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Cabinet to see new fence route after PA vote
The route's approval could spark conflict between Israel and the new Palestinian leadership, as the fence will penetrate deeply into the West Bank in order to encompass the Gush Etzion settlements. The revised route will encompass 10 Israeli settlements with some 50,000 residents, and four Palestinian villages with some 18,000 residents.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520869.html
Friday - planting trees in Jayyous
On december 10, bulldozers of the "Ge'ulat Ha'aretz" firm uprooted some 300 olive trees on the property of Toufik Hassan Salim of Jayyous. Last Sunday (19.12), Jayyous villagers courageously blocked the bulldozers that entered their lands. Once the construction is complete, the people of Jayyous will have lost the remainder of their lands outside the Fence...
http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/Gush_Shalom_Jayyous_Dec31.htm
Revised fence route to encompass 18,000 Palestinians
The revised route of the West Bank separation fence in the Gush Etzion region will penetrate deeply into the West Bank in order to encompass 10 Israeli settlements with some 50,000 residents, and four Palestinian villages with some 18,000 residents. A sizable amount of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area will also end up on the Israeli side of the fence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=521162&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Palestinian wounded in anti-fence rally near Jenin
One Palestinian suffered a gunshot to the legs and three others were arrested on Wednesday during clashes between soldiers and Palestinians demonstrating against the construction of the West Bank "security" barrier.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1104291022350
Israel stops Palestinians voting in Jerusalem
Ariel Sharon, has admitted that the arrangements are designed to show that Israel has sole sovereignty in East Jerusalem. The government has told the Palestinian Election Commission that it will not allow privacy screens in the voting booths in East Jerusalem post offices, nor will election officials be allowed to mark voters with indelible ink to prevent fraud
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1380831,00.html
Two homes leveled, 13 residents arrested near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers arrested thirteen residents, mainly family members, after invading three villages, north of Ramallah during military searches of homes conducted in the villages. Also on Thursday, Israeli soldiers leveled two homes which belong to Fahed Arar and Majed Rabbi, after breaking into them and forcing the families out.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/123004/Qarawa.htm
Ramat Gan forbids posters denouncing deputy chief of staff
Large posters calling for the dismissal of Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Dan Halutz were displayed in Jerusalem on Thursday in the kick-off to a campaign headed by the Yesh Gvul organization and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/521352.html
Seven killed in military raid in Khan Younis
Four Palestinians were killed in the southern Gaza strip as Israeli army raided the area raising the death toll to seven overnight, Palestinian medical sources reported. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles into the camp, while troops and tanks raided the area.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/123004/3%20pal%20killed%20in%20khan%20younis.htm
Israeli Troops Kill Nine Palestinians in Gaza Raid
Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians on Thursday, including two teenagers, as tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to stop mortar and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7209992
IDF arrests brother of Al-Aqsa leader; 4 dead in Khan Yunis
Israel Defense Forces troops operating in Jenin on Thursday arrested the brother of Zakariya Zubeidi, the commander of Fatah's military wing in the West Bank city. Jibril Zubeidi was responsible for shooting attacks on Israelis in the Jenin area and has long been wanted by security forces.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520846.html
Number of Muslim, Christian Arab volunteers in IDF growing
Nevertheless, partial figures given to Haaretz by the IDF indicate a renewed increase in the enlistment of Muslim and Christian youth over the past two years. The number of Muslim volunteers in 2003 was 64.5 percent higher than in 2000, while the enlistment of Christians increased by 16 percent over the same period.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=520911&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
?Palestinian attack Israeli settlers in Gaza
The Martyr Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, military arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed on Thursday responsibility for shelling two Israeli settlements with Al-Mustapha model rockets.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=692912
B'Tselem: “Army killed 182 minors in 2004”
The B’Tselem report also revealed that during 2004, Israeli soldiers demolished 1,538 homes, among them 181 homes demolished as a means of collective punishment, and 1,357 for security reasons, according to the military claims. The demolitions left some 11,500 Palestinian residents homeless in 2004.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/123004/BTselem.htm
Israel Only Accepts Jews Who Support Illegal Settlements
The December 28 court decision came on Raphael Bender's 15th day of incarceration. She was detained during a non-violent protest against Israel's Apartheid Wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in. Raphael Bender, a San Francisco-based activist, has spent twelve of the last sixteen months in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=710&mid=10400
