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Sunday, February 27, 2005


News for 02-27-05

2-27 - Israel steps up military operations Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said Israel is escalating military measures and would freeze peace efforts after a Tel Aviv suicide bombing unless Palestinians smashed militant groups


2-27 - Mahmoud Abbas: 'We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law'


2-27 - Israelis arrested over Palestinian land scam Police suspect the land sale was rubber-stamped by the civil administration official in exchange for a bribe. Another 19 lawyers are also expected to be questioned over their alleged involvement in the land sales.



2-27 - We must not let this opportunity slip away, says Abbas "An end to violence cannot be sustained when Palestinians are being killed by the Israeli army on a daily basis. Ending the violence is a mutual Israeli and Palestinian commitment."


2-27 - Blair presses reluctant Abbas into London conference after the Palestinian leadership expressed fears that the meeting will serve Israel's interests by raising new hurdles to the revival of political negotiations.


2-27 - Israel 'to show Damascus guilt' Israel says it will explain to foreign diplomats why it believes Syria was responsible for Friday's suicide bomb in Tel Aviv that killed four people.


2-27 - The New Israeli "Disengagement Plan" Map


2-27 - Israel threatens to call off prisoner releases after Tel Aviv blast


2-27 - IDF refuses to give bullets to PA police in Gaza The Palestinians asked Israel for bullets for the U.S.-made M-16 rifles police carry, but the military refused,


2-27 - Dichter: No administrative detentions of far-right activists


2-27 - Palestinian refugee family can stay in Canada Three Palestinian Christian refugees who spent more than a year in a church basement in Montreal will be allowed to remain in Canada.


2-27 - Palestinians postpone meeting with radical groups


2-27 - Israel Says Will Strike Syria if Needed


2-27 - Europe: EU hopes pinned on preparing Palestinians for own state


2-27 - Dichter: Jews ready to commit terrorism Labor ministers were outraged to hear that even though 44 incitement files and 31 for making threats have been opened, only two people have actually been convicted and are sitting in jail, one for each charge.


2-27 - Sharon Demands Palestinians Act After Tel Aviv Bomb Signalling Israel was likely to hold its fire with Syria, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said: "Syria is involved in many terrible things and the United States is at the moment leading the initiative against Syria.



"We should allow the Americans to do this," he said.


2-27 - Israelis, Palestinians face hard choices with own extremists The bombing, analysts say, harms Abbas by shifting the focus away from Israeli practices such as settlement expansion and the construction of the West Bank separation barrier.


2-27 - Israeli appointment may up Tehran stakes In the diplomatic war of nerves over Iran's nuclear ambitions, last week's appointment of the first air force chief to head the Israeli armed forces will have added to concerns within the Tehran regime that its enemies might eventually decide to resolve the issue by force.


2-27 - Saud Rules Out Ties With Israel Before Peace Deal Saudi Arabia will not make any contacts or relations with Israel until the Jewish state signs a comprehensive peace deal with Arabs, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has said.


2-27 - Gaza exchange far from settled Mohammed Kanal, farmer and fisherman, has been unable to farm or fish for more than two years. His land is locked inside a bloc of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, which also separates him from his boats and the sea.


2-27 - Scars of massacre still fresh in Hebron


2-27 - Israel Plans to Electronically Fence Al Aqsa Mosque


2-27 - Map of Settler Roads and Tunnels


2-27 - Israel will have to try harder says Clark


2-27 - Report: Israeli jailed in New Zealand headed Cyprus spy ring


2-27 - PM to reconsider demolition of settlers' homes


2-27 - Wary Israelis keep close eye on Iran threat Israel would do anything possible to avoid losing its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East but there would be a price to confronting the Tehran regime.


2-27 - Did you say the Israelis are withdrawing?


2-27 - Doctor is drawn to the most innocent Adel Abdallah knows something about overcoming odds. He was born in Surda, a small Palestinian village about 15 miles north of Jerusalem.


2-27 - Palestinian priest counsels respect


2-27 - A Scorned Idealist George W. Bush adores Natan Sharansky. So why don't the Israelis? More recently, he chaired an obscure cabinet committee that authorized the confiscation of Palestinian-owned lands in East Jerusalem (considered by Israel, but not by the rest of the world, as a sovereign part of its territory)


2-27 - Weird Australian 'spy' case casts shadow on Katsav trip only once, in 1987, were Israeli diplomats expelled from a Western country: Great Britain. But those "diplomats" were actually Mossad espionage operatives in London, who were running a Druze agent inside a PLO cell in Britain.

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