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JEWISH AMERICAN PLANS TO PUT ISRAEL'S WALL ON TRIAL
Bender and Kelly Minio-Paluetto, 23, of Madison Wisconsin were arrested while filming a group of Israeli border police severely beating a teenage Palestinian. The two women have been issued deportation orders and are being held in Tsohar Prison near Israel's border with Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=694&mid=10400
Settlers threaten to attack Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip
Yedioth Ahronoth stated that settlers told army officials that they will attack and fire at the Palestinian areas “if the army fails respond properly to the Palestinian threats and does not operate effectively in the Gaza Strip to halt the firing of the home made shells”.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/122304/settlers%20threats.htm
Some 15 Israeli youths attack Palestinian family in Jerusalem
Some 15 Israeli youths, apparently ultra-rightists marking the end of a Jewish fast day, allegedly assaulted the family in Jerusalem late on Wednesday. The mother, father, and eight-year-old daughter were attacked while they were walking through IDF Square in the city. They hurled stones at the family and then proceeded to beat up the father.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518369&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli tank shelling in Gaza
The victim was named as 17-year-old Rami Abu Akha. Another Palestinian was also critically injured in the firing close to the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim. The latest death brought to 4,641 the overall toll since the September 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, including 3,596 Palestinians and 970 Israelis, according to an AFP count.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=18&u=/afp/20041223/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestgazatoll.041223125811
Mortars hit Gaza settlements; 2 Palestinians die in Gaza camp
Palestinian militants fired a barrage of mortar shells at the Netzer Hazani settlement in southern Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding one man and damaging a house, the Israel Defense Forces said. The attacks came hours after IDF troops wound up their second operation in a week in the nearby Khan Yunis refugee camp
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518301.html
Army withdraws from the Bedouin village, invades Al-Zaytoun neighborhood
The Israeli army withdrew from Um Nasser, a Bedouin village in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving scenes of destruction behind, and invaded Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/122304/GS.htm
Religious tourism and freedom of movement denied in isolated Bethlehem
It has been reported that during the Christmas season, an Israeli Tourism Ministry official will greet religious tourists with bags of sweets at the Gilo checkpoint that separates Bethlehem from Jerusalem, named after the illegal Israeli settlement nearby.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3452.shtml
The Case for Boycotting Israel
Faced with overwhelming Israeli oppression, Palestinians under occupation, in refugee camps and in the heart of Israel's distinct form of apartheid have increasingly reached out to the world for understanding, for compassion, and, more importantly, for solidarity. Palestinians do not beg for sympathy.
http://www.counterpunch.com/barghouti12222004.html
Imagining Palestine
A Palestinian child died in my arms today. It was a young boy; it was a girl. It was an infant; it was a 13-year-old. She had been shot 20 times by an Israeli soldier firing U.S.-made bullets; he had been dismembered by a missile fired from a U.S.-manufactured Israeli helicopter gunship. I am a Palestinian, and these were my children.
http://www.counterpunch.com/christison12222004.html
Palestinians vote in council elections in dry run for presidential poll
More than 140,000 electors were choosing from 886 candidates, including 139 women, as they select local council officials for the town of Jericho and 25 villages in the West Bank. A second tranche of elections will take place on January 27 in 10 other localities in the Gaza Strip.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=2&u=/afp/20041223/ts_afp/mideastpalestinianvote.041223131820
Hamas to participate in municipal elections
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced Thursday that it would participate in the municipal elections launched in 26 municipal election centers. "Hamas movement strongly supports a comprehensive change," the movement said in a statement sent to reporters.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/23/content_2373222.htm
Israel and Jordan sign new trade agreement
The deal obliges Jordan to abolish many customs duties on Israeli products by 2010. The EU has long pressed for such a move, which Jordan hopes will secure better customs and trade quota terms with the wealthy bloc.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518374.html
Palestinian PM blasts Blair's planned London conference
"We reject these remarks. They are unacceptable and we are capable and have the means and expertise for peace and negotiations," Qureia told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "It is the Israeli side that requires rehabilitation for peace not us... We are in need of a peace conference and not a meeting."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518378.html
Europe now a partner in Israeli-Palestinian peace process: Dutch FM
"After my first meeting with (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon he told me remember, you can interfere however much you want, in the end the Americans are the only ones we listen to," Bot said. Five months later, Sharon's tone had changed.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041223102759.yjogyf18
Labor Central Committee members select ministers for coalition
The Labor Party's Central Committee members on Thursday were voting to select MKs who would take up seven ministerial portfolios in the future coalition government with 13 candidates vying for the available positions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518289.html
