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Friday, December 08, 2006
12-07-06 - Special committee sets conditions for truce with Israel A Palestinian special committee Thursday finished drawing up conditions for reaching a general and inclusive ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions.
12-07-06 - Independent Appeal: Crushed: the dreams of a good life that peak periods of crossing closures coincided first with the peak of demand in the European market and, in March and April, with the peak of the GAP's production.....just four per cent of the 12,700 tons of vegetables and fruit produced by the GAP actually made it out of Gaza. The vast bulk of produce rotted, or was handed out for free inside Gaza by the workers. The project was closed in early May, well before before the end of the season, because of the heavy losses became unsustainable in the absence of revenue.
12-07-06 - PLO recommends dismantling Hamas-led gov't A special subcommittee formed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recommended on Thursday the break-up of the Hamas-led government and called for early elections, sources said.
12-07-06 - One day after opening it, Israel closes the Rafah Border Crossing Only several hundreds managed to cross on Wednesday.
12-07-06 - Despite truce, Israeli forces fire at Palestinians near Gaza border injuring two The Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip injuring two. The attack is considered as a direct violation to the ceasefire, but the Israeli army claims that the men approached the ?security-fence? separating Gaza from Israel.
12-07-06 - Interior Ministry denies status to children of East Jerusalem residents
12-07-06 - Israeli Government Demolishes Entire Bedioun Village This is the fourth time this year that the government demolished in this village. This time they got it "right" ? no house is left standing.
12-07-06 - One child injured and four taken prisoners in the southern West Bank
12-07-06 - Army bars scores of residents from reaching their homes The Israeli army barred scores of residents from arriving to their homes in the Jordan valley area in the West Bank, on Wednesday afternoon.
12-07-06 - UN plea for millions in Palestinian aid amid fears of economic collapse Senior UN aid officials in Jerusalem said there were clear signs of a worsening economic crisis.
12-07-06 - Olmert rejects talks with Syria, says conditions are 'not ripe' Olmert's office said Wednesday that it is unlikely that Bush would alter his Middle East policy with regard to Israel, despite the recommendations of the bipartisan advisory panel, headed by former secretary of state James Baker and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton. Sources at the Prime Minister's Office said Wednesday night that Olmert is not unduly concerned with the report because in his recent meeting with Bush at the White House, he was promised that the U.S. would not divert from the principles of its policy in dealing with terrorist groups and in countering the Iranian nuclear program.
12-07-06 - Right of Return art The Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, through the Bethlehem Center for Citizenship Rights, is holdings its annual competition in the arts.
12-07-06 - Carter: New book not about Israel "The book is about Palestine and what is happening to Palestinian people. Which is a terrible affliction and oppression of these people," Carter said. "There is no doubt that in Palestine, the people are treated with, in many cases, much more harsh treatment than existed in South Africa, even in the apartheid years."
12-07-06 - Saudi Ambassador Remarks on Iraq Study Group Findings Prince Turki welcomed the report's recommendation for a comprehensive settlement for all Middle East conflicts, which the Kingdom has always maintained are interconnected and affect global security and stability
12-07-06 - Israelis piqued by Gates nuclear "confirmation" A retired Israeli diplomat, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, called the testimony "quite unprecedented" and added: "I can only assume he (Gates) has yet to get to grips with the understandings that exist between us and the Americans."....By not declaring itself to be nuclear armed, Israel also skirts a U.S. ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2 billion in annual military and other aid from Washington And what "understandings" would those be?
12-07-06 - Boris Berezovsky and the Bizarro Effect Russia in the recent past seemed to be trying to clean out its nest of crooks (in the oil biz, among other places) - some of whom are taking refuge in Israel. A couple of them visited the US this past year, much to Russia's consternation (since they are wanted in Russia and we allowed them to visit).
