A study conducted by the Ariel University Center of Samaria shows the population growth amongst illegal setters in the West Bank was three times that of Israel proper during the past 12 years.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli settlements are blockage to Middle East peace, says Gordon Brown
Israeli settlements on the West Bank represent a "blockage" in the Middle East peace process, Gordon Brown said today. At a news conference in Downing Street with Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Brown said he had consistently called for the settlements to be dismantled.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Israel to compensate Bil'in head for separation fence
State found to have ignored High Court sentence ordering it to alter location of the security fence because it is unjust towards village residents, and as a result must pay compensation to council head.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Video: President of UN General Assembly urges Israel to be recognized as an Apartheid State
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UN Special Rapporteeur Held at Ben Gurion Airport by Israel Authorities
On Sunday, December 14, Israeli Authorities held the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Professor Richard Falk, on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and is willing to deport Professor Falk to Geneva this morning, Wafa news agency reported last night.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israel turns back senior UN official
AFP-Israel has turned back UN human rights envoy Richard Falk upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport, authorities said on Monday, accusing him of "legitimizing Hamas terrorism."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Israel expels UN rights envoy who compared Israelis to Nazis
Professor Richard Falk, a United Nations envoy who once sparked controversy by comparing Israelis to Nazis, has been barred entry to Israel and was put on a plane bound out of the country early on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
IDF: Soldier filmed throwing stones in Hebron
Military Police claim to have video of uniformed soldier throwing stones at police officers during evacuation of disputed Hebron house. Suspect arrested; denies allegations.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Settlers torch Palestinian property as violence continues in Hebron
On the night between the 11th and the 12th of December, settlers burnt and damaged Palestinian cars and attempted to torch a Palestinian house in the city of Hebron. The Tel Rumeida neighbourhood was attacked by settlers from 11.30pm until 3am in the morning. The settlers burnt and damaged at least two Palestinian cars, and also tried to burn down the house of the Adeis family, setting trees situated next to the house on fire. During their attack the settlers shot at the Palestinians, their houses and other Palestinian property.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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Israeli army invades Zawata
Israeli soldiers raided the village of Zawata late Sunday night, going house to house throughout the village, tearing down doors and scaring residents. The occupying army stayed well into the morning terrorizing young children on their way to class.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Israeli forces attack demonstration in Jayyous
On Friday December 12th, Israeli soldiers once again entered the village of Jayyous in order to prevent demonstrators from protesting against the Apartheid Wall. 150 residents from the village marched against the new route of the Apartheid Wall that threatens to annex almost 6000 dunums of Jayyous land, but were prevented from leaving the village by Israeli soldiers, who blocked every exit from the village.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Ja'ayus Friday 12-12-08
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Returning Hajj pilgrims held up, threatened by Israeli forces at border
Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims returning home from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca on Sunday were threatened and held up by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge border crossing. The pilgrims physically crossed the bridge at 10am, and have waited at the Israeli border terminal on the western side of the Jordan River for nine hours. Pilgrims told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers threatened to shoot them if they proceeded toward the building. The pilgrims have begun to rally in protest. The Allenby Bridge between the West Bank and Jordan, currently the only crossing available for West Bank residents to leave the country, is controlled by Israel. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Al Jazeera Video: Torture Speaks
Since 1967, some 75,000, men and women have been in and out Israelis prison where they had been jailed for long periods of time. A large number of them say have been subjected to severe torture that left many of them physically and mentally handicapped. Some of the old ex-prisoners have kept their stories to themselves and have not shared it with others. Hasan Abed Almajeed and Mohamad Abu Nie open up to Al Jazeera about their torture experience for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Women`s Organization for Political Prisoners Newsletter
Women`s Organization for Political Prisoners-Newsletter-There are, at present, about 65 women political prisoners in the Israeli jails: about 30 in Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond), about 32 in Damoon Prison (Carmel Mountain), and the rest in several detention centers.
http://www.wofpp.org/english/
Palestinian woman dies of heart attack upon learning that none of sons released by Israel
A 52-year-old Palestinian woman died of a heart attack on Sunday when she discovered that none of her three imprisoned sons was to be released by Israel in Monday's prisoner release, her husband said. Rebheyeh Saleh Al-Qanni, known as "Umm Mazen," was from the village of Kafr Qalil, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. She was 52.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Crowds greet freed Palestinians
Jubilant crowds in the West Bank welcome home busloads of Palestinian prisoners set free by the Israelis.
