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Monday, December 26, 2005


News for 12-25-05

12-25-05 - Settlers suspected of cutting down 120 Palestinian olive trees The perpetrators are unknown, but signs point to residents of the adjacent settlement of Yitzhar, who have been known to harass their Palestinian neighbors.


12-25-05 - Abbas meets with Fateh regional committee in Bethlehem


12-25-05 - Vatican, Bethlehem Pilgrims Mark Christmas


12-25-05 - Israel extends closure of Palestinian territories Israel imposes a total shut down on the Palestinian territories as a matter of course during each Jewish festival.


12-25-05 - Bethlehem Hosts Huge Christmas Crowds


12-25-05 - Sharon orders Gaza security zone


12-25-05 - Israel detains Australian woman "I can confirm that there are black lists in Israel and people who have come as peace and human rights activists, the state doesn't really want to have them in Israel,"


12-25-05 - Bethlehem pilgrims beat new security for messages of hope Thousands of Palestinian Christian pilgrims took advantage yesterday of an easing of restrictions by the Israeli security forces that allowed them to travel to Bethlehem and crowd into the candle-lit grotto of Jesus?s birthplace beneath the Church of the Nativity


12-25-05 - Christ is crying for town of birth, says Cardinal THE Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O?Connor, used his Christmas sermon to attack the way that Bethlehem has been treated.


12-25-05 - 4 NGOs Call on Israel Ban Students Travel to Bethlehem The ten students have been denied access to their studies at Bethlehem University because of a sweeping ban on travel by students from Gaza seeking to reach their studies in the West Bank.



12-25-05 - Palestinians barred from border Officials said soldiers along the border would receive orders to shoot Palestinians who entered restricted areas in the coming days.
They do this anyway. It's nothing new.


12-25-05 - Israel edges away from Palestinian vote ban


12-25-05 - EU monitors turn away wanted Palestinian


12-25-05 - Room at the inn in Bethlehem The key to understanding the rationale behind building the Wall here is Israel's settlement policy. There is a large bloc of settlements in the Bethlehem area. The Wall here has been built to separate (and presumably protect) these settlements from the Palestinian areas.


12-25-05 - Islamic Jihad: "More Qassams, attacks, if Israel impalements its security strip in Gaza"


12-25-05 - Peace activists held in Israel Israel regularly forces peace activists from pro-Palestinian groups to turn back upon arrival out of fear they will demonstrate against its controversial separation barrier being built across the West Bank.


12-25-05 - Palestinians, left-wing activists rebuild 'outpost' in village of Bil'in "Private Palestinian land is in question here, not state land. The village council approved setting up a caravan and thus this is a legal structure,"


12-25-05 - For Palestinians in Bethlehem, season offers little to celebrate Today, pregnant Palestinian women must endure the degrading Israeli checkpoints in order to reach a hospital. While the Virgin Mary found refuge in a humble stable, many contemporary mothers-to-be are forced to stand endless hours at checkpoints manned by teenage soldiers who couldn't care less about a woman in labor.


12-25-05 - Settlements council: "Sharon is preparing for a second Disengagement"


12-25-05 - US calls for holding Palestinian election on time: sources


12-25-05 - Palestinian's memoir balances humor, pain Asked in 1973 by the grandson of Winston Churchill how he would deal with the Palestinians, Ariel Sharon replied, "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians, and then another set of settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years, neither the United Nations, nor the U.S.A., nobody, will be able to tear it apart."




12-25-05 - Palestinian police return stolen car to owner


12-25-05 - 'Anti-Semitism', The Provocative Accusation The purpose of delving into the application of the word ?anti-Semitism,? is done solely to provide a clearly stated definition of what that word should mean and how its meaning has become distorted to the point where it excludes the vast majority of those it should theoretically be applied toward


12-25-05 - Pro-Israel Group Criticizes White House Policy on Iran the news releases mark the first major criticism of the Bush White House Because everything that Bush has done thus far has been done in accordance with their agenda.


12-25-05 - PSM to Hold its Fifth Annual Conference at Georgetown University


12-25-05 - Rob's religious art spree ROBBIE Williams has paid a graffiti artist £30,000 for a controversial painting of the Nativity scene.
It shows Mary and Joseph blocked from getting to Bethlehem by a graffiti wall ? mimicking the Israeli barrier round the Palestinian territories.



12-25-05 - PALTEL stock makes debut on ADSM


12-25-05 - Mideast scholars hope dictionary helps define peace


12-25-05 - Human Rights, The Rule Of Law Must Govern The Peace Process Oppression, intimidation, humiliation and deprivation can never breed the trust and hope without which neither partnerships nor peace can ever take root.


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