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Sunday, December 03, 2006


News for 12-02-06

12-02-06 - Banks strike over attack against Arab Bank branch in Gaza After months of public sector strikes due to nonpayment of salaries in light of the US-led blockade, now banks are striking. Following an Attack against the Arab Bank, it planed is shorter however, expected to last just one day in order to make a statement.



12-02-06 - Non-residents in territories threaten Israel with legal action "Israel is targeting the most vulnerable segment of Palestinian society in order to force a demographic change


12-02-06 - Gunbattle near Abbas' residence Hundreds of Palestinian police engaged in a roving gunbattle yesterday with a well-armed Palestinian clan in the streets of Gaza City near President Mahmoud Abbas' official residence, security officials said. Nine people were wounded in the fighting.


12-02-06 - Israeli navy fires on fishing vessel in first truce violation first truce violation????


12-02-06 - Abbas confirms inter-Palestinian talks failed


12-02-06 - The highest proportion of the disabled are Palestinian Sunday marks the day to remember the disabled throughout the international community


12-02-06 - Palestinians accuse Israel of violating ceasefire for 70 times


12-02-06 - Israel accused of violating ceasefire as Abbas sees top diplomats "We categorically deny the existence of this incident," a spokeswoman told AFP on Saturday. "There were no shootings by any navy boat this morning." K.


12-02-06 - UN human rights inquiry: Israel should compensate Lebanon A United Nations human rights inquiry said on Friday that Israel should be made to pay compensation for damage caused by the month-long Lebanon, especially losses incurred by civilians.



12-02-06 - Hebron Update 06-11-19 to 06-11-25


12-02-06 - Tel Aviv: Protest by 'Coalition against siege on Gaza' A few hundred protestors, members of the 'Coalition against the siege on Gaza' gathered Saturday evening in central Tel Aviv to rally against the IDF's operations in Gaza. The march proceeded towards Rabin Square under the banner of 'stop the siege on Gaza'


12-02-06 - Iran president sees Israel 'disappearing' The remarks were reported by The Jerusalem Post, quoting the official Islamic Republic News Agency.


12-02-06 - Protesters set up camp in Beirut "We will stay here until the fall of the government which is under the tutelage of the United States," one protester, Nadia Assaf, told the French news agency, AFP.


12-02-06 - In Palestine, a Dream Deferred Since 1993, under the guise of peacemaking, Israel has doubled the number of settlements and settlers (around 400,000) in the occupied territories. For Israel "peace" and "security" have come to mean a Palestinian population cut off from Israel yet at the same time totally dependent on it--a recipe for continuing Palestinian subjugation and Israeli domination


12-02-06 - Ahmadinejad, Assad and Hamas PM attend Games opening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya were all attending the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.


12-02-06 - Palestinian prime minister rejects demands that he resign


12-02-06 - Analysis: Iran's growing array of missiles With missiles that can reach every corner of the Middle East and survive preemptive strikes, Iran is already "the major missile power of the region, at least in theory," said a former head of Israel's missile defense program.


12-02-06 - Special Relationship A one-sided U.S. policy toward Israel endangers both countries? interests.


12-02-06 - Old women step forward as 'martyrs' Two hundred homes were destroyed in Beit Hanoun. 'Fatma Najar, an old woman, did what many people don't have the guts to do. If you go back and research Fatma,' says Khola, 'you will see her home was destroyed on top of her head, her sons jailed, her grandson killed. This would be the first article in several days about the ME conflict by the Guardian. Interesting choice for a topic.


12-02-06 - Iranian president: Israel soon to collapse According to a report by IRNA


12-02-06 - PM defends non-arrest of Israeli Auckland University law professor Bill Hodge said it appeared Attorney-General Michael Cullen had prevented the arrest of former Israeli general Moshe Ya'alon on political rather than legal grounds.


12-02-06 - Palestinian PM admits Hamas holding out for key cabinet posts Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya warned against drawing a line under talks on forming a new government acceptable to Western donors but admitted his Hamas movement was holding out for key cabinet posts.


12-02-06 - Italy wants monitors on Philadelphi Corridor, Syrian border Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi suggests increasing his nation's involvement in the Middle East by placing Italian forces on the Syria-Lebanon border, as well as a multinational force along the Philadelphi corridor.


12-02-06 - British ceremony honors one year memorial of Balata Camp child's death Israeli forces shot and killed Ahmed Al Khatib in the northern West Bank last year. His family donated his organs to both Palestinians and Israelis in need of transplants. For that, British institutions honored the Al Khatib's this week.


12-02-06 - Egypt raids Sinai villas in search of Palestinians


12-02-06 - Palestinian activists resist settlers calling for further confiscation The settlers drove their cars on the settler-only Road 60 to the southwestern Bethlehem village. They raised banners in Hebrew calling to destroy Al Khader with more settlement roads and the Wall running through the center of the town.



12-02-06 - Peres: Palestinians present skewed picture of ME Peres used Israel's offensive in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun as an example, saying that the UN committee charged with investigating alleged Israeli human rights offenses there should first check Palestinian aggression and not Israel's response to it. The new UN secretary general is already being pressured by Israel.


12-02-06 - Bush trying to sabotage Irag Study Group progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict amidst a concerted push to pit Sunni regimes against Shiite ones is highly unlikely. Israel has shown itself quite willing in the past to withstand U.S. pressure for concessions, which would most definitely be required for success


12-02-06 - Israel expresses 'regret' over critical UN resolutions The only regret Israel has is the regret that it cannot control the UN GA like it can the UN SC (via the US veto). It regrets that any world body has the unmitigated gall to call Israel on its flagrant violations of international and humanitarian law.


12-02-06 - Appropriating Palestinian culture


12-02-06 - Saudis lead Israel peace bid an Israeli insider said: "The truth is that it was not Olmert's own initiative but a dictate given to him last month when he met George W Bush and Condoleezza Rice in Washington." And what's the prize? There has to be one. My guess? Iran.


12-02-06 - Essay: The demographic race


12-02-06 - In pictures: Beirut protest camp


12-02-06 - Royal slams Israel-Nazi comparison Royal had no immediate reaction to the comments on Friday, surprising some observers. She condemned them a day later, explaining that neither she nor the French ambassador to Lebanon had heard them at the time.


12-02-06 - Did anyone see the superpower? It's whine-and-bash-America time over at Haaretz. We aren't attacking Syria and Iran, after all.


12-02-06 - El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe


12-02-06 - Israel 'unfazed' by U.N. resolutions


12-02-06 - Action Alert - New Republic Defamation of Rachel Corrie


12-02-06 - Words against weapons I'm a deep friend of Jews and Israel but I do think that at times they've been brutal against Palestinians. In a way, society has forgotten and betrayed the Palestinian people. I wrote this during the latest Israel-Lebanon war where many civilians and children were killed.


12-02-06 - Memorial in Israel to honour Light Horse Brigade A new memorial will be built at Beersheba in Israel to mark the 90th anniversary of the charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade against Turkish forces in 1917. Were it not for the heroic efforts of the ARABS, who (along with the British) successfully drove the Ottomans up and out of Arabia and surrounds during WWI, there would likely be no Israel. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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