise the
profile of the region's cuisine. "But we also have other things
that make us Palestinian."
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/12/25/features/food/iq_4276465.txt
Israel
Wins "Nuke" War
A doomsday war between
nuclear-armed adversaries Iran and Israel would kill up to 28 million
Iranians and destroy their nation, but the Jewish state might
survive, according to a prestigious US think
tank.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12252007/news/worldnews/israel_wins_nuke_war_446018.htm
Iran
Jewish leader calls recent mass aliyah 'misinformation' bid
A
top Iranian Jewish community leader on Wednesday described the recent
immigration of 40 Iranian Jews to Israel as a misinformation campaign
and insisted that Jews living in the Islamic Republic were not in
danger under hard-line policies of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=938673
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