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In Jordan: Unions and Political Groups Stage a Campaign against the Apartheid Wall and Denounce Normalization with the Occupation
In early December, a group of Jordanian political parties, unions, and civil groups joined together in a campaign to pressure the government to scrap its 10-year-old peace treaty with Apartheid Israel. The demand is part of the group's campaign against the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/836.shtml
Apartheid Wall Kills Far'on Villages' Hopes
According to citizens from Far'on village, Israeli occupation has been building an industrial zone on their stolen land. They also affirmed that Israeli troops have been digging a tunnel in their land, linking Tulkarem to al-Kafriat villages.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1995
Palestinians Worry About Cost of Peace
The barrier, in the form of an electrified fence here, cuts off Jayyous from 74 percent of its farmland and much of its well water, he said. The people of Jayyous can only reach their land through two Israeli checkpoints that are open for about an hour twice a day. Each requires different permits...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/international/middleeast/29mideast.html
The Writing on the Wall: Hania Batar
Suddenly this wall of concrete cement became very scary. I try to be and present myself as a courageous woman, but to tell you the truth: sometimes when I am driving and it is evening, this Wall really looks cold, long and winding, like a snake. When I am driving alongside it, it is an endless road.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3464.shtml
Release of children should be a priority
Children remain the most vulnerable group affected by the policies of occupation and nowhere is this more so that within the Israeli military judicial system. We demand the unconditional and immediate release of all Palestinian child prisoners from Israeli detention.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3465.shtml
Elections without Democracy
During the 1970's, the apartheid government of South Africa sought to bolster its claims to legitimacy by allowing elections in the Bantustans - the equivalent to today's walled in Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3459.shtml
Three children wounded by an explosive left by Israeli army
A medical source at Khaleel Suleiman hospital in Jenin said that Mahmoud Abu Al-Rob, 15 years old, sustained critical injuries, while Hasan Hatim Irshiyyed, 11, and Hosney Hashim Irshiyyed, 11, were moderately injured.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/291204/three.htm
Five Palestinians Wounded In Nablus
Five Palestinians were reportedly wounded today noon at Sufian street and Al Dewar area in Nablus city of the West Bank during an incursion by the Israeli occupation forces under a volley of heavy firing
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=1730
?Israeli troops arrest 3 Palestinians including a female in Ramallah, Dora
The troops broke into the house and arrested its owner and another young man named, Mohammad Al-Hindi, added the eyewitnesses. Meanwhile, Israeli troops also arrested a Palestinian female named, Safa Amro, spouse of the prisoner at the Israeli jails Abdulaziz Amro in Dora town near Al-Khalil.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=692650
Jihad develops new homemade rocket
"The engineering unit developed a new rocket called Quds 2, with a length of 2.2 meters and a capacity of carrying 6 kilograms of explosives, and it can hit targets 18 kilometers away," said the leaflet.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2392333.htm
Foreign worker lightly hurt in Gaza mortar attack
A foreign worker sustained light wounds Wednesday afternoon when three mortar shells landed in the central Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom. The woman, 25, suffered shrapnel wounds...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520663.html
Two Israeli soldiers wounded in militant attack
Israel Radio reported that the two Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded in the West Bank village of Baka al-Sharkiya when a gunman opened fire on their convoy.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2392328.htm
Palestinian couple rescue Israeli honeymooners
A pair of Israeli newlyweds described on Wednesday how a Palestinian couple came to their rescue during Thailand's tidal wave disaster, paying for them to fly back home after they had lost all their cash.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1174855,0005.htm
PFLP endorses independent candidate Mustafa Barghuti in Palestinian election
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called on supporters Wednesday to vote for the independent candidate Mustafa Barghuti in next month's Palestinian presidential election.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/December/middleeast_December791.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Dahlan in Egypt in efforts to release Bargouthi
Dahlan arrived in Cairo Wednesday to meet with Egyptian officials to debrief them on his latest meeting with Bargouthi in Beer Sheva prison. Egypt is going to mediate with Israel to release Bargouthi. Bargouthi is jailed in Israel serving five life terms sentence.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/122904/dahlan-egypt.htm
Abbas continues election campaigns
He also insisted that Israel must respect Palestinian refugees' right of return in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 194 and free all Palestinian prisoners. He stressed the rule of the law and everyone is equal before the law. Abbas also called for national unity and an end to internal fighting over political differences.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2392346.htm
Palestinian election observer chief arrives in Gaza
Rocard's visit to Gaza focused on inspecting the situation inthe Gaza Strip, especially Israeli troops' continuous incursionsinto the region and checkpoints that block the Palestinians' freemovement.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2389535.htm
