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Thursday, December 21, 2006
12-20-06 - Two Fatah policemen killed in Gaza Hamas gunmen killed two Palestinian policemen loyal to the rival Fatah movement early Wednesday, hours after the sides agreed to a new cease-fire meant to end more than a week of factional fighting.
12-20-06 - Two Islamic Jihad militants killed by Israel in West Bank
12-20-06 - Israeli settler Runs over 72-year-old Palestinian man near Bethlehem An Israeli settler ran over an elderly man Wednesday midday in Al Khader village south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
12-20-06 - Israel denies airstrike against Palestinian gunmen in Gaza
12-20-06 - Rival forces withdraw from Gaza streets
12-20-06 - Israel 'used chemical weapons in Palestinian lands': minister
12-20-06 - Detained father of girl shot dead by IDF blocked from her funeral Al-Qadr's daughter Da'ah tried to cross the separation fence near the village of Faroun adjacent to Tul Karm to visit the family's plot of land, says her mother.
12-20-06 - Two Israeli troops suspended
12-20-06 - Israeli Air-force targets fighters in Gaza Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that an Israeli war-jet fired a missile at a group of fighters in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported.
12-20-06 - Gaza truce holds despite violence
12-20-06 - Israel may retaliate for rocket attacks
12-20-06 - Person of the Year: Ahmadinejad by Patrick J. Buchanan His trip to the United Nations, where he ran circles around U.S. journalists, was a diplomatic triumph. And he has done it all not with military power ? Iran would not last a week in an all-out war with the United States and has no defense against Israel's nuclear weapons ? but with theatrics and rhetoric.
12-20-06 - Palestinian viewpoints
12-20-06 - 'We are facing the hardest Christmas yet'
12-20-06 - Hebron Update 06-12-10 to 06-12-16 Roe, Uhler and Peters walked down Shuhada Street and were stopped by soldiers at
Gross Square. When told CPT was not allowed to pass, Dianne asked the soldiers
who was allowed. They replied that only Israeli soldiers, members of the Jewish
Community (the Hebron settlers), and guests of the Jewish Community were allowed
to pass.
12-20-06 - Reiterating the keys to peace By Jimmy Carter For 39 years, Israel has occupied Palestinian land, and has confiscated and colonized hundreds of choice sites.
Often excluded from their former homes, land, and places of worship, protesting Palestinians have been severely dominated and oppressed. There is forced segregation between Israeli settlers and Palestine's citizens, with a complex pass system required for Arabs to traverse Israel's multiple checkpoints....an examination of the book reviews and published comments reveals that these points have rarely if ever been mentioned by detractors of the book, much less denied or refuted. Instead, there has been a pattern of ad hominem statements, alleging that I am a liar, plagiarist, anti-Semite, racist, bigot, ignorant, etc. There are frequent denunciations of fabricated "straw man" accusations: that I have claimed that apartheid exists within Israel; that the system of apartheid in Palestine is based on racism; and that Jews control and manipulate the news media of America. Carter has visited the region many times, he knows of what he speaks.
12-20-06 - Al-Zawahiri: U.S. Talking to Wrong People in Iraq, Urges 'Holy War' Against Israel In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum brushed off al-Zawahiri's criticism and defended the party's electoral policy.
12-20-06 - Part two ? The long walk to class
12-20-06 - End of the strongmen - Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war? All of these outcomes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq could have been foreseen -- and almost certainly were. More than that, it looks increasingly like the growing tensions and carnage were planned. Rather than an absence of Western intervention being the problem, the violence and fragmentation of these societies seems to be precisely the goal of the intervention. Would there be near-civil wars in those three areas if we hadn't meddled therein? DOUBTFUL.
12-20-06 - America's Original Foreign Policy by Rep. Ron Paul It is time for Americans to rethink the interventionist foreign policy that is accepted without question in Washington. It is time to understand the obvious harm that results from our being dragged time and time again into intractable and endless Middle East conflicts, whether in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine. It is definitely time to ask ourselves whether further American lives and tax dollars should be lost trying to remake the Middle East in our image.
12-20-06 - The illegal rezoning of Jerusalem's Al Ram
12-20-06 - Israeli PM willing to meet Abbas as soon as possible
12-20-06 - US official implicitly confirms Israeli PM met Saudis
12-20-06 - US policy under challenge as Palestinian violence flares
12-20-06 - Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man spoke to the soldiers while others shouted to stop oppressing students.
12-20-06 - 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' ? Barrier Wall choking Palestinian community in birthplace of Christ
12-20-06 - Court mulls Hamas lawmakers? Israeli citizenship It was correct to strip four Hamas lawmakers of their Israeli citizenship, state representatives told Israel?s highest court.
