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Friday, December 01, 2006
11-30-06 - Soldiers kill Palestinian teen throwing rocks: relatives Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian who was throwing rocks at them after nightfall Thursday, relatives and witnesses said.
11-30-06 - Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Appeal 2007 for occupied Palestinian territory The Gazan population is undergoing a virtual "siege" by historical standards
11-30-06 - Army levels a number of shops in Salfit The Israeli army leveled to the ground three Palestinian owned shops in the West Bank city of Salfit.
11-30-06 - Army levels several houses south of Bethlehem The houses are located on lands belonging to Mohamed Odah and Taysser Odah nearby the illegal Israeli settlement block of Kfar Atzion.
11-30-06 - Abbas says gov't talks at dead end as he meets Rice In a gesture of support for Palestinian aspirations, Rice said any future Palestinian state should be "viable" and "contiguous" and said no actions should be taken now to prejudge the outcome of a final peace deal.
11-30-06 - Al Aqsa brigades says it will not abide to the truce since it excludes the West Bank The Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, issued a statement on Thursday declaring its position that it will not abide to the truce since its excludes halting the Israeli attacks, and invasions in the occupied West Bank.
11-30-06 - Rice calls for intensified peace efforts "The United States has made clear that we expect it to be a viable and contiguous state when it is created," she said. "Secondly, that no actions that are being taken now should prejudge the outcome of a final status agreement. That means very clearly that if actions are being taken now, they will not be considered by the United States to have prejudge the outcome of final status." Rice also said Israel has obligations under the peace blueprint known as the road map. Requirements regarding Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories are "clearly articulated," she noted.
11-30-06 - Palestinians seek conference on Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for an international conference to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict and urged Israel to drop its opposition to a meeting that would address all outstanding issues.
11-30-06 - Former President Jimmy Carter Examines Israeli-Palestinian Conflict I chose this title very carefully. It's Palestine, first of all. This is the Palestinians' territory, not Israel. Very good interview. Read the entire thing.
11-30-06 - Recent Hamas political position an "important" development: official
11-30-06 - Carter draws more than 1,000 to book signing Carter, 82, was signing copies of his new book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," which calls for renewed dialogue about peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
11-30-06 - Nobel Laureate Tutu to Head UN Rights Probe of Israeli Killing of Palestinian Civilians
11-30-06 - Finding holes in West Bank barrier Six days a week Hani, a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Ramallah, comes to work in a shop in East Jerusalem.
11-30-06 - No child in the Nablus refugee camps forgets where he comes from
11-30-06 - Ya'alon leaves New Zealand in wake of arrest warrant for war crimes Diplomatic ties between Israel and New Zealand have been rocky in recent years. In 2004, two members of Israel's Mossad espionage agency were imprisoned in the country for illegally trying to obtain New Zealand passports.
11-30-06 - Egypt: Israeli soldier may be freed soon
11-30-06 - For farmers, much of their land remains out of reach Israel?s West Bank barrier has separated the village of Jayyous from 9,500 of its 13,600 dunums (a dunum is 1,000 square metres) of land, and the Israeli authorities have denied them permits to access it.
11-30-06 - Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance Popular and peaceful resistance to the oppressive policies of occupying powers and autocratic rulers, in India and South Africa for example, has always been, by its very nature, a risky venture in which civilians are liable to be killed or injured. Responsibility for those deaths must fall on those doing the oppressing, not those resisting, particularly when they are employing non-violent means. On HRW?s interpretation, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela would be war criminals.
11-30-06 - A Hamas official accuses a stream within Fateh of trying to void Legislative Election results
11-30-06 - Iraq panel to recommend U.S. shift from combat role Israel is expected to be part of the proposed regional dialogue, including the international conference, sources close to the group said. "They live in the neighborhood ... The aim is to engage the neighborhood, including addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue," one source said.
11-30-06 - Gov't: Extend Citizenship Law by two years and expand it to cover 'risk states'
11-30-06 - Cullen Criticised For Quashing Moshe Ya'alon Arrest Warrant An Auckland district court judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Moshe Ya'alon after a legal team acting on behalf of a Palestinian man brought a case against him
11-30-06 - Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Jewish groups, though supportive of most measures, are concerned about two aspects of the reform: the ban on privately funded congressional travel, and the limitations on earmarks. Both measures might - depending on the final language adopted - restrict actions of Jewish and pro-Israel groups on Capitol Hill.
