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Thursday, November 30, 2006


News for 11-29-06

11-29-06 - International community cannot escape responsibility to aid quest for peace, says Secretary-General in message for Day of Solidarity with Palestinians


11-29-06 - Tutu to lead Beit Hanoun mission The mission aims to "recommend ways to protect Palestinian civilians against further Israeli attacks", the UN says.


11-29-06 - Settlers in Hebron abduct a Palestinian woman for seven hours


11-29-06 - PM to tell Rice Israel will exercise restraint in Gaza In the meeting in Jericho, Abbas is expected to voice to Livni the Palestinians' demand to extend the ceasefire to the West Bank territories as of Sunday. Abbas will also ask of Rice that the US make sure that the border crossings operate on a regular basis, in order to alleviate the Palestinian population's distress.


11-29-06 - Army demolishes two homes in Hebron Army claims that the house was illegal constructed. The leveled house is only a few hundred meters away from the Kharishna Israeli illegal settlement outpost.


11-29-06 - Army attacks farmers east of Tamoun village near Tubas Israeli troops attacked Palestinian farmers working in their lands east of Tamoun village, east of the West Bank city of Tubas.


11-29-06 - Rafah crossing shut down again after temporary opening: sources


11-29-06 - UN rights chief warns of 'climate of impunity' in Middle East UN human rights chief Louise Arbour warned of a "climate of impunity" operating in the Palestinian territories and urged Israel to carry out credible and transparent probes into civilian deaths resulting from military action.


11-29-06 - Army shells areas northern Gaza strip No injures or damage were reported but the shelling created panic among the residents, this shelling violates the ceasefire deal declared three days ago by the Palestinians and the Israelis.


11-29-06 - Palestinian PM celebrates Palestinian solidarity day in Egypt Visiting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya on Wednesday attended celebrations marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.


11-29-06 - Bodies of smugglers found in Gaza-Egypt tunnel


11-29-06 - Egyptian intelligence chief to visit Israel


11-29-06 - Refugees Are The Key


11-29-06 - Mofaz: Arafat agreed to house secret Iranian bases inside PA Iran and the Palestinian Authority, then headed by Yasser Arafat, reached a secret agreement in 2002, which called for the creation of branch Iranian revolutionary guard corps bases in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in exchange for military aid to the Palestinian Authority. And they just discovered this NOW. Mmm k.


11-29-06 - Presentation by DCI to CRC I am here today to remind the Committee that the unlike the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli campaign in Gaza, is continuing as I now speak, AND it is continuing to devastating effect for Palestinian children.


11-29-06 - Palestinian PM pushes 1967 borders proposal


11-29-06 - Carter on Palestinian Prisoners


11-29-06 - For author of settlement report, hope is to spark moral reckoning "I especially love Hebron. But we cannot be there as occupiers. For 500 Jewish settlers to live in Hebron, thousands of Palestinians must live under effective house arrest. 'This is a mitzvah borne of a sin,' " she said, again quoting the Talmud.


11-29-06 - Iran leader appeals to US people The Iranian leader's discursive, five-page letter also urged Washington to recognise a Palestinian state, saying it was ignoring public opinion in "trampling the rights of the Palestinian people".


11-29-06 - Abdullah asked to probe Bush on overflights Jordan?s king may raise Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace during talks with President Bush.


11-29-06 - Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans


11-29-06 - Avigdor Lieberman to Washington ** Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beitenu Party joined Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s government last month, will participate in a conference at the end of next week at the Brookings Institution?s Saban Center. The conference, which is closed to the public, will include other top Israeli and U.S. officials.
Lieberman is the new guy in charge of Israel's 'attack Iran' department.


11-29-06 - Conflict in the Middle East: Symbols of life and death


11-29-06 - UN marks Palestinian Solidarity Day with calls for peace with Israel


11-29-06 - Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped Many aspects of Israel's occupation surpass those of the apartheid regime. Israel's large-scale destruction of Palestinian homes, leveling of agricultural lands, military incursions and targeted assassinations of Palestinians far exceed any similar practices in apartheid South Africa. No wall was ever built to separate blacks and whites.