Palestinian militants embrace candidate Abbas
Palestinian gunmen carried Mahmoud Abbas on their shoulders on Thursday in a West Bank refugee camp where the front-running presidential candidate was welcomed by a leading militant on Israel's most-wanted list. "This is a strong show of support for Abu Mazen," Zakaria Zubeidi, commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the camp, said
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30246243.htm
PFLP Declares Support for Presidential Candidate Dr. Barghouthi
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called Wednesday its members and supporters to vote for presidential Candidate Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi in the slated January 9 elections.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week4/123004/pflp%20to%20support%20barghouthi.htm
Where's our $6.5 billion, asks candidate Mustafa Barghouti
"The Palestinian people have the right to ask what happened to the $6.5 billion that we received in foreign aid over the past 10 years," Barghouti told the crowd. "I'm not saying that no schools were built, but there has been a lot of mismanagement and wrongdoing. The choice on January 9 is between those who committed all these mistakes and a new approach."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1104291022839
Most MKs reject 'second disengagement'
However, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuval Steintiz (Likud) said more unilateral disengagement could not be carried out because of the geo-strategic difference between Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1104376736085
Peres waives demand to serve as deputy prime minister
The compromise solves one of the main problems that had threatened to delay the establishment of the new government next week. It appears that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present his new coalition for Knesset approval on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520844.html
PM's office rejects Olmert remarks on wider West Bank pullout
The Prime Minister's Office Thursday rejected published remarks by Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who said in a newspaper interview that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank beyond the areas outlined in the disengagement plan.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/521175.html
China raises Mideast peace proposal
Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan has presented a four-point proposal aimed at achieving peace in the Middle East, to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. He commented that the roadmap peace plan, which envisions a full Palestinian state by 2005, is a practical and feasible solution to the problems
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/30/content_2395392.htm
Palestinian leader calls on Israel to remove wall
Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made a campaign run Wednesday through West Bank towns living in the shadow of Israel's separation barrier, urging Israel to tear down the huge structure that he said would never help peace.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-meast30.html
PCHR Calls upon the Central Election Commission to Amend Procedures of Counting Votes to Conform to the Law
On Thursday, 30 December 2004, PCHR sent a letter to Dr. Hanna Nasser, Head of the Palestinian Central Election Commission (CEC), calling for reconsidering procedures of counting the votes accredited by the CEC to conform to Law 13 of 1995 Relating to Elections, according to which the presidential election will be held.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2004/163-2004.htm
Israeli Nasser set to coach Palestine national team
The Palestinian Football Association is set to appoint Israeli Arab Azmi Nasser as their new national team coach next week after he was allowed free access to the Gaza Strip by the army.
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-palestinecoach&prov=reuters&type=lgns
Abbas Statements on Militants Monitored
Abbas won Zubeidi's ringing endorsement. After Abbas left the stage, Zubeidi, with gunmen firing in the air, warned that he would deal with anyone who tried to challenge the elected Palestinian leadership. Then Zubeidi escorted Abbas' car out of the camp.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
How the covenants collapsed
Over the last few years, various forums have been established in an effort to close the widening rift between right and left. One of the leading ones was the Forum for National Responsibility, which succeeded, with great effort, in drafting the Kinneret Covenant.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520882.html
Moussa calls for "strong" Arab-US relations
Secretary General of the Arab League(AL) Amr Moussa on Wednesday asked both the Americans and the Arabs to undertake measures to achieve "strong" bilateral relations, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/30/content_2392732.htm
Palestinian attacks killed 118 in 2004, down 445 from 2003
One hundred and eighteen Israelis were killed in the war with the Palestinians in 2004, 445 fewer than in the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the Israel Defense Forces.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=520913&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
A Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities - By Robert Fisk
We were lied to about weapons of mass destruction. We were lied to about the links between Saddam Hussein and September 11, 2001. We were lied to about the insurgents--remember how they were just "dead-enders" and "remnants"?--and we were lied to about the improvements in Iraq when the entire country was steadily falling outside the hands of the occupying powers...
http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk12302004.html |
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