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Wednesday, December 27, 2006


News for 12-26-06

12-26-06 - Palestinian farmer shot by Israeli troops near Gaza fence A Palestinian farmer was shot and seriously injured on Tuesday in the northern Gaza Strip as he was working near the fence separating Gaza and Israel, Palestinian officials said


12-26-06 - Israel plans W.Bank homes for Gaza settlers: report Israel's defense minister has approved plans to turn a former army base in the occupied West Bank into a settlement for 30 Jewish settler families evacuated from the Gaza Strip last year, Israel Radio said on Tuesday. As predicted, and under the cover of the 'peace gestures' with regard to dismantling checkpoints and etc., Israel is moving the settlers that were evicted last year from illegal Gaza settlements to new illegal settlements on the West Bank. The world is not blind to their ongoing double dealings.


12-26-06 - Abbas gives Hamas ten-day ultimatum to prepare for unity gov't talks: report


12-26-06 - Palestinians protest West Bank barrier Dozens of Palestinian farm workers have protested south of Bethlehem against the construction of Israel's controversial West Bank separation barrier. Six people were slightly injured when scuffles broke out after a dozen bulldozers, protected by the military, started to tear down trees and raze the ground near the village of Umm Salamona on Tuesday.



12-26-06 - Israel settlement breaks promise to U.S. Israel has approved a new settlement in the West Bank to house former Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, breaking a promise to the U.S. to halt home construction in the Palestinian territories. Cut them right off the dole (per Bush the first), and see how they like them apples.


12-26-06 - UAE RCS distributes food parcels in KhanYounis


12-26-06 - Israel to weigh Gaza truce stance A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday injured two teenage Israeli boys in the southern town of Sderot. Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Israel must reconsider its "restraint". The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the Sderot attack in retaliation for recent Israeli military raids in the West Bank.



12-26-06 - Palestinian Election Could Be Very Close


12-26-06 - Israeli spies divided over Syria's peace overtures


12-26-06 - Palestinians say soldiers threw rocks, destroyed property Palestinians living south of Mount Hebron on the West Bank say that they have been harassed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers over the past month.


12-26-06 - Acting Finance Minister: salaries finally being paid The Acting Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning, Dr. Samir Abu Eisha, began disbursing salaries to public sector employees who had not received funds provided by the European Union for those who receive more than 2,500 shekels per month


12-26-06 - Intel. tribunal urged to try killers of journalists in Iraq, Palestine The Arab Journalists Federation (AJF) called on the U.N. Security Council on Sunday to take more decisive steps to stop the serial killing of journalists in Iraq and Palestine.


12-26-06 - My mother gave birth to me here 80 years ago. I prefer death than to see the Wall eat this land


12-26-06 - Palestinians skeptical about checkpoints


12-26-06 - Agricultural Relief workshops for remaining farm land Palestinian Agricultural Relief's North Branch is implementing a project to support agricultural lands in villages impacted by the Wall. The work is being done in concert with people of Nazareth, a city still populated by Palestinians, but inside Israeli boundaries


12-26-06 - Hamas PM to Saudi, Kuwait and Jordan Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas will leave for Saudi Arabia this week to continue a tour of Arab states that he interrupted a week and a half ago to deal with an internal crisis.


12-26-06 - Mazuz won't investigate illegal outposts built on Palestinian land Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ruled Tuesday that a criminal investigation will not be opened against settlements and outposts that were built on privately-owned Palestinian land. This is a ROGUE nation.


12-26-06 - A permit will open the gate in the Wall that imprisons Bethlehem The Israeli government has taken 15 percent of Bethlehem into Jerusalem, a city which it has already annexed. In past years the 70 year old Patriarch could travel along the Jerusalem ? Hebron Road within the West Bank from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to deliver Mass for the Western Christmas. But each year the route becomes more difficult.


12-26-06 - Top army judge criticizes detention of Palestinians without trial A top Israeli military judge disclosed that 2,700 Palestinians have been detained without trial this year, criticizing the military prosecution for not filing charges against some of them.


12-26-06 - Petition: Fence route forcing 'transfer' The state is hoping that Palestinians living in two villages inside the Alfei Menashe enclave will move deeper into the West Bank after allegedly being put in an impossible situation by the proposed new route of the separation barrier that traps them on the "Israeli" side, a High Court petition filed Tuesday charged.