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Israeli Forces detain TV cameraman and prevent filiming in Qalqilia
Israeli forces detained Al-Watan television cameraman Ibrahim Hammad, confiscated his camera and prevented his crew from taping a show about life in Qalqilia Monday afternoon. The Al-Watan TV Department condemned the arrest and what they called the "unyielding problems" the crew has faced when trying work in Qalqilia.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli Military Detains Three Residents From Bethlehem
On Monday, Israeli military detained three Palestinian residents from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian security sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Prisoners minister: Detaining MP Abdel Razak anew serious precedence
Minister of prisoners said that the Israeli court's decision to renew detention of MP Dr. Omar Abdul Razak after releasing him was a serious precedence and a political decision.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Israeli forces detain Islamic Jihad affiliate
Israeli forces seized a member of Islamic Jihad from the West Bank village of Tell west of Nablus Monday morning. Palestinian security sources identified the man taken as 18-year-old Tawfiq Al-Hindi. He was arrested while at his brother's home on the outskirts of Tulkarem.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel arrests 17 Palestinians ahead of prisoners release
Israeli forces arrested 17 Palestinians in the West Bank early Monday, hours before a scheduled release of some 230 prisoners aimed at bolstering Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Barhoum: PA's abduction of Nassif reflects repressive policy against Hamas
The security apparatuses' kidnap of Hamas leader in the West Bank Ra'fat Nassif is a result of the hysteria that engulfed the Ramallah authority after witnessing the massive popular support for Hamas.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Widespread blackouts after Israel blocks food, fuel shipments to Gaza for third day
Most of the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million residents will be spend the night without electricty on Sunday due to Israeli restrictions on fuel shipments to the territory. The Gaza power station ran out of fuel at 4pm Sunday and shut down operations, said Kanan Ubeid, the deputy chief of the Palestinian Energy Authority. He noted that the plant closure would mean power cuts to 50% of Gaza City as well as most homes in the north and central districts.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Gaza residents eat grass to survive
Faced with a failing economy and acute hunger and with nowhere to go, families in Gaza are also turning to painkillers to take the edge off their unending misery, pharmacists say.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Gaza banks at risk of collapse unless Israel pumps more cash, diplomats warn
Representatives of the Quartet, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are asking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to continue sending funds to the Gaza Strip in a bid to avoid the collapse of the banking system there.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Dr. Saeb Shaath-Gaza Haunts the EU
While Gaza defies Zionist-imposed death, in simple direct words, the 'civilised' world praises the killers. The EU is rewarding the Zionist vultures by upgrading its relationship with the Zionist entity (through a proposal by the European Union Commission and Council for the draft recommendation to conclude a Protocol to the EU-Israel Association Agreement and on the general principles governing the State of Israel's participation in Community programs). This means that more European taxpayers' money will be made available to pour into the only entity on earth that is refusing to comply with UN and Security Council resolutions. Violating most international laws and basic Human Rights, a very advanced and sophisticated Israeli Army is attacking civilians and aiding settlers to attack unarmed defenceless Palestinians.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Besieged and stressed Gazans fall victim to black market painkiller
Thousands of young men in Gaza are becoming addicted to a prescription painkiller used to alleviate the stress of living in the besieged Palestinian territory. Students, labourers and even professionals are buying large quantities of tramadol, a synthetic opioid painkiller similar to morphine, although milder, on the black market.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Young man killed as Rafah tunnel collapses
A young Palestinian man delivering goods from Egypt to Gaza through a tunnel in the As-Salam neighborhood of Rafah died when the tunnel collapsed on Monday morning. Gazan medical sources identified the victim, whose body was taken to Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital, as 22-year-old Mahmoud Al-Akhras. Medical sources added that a fire broke out in another tunnel on Sunday afternoon. Twelve people suffered from suffocation and received medical treatment. One sustained moderate burns and two more, believed to be inside the tunnel, are still being searched after.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Picture from a Gaza tunnel
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Haniya, no ceasefire without lifting the siege
In a triumphant speech marking Hamas's 21st anniversary, Ismael Haniya said the Palestinian resistance groups wouldn't extend the present fragile truce unless the siege is lifted.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Hamas says Gaza truce to end Thursday
GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza said on Sunday that a troubled Cairo-brokered truce with Israel will not be renewed when it runs out later this week. But a spokesman for outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted his government remained keen to see the six-month-old truce extended beyond Thursday provided Hamas halted rocket and mortar fire against southern Israel.
