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Sunday, December 24, 2006
12-23-06 - Senior Palestinian official shot in Gaza Jarbouh was in critical condition. His bodyguard and the girl, a bystander, suffered moderate wounds.
12-23-06 - Palestinian Fatah, Hamas committed to cease-fire deal A Palestinian factional committee announced on Saturday that rival Fatah and Hamas groups are holding on to an internal deal of cease-fire in spite of sporadic violations
12-23-06 - Fateh, Hamas fighters engage in renewed clashes
12-23-06 - Palestinian militant group threatens to drop ceasefire with Israel On Thursday, two Islamic Jihad militants were killed in northern West Bank by Israeli special forces. The group's militants in Gaza responded by launching several homemade rockets at southern Israel.
12-23-06 - Israel blocks another UN fact-finding mission With Beit Hanoun, Israel followed a playbook similar to the one it used in 2002 regarding the killing of Palestinians in Jenin: Delay, delay, delay. Israel's deputy UN ambassador, Aaron Jacob, used language in 2002 strikingly similar to that employed last week by Regev. "We did not decide to reject the team. But the government of Israel decided that the time was not ripe." Why change what works? .....A decision evidently has been reached that it is better for Israel to appear to be hiding something than to have its abuses fully brought to light. Of course, Israeli officials have little to worry about when The New York Times and Washington Post fail to even cover the inability of Tutu's team to enter the area Jenin
12-23-06 - Surprise Gaza talks raise hope for peace By coincidence, it happened on a day when the UN voted to sanction Iran.
12-23-06 - Mass goers to hear of Bethlehem plight The Irish Bishop's Conference (IBC) circulated a Christmas statement to priests saying that the birthplace of Jesus has been transformed from a "bustling cultural and spiritual centre" to "a big prison".
12-23-06 - Christmas Tourism Lags in Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Father of 14-year-old girl killed by IDF released on bail to mourn
12-23-06 - Agreement On Revitalizing Palestine Industrial Free Zone
12-23-06 - Target Iran: Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change ** So if you read the Azeri press, for instance, you?ll find out that the Israeli Mossad has upped its efforts to build a station in Azerbaijan. And the Azeri press will delve into that more. Why does the Mossad want to build a station operating? There?s a couple reasons. One, the Mossad is working with the Azeri population. You know, there is a Jewish minority in Azerbaijan that has emigrated to Israel. And so, there?s a number of Azeri Israelis that the Israeli government now is bringing back to Azerbaijan to work on this issue.... we're not allowed to do is discuss the notion that Israel and the notion of Israeli interests may in fact be dictating what America is doing, that what we're doing in the Middle East may not be to the benefit of America's national security, but to Israel's national security. But, see, we don?t want to talk about that, because one of the great success stories out there is the pro-Israeli lobby that has successfully enabled themselves to blend the two together, so that when we speak of Israeli interests, they say, "No, we're speaking of American interests."....The bottom line is, within two days of our decision to initiate an attack on Iran, every single one of you is going to be feeling the consequences of that in your pocketbook. And it?s only going to get worse. This is not something that only I recognize. Ask Dick Lugar what information he?s getting from big business, who are saying, ?We can?t afford to go to war with Iran.? SEYMOUR HERSH: Final question: given all this, are we going to do it? SCOTT RITTER: Yes, we're going to do it.
Read the entire thing.
12-23-06 - Report: Direct flight from Tel Aviv to Beirut Hizbullah television station Al-Manar claimed Wednesday that the organization is in possession of documents proving that a Portuguese military plane carrying 11 unidentified passengers flew directly from Israel?s Ben-Gurion Airport to Beirut.
12-23-06 - Bethlehem - the last place you would want to be for Christmas "Bethlehem is the last place in the world where I would want to be for Christmas," he said. "Hamas and Fatah should remember the enemy is not each other but Israel, and the longer they fight one another the better it will be for the Israelis."
12-23-06 - O little town of Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Death of a student stirs revolt in Gaza
12-23-06 - Hamas denies it preparing five-year truce with Israel
12-23-06 - Palestinian police arrest thieves of human skulls "The gang used to unearth human skulls in Khan Yunis city, Gaza Strip, and use them in narcotic industry,"
12-23-06 - PALESTINIANS IN CHILE DENOUNCE MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE About 450,000 Palestinians live in Chile, making it the largest and one of the strongest expatriate communities in the world.