12-07-06 - Prime minister to visit Israel for talks in final push for peace Mr Blair is likely to visit neighbouring Arab countries. Ideally, he would like to organise an international conference to discuss a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement.
12-07-06 - Israel rejects US panel report recommendations on Mideast Israeli officials have sought to downplay the report's significance, saying it included only recommendations and that any change of policy would be up to Bush, who has so far not pressed Israel for concessions.
12-07-06 - Europeans welcome Iraq report as sign of change in US plans The policy set at the upcoming Saban conference (read below) will seek to ensure that the recommendations by the ISG with regard to Israeli concessions in any ME peace deal, or open dialogue between Iran/Syria with the US, will not be implemented by the US. That's my guess.
12-07-06 - Palestinian-Egyptian trade talks aim to improve import and export markets between the two nations
12-07-06 - Israeli Arabs demand veto on decisions affecting them
12-07-06 - Cracks appear between Bush and Blair over need for talks with Iran and Syria
12-07-06 - Abbas urged to call early polls to solve Palestinian crisis A commission probing ways out of the Palestinian political crisis has advised president Mahmud Abbas to call early elections, a member said as the ruling Hamas movement warned against the "illegal" move.
12-07-06 - Israel stands by vague nuclear policy Israel Radio gave the story prominence in Thursday morning, and one of Israel's three television stations ran a report about the United States' traditional cooperation in the ambiguity policy on its evening newscast.
12-07-06 - Arab leader says urges U.S. to be 'honest broker'
12-07-06 - Updated schedule for Amnesty International's Secretary General mission to Israel and the Occupied Territories
12-07-06 - Palestinian refugees want no part of another Lebanese war
12-07-06 - Israel seeks to downplay policy shifts in US panel report "American intervention in Iraq was done without agreement with Israel, the Americans have stayed in Iraq without agreement with Israel, which proves that the Iraqi question is not linked to Israel," Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told public radio. Bullsh@t.
12-07-06 - UNRWA inaugurates 40 new shelters for Palestine refugees in Ein el-Tal Camp, Aleppo, Syria The families, who started the final finishing works of their new houses on a self-help basis, were presented with a symbolic olive tree plant to mark their move to the new homes by Lise Filietrault, Ali Mustafa, and Panos Moumtzis.
12-07-06 - Bush acknowledges need for Mideast peace push
12-07-06 - Rice to return to Mideast in 2007 to push Israeli-Palestinian track US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East early in 2007 for a new push to break the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, her spokesman said.
12-07-06 - Fresh from the horse's ass note who wrote this 'news article'.
12-07-06 - Letters, faxes, and e-mail
12-07-06 - Church helps keep Christmas in Holy Land
12-07-06 - The Other Lieberman Far from his nakedly anti-Arab approach disqualifying him from the political mainstream, Lieberman is today its rising star. He was welcomed into the ruling coalition in October as "minister for strategic threats" and is now the main ally and crutch of faltering Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
12-07-06 - UN speaks of arms movements on Syria-Lebanon border Le Monde also quoted a "confidential document" sent to UN headquarters from an official in the region which alleged the existence of a "50-man squad of militants linked to Al-Qaeda" charged by Damascus with killing 36 anti-Syrian Lebanese personalities
12-07-06 - Iraq Study Group report sees mixed response in Israel
12-07-06 - Al-Jazeera And The Truth you don't need an electronic bug in the offices of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee to know that AIPAC and the Bush administration are putting pressure on the distributors to shun Al-Jazeera. Denying Americans their First Amendment right to the truth, in regard to Israel, is always Job One with AIPAC. That is necessary because the truth about Israel's actions toward the Palestinians and other Arab countries puts the lie to all of the Zionist propaganda.
12-07-06 - Lebanese Blame Israel, U.S. for Recent War Many adults in Lebanon hold two countries accountable for the recent war, according to a poll by Gallup. 40 per cent of respondents blame Israel for the 34-day conflict, while 24 per cent think the United States is most responsible.