12-26-06 - Gaza's only Catholic priest says Palestinians need peace Msgr. Musallam said that when innocent people are punished for the conflict "by hunger, by thirst, by lack of food, by lack of medicine, by lack of care," it is a "crime of war."




12-26-06 - Palestinians demand prisoner release


12-26-06 - Scandal Could Derail New York Comptroller Many states maintain similar portfolios, but Israel constitutes a cause for Hevesi. For many years, Hevesi served as the president of B'nai Zion, a fraternal organization, and several times ran to be a delegate to the World Zionist Congress. As head of B'nai Zion, he served as a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ? and some years ago even briefly considered serving as the group's chairman, a post colloquially called "King of the Jews."




12-26-06 - 'Corrie' canceled in Canada in a situation eerily similar to the one that faced Nicola, it appears that Bragg faced pressure from some of his board members not to alienate Toronto's Jewish community.


12-26-06 - Mubarak, Olmert to meet Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Hosni Mubarak next week.


12-26-06 - U.N. Chief Pressured To Bypass Businessman South Korea?s Ban-Ki Moon, who will begin his term January 1 with little experience regarding Israel and its supporters, is coming under fire for his team?s relationship with a little-known Orthodox businessman and activist named Michael Landau. The head of a local Orthodox group in Manhattan, Landau has been actively courting the new secretary-general?s entourage and presenting himself as a go-between to help Ban navigate the U.N.?s notoriously fraught relationship with Jewish groups....Landau is reportedly backed by Malcolm Hoenlein, the influential executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Well well well. Caught with their hands in the cookie jar.


12-26-06 - Jordanians to visit their relatives at Israeli jails


12-26-06 - Israel's economy on the rise Israel's economy rose 12 places in an international listing. Good, now they no longer need our tax money. In fact, they should start paying it back.


12-26-06 - Heeding a call to duty, Jews move to Israel Yonatan Cooper had a hot new sports car, a swank apartment near Beverly Hills and a job he loved in politics. But this week, the 24-year-old New Jersey native plans to trade it all in for a choice that has startled some of his closest friends and family:
He has decided to emigrate to Israel and aims to serve as a paratrooper with the Israel Defense Forces. Because the armed forces of THIS COUNTRY aren't hurting for troops or anything. Something wrong with serving AMERICA?


12-26-06 - I Witness the Israel Lobby in Action This chilling statement was a candid expression of the goals of the Israel lobby. A member of a Jewish organization was saying that it's OK to have a wide-open discussion of these issues in Israel, but it's dangerous to have such a discussion here. Why?


12-26-06 - Report: Israeli mob boss negotiating plea bargain Rosenstein, 51, was extradited nine months ago to American authorities after an indictment was issued against him in Miami after a police operation revealed that he allegedly headed a drug ring that pushed millions of ecstasy pills from Israel to the United States and Australia, through Europe.


12-26-06 - Cases to test secret witnesses In three pending high-profile criminal cases, including one in Dallas, federal prosecutors have asked that the identities of Israeli government witnesses be withheld from defendants and their attorneys -- a move some legal scholars see as a highly unusual end run around the Sixth Amendment.....But University of Michigan law school professor Richard Friedman, a Sixth Amendment expert, said Israel's concerns about the security of intelligence and law enforcement officials should not be allowed to trump the Constitution.

"Israel doesn't conduct our criminal procedures, and there is no reason why a defendant's rights in court should be determined by Israeli criminal procedure," he said.
It should alarm American citizens that agents - whose identities are allowed to be kept secret - of a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT should be allowed to testify against you. But that is the nature of the beast. These agents are of a foreign government that does not now nor has it ever abided by international law; a rogue state.


12-26-06 - Yad Vashem: Why no brochure in Arabic? "If the Arabs had known about the Holocaust and studied about it, the Israeli-Arab conflict could have been solved a long time ago," Why? Does the Holocaust excuse this? Why do Zionists routinely rely on and exploit the Holocaust for political gain (as the Holocaust survivors sit in poverty in Israel)?


12-26-06 - No comparison

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