11-30-06 - Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians
11-30-06 - Rice sees hope in Mideast truce but urges patience Rice visited Russia last month and told Moscow firmly that it needed to improve its human rights record, particularly after a prominent investigative reporter was gunned down. As a sign of solidarity, she met the reporter's editor and son at her hotel. "I feel very strongly that the Kremlin is too powerful at the expense of other countervailing institutions," Rice said when asked if she saw any irony in the fact that Russia was co-hosting the Jordan conference.
11-30-06 - UN concerned at impact of Israel-Palestine conflict on citizens
11-30-06 - King Reiterates that Denial of Palestinian Rights Deepens Regional Instability.
11-30-06 - Diabetic journalist imprisoned without trial on hunger strike
11-30-06 - U.S. to offer funds to help boost Abbas's forces
11-30-06 - State: Status of villages outside J'lem fence not up for review The government has no plans to change the status of nine Palestinian villages located within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem but outside of the separation fence, despite the fact that it does not provide these communities with vital services and that residents of the towns must cross through roadblocks on a daily basis.
11-30-06 - Rice seeks wide Middle East truce to restart talks "It is quite fragile and we would like to see it consolidated and extended," Rice said after meeting Olmert. Hours later, Israeli soldiers shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank, police and a clinic said
There's your response, Condi.
11-30-06 - U.S. Jews protest proposed Law of Return The heads of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) sent an unusually harsh letter yesterday to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, warning that if a proposed change goes through in the Law of Return excluding converts in the definition of a Jew, it could seriously impair support for Israel among American Jews.
11-30-06 - Hezbollah calls for huge protests The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called for a huge turnout for opposition protests aimed at bringing down the anti-Syrian government.
11-30-06 - Sinai bombers sentenced to death
11-30-06 - Lebanese PM vows to defy protests Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said his government will not be brought down by mass protests planned by pro-Syrian opposition groups.
11-30-06 - ?Free Palestine,? say Italian soccer fans
11-30-06 - UK plan for Bethlehem boost
11-30-06 - Analysis: U.N. panel reacts to critics
11-30-06 - County linked with peace charity launch
11-30-06 - Archbishop Tutu to Lead UN Human Rights Investigation into Gaza Killings With abundant experience in similar work, Tutu previously chaired the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established in 1995. Archbishop Tutu is well-known across the globe as one of the most prominent figures to fight apartheid in South Africa. Don't forget Tutu's 2002 article in the Guardian Apartheid in the Holy Land.
11-30-06 - With Notable Exceptions, Congress Rushes To Support Israel?s Attack on Lebanon
11-30-06 - ADL slams UN body for making Tutu head of Beit Hanun mission "The appointment of Desmond Tutu as head of the fact-finding mission to Beit Hanun is an extension of the anti-Israel kangaroo court tactics used by the UN Human Rights Council," said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. Recall the ADL's spyring that was broken up in 1993 and one that spied on anti-APARTHEID activists in the USA. Why would they want to spy on THEM, mewonders? Israel was in cahoots with the apartheid government of South Africa back then.
11-30-06 - IRCICA to Restore Ottoman Buildings and Monuments in Jerusalem
11-30-06 - Shorbagi testifying in Chicago
11-30-06 - Norman G. Finkelstein: HRW Must Retract Press Release HRW executive director Kenneth Roth "commended" Israel during its last invasion for warning people in south Lebanon to flee--before turning it into a moonscape, slaughtering the old, infirm and poor left behind. It would seem that Palestinian leaders and people, too, merit some recognition for embracing the tactics of Gandhi and King in a last desperate bid to save themselves from annihilation
11-30-06 - Campaigners lobby parliament over plight of Palestinians The main issue raised were the withholding of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority; the export of arms to Israel and the imprisonment of elected Palestinian MPs
11-30-06 - Americans feel better about the world: poll Britain, Canada and Israel generated the warmest feelings among the 1,623 voters in the November 13-19 telephone survey.
11-30-06 - Spiritual Book Is Holiday Gift That Keeps Hope Alive in Israel Palestine
11-30-06 - German foreign minister may visit Syria during Middle East trip Germany's foreign minister may visit Syria on a visit to the Middle East starting Thursday that also will take him to Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Israel, an official said Thursday.
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