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As truce nears end, Israel tells Hamas: We will respond to Gaza fire
Israel warned Hamas on Sunday that any rocket fire emanating from the territory will be met with a military response as both sides ratchet up the rhetoric ahead of an expiring ceasefire along the Gaza frontier.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Ceasefire?What Ceasefire?
The Damascus-based exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mesh'al, announced on December 14 that Hamas would not be renewing its ceasefire with Israel. At the same time, Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said the group had not made its position final and that the local Hamas leadership was to meet with representatives of the other Palestinian armed groups that same night and afterwards formulate an official policy, which has yet to be announced. Meanwhile, Amos Gilad, the head of the Israeli Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, was in Cairo that same day, reportedly discussing a renewal of the ceasefire with Egyptian officials who brokered the first one nearly six months ago. Reading the various reports, I thought to myself, "Exactly what ceasefire is everybody talking about?"
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Palestinian signals the 'end of Annapolis'
The lack of any proposals on Jerusalem and Israel's stance on the West Bank strike a blow to the Bush administration's hope for a deal.
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MIDDLE EAST: In Lebanon, Jimmy Carter dishes on Obama's Israel policy
Arabs concerned that Hillary Clinton will tilt the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama strongly toward Israel need not worry, says Jimmy Carter. The future secretary of State's pro-Israel stance will be balanced out by Obama's national security adviser, Gen. Jim Jones, who Carter said will adopt a more nuanced view toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jones helped train Palestinian security forces, leading to one of the most successful recent experiments in Palestinian autonomy.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.
Former US President Carter meets Hamas leader
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with the exiled leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the second time this year. Sunday's meeting in Damascus is part of Carter's regional discussions on Middle East conflicts.
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Abbas: No peace agreement without all Palestinian territories
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that the Palestinians would not accept any peace agreement with Israel, which will not give back all the occupied Palestinian territories. Abbas told more than 200 freed Palestinian prisoners at al-Muqata'a, the headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) "I promise you that the refugee issue will remain as one of our priorities until their suffering ends."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Abbas planning to extend his own term
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to unilaterally extend his term in office by a year when it expires on January 9, PA officials in Ramallah said Sunday. The officials told The Jerusalem Post that Abbas has won the backing of the Arab League for his decision, noting that the Arab foreign ministers who met in Cairo recently had urged the PA president to remain in power until an agreement is reached with Hamas on holding new elections.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
Abbas to announce election date 'shortly'
AFP-Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will "shortly" announce a date for presidential and parliamentary elections, his spokesman said on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Hamas: We will declare Dr. Dwaik PA president on 9th January
Hamas renewed on Sunday its assertion that Dr. Aziz Dwaik, the speaker of the Palestine legislative council, would be declared president of the PA on 9th January. http://www.palestine-info.co.
