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Friday, December 23, 2005
12-22-05 - Israel kills three Palestinians amid more rockets Witnesses and medics said that the army responded to the latest attack by pounding an uninhabited area of the territory with artillery fire, killing a 21-year-old Palestinian civilian.
12-22-05 - Israeli artillery shell kills Palestinian in Gaza
12-22-05 - Israeli troops seize home of West Bank cameraman At one stage, soldiers brought an elderly security guard from a neighbouring building into the room in handcuffs and made him sit down with the family.
12-22-05 - Legal Palestinian "Outpost" Removed Immediately, Hundreds of Illegal Israeli Settlements Remain
12-22-05 - Israeli police 'tied Palestinian to galloping mule'
12-22-05 - Bethlehem's Christians cling to hope A carpenter, like Jesus' father Joseph, he has had little work for the five years of the Palestinian intifada. Curfews, closures and the newly-built West Bank barrier have cut him off from business in Jerusalem.
12-22-05 - US Corporate Media Erases Israeli Role in Rise of Hamas Israel originally supported Hamas when it was founded in 1987 as an alternative to the PLO, another fact ignored by the media
12-22-05 - Bethlehem looks forward to merrier Christmas
12-22-05 - Katz: Bomb Strip, make Gazans flee
12-22-05 - A message from Bethlehem Our history is full of inspirational stories but also of bad times. The bad times under the recent Israeli aggression have led to enormous pain and suffering for Bethlehem and to unprecedented deterioration in its situation.
12-22-05 - Israeli secrecy a hurdle in US terror case: lawyer Salah's lawyer, Michael Deutsch, said his requests to prosecutors for documents detailing Salah's arrest at a West Bank checkpoint, subsequent interrogation and the methods and policies of the Israeli security agency have been stymied
12-22-05 - US judge wants Israel to provide documents in Hamas case
12-22-05 - Web Boosts Bethlehem's Woodcarving Trade Handal said he had to fight a legal battle with the Israeli army to get wood from his own trees after they were cut down for the wall
12-22-05 - US raises pressure on UN to change Bolton, an outspoken critic of the UN, has suggested adopting an interim three-month budget that would keep the pressure on for a package of changes. True to Bolton's Israel-first agenda, some of the changes involve doing away with Palestinian Human Rights Committees, as well as others devoted to Palestinian issues.
12-22-05 - Israeli jailed over militant help
12-22-05 - Arab rep for civil rights group refused entry to gov't compound
12-22-05 - Presbyterian resolutionsidesteps divestmentSynagogue, church initiated statement The overture "sidesteps the issue" because it "does not deal with the immorality of divestment Calling divestment 'immoral', makes sense to those who see nothing wrong with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
12-22-05 - Norway: Parliament shuns Israeli products The Norwegian parliament in the Sor-Trondelag region ruled Saturday to boycott products made in Israel and to forbid the sale and purchase of Israeli goods.
12-22-05 - 'We won't be war criminals' "It's very easy for people with no responsibility to suggest that we fire at population centers; we do not plan on facing the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. This, after at least two lawsuits were filed in recent weeks against the IDF for crimes against Arabs. An attempt was made also in Britain over the summer to arrest an IDF official. And this comes just as the Israelis shelled a civilian area, killing a Palestinian civilian.
12-22-05 - Israel: Gaza Power Cut Would Violate Laws of War A reported proposal by Israeli government officials to cut the Gaza Strip's electricity supply in retaliation for Palestinian militant groups' rocket attacks on Israel would constitute unlawful collective punishment of Gaza's civilian population, Human Rights Watch said today When has the violation of international law stopped them in the past?
12-22-05 - Hamas warning over election delay
12-22-05 - Israel Is Easing Barrier Burden, but Palestinians Still See a Border The Israelis decide everything, he said. "When I stand here humiliated to go between my own cities, I feel like exploding with rage," he said. "There is no justice. The strong side decides what and how to do. In Biddu, my village, our land is gone. "Walls, gates, this!" he said, gesturing to the new terminal. "Maybe the solution is to send us Palestinians to another planet!"
That's the end game for many Israel-supporters, evidently. They attempted to do this very thing in '47 and '48 by forcibly expelling Palestinians from their land.
12-22-05 - Today's Joseph and Mary would face 15 checkpoints
12-22-05 - Egypt Opposition Leader Denies Holocaust
12-22-05 - Status of UN refugee agency mission upgraded
12-22-05 - Norwegian county boycott of Israel ires Jewish groups "We see Israel as an occupying force that could be compared with the apartheid regime in South Africa," she told the regional newspaper Adresseavisen. "We also want to campaign for the people of Soer Trondelag to also boycott."
12-22-05 - Israel Pays UN $25m In AID for Gaza Strip Israeli 'aid' to remove the rubble of the illegal settlements in Gaza that should not have been built there in the first place. Ultimately, Uncle Sam pays.
12-22-05 - US halts Arabic magazine meant to boost US image the efforts have been hampered because many Arabs strenuously object to U.S. foreign policies, particularly over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq war.
12-22-05 - Group meets to discuss North African Jews A group that is pushing for restitution for Jews who fled Arab countries wants to preserve Jewish sites in the Muslim world.
12-22-05 - Senators urge Bush on Hamas Seventy-three U.S. senators signed a letter urging President Bush to call on the Palestinian Authority to disarm Hamas before elections next month More legislation for Israel.
12-22-05 - Israel trusts in BMD against Iran threat Israeli military commanders are confident their multi-arrayed anti-ballistic missile defense system can shoot down any nuclear-armed Iranian missiles aimed at their country.
12-22-05 - Human rights hypocrisy A glaring example of Washington's double standard is U.S. support for Israel in the form of financial and military aid totaling nearly $3 billion a year, along with vetoes of U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel's denial of the human rights of Palestinian Muslims and Christians
12-22-05 - Foxman: No moral equivalence in ?Munich? "The Palestinians are projected as terrorists" When aren't they 'projected as terrorists' in American media?
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