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Friday, January 06, 2006


News for 01-05-06

01-05-06 - Two Palestinian children injured by settlers' fire


01-05-06 - Settler drive-by shooting West Bank settlers wounded two Palestinians in a drive-by shooting.



01-05-06 - Palestinians mixed over Sharon Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestinian parliament, said she believed Mr Sharon's departure from Israeli politics would usher in a more hardline approach


01-05-06 - Christmas Appeal: United by courage, Palestinian women seize opportunity to assert their rights Another of the centre's activists, Zeinab Al Ghoneime, will be fighting alone against 39 men for one of seven Gaza City district PLC seats, also as an independent and on a platform of women's issues. She wants laws to allow divorced women custody of their children until they are at least 15. And she wants severe penalties for wife-beating and "honour killing".


01-05-06 - Arabs Don't See End to Mideast Conflict in a positive segment, Palestinian commentator Ghazi al-Saadi told Al-Arabiya that Sharon was "the first Israeli leader who stopped claiming Israel had a right to all of the Palestinians' land," a reference to Israeli's recent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.



01-05-06 - Erekat 'sorry about Sharon's demise' "We are all human beings and we are all sorry about Sharon's demise...We will of course negotiate with whoever leads Israel,"


01-05-06 - World fears Mideast turmoil if Israel loses Sharon


01-05-06 - Palestinian PM sends wishes to Sharon Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei wished Ariel Sharon a swift recovery after his brain haemorrhage, saying his thoughts and prayers were with the Israeli premier.


01-05-06 - Mideast better off without Sharon: Hamas


01-05-06 - Palestinians seal hole in Gaza-Egypt border wall


01-05-06 - Army to annex 3000 Dunams in the West Bank


01-05-06 - Robertson Links Sharon Stroke, God's Wrath


01-05-06 - Israeli minister sees talks with Hamas if disarms


01-05-06 - Gaza militant free after protest


01-05-06 - No Attempt to Kidnap Rachel Corrie?s Parents According to Craig and Cindy Corrie, contrary to news reports, the Corries were never threatened with kidnapping, nor did gunmen burst into the house where the Corries were staying.



01-05-06 - Bil?in and Aboud to Continue the Struggle to Save their Lands


01-05-06 - Turkey promises economic support for Palestine


01-05-06 - Settlers renew their attacks against residents of Hebron


01-05-06 - World leaders hope Sharon recovers


01-05-06 - UNRWA: Israeli Obstacles Continues after Departure from Gaza


01-05-06 - Few tears - and precious little joy Few Palestinian tears were shed yesterday at the news of the illness of Ariel Sharon yet, at the same time, there was no great expectation that his demise would work in their favour


01-05-06 - Eshkol proposed transfering Palestinians Israel?s prime minister during the 1967 Six-Day War proposed moving Palestinians to Iraq en masse, declassified documents showed


01-05-06 - Palestinian election officials threaten to resign


01-05-06 - Sharon remains in coma


01-05-06 - A brutal soldier who came to know the limits of force Lieutenant Sharon had just commanded a raid against a West Bank village called Qibya, a reprisal for the murder of an Israeli woman and two children. Uproar had broken out after his men dynamited 45 houses and killed 67 Palestinian men, women and children, many of them buried under the rubble. The operation bore the hallmarks of a distinctive and brutal style. Qibya was one of many bloody episodes in Sharon's lifelong war with the Arabs



01-05-06 - The great deceiver leaves successor daunting legacy Israel's relationship with Washington required Mr Sharon to pay lip service to the US-led "road map" peace plan and a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, but many Israelis understood that he had little use for either. It was a deception they agreed with.




01-05-06 - Norway split over Israel boycott


01-05-06 - Sharon's legacy does not include peace


01-05-06 - Bush at Risk of Losing Closest Mideast Ally


01-05-06 - Blair's Cynical Policy on Palestine In the first six months of 2005 the UK granted licenses for £10.5m of weapon components to Israel, over three times the amount sold by the same point in 2004. Meanwhile the European Union, fully supported by the UK, continues to reward Israel for its appalling human rights record with the EU-Israel Association Agreement, allowing Israeli products preferential access to European markets.


01-05-06 - American Jews Cite Sharon's Influence


01-05-06 - Soi Disant uses an ancient What makes Soi Disant even more unusual is its labour force. The clothes are made by 20 women at a factory in Bethlehem, working through a Palestinian women?s co-op

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