Campaign seeks one million signatures calling for national unity
The self-proclaimed "largest ever" Palestinian national campaign to end the division between Hamas and Fatah will be formally launched during an event in the West Bank city Nabulus on Monday. The campaign, titled "Nablus Calls for Conciliation and Agreement," aims to gather one million signatures in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to pressure Fatah and Hamas into restoring unity among Palestinians. This is a serious move in a serious path to unify, put an end to the division and restore unity among all Palestinians, campaign organizers said.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Report: Egyptian FM criticizes Iran on Palestinian issue
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Sunday strongly criticized Iran on its practices to the Palestinian issue, saying Iran "does not want any good for the Palestinian people." Abul Gheit made the remarks prior to his departure to Europe for a visit to Prague on Sunday, the state MENA news agency reported. "Iranians want to impose and spread their own ideology in the region," Abul Gheit was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
West Bank activity must end for peace with Israel, says Palestinian leader Salam Fayyad
Settlement activity in the occupied West Bank must stop at once if there is to be any prospect of reaching a two-state peace agreement with Israel, the Palestinian prime minister has warned in a Guardian interview. Salam Fayyad said he found it "devastating" that Israelis were not even debating the settlement issue in their election campaign. He warned that Palestinian support for his policy of reform and negotiation would collapse if prospects for a workable deal faded away.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Abbas: Israel must free all 11,000 Palestinian prisoners
Israel on Monday released 227 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), which marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage. Of the prisoners, 209 were transferred from Ofer Prison, near Jerusalem, to the Beituniya checkpoint in the West Bank. The remaining 18 prisoners were to be transferred from Shikma Prison in the Negev, to the Erez checkpoint on the Israel-Gaza border.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Tony Klug: Wanted: an Israeli peace initiative
Tony Klug: The Arab countries have set out their principles for peace. Isn't it time that Israel did the same?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
While Livni promises Arab deportation, Obama offers "nuclear umbrella" to Tel Aviv-that's what friends are for!
"Once a Palestinian state is established"—Livni claimed—"among other things I will also be able to approach the Palestinian residents of Israel, those whom we call Arab Israelis, and tell them: 'your national aspirations lie elsewhere.'"
The US has refrained from commenting, and they have limited themselves to reconfirming their military alliance with Israel. President-elect Obama is willing to offer Tel Aviv a "nuclear umbrella" against a possible threat of Iranian atomic attacks, an authoritative American source quoted by Haaretz said.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
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Israeli poll favourite Binjamin Netanyahu reins in right
Binjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel's Likud party and favourite to win the coming general election, has moved quickly in an attempt to head off the sudden rise of hardline right-wingers in his movement. When the Likud held primary elections last week to choose its list of candidates for the February vote, among the successful candidates were men such as Moshe Feiglin, a settler who advocates annexation of the occupied West Bank and who was banned from entering Britain this year because of his extremist views.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Livni competes with Netanyahu in Racism
It is parliamentary (Zionist Knesset) election time, and with an ever increasing trend towards extreme right and racism by the vast majority of the Zionist colonialist population in occupied Palestine; thus the trend of the different Zionist political parties and their masses to express the deep and widespread racism and hate towards the about 20% of indigenous Palestinian Arabs still not ethnically cleansed from their occupied homeland. Livni and Netanyahu as well as the Labor party leader, Ehud Barak, the supposed-to-be Zionist left (who is day and night threatening to fully destroy Lebanon if its resistance dared to object to and challenge an attempted invasion of Lebanon), as well as the rest of the Zionist leaders, are competing in who can express their racism the most.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Tzipi's Nation-State
IT SOUNDS like an invented story. And indeed it is. In this tale, an American politician gets up and declares: The United States was founded by British Protestants who were persecuted in Europe for their Puritan beliefs. Therefore, the United States is an Anglo-Saxon Protestant state. And he goes on: the United States is also a democratic state. Therefore, people with another background – such as Native Americans, Africans, Latinos, Asians and Jews – enjoy full equality. But they must know that the United States is an Anglo-Saxon nation-state, while they belong to other nation-states.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_ file.asp?num=30518
Daoud Kuttab: Livni Wants to Keep Palestinian Citizens of Israel Forever A Minority
Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni raised many eyebrows when speaking to Israeli high school students this week. Her attempts to sound tough while advocating the two state solution backfired badly. Even her attempts to repair the damage continued to reveal the basic problem of racism that Zionists have when it comes to Palestinians whether under their occupation or Palestinian citizens of Israel. "My solution for maintaining a Jewish and democratic state of Israel is to have two nation-states with certain concessions and with clear red lines," she added.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Lieberman to Arabs: You're welcome to forgo Israeli citizenship
Yisrael Beiteinu officially launches election campaign; chairman says 'those who are inciting against us feel protected'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Enough already
Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't have expected a better result. The right-wing leader both used Moshe Feiglin to depict himself as a moderate statesman and erased him from the Likud ticket. This brilliant move paves Netanyahu's way to the center-the object of desire for every Israeli politician striving for power. The large bloc of seats in the center likes to see its prime minister in the White House and, if possible, the Elysee Palace, as well as maintaining contact with Cairo and Amman, and most important, constantly talking about peace and promising at least once a month to evacuate the outposts and freeze settlement construction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Seth Freedman: An audio documentary about life for Palestinians in the West Bank
Audio: Seth Freedman hears how Palestinians in the West Bank have been affected by Israel's security wall.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Arab rights body faces sponsors' ire
The association that exposed Israel's discriminatory policies ceases to receive funds, which many see as part of an effort to silence the country's critics.