Right-wing MKs vow to act as human shields to bar pull-out
Twelve right-wing legislators have vowed to act as human shields to prevent evacuation of settlers under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposed disengagement in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518303&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Pa'at Sadeh settlers in Gaza agree moshav move in principle
Most residents of the Pa'at Sadeh settlement have reached an agreement in principle with the Disengagement Administration for a collective move to Moshav Mavki'im, south of Ashkelon, should disengagement go ahead.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518066&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Palestinian state as Israeli demand - By Azmi Bishara
It is pointless to ask why the British prime minister or why the chief executive of the World Bank never visited Palestine while Arafat was alive. No one will answer. But there they were when, on 20 December, George Bush reminded us that he was the first American president to officially acknowledge the principle of the creation of a Palestinian state.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/722/op10.htm
Peace Now seeks volunteers to replace pull-out 'refuseniks'
Peace Now on Thursday launched a new campaign calling for volunteers to replace IDF soldiers who refuse to take part in the evacuation of settlements under the disengagement plan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518314&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
High turnout as West Bank Palestinians vote in municipal polls
Al-A'arj also said that Israel could help if it lifted the roadblocks that would enable voters to make their way with greater ease to the polls. One of the most interesting features of these elections is the participation of women candidates among the 826 individuals who are bidding for a post on their local council.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518353.html
Elections 'First Step Towards Palestinian State'
Long lines of people waited for their chance to vote, in an election seen as a warm up to the January 9 presidential elections to replace Yasser Arafat, Next year, voting will likely take place in an additional 600 towns and villages, with a total of 1.2 million voters. The last municipal elections were held in 1976.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3920916
Battling against Israeli 'apartheid'
Mr Kaadan, a secular Muslim, insists he doesn't mind if his children observe Jewish customs and holidays so long as they get a decent education. At the moment his eldest daughter, Aya, spends three hours a day on a bus travelling to classes in the coastal city of Haifa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4111915.stm
Palestinians voting for first time in 30 years
Long lines formed at polling stations in the West Bank town of Jericho, with some voters complaining they had to wait for more than four hours and still had not been able to cast their ballots. Still, many said they were eager to vote in their first local election since 1976.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2961087
On This Day 1956: Jubilation as allied troops leave Suez
US President Eisenhower and delegates at the United Nations feared the USSR would use the crisis as a way of gaining power in the Middle East and deflecting attention from its invasion of Hungary. They put pressure on Britain, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt. Israel withdrew from Sinai in March 1957.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/23/newsid_3294000/3294305.stm
Head of Germany's Jews criticizes immigration row
The head of Germany's Central Council of Jews has criticized the tone of a debate sparked by plans to tighten immigration laws for Eastern European Jews, saying it assumes Germany has been overrun by Jewish migrants.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518360&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
US 'blocking Arab freedom report'
"My understanding is that the UNDP will not publish it under its logo, but they will not prevent it from being published under the names of the authors," said Mr Fergani. "It seems that the pressure that was put on the UNDP was too heavy to bear."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4121261.stm
Report: Arafat Invested in Bowling Company
The Bowlmor money was among $799 million in international investments by Arafat detailed in the newly released documents. Other holdings included $285 million in Orascom, an Egyptian cellphone company, and $3.2 million in the U.S. software firm Simplexity, Bloomberg Markets reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_re_us/arafat_bowling_alley_3
Mosul attack marks unprecedented first in Iraq
The lunchtime bombing, which sent tiny discs of shrapnel flying into soldiers and contractors, killed 22 people, 18 of them US citizens, in the deadliest ever attack against the Americans in Iraq. Although the US military brass played down the insurgents' ability to enter the inner sanctums of the US army in Iraq, the incident triggered a top to bottom review
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12247
Four US military personnel killed in Iraq as base bombing probed
Three US marines and a soldier were killed in two attacks in Iraq as the US military investigated how a suicide bomber managed to penetrate an army base in an strike that killed 22 people.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041223/wl_mideast_afp/iraq.041223200554
Tareq Aziz refuses to testify against Saddam: lawyer
"Tareq Aziz told me that he will not take the witness stand against Saddam," said Badi Aref Izzat. The lawyer said that Aziz, who has been in US custody since his surrender in the immediate aftermath of last year's US-led invasion, had had no opportunity to see the ousted president.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041223/wl_mideast_afp/iraqsaddamjusticeaziz.041223193428 |
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