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Palestinian Students Need Army Escort
The walk to school for five Palestinian children has become so dangerous they require an escort from Israeli soldiers and police. Jewish settlers living along the path have repeatedly ambushed the young students, setting dogs on them, throwing stones and beating one 7-year-old girl with a stick until she bled, according to the children, their parents, their principal and human rights workers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=15&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinian_children
In Egypt: Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Globalization Activists Stage a Solidarity March to Gaza and Protest against Normalization with the Occupation
Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Globalization Activists Stage a Solidarity March to Gaza and Protest against Normalization with the Occupation. Two separate sets of protests last week by Palestine solidarity activists showed the strength of the grassroots movement against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid in Egypt.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/833.shtml
Activist set to be deported
Journalist and community activist Kelly Minio-Paluello, 23, is being held at the Hadera Deportation Centre. She has not been charged but has been told she will be deported soon. She was arrested on Tuesday, December 14, while she filmed a peaceful protest against the construction of the Israeli Apartheid Wall.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=66766
Gov't panel okays funding of 100 projects in settlements
A special government committee has approved the funding of some 100 projects in settlements slated for evacuation under the disengagement plan, the Prime Minister's Office announced Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517956.html
Israel's war on the milieu
For much of the rest of the world, however, the importance of defending trees is self-evident, for it is a matter of life and death. Palestinians know this as well as anyone. Since the advent of the Israeli occupation in 1967, Palestinians have seen Israeli machines uproot hundreds of thousands of olive trees, each one a tangible source of livelihood and identity for a family, a village, a nation.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3449.shtml
IOF Kills 3 Citizens in Gaza Strip
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed Wednesday three citizens, wounded six in the Gaza Strip, while three others were wounded and eight were arrested in the West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1973
Israeli killed in shooting attack west of Hebron
An Israeli security guard was killed Wednesday afternoon when two Palestinian gunmen fired on the civilian, who was guarding parked bulldozers near a section of the separation fence west of the West Bank city of Hebron.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517548.html
IPS publishes names of Palestinians to be released
Under the recommendation of Shin Ben security service chief Avi Dichter, the government decided against releasing 32 jailed Hamas and Islamic Jihad members. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said their release would have sent a wrong message while Israel was attempting to strengthen a moderate Palestinian leadership.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517930.html
List of Jews-only businesses goes offline in wake of petition
The Avoda Ivrit ("Hebrew Work") Web site on Wednesday removed from the Internet its list of businesses that hire only Jewish workers, after two groups petitioned the Jerusalem District Court to instruct the site to shut down.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517951.html
Refugee families flee Israeli tanks
The military said that during the raid on the refugee camp, which would last about two days, buildings used as cover by Palestinian gunmen would be destroyed. The military said more than 15 mortars and rockets had been fired from the camp at nearby Israeli settlements in the past few days.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11765303%255E2703,00.html
Blair arrives in Ramallah, visits Arafat's grave
Blair passed by Arafat's grave in the yard and stopped for two seconds, showing his respect to the late Palestinian leader.But the British premier didn't place a wreath of flowers on Arafat's grave before he went into the building to hold talks with the Palestinian officials.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2369798.htm
Palestinian TV airs Geneva Accord ad campaign
On the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Accord, an advertising campaign is being aired on Palestinian television, featuring Israeli and Palestinian statesmen voicing their support for the venture.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=517553&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Abbas condemns Israeli incursion into Khan Younis
It was the second Israeli incursion into the area within the last five days, and during the first raid on Friday and Saturday, 11 Palestinians were killed and 39 houses destroyed. Palestinian officials expressed concerns that the Israeli incursions into towns and refugee camps would have a negative effect on the upcoming Palestinian elections
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/23/content_2370002.htm
Blair meets Sharon in new peace bid
Blair praised Sharon for sticking to his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, saying it was vital that the plan be incorporated into the US-backed plan for peace in the region, known as the road map. Blair said all efforts will have to lead to the implementation of the road map.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A4CF4F90-5D27-4011-AFA3-647A4AB51B64.htm
Abbas calls planned London meeting a step to peace
Abbas was speaking after a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who plans the meeting after Jan. 9 Palestinian elections to assist Palestinians with security, democratic and economic reforms. "We believe this conference will be the first step to achieving and consolidating the peace process," Abbas said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TOS251715.htm
Abbas stresses Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Abbas demands the Israeli government coordinate the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian National Authority. He says the Palestinian dialogue in the Gaza Strip will continue to prepare for the post-withdrawal period.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2366728.htm