http://www.thenational.ae/
Solidarity Delegation in Hebron
Israeli border police threatened the bus drivers of the activists with tickets and even annulment of their licenses if they were to enter Hebron (photo by Esti Tsal, 2008). On 14 December, eighty Israelis answered the call of the Mayor of Hebron, Khaled Osailey, and attempted to make their way to that martyr-city to express solidarity with the local population, victims of settler violence. Last week, a delegation(news/english/aic-
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Gulf News: Call to boycott Israeli jeweller
Dubai: Activists campaigning against Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev urged Dubai residents to boycott the jeweller during the screening of a documentary film on activist hip hop at the Dubai Film Festival on Friday.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
PDA: Israel must end Gaza blockade
Bill Fletcher Jr.-Progressive Democrats of America-When it comes to Israel's blockade of Gaza, the silence is deafening, at least outside of Palestine. One wonders how many international conventions the Israelis need to break before there is an actual global outcry and action against their repeated human rights abuses against Palestine. The blockade of Gaza is only the latest in a long list of such abuses, but the scale of the abuse is beyond dramatic.
http://www.blackcommentator.
Balad MK Taha announces resignation
Saying time has come to let others have their say, Balad's Wasil Taha advises current MKs 'you can contribute to society from outside the Knesset too'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hadash merges with anti-fence movement
Jewish-Arab party's chairman says union with grassroots 'Tarabut' movement, which gained reputation by battling separation fence, will help secure more Jewish votes.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
The one-state solution: succumbing to despair?
George Malent-Occupation Magazine-"One can understand the appeal of the OSS. At first glance it looks like an elegant solution to an intractable problem. The proposed OSS would not involve a futile Arab military struggle against the overwhelming military superiority of the State of Israel; rather, it would use the State of Israel's own military strength against it."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_ file.asp?num=30522
'Times' Whitewashes Israeli Role in Sabra and Shatilla Massacres
Jerry Slater, author of an important analysis of New York Times vs. Haaretz in coverage of Israel/Palestine, writes: Another in the chronicle of New York Times whitewashes of Israel. In today's Times, Ethan Bronner reviews Waltz With Bashir, an Israeli documentary about the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. Bronner says the massacre of hundreds or thousands of Palestinian civilians by Israel's primary Lebanese ally, the Phalangists, was "inadvertently" facilitated by the Israeli Army. He later quotes Israeli soldiers saying "they had no idea the killing was taking place, although many have argued that they should have suspected as much."
