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Friday, December 16, 2005


News for 12-15-05

12-15-05 - Israeli jets raid Gaza


12-15-05 - Israel Prepares To Demolish Elderly Couple's Home The Israeli authorities are preparing to demolish the house of an elderly couple in East Jerusalem, on the grounds that it was built without a permit.


12-15-05 - Film relives horror of Lebanese camp massacres Several mention that Israeli army officers conferred with the militia's leaders in Beirut on the eve of the massacres. Unlike massacres in some other conflicts, the perpetrators of Sabra and Shatila have not been brought to justice.



12-15-05 - Hamas says will step up attacks if Israel hits Iran


12-15-05 - Fatah faces split as militant leader quits to set up rival movement


12-15-05 - Israel delays Gaza bus link start On Thursday, Deputy Defence Minister Zeev Boim told Israel Radio that it had been a mistake to sign the agreement negotiated by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice


12-15-05 - Israeli sued in Washington A former Israeli military chief of staff was sued over his alleged role in the killing of more than 100 Lebanese civilians in 1996....It was the second such serving in a week


12-15-05 - U.S.-Israel scanner deal signed The United States and Israel signed a $50 million agreement to put high-tech scanners at border crossings into Palestinian areas.
The money comes out of $300 million earmarked this year for the Palestinians Palestinians get to pay for the Israeli checkpoints.


12-15-05 - US and Palestinian children break Holy City barriers Touched by the cards and messages, the children in Bethlehem decided to write back to the children in New York to wish them a Merry Christmas Awww.


12-15-05 - 45 million euros for electricity supply of Palestinian areas


12-15-05 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY ESTABLISHES NEW EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND The Assembly also adopted a resolution on assistance to the Palestinian people, emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all children in the Middle East region, and express its grave concern at the deterioration in the living conditions of the Palestinian people, particularly children, throughout the Occupied Territories, which constitutes a mounting humanitarian crisis.


12-15-05 - Israel delays start of bus convoys


12-15-05 - Farmers March For Their Lives This checkpoint has served as the only venue where Palestinian farmers could sell their produce to Israeli traders for distribution. For the last two weeks the checkpoint has been closed and the farmers produce has been left to rot.



12-15-05 - 23 residents arrested in Anabta and Tulkarem


12-15-05 - Settlers who invaded Hebron market face evacuation Jewish settlers from Hebron, who invaded the town's wholesale market, will be evacuated from there by mid February


12-15-05 - IDF blows up car bomb after tip off from PA security forces Palestinian security officials tipped the Israelis off to the car after it raised their suspicions


12-15-05 - Congressman: Save the holidays Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) planned to introduce his resolution Thursday evening to counter another resolution, introduced earlier by Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.), that ?recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas? and ?strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas.?


12-15-05 - Israel Troubled by Bush's Priorities The Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. fear that Washington's need for Tehran's cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and thus permitting most U.S. forces there to withdraw over the next year has weakened the administration's leverage to push for stronger action against Iran on the nuclear issue, even as it continues to insist that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability is "unacceptable."


12-15-05 - Spielberg's Munich: A Post-9/11 Cautionary Tale? later in the film another Palestinian speaks for the cause of a Palestinian homeland. Conservative pro-Israel hawks will be peeved by this


12-15-05 - Israeli consul general takes jab at Muslims "I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, but I can say something else: All terrorists are Muslims," Ben Gad said.



12-15-05 - US Jews feel threatened by religious right "Every room (from bedroom to classroom) in the American mansion is under assault to impose either de facto or de jure a Christian theocracy -- I call them Christocrats," said Rabbi James Rudin, former head of interreligious activities for the American Jewish Committee. The irony. For we American taxpayers are forced to support Israel- a state based on religion


12-15-05 - Western diplomats fear Israel will partially implement convoys deal Western diplomats expressed concerns that Israel will start operating the convoys between the Gaza Strip and the west Bank on a merely token fashion to oblige the American administration, which practiced pressure on Israel to implement the deal, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.


12-15-05 - Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says. The BS-o-meter just broke.


12-15-05 - Hawke urges US to address Palestinian statehood Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke on Thursday said that the fight against terrorism will not succeed unless the United States leads efforts to create a viable Palestinian state.


12-15-05 - Civil Rights Groups Question FBI Interrogation of Muslim Student A pair of area civil rights groups are angry after discovering a Muslim Elk Grove high school student was taken out of class and questioned by FBI agents over a doodle on his binder two years ago


12-15-05 - The Mid-East's beleaguered Christians Though they have made few converts in the Middle East, the evangelical churches are an influential part of President Bush's political constituency in the United States.


12-15-05 - Finnish national of Palestinian descent deported from Israel Qassem came to Israel to attend a special conference to be held in Nazareth over the weekend, discussing the Palestinian refugees and displaced persons in Israel


12-15-05 - Christmas Tree Lit up in Bethlehem


12-15-05 - Hamas resolution considered The resolution, supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and opposed by Americans for Peace Now, was considered late Wednesday night, and was set to undergo a roll call on Thursday.


12-15-05 - Jail time for plot against rabbi The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday sentenced the member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to 12 years in prison after he confessed to the plot against Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Same rabbi here: Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs



12-15-05 - Israel Fears It Is Zarqawi's Next Target


12-15-05 - Busharon The Israelis have also obliged recently, providing legal advice to the U.S. State Department on how to justify assassinations. Israeli military trainers have passed on the lessons of Jenin and Nablus to the Marines in Falluja. Lest you think the Israelis stingy, they don't limit their largesse to the federal government. They are now spreading their anti-terrorism gospel to every town and city police chief in the U.S. Charleston, South Carolina breathes easier, thanks to the knowledge gleaned from Israel by their Sheriff Cannon (I did not make that up), who is in charge of port security there.


12-15-05 - Coroner to see secret army report


12-15-05 - Former IDF chief sued in U.S. court for his role in Kafr Kana shelling Ya'alon is currently in Washington D.C. as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He is scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at a conference on Thursday night.



12-15-05 - Russia Blasts Iranian Remarks on Holocaust, Israel


12-15-05 - Former Israel Chief of Staff sued in U.S Courts


12-15-05 - Bush postpones embassy move President Bush extended for another six months an act of Congress that would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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