PNA ready to confront troubles in Thursday's local elections
The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) said Wednesday it is ready to confront any trouble when elections open in 26 West Bank towns and villages on Thursday. It will be the first time in more than three years that uniformed Palestinian police are deployed in public in the West Bank.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2369956.htm
Canada to send monitors for Palestine election
The Canadian contingent at the Jan. 9 election will be part of a European Union monitoring force expected to include 260 members. Ottawa will also contribute $1.7-million to Palestinian election funds run by the United Nations and local authorities, The Canadian Press learned Wednesday.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041222.wpalevote1222/BNStory/National/
Abbas, Suleiman discuss renewal of Cairo dialogue
Palestinian sources said Wednesday that Egyptian intelligence chief Omer Suleiman met Palestinian officials over prospects for the renewal of an inter-Palestinian dialogue in Cairo.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2369021.htm
UN Arab report 'won't be issued'
Nader Fergani, leading a team writing the latest Arab Human Development Report, said the UN Development Program was not expected to print the report under its own name due to US threats to cut a chunk of its $US100 million ($130.8 million) funding to the UNDP.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11767051%255E1702,00.html
Israel's Unsettling Settlers
Israeli Radio reported that a few West Bank settlers disconnected the water supply to an Israel Defense Forces outpost on Monday and punctured the tires of a military jeep. And no Israeli can forget the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by an ultranationalist Jew.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1222/p08s03-comv.html
Rights before service
Many of the articles written this week about the casualties of the unit also adopted this line and even expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the state is not fulfilling its part of the deal: Here are Arabs who joined the IDF, and in spite the famous "blood bond," they continue to suffer discrimination in and out of the army.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517521.html
Now come the true feelings
Given the unquestioned authority - formal and informal - that Yasser Arafat possessed, many expected that the chances of peace between Israel and the Palestinians would end with Arafat's death, since only he had the authority to achieve peace based on a compromise that would be acceptable to his people.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517544.html
Christmas cheer revives in Bethlehem
"We don't think Arafat was an obstacle to peace, as Israel claimed, but we hope for better times with Abu Mazen in charge," said souvenir vendor Epiphany Tabash, using the pseudonym of Mahmoud Abbas, the veteran conciliator tipped to win a January 9 election. "We've had enough of war, destruction and isolation."
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=642351&src=eDialog/GetContent§ion=news
Archaeologists said to have found site of Jesus' first miracle
The shards were found during a salvage dig in modern-day Cana, between Nazareth and Capernaum. Israeli archaeologist Yardena Alexander believes the Arab town was built near the ancient village. The jar pieces date to the Roman period, when Jesus traveled in the Galilee.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=517551&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Patriarch of Jerusalem Invites the Israelis to Stop Construction of the "Separation Wall"
"For its part, the wall of separation will really never separate or protect Quite to the contrary, it will only increase hate, ignorance of the other, and, therefore, hostility toward the other and, as a further consequence, violence and insecurity," said Sabbah in the Christmas message 2004, yesterday in Jerusalem.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1972
Syria urges Israel to return rights to original owner
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri on Wednesday urged Israel to return the rights, including the occupied lands, to its original owner. Otri made the remarks at a joint press conference with his visiting Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyeb Erdogan.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/23/content_2369965.htm
'A Tree Instead of a Mine' campaign kicks off in the South
"The project that we are currently working on in the UN aims to de-mine the South and to plant a tree instead of each mine," said de Mistura while planting the first tree in the southern village of Sarad al-Omra.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=11206
Don't return drones to China, U.S. tells Israel
However, American sources say Israel will have no choice but to comply with the U.S. demand. The powerful pro-Taiwan lobby is warning that advanced Israeli weapons technologies could be used against U.S. soldiers defending the island state off the coast of China.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/517550.html
Grand jury query of AIPAC officials postponed until new year
The four are slated to testify before a grand jury investigation into the Pentagon mole affair, and to answer questions that will focus, according to sources following the case, on AIPAC's modus operandi and the type of ties it maintains with U.S. and Israeli government officials.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517500.html
Over 10 nuclear spies arrested in Iran since March
Iranian Minister of Information Ali Younesi was quoted as saying that among them, three used to work at Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. Younesi said the arrested, believed to be agents of Israeli Mossad and US CIA, were seized in Tehran and the southern province of Hormozgan.
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2368508.htm
US troops hunt insurgents in Mosul after attack on Iraq base kills 22
The US military swept Mosul for insurgents after a brazen attack by Islamic militants on an army mess tent that killed 22 people, mostly Americans, in the bloodiest strike on US forces in Iraq since the war.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041222/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestblastmosul_041222180540 |
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