http://www.philipweiss.org/
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Umm al-Fahm Mayor: Rightists will never march even a meter through our city
The mayor of Umm al-Fahm said on Sunday that even if rightist demonstrators march through his city at a later date as planned, residents will turn out in force to prevent it. The march, scheduled for today, was postponed on Sunday until further notice amid police fears it could result in life-threatening violence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Iranian Jew and Palestinian Muslim go to 'summer camp' in West Bank
The patio greeted us with a coolness and calm that seemed anything but natural in Deheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem in the West Bank, where the sheer density of people has eroded any notion of private space. Above us, grape vines curled around the rafters of an unfinished ceiling. It's strange that since 1948, the visual reminder of a refugee's transience seems to have evolved from temporary tents to constant construction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Palestinian tale braves hard times
DUBAI //The struggles of ordinary Palestinians were brought to the screen yesterday at the Dubai International Film Festival, with the world premiere of Al Mor Wa al Rumman (Pomegranates and Myrrh). Ahead of the screening at the Madinat Jumierah last night, Najwa Najjar, who wrote and directed the film, said she wanted to highlight the real life of Palestinians.
http://www.thenational.ae/
I am ashamed
I always tried to integrate public activity into my personal life. I felt a special obligation to do so, as someone who had the good fortune to grow up here and to take part in the magnificent Zionist enterprise of establishing the Jewish state. I eschewed the political and media tracks: I do not denigrate their importance and centrality, but I decided they were not appropriate for me. Instead, I chose to join the justice system, as I believe it makes a vital contribution to shaping the face of a democratic country, and to be active on behalf of the Jewish people, whose future is intertwined with the future of the State of Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
VIEWPOINT: Israel's merry band of Klansmen, the extreme right
Ben-Gvir claimed a liberal, anti-right wing double-standard was at play. How else can one explain the decision to allow a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, or to allow far-left activists to hold protest marches in Hebron, while Israeli patriots such as he were barred from marching through Israel's largest Arab city?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Drama about 2002 Israeli invasion of Jenin wins US Emmy award
A drama series based on the story of Mustafa, a Palestinian freedom fighter stalked by Israeli forces, who falls in love with an young Israeli woman in Jenin during the 2002 Israeli invasion won an Emmy last month in New York. The Jordanian-produced drama is the first Arab-production to win an Emmy in the international category. The series, aired in 2007, was written and produced by a Jordanian, Syrian and Palestinian team and shot on location in Syria.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
'There is no moderate Islam,' says far-right Dutch legislator Geert Wilders
An international conference on jihad that took place in Jerusalem on Sunday highlighted what hawkish scholars on Islam described as "real disputes" about the nature of the problem. The event also inspired the controversial Dutch legislator Geert Wilders to plan a European follow-up in the coming months.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Wilders slams Islam at J'lem conference
Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders screened his controversial film Fitna in Jerusalem on Sunday, calling on Europe to restrict immigration "from backward Islamic countries" and describing Islam as a totalitarian ideology "full of hate, violence and submission."
Footage from 'Fitna.' "Europe is in the process of 'Islamization.' We need to fight it," Wilders said. "We have to win the war against Islam. If we don't… we will lose our cultural identity, our rule of law, our liberties and our freedom."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
'Smarter bombs' will allow Israel to hit Lebanon with impunity
BEIRUT: Israel is set to buy a "smart-bomb" system that will allow its pilots to strike Lebanese cities without leaving Israeli airspace, defense industry insiders from the Jewish state have said. Military acquisition chiefs in Israel are considering buying a bolt-on-kit that converts ordinary bombs into satellite-guided "smart" weapons which can be launched up to 80 kilometers away from their target.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Video: Iraqi Throws Shoes At Bush Press Conference (VIDEO)
Bush had just finished his prepared remarks in which he said the security agreement was made possible by the U.S. surge of troops earlier this year, when the journalist, Muthathar al Zaidi pulled his shoes off and hurled them at the president. "This is a goodbye kiss, you dog, this is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!" " Zaidi shouted.
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Cartoon: Bush's farewell visit to Iraq
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Journalist hurls shoes at 'dog' Bush during surprise Iraq visit
US President George W. Bush was met with an unorthodox reception during a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday, with an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at the lame-duck leader and calling him a "dog" at a joint news conference with the Iraqi premier. As the two politicians met and shook hands in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's private office.