12-20-06 - Bethlehem now place of death, says patriarch, calling for occupation end
12-20-06 - Americans clueless about Bethlehem While the Christians of Bethlehem overwhelmingly (78%) blame the exodus of Christians from the town on Israel's blockade, Americans are more likely (45.9%) to blame it on Islamic politics and are reluctant (7.4%) to blame Israel.
12-20-06 - Israeli torture of captives alleged Yuval Ginbar, a researcher with the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, took the stand on behalf of Muhammad Salah, a Bridgeview man accused of supporting terrorism as a member of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas.....he said that accounts from Palestinian detainees and Israeli agents, as well as documents from Israel and the U.S. State Department, confirmed that torture was commonly employed in Israeli interrogation centers.
12-20-06 - Palestinian in Israeli Knesset: What is happening has nothing to do with Israeli security
12-20-06 - Abbas calls for further restraint
12-20-06 - Palestinians refusing to donate blood
12-20-06 - Lights of hope shine out in Bethlehem, thanks to Hamas
12-20-06 - The question remains, why was the mother murdered? I spoke to the WP author in question, Scott Wilson, regarding this interchange with Weir, and his response was: "No, I do not feel the Post needs to run a correction because our report was not wrong. Ms. Weir is citing a human-rights organization that was not at the scene; we used witness statements and medic on the scene to say she was killed by tank fire. I'll stand by our version.", if we are to believe him.
12-20-06 - Bush "proud" of Lebanese PM Siniora US President George W. Bush said he was proud of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, praising his tenacity in resisting "enormous pressure" from Syria and Hezbollah.
12-20-06 - Iran wants Israel to return Golan to Syria
12-20-06 - Mazin Qumsiyeh: Holocaust Deniers and the Iraq Study Group
12-20-06 - Jimmy Carter's Apartheid Charge Rings True Many of the very individuals and institutions that are so vociferously denouncing President Jimmy Carter would not for one moment tolerate such glaring injustice in the United States. Why do they condone the naked racism that Israel practices?
12-20-06 - Sheep provide a lifeline on West Bank
12-20-06 - Bush appropriates Chanukah moral in depicting current threat from Iran
12-20-06 - Proposed travel limits on Congress don't faze Jewish nonprofit groups The consensus among Jewish groups is that the new legislation would be an inconvenience, but wouldn't seriously hamper the trips to Israel that are considered a critical component of congressional support for Israel. ...Trips must be preapproved by the House Ethics Committee, a process that U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said would guarantee a continuance of the Israel tours.....Insiders said the impact was likely to be minimal. In Israel trips, the key relationship is not between the lawmaker and the lobbyist but between the lawmaker and the Jewish constituent who gives money to the lawmaker's campaign and who often is present on the trip.
12-20-06 - Orthodox community outraged as group embraces Holocaust deniers "They are going to learn that the Jewish people and Holocaust survivors are not going to stomach this," Mordechai Levy, national director of the Jewish Defense Organization, told JTA. "There is a real line. They crossed it a billion times."
12-20-06 - Is tough love for Israel still love? Question splits a campus group The Zionist Organization of America is spearheading an effort to have a left-wing group expelled from a pro-Israel consortium for its sponsorship of a program that brings Israeli army veterans to college campuses to speak about alleged army abuses.
12-20-06 - Arab-American writer is ambassador for Middle East Despite many displacements, Handal says her sense of home is inextricably bound up with her Palestinian identity. She first visited Bethlehem as a teenager, but found everything felt incredibly familiar. "When I first went, everything made sense to me about who I was," she said.
12-20-06 - So this is what occupation feels like Through its unwavering support for Israel and its illegal (per UN resolutions) occupation, America is complicit in depriving Palestinians of freedoms its Declaration of Independence holds as "unalienable."
12-20-06 - Palestinian immigrant in 'L.A. Eight' case becomes U.S. citizen All the so-called "L-A Eight" have denied being members, and immigrant rights groups say the case was politically motivated
12-20-06 - EU politician calls for isolation of Iran Last week Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni accused Europe of not doing enough to combat the nuclear threat from Iran.
12-20-06 - Get Carter The Israel lobby in the United States does not serve Israel or the Jewish community--it serves the interests of the Israeli extreme right wing. Most Israelis have come to understand that peace will be possible only when their country complies with international law and permits Palestinians to build a viable and sustainable state based on the 1967 borders, including, in some configuration, East Jerusalem.
12-20-06 - Why we support a cultural boycott
12-20-06 - Disbelief at israeli snub of Syrian offer
12-20-06 - Robert Fisk, Call Him an Anti-Semite and He'll Sue You
12-20-06 - Part three ? From the West Bank, a circuitous road to market
12-20-06 - Assad's fatal attraction
12-20-06 - Fresh from the horse's ass The little neocon from WND has a shiny new piece of Zioganda to spin - this time with regard to Baker and an attempt to delegitamize the latter's ISG report by smearing the former.
12-20-06 - Local Writer Gets Order of Ontario Her books include: Looking for X; The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey; and Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak.
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