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Tuesday, December 26, 2006


News for 12-25-06

12-25-06 - Soldier shoots and kills construction worker in Kufr A-Dik village, northern West Bank, 14 Dec.


12-25-06 - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah, the top Catholic Clergyman in the Holy Land, right, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas prior to the Christmas Mass


12-25-06 - Israeli police officers stand guard as a bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian house in the village of Issawiya, on the edge of Jerusalem, December 25, 2006


12-25-06 - Palestinians watch as bulldozers demolish a Palestinian house in the village of Issawiya, on the edge of Jerusalem, December 25, 2006


12-25-06 - Near Jenin, Israeli troops abduct ten Palestinians, including a senior fighter Several members of the Islamci Jihad were also taken prisoner during the invasion


12-25-06 - Israeli shot, wounded in West Bank


12-25-06 - Armed wing of Islamic Jihad shells southern Israel In a statement sent to reporters, the brigades said that a group of its fighters fired one mid-range homemade missile into Sderot city in southern Israel in response to the Israeli army raids in the West Bank.


12-25-06 - Jordan to host Palestinian talks


12-25-06 - 200 Israelis, Palestinians protest new Israeli-only W. Bank road Roughly 200 Israelis and Palestinians turned out for a protest march Saturday against the construction of a new West Bank viaduct that will be open to Israeli traffic only.


12-25-06 - Re-Tracing Mary's Footsteps Through Check Points, Visas and Borders


12-25-06 - W. Bank prisoner expelled to Gaza


12-25-06 - A letter from Bethlehem at Christmastime It is unbelievable that such outrageous racial discrimination exists in the 21st century


12-25-06 - Internet cafés in the front line of new Gaza violence


12-25-06 - Pope urges Mid-East peace efforts


12-25-06 - Palestinian state in 2 years 2 years? Why not NOW? This again leads me to believe that this is another attempt to appease Europe and get their support for another Middle East war (Iran). If Bush had wanted to help create a Palestinian state, he would have done so in 2005, per the Road Map. Not so. All of these recent gestures lately are awfully reminiscent of the runup to the Iraq war. And this all comes JUST as the UN slapped Iran with sanctions.


12-25-06 - Israel moves to ease restrictions on Palestinians


12-25-06 - Israeli army erects military checkpoints around Tubas The Israeli army erected several military checkpoints around the northern West Bank city of Tubas on Sunday morning.


12-25-06 - Call for peace in Bethlehem Life in Bethlehem has deteriorated, with residents finding it difficult to reach jobs in Jerusalem and West Bank towns like Hebron due to Israeli checkpoints and an Israeli barrier that cuts into West Bank land that Palestinians want for a state.


12-25-06 - Israel ministers: respond to missiles "The State of Israel must act against the Qassams in a well-planned and organized manner," said Avigdor Lieberman, the country's minister of strategic affairs. "We must not respond merely in order to appease the public."


12-25-06 - Pope calls for 'just and lasting peace' in Middle East


12-25-06 - Peace activists and local residents of Beit Sahur, a Palestinian town near the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem, attend a torch march


12-25-06 - Poverty-struck Palestinians turn to drugs


12-25-06 - U.S., European officials visit Fatah base in Jordan


12-25-06 - 'O little ghetto of Bethlehem' The wall effectively annexes Israeli West Bank settlements, although they are considered illegal under international law. The settlements are fast-growing Israeli enclaves built on Palestinian land, their close-packed dwellings marching up once-forested hillsides like monochromatic Lego blocks. Bethlehem is surrounded by 27 settlements containing 73,000 people, according to Open Bethlehem, a local advocacy group. The settlements are connected by bypass roads that are off limits to Palestinians.


12-25-06 - Olive wood carvers under siege The handicraft has been native to the town of Bethlehem, and the predominantly Christian villages of Beit Shahour and Beit Jala in Palestine, ever since the fourth century when Catholic monks associated with the Church of the Nativity, introduced it to the local population


12-25-06 - Candle Light Procession calling for the end of Infighting At least 2000 Palestinians and Internationals joined the Candle Light procession in the town of Beit Sahour on Christmas Day to light a candle for the End of Violence, Unity of the Nation and the Lifting of the Blockade imposed on the Palestinian people.


12-25-06 - Israeli defense minister supports Palestinian prisoner release


12-25-06 - Israel to UN: Qassams unacceptable Gillerman sent the harshly worded letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the current president of the UN Security Council.


12-25-06 - Bethlehem students' art graces church


12-25-06 - Israel - Part 3 If jewish people in America could ever clearly be shown the level of hatred that is committed by the most zealous and hateful of jews in their names, they would be ashamed, and they would demand immediate change. Unfortunately, the right wing fascists in israel have infiltrated the united states government, and we are not hearing the truth about the apartheid system they are forcing on the arab people called "palestinians". Yes, that's Roseanne Barr speaking there.


12-25-06 - Cluster bombs injure 5 in Lebanon


12-25-06 - MK Bishara in Ghajar: We won't let you become refugees "The Arab village of Ghajar was conquered in '67 along with the Golan Heights and is an inseparable part of Syria . Its status must not be changed until the Golan Heights is discussed," MK Bishara told Ynet.


12-25-06 - Pessimistic view of the Mideast Max Boot = neocon.


12-25-06 - Carter wants debate? He's got it Last week, with Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman accusing Carter of "anti-Semitism," the book hit No. 5 on the New York Times best-seller list, up from No. 11 in three weeks. The league's response has been to take out ads in major newspapers, claiming, "there's only one honest thing about President Carter's new book: the criticism."

The ADL is taking out ads in major newspapers as a response to Carter's book. Priceless! Go Jimmy, Go Jimmy, Go Jimmy!


12-25-06 - Time to seek peace In his Christmas homily, the Archbishop of Westminster has said that the key to a peaceful Middle East is peace in the Holy Land, and has asked for a "conversion of heart" of everyone involved in the conflict in Israel and Palestine.




12-25-06 - Israelis seek peace with Syria, want to keep Golan Most Israelis want peace talks with Syria, but not at the cost of giving up the Golan.


12-25-06 - Serious leaders doing serious work we must also recognize that if it was us under occupation, we too would not accept being denied our freedom for 40 years,and would use every means possible to secure it.


12-25-06 - Likud May Propose Limited PA State Who are you to relegate statehood to another people? Get bent.


12-25-06 - Olmert ready to open Syria talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday said he would like to renew peace talks with Syria, but insisted that Damascus first end its support of anti-Israel militant groups in the Palestinian areas and Lebanon.


12-25-06 - U.S. Republican senator arrives in Syria for talks U.S. Republican Senator Arlen Specter arrived in Syria on Monday for talks with Syrian leaders on bilateral relations and situations in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, according to the independent Syria-News website.


12-25-06 - Dor Alon to continue fuel supply to Gaza Palestinian Minister of Energy Samir Abu Issa has told the Paz energy company Sunday that he wishes to continue doing business with Dor Alon who will continue to supply fuel to the Gaza Strip.

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