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Shoe attack mars Bush's Iraq visit
George Bush, the US president, has had a pair of shoes hurled at him at a press conference during his last surprise visit to Iraq before leaving office in January. An Iraqi reporter called Bush "a dog" and shouted out "this is the end" at Sunday's news conference in Baghdad, before hurling his shoes at the US leader.
http://english.aljazeera.net//
Shoes and insults hurled at Bush on Iraq visit
George Bush's engagement with Iraq appeared to end as it began-in chaos and anger-yesterday when a surprise trip to Baghdad to thank his troops and herald a new security pact was disrupted by an Iraqi man calling the US president a "dog" in Arabic and throwing his shoes at him. The Bush trip, which will also take in Afghanistan where he arrived this morning, was conducted amid deep secrecy. It was intended to round off on a high note the policy that has most defined his presidency.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Jacob Heilbrunn: Bush's Solecisms in Iraq
Not since Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev took off his shoe and pounded it at the United Nations has anyone had the effect that an Iraqi journalist did when he hurled both his shoes, one after the other, at President Bush during his new conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. While Bush talked about the great progress America is making in Iraq, his assailant was having none of it. Nor should anyone else. The flying shoes shouldn't distract attention from Bush's continued delusions about the conflict in Iraq and elsewhere.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Jamal Dajani: Bush: Not a Shoe-in in Iraq
I don't like to say "I told you so", President Bush, but three weeks ago I blogged about how thousands of Iraqis gathered in Ferdous Square, where Saddam Hussein's statue one stood and pelted your effigy with thousands of shoes, then set it afire. This is what I wrote then: "The president must have missed the sight of tens of thousands of Iraqis who on Friday gathered in Firdous Square where Saddam Hussein's statue once stood and chanted, "No, no, no to the occupiers!" He must have missed them dragging and pummeling his effigy with their shoes--a gesture of contempt in the Arab world--then jumping hysterically on it as they stamped out flames that had erupted after someone set it afire. "
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Matt Stewart: Detached in a Shoestorm: Bush's Farewell Faceoff
Reagan forgot to duck. Bush didn't. It's unforgettable television that, upon reflection, appears to sum up the man and his presidency.
Watch the video. From behind we see the Shoe Thrower lurch up, ragged and uncouth, doing his best to reinforce all negative stereotypes of angry Muslim fundamentalists. He yells, "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!" and unleashes the shoe, hard, straight at Bush's head. The shoe moves fast, with good rotation, perfect for a bloody nose. And, without batting an eye, Bush ducks a foot and a half. What was about to nail him on the schnoz sails harmlessly into the backdrop.
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Khaled Diab: Shock and awe on a shoestring in Iraq
Iraqi journalist expressed his contempt for President Bush in a manner familiar in the Arab world: by throwing his shoes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
"Where Is Muntadar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi Reporter Who Threw His Shoes at Bush?"
Associated Press moreover reports ("BUSH NOTEBOOK: Bush Ducks Shoes in Baghdad," 14 December 2008) that Muntadar al-Zeidi has not been heard from since then and Al Baghdadiya is concerned that his life may be in danger.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/iraq151208.html
Demonstrators in Sadr City urge journalist's release
BAGHDAD /Aswat al-Iraq: Residents of Baghdad's eastern Sadr City on Monday took to the streets calling for the release of Muntadher al-Zaydi, a correspondent for al-Boghdadiya satellite channel who threw a pair of shoes at U.S. President George Bush during a joint press conference with the Iraqi premier. The demonstrators headed towards the [...]
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Video: Support in Baghdad for Bush shoes protest
Al-Baghdadiya TV channel issues a statement calling for the immediate release of its employee, detained for throwing shoes at President George Bush, while Baghdad residents also voice support.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Angry Arabs
The journalist who threw his shoes at Bush is Muntadhir al-Zeidi and he works for Baghdadiya TV. Translational Broadcasting Studies describes this is as a "moderate Sunni channel", and a glance at their current front page will show you that there isn't anything particularly sectarian about them. For instance today their story on the reponse to Odierno's latest statement (US forces to remain in Iraqi cities past June 2009) features a Sadrist spokesman.
http://arablinks.blogspot.com/
A New Arab Hero Emerges
The highlight of my day, by far, and maybe even year. President George Bush's surprise trip to Iraq had one eventful happening, the perfect act of Arab dissent against the Bush administration. During his press conference with Al-Maliki, an Iraqi journalist--Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadiya television--got up, yelled "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," and threw his shoe at Bush. I sound like I am making this up, but I'm not. It's on video. And its truly lovely.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Arabs Across Middle East Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist As Hero
BAGHDAD — Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the unpopular U.S. president.