12-07-06 - Canadians to contribute to facelift of Jerusalem Square
12-07-06 - Pelosi slots Lantos, Waxman as chairs The nod Wednesday from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) virtually guarantees that Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a staunch defender of Israel, will chair the International Relations Committee, and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who is well known for his outspokenness, will chair the Government Reform Committee when Democrats assume control of the House in January after winning midterm elections.
12-07-06 - Iranian Ambassador Makes Inflammatory Remarks About Holocaust, FOX News at Columbia University The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations sparked a furor Wednesday night when he said at a speech in New York that Palestinians are suffering today because of "atrocities" that happened in World War II, specifically against the Jews.
12-07-06 - Israeli Official Discusses Iran and His Controversial Agenda
12-07-06 - BMD Focus: Israel's new BMD dilemma As we have previously reported in BMD Focus, Pentagon critics and high tech BMD enthusiasts assailed the Pentagon for not pushing ahead more energetically with the THEL system over the past decade. It is certainly the case that up to the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, THEL funding remained very low relative to other BMD programs. Only about $300 million was allocated to it over the past decade, of which Israel provided about half.
12-07-06 - Top Israelis, Americans at Saban session Among the many officials attending are Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; David Welch, the current top U.S. envoy to the region; Shimon Peres, Israel?s deputy prime minister; Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her husband, former President Bill Clinton; Amos Yadlin, director of Israel?s military intelligence; Avigdor Lieberman, Israel?s minister of strategic planning; and many other Bush administration officials and U.S. and Israeli lawmakers. The only session open to coverage is the formal launch of the conference at the U.S. State Department on Friday night, which is to be addressed by Livni and Welch That strategy to keep US foreign policy that puts Israel first will be cemented therein, methinks.
12-07-06 - Envoys tour Israeli Air Force base Foreign envoys visited an Israeli Air Force base to hear about the Lebanon overflights policy.
12-07-06 - Hezbollah leader urges defiance
12-07-06 - White House honors Sharansky Natan Sharansky will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A former Soviet refusenik and recently retired Israeli politician, Sharansky will receive the medal from the White House on Dec. 15.
12-07-06 - GOP taps Ros-Lehtinen for foreign affairs Ros-Lehtinen, who chaired the committee?s Middle East subcommittee, is very close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and sponsored key legislation in recent years isolating Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
12-07-06 - Senate confirms Gates Israeli media described the comment as a potential breach of a longstanding tacit agreement by Washington to go along with the Jewish state?s policy of nuclear ambiguity
12-07-06 - U.S. House passes anti-terrorism bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied hard for both versions.
With the elections over, it's back to business in the Israeli Congress.
12-07-06 - Gasworks Presents Open Studio Shadi Habib is an emerging artist from Palestine working in various media including installation, sculpture and animation.
12-07-06 - Arab world welcomes Iraq Study Group report "Sure, Iran and Syria may be allowing people to come across their border and providing some arms or money, but the conflict is overwhelmingly about sectarian enmity inside Iraq,'' says Andrew Garfield, a former British military intelligence officer who spent most of last year as an adviser in Iraq and is now a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Washington.
12-07-06 - Bush nominates RJC head to Brussels post Sam Fox, 77, a St. Louis businessman and philanthropist and a top GOP fund-raiser, has presided over the RJC?s aggressive drive in recent elections to portray Democratic support for Israel as diminishing.
12-07-06 - Israelis Wary of Baker's Report "He certainly wasn't our friend," Tsiddon-Chatto said of Baker. "He was bullying Israel into situations, bossing (us) around," Tsiddon-Chatto told Cybercast News Service.
They want our money, and our guarantees of their security, but don't want us to have any say in the matter. Arrogant, audacious, #@'ers.
12-07-06 - Palestinian, Israeli to discuss Mideast
12-07-06 - Arabs and Israelis may resuscitate Dead Sea
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