11-29-06 - GAZA: Episcopalians aid Gaza hospital In response to an emergency appeal, the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem sent $100,000 during the past five months to support the work of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.


11-29-06 - Hamas minister freed by Israel-witnesses Israeli authorities on Wednesday released one of the Hamas government ministers that it detained after gunmen from Gaza abducted an Israeli soldier in June, witnesses said.


11-29-06 - Egyptian intelligence chief mediating hostage solution in Tel Aviv


11-29-06 - Syria accuses Israel of building dam in Golan to secure water Damascus accused Israel on Monday of building a dam on the Golan Heights to steal water and deprive Syria and Jordan from badly needed resources, Syria's official news agency reported.


11-29-06 - Palestinian Students and Faculty Call for Academic Boycott Over one thousand Birzeit University students and over 110 of its faculty members signed an open letter in support of the international boycott of Israeli academic institutions.


11-29-06 - Baker Panel Aide Expects Israel Will Be Pressed AIPAC's Congress (formerly the US Congress) will never allow it. 100 new pieces of legislation will be passed therein to counter such a move.


11-29-06 - Bedouin citizens of Israel denied water as means of transfer


11-29-06 - Catholic relief confederation calls for end to Israeli occupation of Palestine In statement issued a day before the Nov. 29 observance of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development, and social service organizations present in about 200 countries and territories throughout the world, said it wanted to use the U.N.-organized commemoration as an opportunity to promote ?a just and durable peace for all those in the Holy Land ? Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Christians and Muslims.?


11-29-06 - President affirms solidarity with Palestinian people President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday sent a congratulatory message to the Palestinian people on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People which falls on November 29


11-29-06 - China shows solidarity with Palestinian people China strongly condemns Israel's military actions, which have caused heavy casualties to innocent Palestinian civilians. China is also concerned with the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory, he said.


11-29-06 - Man ordered imprisoned for threatening President Bush An Israel-born Palestinian was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison but was credited with time already served on charges that he threatened to castrate President Bush while involuntarily committed at a mental hospital.


11-29-06 - Hastings, Harman Rejected for Chairmanship House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has decided against naming either Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee, or Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (Fla.), the panel's No. 2 Democrat, to chair the pivotal committee next year.


11-29-06 - Pelosi's Price is Right for Jewish Community Pelosi said that former President Jimmy Carter - who has a new book out that harshly criticizes the government in Jerusalem - "does not speak for the Democratic Party on Israel."


11-29-06 - Thousands demand release of Israelis Thousands demonstrated outside the European Commission in Brussels to demand the release of three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by terrorist groups


11-29-06 - Judge strikes ban on terrorist funding A California judge declared unconstitutional a 2001 presidential order blocking funds for terrorist groups, a decision that could affect funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.


11-29-06 - Jordanian, Israeli towns sign river agreement


11-29-06 - Film on failed suicide bombers counters Palestinian documentary New propaganda film coming to a theater near you.


11-29-06 - ZOA Condemns Jimmy Carter's Anti-Israel Book As Inaccurate, Shallow & Vicious A condemnation by the Zionist Organization of America : that's how you know you hit a homer. Way to go, Jimmy :)


11-29-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon: the task ahead Lebanon's finance minister, Jihad Azour, says that physical losses from the 34-day war amount to $2.5bn.


11-29-06 - And now a word from neocon Daniel Pipes Who is trying to decide for YOU, the American public at large, what you will and will not learn about in college. Message to Pipes (the look on that guy's face in the photo is priceless).


11-29-06 - Is 'American era' ending in Middle East?


11-29-06 - Israel chooses rocket defense system


11-29-06 - Palestinian families separated by Israel take action


11-29-06 - Victims call for peace


11-29-06 - Congenial meeting in Beirut warns against possible detractors


11-29-06 - Women's film festival in Jenin


11-29-06 - Energy-hungry China breaks ground in Middle East The Chinese have cleared thousands of cluster bombs and other ordnance -- including the bomb 2nd Sergeant Liu was tackling in Zebqin -- since the Israeli-Hezbollah war ended on August 14, winning them a degree of affection from Lebanese villagers.

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