Tunisia to ease travel restrictions on Israelis
There are at present no diplomatic relations between Israel and Tunisia, and no direct air links between the two countries. Therefore, Israelis interested in travel to Tunisia must apply for a visa in an embassy in a third country.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520801.html
Sharon rejects European role in Mideast peace
But he told Israeli ambassadors posted to EU capitals that Europe could play a "positive role" in pressing the Palestinians for political reform and an end to armed resistance. Sharon's comments followed the announcement here last week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he intended to host a Middle East conference in London in the new year.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041228/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraeleu_041228202525
Sharon to visit China
An Israeli military official said last week that the United States has demanded that Israel confiscate the drones, fearing that they could upset the military balance between China and Taiwan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=520377&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
China reiterates support for roadmap plan
During meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Tang Jiaxuan said the Israelis and Palestinians should seize the opportunity to resume peace talks and resolve bilateral disputes according to relative UN resolutions and the principle of "land for peace."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2390151.htm
Pullout compensation bill stalled at Israeli Knesset committee
The bill can not be put for vote in the Knesset before it isapproved by the committee, while Israeli Prime Minister ArielSharon hopes to bring the bill to final readings in the Knesset byearly 2005, the report said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2389533.htm
Sharon gives army carte blanche to stop Gaza attacks, warns refuseniks
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the army free rein to respond to repeated attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza and warned he would not tolerate dissent in the ranks during the pullout from the territory.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=2&u=/afp/20041229/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_041229174806
Knesset panel debate on 'Peres bill' continues
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice is to continue debate Wednesday over the "Peres Law" - the proposed amendment to the Basic Law on The Government aimed at allowing Shimon Peres to be appointed a second vice premier alongside Ehud Olmert...
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/520358.html
REPORTER: Israeli army may not go back after Palestinian elections
The Israeli defense establishment is considering using the run-up to the Palestinian presidential elections on January 9 to help put a new security regime in place in the Palestinian areas, The Jerusalem Report has learned. The idea is to reduce the Israeli military presence in those areas to a minimum
http://www.jrep.com/Reporter/Article-0.html
Arabic literature finds an audience in Europe
Iraqi novelist Alia Mamdouh has a message for the West: "How can you expect me, an Iraqi, whose country is being subjected to destruction, to trust Westerners - Americans - and to accept that they're the only ones on Earth and in the universe to possess the truth, when they don't take a step toward my culture, my existence, my language?"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1229/p06s01-woeu.htm
A parade of charlatans
But if this has occurred, others, far beyond the region have also found the conflict a useful tool for their own selfish purposes. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is the latest leader to brazenly exploit this tragedy.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3463.shtml
Palestinian Democracy and the forty thieves
Always asking the Palestinians to carry out their promises and their tasks, to make concessions and further concessions, but not to speak about their rights like any other people, not to mention Israeli promises or what steps Israel must take to give peace a chance.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/dec/dec28.html
Israel's Culture of Martyrdom
the remembrance of martyrs--Jews who, in Zionist ideology, had to die so that the state might be born. The central chapter in the construction of Israeli martyrology was, of course, the Holocaust, but it began well before, according to Zertal, who traces it to the cult surrounding Joseph Trumpeldor, the first hero of the Jews who settled in Palestine."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050110&s=kimmerling
Majority of East Jerusalem residents to vote outside city in election
Only 5,376 East Jerusalem residents will be allowed to vote in the polling stations set up at the post offices inside the city while the rest 200,000 will have to go to stations outside the city, Barco said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/29/content_2392331.htm
Financial expert: Poverty rate in Israel higher than NII says
The poverty rate in Israel is at least 30 percent higher than the measurement by the National Insurance Institute, according to Dr. Daniel Gotlieb, a senior adviser to Bank of Israel Governor David Klein.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=520376&contrassID=1&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Attacks target Iraqi police
It brought the total number of Iraqis killed yesterday to 54, more than half of whom were policemen. The US military said in a statement that between 770kg and 820kg of explosives were used in the ambush. Soldiers and policemen "worked throughout the night" pulling the dead and injured from the rubble.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1380582,00.html |
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