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Sunday, December 04, 2005


News for 12-03-05

12-03-05 - Israel fires missile into Gaza building - witnesses An Israeli army spokeswoman said Sunday's airstrike was the first aimed at targets in the Gaza strip since October when Israeli aircraft fired missiles at targets in response to rocket firing by militants into Israel. The Gaza militants said they fired the rockets on Saturday in response to the killing of a Palestinian man on a fishing boat by an Israeli naval patrol vessel.



12-03-05 - Five killed as clans clash in Gaza


12-03-05 - Israeli navy kills Palestinian off Gaza - medics The medics said the Palestinian killed in the incident had been on a fishing trip


12-03-05 - Israeli troops shoot and kill 2 Palestinians in Gaza Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a fisherman whose boat was sunk by an Israeli naval vessel and a mentally retarded teenager, the army and Palestinian security officials said Saturday.


12-03-05 - Soldiers force hospital keep Palestinian teen in restraints Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that a 14-year-old Palestinian child was shot by the soldiers in the leg on Friday, and has been held in arm and leg restrains since he was injured in spite that he is guarded at hospital 24 hours a day by two military police officers...."That ambulance waited at the checkpoint for two hours for a military escort, during which time the father noticed that Taher had lost consciousness".


12-03-05 - Palestinians Probe Rafah Violation Report Earlier Saturday, Israeli troops killed a 15-year-old mentally retarded Palestinian who tried to infiltrate Israel from the Gaza.



12-03-05 - Israeli-Arab leaders support Syria Local Arab leaders gathered to form pro-Syria committee, call Israeli-Arab public to oppose 'American aggression, Israeli occupation'


12-03-05 - Abbas invites Pope to Holy Land


12-03-05 - Abbas is right man for peace with Israel: Italy


12-03-05 - America, Israel Bracing for Violence From Syria Proxy Attacks Seen as Lebanon Probe Heats Up


12-03-05 - Free Jerusalem vote key to election success-Abbas


12-03-05 - Leftist Palestinian parties form coalition to run in elections


12-03-05 - Pope, Abbas Discuss Mideast Peace Process When Pope John Paul II received Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1982, the first of many meetings between the two men, it sparked protests in Israel and in the worldwide Jewish community. John Paul consistently championed rights for the Palestinian people while at the same time greatly improving the Vatican's relations with Israel.


12-03-05 - Palestinian-Italian Agreement to Form High Joint Committee


12-03-05 - Palestinian Journalist Block denounces the arrest of Al Jazeera reporter


12-03-05 - Settler woman rams a child with her car in Qalqilia


12-03-05 - Arab MK criticizes uprooting of trees by settlers "We blame the government of Israel, which has the ability to prevent this crime but would rather turn a blind eye. He ridiculed the Israeli instructions for Palestinian villagers to take their complaints to Israeli police stations. "The police stations are inside the settlements and usually, the policemen are settlers themselves."


12-03-05 - Israel, US disagree on post-Assad Syria The fact that Israeli and American officials were discussing "day after" scenarios for Syria does not indicate that the US has a plan for regime change in Syria, however. Riiiight.


12-03-05 - This weekend's top 10 El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe performs at 7 tonight in Dearborn with its 32-member ensemble.



12-03-05 - Diplomatic construction initiatives to transfer the American embassy have emanated from the US Congress, whose members have long been lobbied by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other activist groups.....AIPAC in particular has encouraged Congress members to write and cosponsor legislation mandating the embassy's move....A 1999 statement notes some Congress members' dissatisfaction with the president's use of the Embassy Act's waiver clause, but the issue appears to have been displaced more recently by other lobbying efforts, most of which are related to the disengagement, Hizbullah and Iran's nuclear weapons program.


12-03-05 - Abbas tells UN panel "Our hands remain outstretched for peace" On the occasion, the Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe "El-Funoun" held a press conference and delivered a letter to Annan urging him "to do your very best to bring closer the day when we can envoy freedom and assume our constructive role in the international community as South Africans did".



12-03-05 - Hizbollah meeting prompts US Presbyterian guidelines The Rev. Robert Reynolds, chief of the Chicago Presbytery, released a letter he had sent to the Jewish group saying he had made the trip for educational purposes and not in any official capacity.


12-03-05 - Internationally Acclaimed El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe to Perform in Dearborn, Michigan on Saturday, December 3, 2005


12-03-05 - Al Najah University dean of Shariya department released


12-03-05 - A frightening "Strategy for Israel" The basic premises of the plan are these: In order to survive Israel must become an imperial regional power and must also ensure the break-up of all Arab countries so that the region may be carved up into small ineffectual states unequipped to stand up to Israeli military might.


12-03-05 - BBC's 'impartial' coverage of Middleast conflict challenged In a critique submitted to the public-funded corporation, the MCB said even after watching and hearing BBC over 40 years, many British viewers are still believing that Palestinians are occupying Israeli land rather than vice versa.


12-03-05 - Hidden wins three European Film Awards The best screenplay award went to Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer for Paradise Now, a movie that explores the motivations of Palestinian suicide bombers.


12-03-05 - Security drives tourists from Bethlehem


12-03-05 - Groups call for Arab anti-terror front


12-03-05 - Iraq Sinks into the Gap between US Strategy and Reality DEBKAfile?s sources learned that President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, during his acclaimed visit to Tehran last week secretly signed an agreement for the oil pumped in the fields of Kurdistan near the northern city of Kirkuk to be piped 500km to Iran?s southern refineries at Abadan.
Israelis are helping the Kurds in Kurdistan and Northern Iraq.


12-03-05 - Israeli army arrests newlywed in Jenin


12-03-05 - Investment or Divestment: Citizens, Financial Choice, and the Future of Israel and Palestine "On April 9, 2002, an Israeli soldier used a Caterpillar bulldozer to demolish the home of Fathiya Muhammad Sulayman Fayed, killing her paralyzed and disabled son Jamal Fayed who was still inside at the time of the demolition. 38-year-old Fayed was not able to leave his home and avoid death due to his disability. Although Fayed's mother and sister informed the Israeli soldiers that Fayed was still inside-they proceeded to bulldoze the home and Fayed was crushed by the house that collapsed onto him."

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