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U.S. soldiers' behavior forced Muntadher to throw his shoes at Bush-al-Zaydi's family
The family of Muntadher al-Zaydi said on Monday that the U.S. soldiers' behavior forced him to throw his shoes at U.S. President George Bush, demanding to free him immediately. "The family does not know anything about where is he being held until now or his fate and we are trying [...]
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Bush shoe protest journalist al-Zeidi interrogated
An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes, and insults, at George Bush during the US president's surprise visit to Iraq is being questioned over whether anybody paid him for the protest as footage of the incident plays continually on the internet and rolling news channels. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iraq to demand the release of Muntadar al-Zeidi, who is being held at the headquarters of the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Bush, Maliki sign SOFA
BAGHDAD /Aswat al-Iraq: U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have officially signed the troop withdrawal agreement, alongside a document confirming the dates set for the pull-out, a source close to the Iraqi government said. "The Iraqi premier and the U.S. president initialed the agreement that paves the way for U.S. [...]
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Radical Shiites blast US decision
US plans to keep support troops in Iraqi cities beyond a June 2009 pullback target date were seized on by radical Shiites on Sunday as proof of Washington's intention to cheat on a landmark security deal with Baghdad.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Sadrists see 'proof' that US won't honor pullout pact
US plans to keep support troops in Iraqi cities beyond a June 2009 pullback target date were cited by a Shiite party on Sunday as proof of Washington's intention to cheat on a landmark security deal with Baghdad. The top US commander in Iraq, General Raymond Odierno, said on Saturday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Yazidis targeted in Iraq attack
Seven members of the Yazidi minority religious sect in Iraq have been killed in an attack on their home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-
US: Iraq Detainee Dies In US Custody
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says a detainee has died of an apparent heart attack while in custody at a U.S. detention facility in Baghdad. Monday's statement says the 25-year-old man was pronounced dead by doctors at a combat hospital after losing consciousness at Camp Cropper.
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For some Mahdi Army fighters in Iraq the pen is mightier
AFP-Ali Dayer fought American soldiers for years. But now he has swapped his Kalashnikov assault rifle for a pen after radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr decided to restructure his Mahdi Army militia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Maliki takes revenge over new mandate
British forces in Iraq are facing a humiliating end to their six-year mission in the country as the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, takes his revenge for what he regards as the British surrender of Basra to hardline Shia Muslim militias.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Iraq reconstruction 'a failure'
The US-led coalition's $100bn effort to rebuild Iraq has failed amid bureaucratic quarrels, ignorance of Iraqi society and violence in the country, the New York Times has quoted a US government report as saying.
http://english.aljazeera.net//
Iraqi Victims Talk to U.S. Prosecutors
American prosecutors met with victims' families and survivors of the September 2007 shootings of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater guards.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
Iraqi justice system falls short: report
Reuters-Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Teachers too scared to fail students
School staff in some of Baghdad's schools are forced to give top grades to underachievers or face the wrath of their influential parents.
http://www.thenational.ae/
PHOTOS: The Hajj and Eid al-Adha
Yesterday marked the end of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice"-which also marks the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by any Muslim who has the ability to do so. This year, nearly 3 million Muslims made the Hajj, without major incident, and are now returning to their homes across the world. Muslims who stayed closer to home celebrated Eid al-Adha, commemorating the the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God. Traditional practices include ritual prayers, the sacrifice of animals (usually sheep), distribution of the meat amongst family, friends and the poor, and visiting with relatives. (41 photos total)
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