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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
12-18-06 - one killed, two wounded in abductions in Nablus Israeli undercover special agents killed one Palestinian and abducted two others in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday morning.
12-18-06 - Fatah Hamas fighting continues, one Palestinian teen wounded in Gaza city
12-18-06 - Gaza violence shuts schools
12-18-06 - Fatah, Hamas men abducted freed: sources The abduction followed a clash between both sides in which one Fatah activist was killed.
12-18-06 - Sanour resident: the settlers leave and the army returns As a component of last year's partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces withdrew from four settlements in the northern West Bank's Jenin. However residents of Sanour will no longer be able to access their own land as the Israelis will impose another military installation there. And Israeli Channel 10 has just reported that it is going to get worse.
12-18-06 - Blair makes one last push in Middle East with Palestinian funding plan MP warns against funding sides in coming civil war
12-18-06 - Israel court strikes down ban on Palestinian students Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that a blanket ban on Palestinian students entering Israel to study was excessive and ordered that selective criteria be established.
12-18-06 - Bethlehem peacebuilding school threatened with closure As UK church leaders prepare for a pilgrimage to the beleagured city, news has emerged that a peacebuilding school in Bethlehem which welcomes Muslim, Christian and Jewish girls and boys has been told that part of their building is due to be demolished by the huge Israeli 'security wall' being constructed around the town.
12-18-06 - British clergy to spend Christmas in the Holy Land One of the founding members of Open Bethlehem, Maxim Sansour, told PNN that his campaign is working to ?expose Israeli occupation policies toward the city of Bethlehem and other Palestinian cities.?
12-18-06 - EU to Israel: Stop violating int'l law
12-18-06 - Views from Gaza residents
12-18-06 - Huda Mohammed al-Awadi, OPT ?I can?t believe I?m still alive? Huda, who lives in Gaza City?s Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, was hit in the left leg and right foot by gunfire as she was walking to the Cairo Elementary School in the west of the city during an attack that left three children of a senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, Baha Balousheh, and their driver dead.
12-18-06 - Only an end to sanctions can halt Palestine's crisis
12-18-06 - Strike by Palestinian workers near end -official Under the deal, which is expected to be signed later on Sunday, workers will be given assurances from Abbas and the Hamas-led government that they will receive partial salary payments within days and full wages starting next month.
12-18-06 - Gaza goods cost up to a million shekels more a day
12-18-06 - Bedouin, police clash over renewed Negev demolition orders A week and a half ago the Israel Lands Authority and the Interior Ministry demolished 17 of the 50 structures that make up the village - caravans, shacks and tents - leaving 12 families homeless. ....The Israel Lands Authority views them as squatters and therefore refuses to help them find housing.
Totally ironic that last statement there.
12-18-06 - "It is a missile launch bunker. Somewhere within a mile to five miles are silos with the missiles in them." ** another media outlet in Israel is reporting that the U.S. is building a massive new base for the Israeli military on the West Bank border.
12-18-06 - Iran within four years of nuclear bomb: Israel spy chief ** The boy who cried wolf.
12-18-06 - This is an attempt to overturn our elections The Palestinian people have indeed already spoken: for elections to the Palestinian National Council; for lifting the economic boycott of a democratically elected authority; for liberty and independence.
12-18-06 - Jordan asks Israel to state position on Palestinian statehood
12-18-06 - Army abducts eight Palestinian men including three brothers from Hebron
12-18-06 - Israeli PM to release Palestinian funds Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday said Israel is prepared to release seized Palestinian funds for "humanitarian" purposes, but ruled out a large-scale transfer of money to the Hamas-led government.
12-18-06 - 35 million dollars for Palestinians deposited in Arab bank account The 35 million dollars left behind in Egypt by Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya after Israel closed the Gaza crossing was reportedly deposited into an Arab League account.
12-18-06 - Israeli PM, U.S. senators: Baker's report not to be policy The delegation includes senior U.S. senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and John Thune. Olmert and the senators discussed the Baker-Hamilton report and emphasized that in their view, although the report has led to a broad political discussion, it will not necessarily become U.S. policy, including regarding opposition to a dialogue with Iran and Syria. Let it be known: US Middle East policy is crafted in Tel Aviv, not Washington.
12-18-06 - Peretz wants more time to negotiate with settlers over Migron exit Evacuation of the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Migron, which was built on private Palestinian land, is likely to be delayed for another half year, according to a government brief submitted to the High Court of Justice yesterday.