12-23-06 - West Bank town of Bethlehem experiences little peace - or commerce
12-23-06 - Wall gate delays transfer of body of a deceased resident for three hours
12-23-06 - 30 village councils in Bethlehem voice appeal for ceasefire Thirty village councils in Bethlehem voiced an appeal to all Palestinian factions in order to stop the internal clashes and solidify the ceasefire between the armed groups, especially Fateh and Hamas who engaged in violent clashes.
12-23-06 - Palestinian dressed as Santa Claus walks past the Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem
12-23-06 - Palestinian Christian children gather by a shop selling Christmas ornaments
12-23-06 - Bethlehem Group Re-Enacts Walk of Mary, Joseph At White House Descendents of first-century Christians from the land of Jesus' birth led a candle-lit procession Saturday evening from Lafayette Park around the Ellipse and National Christmas Tree, according to a spokesman for the Ad Hoc Committee For Bethlehem, which organized the event.
12-23-06 - First for Israeli-Arabs: Campaign against underage marriage
12-23-06 - Israel's Move to Destroy the Palestinian Authority was a Calculated Plan, Long in the Making
12-23-06 - On Israel's "Right to Exist"
12-23-06 - World's biggest ecstasy dealer nabbed in Rio Yoram is alleged to have been behind the largest-ever shipment of the club drug ecstasy, a stimulant with the chemical name methylenedioxymethamphetamine, into the United States.
12-23-06 - Syria building 'death trap' villages While for years it was assumed that Israel had a major edge against Syria's military with regard to a conventional war - tank versus tank, jet versus jet - in an urban setting, the Syrian military would be able, the officer said, to wreak havoc against IDF infantry and armored units like Hizbullah did.
12-23-06 - Lebanon seizes explosives from pro-Syrian group
12-23-06 - Abraham Fund launches program to encourage Arab women to work The Abraham Fund Initiatives is a non-profit organization based in Jerusalem and New York City. It is dedicated to advancing the coexistence and cooperation between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens.
12-23-06 - Jewish leaders: Bush finds Iran election results encouraging Bush gathered Jewish education leaders and students at the White House to discuss the role of religion in schools. The closed-door discussions also touched on other issues including the war in Iraq, spreading democracy and the crisis in Darfur.
12-23-06 - Mainstream journalist defends western bias "There was a statement issued today by Hezbollah that they would support a UN Tribunal if it is "fair, just and nonpolitical", so what about the Israeli Mossad spy ring that was uncovered in Lebanon that outside investigators claim is linked to the Hariri killing? What is the UN doing in this regard to investigate?" Mossad in Lebanon caught before this year, same story, also in 1998.
12-23-06 - Watching Christmas Midnight Mass from Bethlehem in real time
12-23-06 - Photo expo focus on Palestine
12-23-06 - Four reasons for ranting ** The ideal scenario, from Israel's point of view, would be an American military attack that would destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and remove the threat. "We have to get the United States to carry out what it promised to do, and to create the proper international climate," explains a senior official. It is not clear what President Bush told Olmert in private talks that had him leaving Bush's office feeling so satisfied. We can only presume that Olmert is depending on Bush's religious faith and obstinacy, which will lead him to attack Iran, even in light of American public opposition to military adventures in the Middle East.
12-23-06 - Calls for a ?Gate of Hope? in Bethlehem? wall
12-23-06 - Jimmy Carter, on Mission Carter is taking on the orthodoxies in his own culture, with the same sense of all or nothing. The venom he is encountering on the Jewish right is staggering.....we're getting closer and closer to the Elian Gonzales moment, the moment when the American people wake up and realize that a fanatical lobby is not representing America's best interest.
12-23-06 - Lanka mends fences with Palestine as UN envoy lashes out at Israel
12-23-06 - Israel's cost on fence route may reach 238 mln USD Israel's cost on changing route of the West Bank security fence have reached approximately NIS 700million (166.67 million US dollars) and it may rise to as much as NIS one billion (over 238 million dollars) in the near future, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Thursday. It would have saved them (and consequently us American taxpayers) lots of money had they built the fence on the Green Line in accordance with international law. This is not rocket science.
12-23-06 - Making a buck and a point in West Bank Don't exploit the poor people, please.
12-23-06 - Teens face charges after puzzling message spray-painted at Ontario Arabic school
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