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Sunday, December 18, 2005


News for 12-17-05

12-17-05 - Israeli aircraft pound Gaza to stop rocket fire Four Palestinians were wounded in at least nine raids, including three policeman and a baby who was hit in the face with shrapnel, medics said.


12-17-05 - Palestinian militant killed in clashes with Israeli troops in northern Gaza


12-17-05 - Israeli-Arabs, PA collaborators clash Arab-Israeli Knesset members slammed the government for relocating the collaborators to the village and providing them with arms.


12-17-05 - PA, Hamas denounce U.S. Congress decision


12-17-05 - Hamas to run in Palestinian ballot despite US call


12-17-05 - Entire Region of Norway to Boycott Israeli Goods


12-17-05 - Shalom praises US House for decision The pro-Israel lobby in Washington (AIPAC) who worked behind the scenes to garner support for the resolution issued a statement Friday praising the resolution and calling on the PA to take immediate action to prevent the Hamas from participating in the elections.


12-17-05 - Palestinian officials urge Abbas to delay election


12-17-05 - Armed groups: "Truce has ended"


12-17-05 - Tanks shell Gaza


12-17-05 - Bethlehem invites increase in holiday visits it is almost impossible for ordinary Palestinians, Muslim or Christian, to enter Jerusalem for work, family gatherings or prayer.
The result is a 50 percent to 60 percent unemployment rate, according to the mayor, and steady emigration of local families. In 1990, 60 percent of Bethlehem's residents were Christians. Today that number is estimated at just 20 percent to 30 percent.



12-17-05 - U.S. threatens PA sanctions The Palestinian Authority risks losing U.S. financial aid and other support if it allows Hamas to participate in parliamentary elections next month, the House of representatives says


12-17-05 - Abbas accepts resignations of six ministers


12-17-05 - Israeli Military constructs three roadblocks on the road from At-Tuwani to Yattta This road is one of the few that
Palestinians from the villages south of 317 have to access hospitals
and markets in the larger populated area of Yatta


12-17-05 - Arab American fights stereotypes with comedy


12-17-05 - Former Head of the Intelligence Branch of the Israel Defense Forces and Chief of Staff Charged in U.S. Court with War Crimes for Shelling of U.N. Compound Pro-Israeli influence in America will likely see to it that this gets thrown out, despite all of the newfound 'concern' for the Lebanese in the Bush admin


12-17-05 - Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel Senator John Warner of Virginia, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently argued in an interview with MSNBC that a premature American pullout would "put Israel in a very tenuous and vulnerable position." And a GOP activist, Bruce Blakeman, told the Forward that Israel's security has always played a key role in the president's thinking on Iraq. Pro-Israeli groups are now backpeddling away from their critical support of the Iraq war.


12-17-05 - Israeli cluster bombs found in southern Lebanon


12-17-05 - Gulf Arabs warn against regional nuclear arms race


12-17-05 - Peres: "Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel"


12-17-05 - Giants running back Tiki Barber Giants running back Tiki Barber recently traveled for the Peres Center for Peace to Jerusalem, where he played football with Palestinian children.


12-17-05 - PNA rejects Israeli plan to resolve conflict: Erekat He said that the plan indicates Israeli attempts to topple issues of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees' rights, annexing settlements, water and defining borders unilaterally due to Israeli dictations as well as annexing Jordan valley area.


12-17-05 - A little bit of Bethlehem With hardly any pilgrims venturing into Bethlehem these days, scores of workshops have closed. The idea behind Gifts from Bethlehem is to keep as many workers employed as possible


12-17-05 - Churches strongly condemn anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial

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