12-18-06 - Settlers back in cleared area Accompanied by Israeli military jeeps, the settlers arrived at the site of the former colony of Homesh in the northern West Bank, the sources said.
12-18-06 - Thefts of military hardware reported at army bases
12-18-06 - Conversations with the Peacemaker, Father Peter Dougherty The fundamental violence is the Occupation. Yes, I grieve for Israelis killed. I am opposed to all violence. I?m opposed to Palestinian violence against Israelis, and vice versa. I agree with Gila Svirsky of Israel?s Women in Black that the best security for Israeli Jews is ending the Occupation, and justice for Palestinians.
12-18-06 - Uzi Landau: 'Israel's Churchill' Warns of Iran's Hitler Former Israeli Interior Minister Uzi Landau, a leading contender to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was in the United States last week to sound the alarm on Iran.
12-18-06 - UPS Seeks to Redeem Self After Rumors of West Bank 'Package Apartheid' Officials at United Parcel Service are vehemently fighting back rumors that their company practices "package apartheid" by refusing to deliver to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while offering service to Palestinian communities behind the Green Line. Oh those poor poor (illegal squatters). The heart bleeds..
12-18-06 - Palestine Solidarity Committee (South Africa) and Supporters Call for the Recall of South African Ambassador From Tel Aviv and Sanctions Against Israel At a press conference held today in South Africa the Palestine Solidarity Committee, COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions representing 1.2 million workers) and the South African Council of Churches called on the South African government to recall the ambassador to Israel and to implement sanctions against Israel.
12-18-06 - US defends early Palestinian election call despite legal ambiguity
12-18-06 - Ahmadinejad good for Jews
12-18-06 - U.S. aid not for Hamas-Fatah fight The U.S. is not trying to help Mahmoud Abbas fight Hamas by sending him military assistance, an official said. Right.
12-18-06 - Part One: The Arabs on the outside The report directly calls into question Israeli proponents' arguments in favor of the wall: that it is an antiterrorism measure and not a land grab. The Ir Amim study, which tracks the impact of the changes on Palestinian Jerusalemites in several areas, is the first indication that the wall is apparently being drawn with the explicit goal of improving Israel's demographic hand.
12-18-06 - Israel's Balance of Payments Surplus - New Record Good. Now they can GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK.
12-18-06 - Abdullah: I'll contact Israeli leadership soon
12-18-06 - Munich mastermind voiced regret "The instructions were not to kill anyone, except in cases of self-defense. I am saddened by the deaths of the Israelis and the Palestinians."
12-18-06 - World Evangelical Alliance Welcomes Historic New Middle East Member ?There are Palestinian Christians living in the Biblical Land, and we are the living stories of faith,? said Rev Ali. "It is a privilege to have you come to Bethlehem today, because we now know that we are not forgotten."
12-18-06 - Confronting Conflict With Barenboim Mr. Barenboim went on to say that the parties must "achieve on the ground the conditions that we have in the orchestra, which are conditions of equality. When a Palestinian and an Israeli are playing the Brahms symphony on Tuesday night in Carnegie hall, in front of the Brahms Symphony, they are equals. But on the ground, in the West Bank, they are not equals."
12-18-06 - Few in Lebanon Have Favourable View of U.S.
12-18-06 - Israeli intelligence warns Hamas gunmen being trained in Iran Wait, then that must mean we should attack Iran!....
12-18-06 - Anti-Semitism label confines open debate he debate about Israeli policies is far more heated and frank within Israel than here in the United States. As one telling example, consider this paragraph by Israeli columnist Larry Derfner, writing recently in the Jerusalem Post: "Nobody and nothing in the world has an army of advocates, defenders, PR people, marketers, spin-meisters and image-polishers like Israel has. This army isn't made up just of the government but of Jews and Judeophiles all over the world, especially in the U.S. It includes the entire alphabet soup of American Jewish organizations, right-wing 'media watchdogs' like CAMERA and Honest Reporting, hundreds of Jewish newspapers and Web sites, Alan Dershowitz, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Republican Party, the Christian Right, FOX News and an assortment of other forces.".....Carter's point ? and Foxman proves it ? is that it has become impossible to express sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians in this country without fear of being shouted down as anti-Semitic.
12-18-06 - Syria statement omits Golan
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