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Tuesday, December 27, 2005


News for 12-26-05

12-26-05 - Four Palestinians shot at ex-settlement protest Palestinian guards shot and wounded four farm labourers protesting on Monday against a plan to cut the number of days they can work at a former Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip


12-26-05 - Israeli missiles slam into Gaza


12-26-05 - Settlers, hands off the olive trees As we tried to explain to the soldiers what was agreed to, dozens of teenagers from the settlement approached the Palestinians and unleashed a string of verbal attacks that were nothing less than blood-curdling. They called an elderly Palestinian women "whore," "pig," "dirt" - vowing - "we will finish you off!"


12-26-05 - Photostory: Christmas in Palestine


12-26-05 - Israel orders start to Gaza 'security zone'


12-26-05 - Sharon party wants to fix borders of Israel The last attempt by a nation to procure land taken by force was by Saddam Hussein in 1991. Yet, Israel is allowed to do the same and receive the full backing of the US.


12-26-05 - Israel to Expand West Bank Settlements Israel said Monday it will build more than 200 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements - a blow to peace efforts despite word that Ariel Sharon's new party plans a major push for Palestinian statehood if it wins upcoming elections Israel to build new settlements, and bears defecate in the woods, story at 11.


12-26-05 - Sharon's doctors go public to calm Israeli poll jitters


12-26-05 - Court boosts Fatah election hopes A West Bank court has authorised the governing Palestinian party, Fatah, to submit a unified list of candidates for parliamentary elections due next month.


12-26-05 - Expand city beyond the Green Line, Jerusalem panel urges Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel and two of the top researchers at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Dr. Yisrael Kimche and Dr. Maya Hoshen, called for the hasty construction of the area known as E-1, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim.


12-26-05 - Israel's War Deadline Iran in the Crosshairs All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran. The thinking behind this date is to heighten the pressure on the US to force the sanctions issue in the Security Council. The tactic is to blackmail Washington with the "war or else" threat, into pressuring Europe (namely Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia) into approving sanctions.


12-26-05 - Security zone is opposed


12-26-05 - Palestinian militants declare success of new homemade rockets


12-26-05 - Bilin: Illegal outpost may become school


12-26-05 - IDF responds with artillery strikes to Qassam fire from Gaza To counter Qassam attacks, Transport Minister Meir Sheetrit of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party has proposed firing Israeli-made Qassam rockets at the Gaza Strip in order to deter Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from firing Qassams at Israeli targets. "In the present situation we are dragged into responding in banal and routine means of firing artillery at the outskirts of towns in order to make residents leave their homes and pressure authorities to stop the firing of Qassams,"


12-26-05 - Russia to donate 50 APCs, 2 helicopters to Palestine


12-26-05 - Settlers uproot 100 trees in the West Bank village of Borin


12-26-05 - Militants vow to carry out joint anti-Israeli attacks Three Palestinian armed groups Monday vowed to carry out joint attacks against Israel in the next few days in response to that country's move to build a security buffer zone here


12-26-05 - No talks yet on renewing truce with Israel, says Islamic Jihad


12-26-05 - Palestinian children contribute 1000 olive & fruit trees to villages The Palestinian news agency WAFA said that "The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF) has contributed 500 olive trees and 500 fruit trees to the villages of Atoof and Tammoun in the West Bank."


12-26-05 - "Israel is the reason behind Iraq war"


12-26-05 - U.S. national menorah lit The U.S. homeland security secretary helped light the National Menorah in Washington. So it's only the Christmas symbols that can't be displayed on govt property?


12-26-05 - Kibbutz members suspected in drug ring Family members on Kibbutz Gesher Haziv, which was settled after Israel?s War of Independence with immigrants from North America, were allegedly part of a ring that smuggled cocaine from Argentina into Israel


12-26-05 - The perils of normalization with Israel


12-26-05 - Israel, Arab World Engage in Hidden Trade Experts say the camouflaged trade, with just a small portion receiving publicity, has been going on for years between Israel and its officially hostile Arab neighbors.


12-26-05 - InterPal wins case over Jewish lobby


12-26-05 - Report: Shin Bet sets up 'Chinese unit' An academic paper submitted by a senior Shin Bet official studying at Derby University revealed that Israel?s internal intelligence agency has launched a unit specializing in China.


12-26-05 - Will ?black list? sabotage Rafah agreement?


12-26-05 - Palestinian militants say barred from leaving Gaza

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