Chased from eastern part of city, she pitches her tent in upscale area where Arabs once lived.
http://www.thestar.com/News/
'JNF using trees to thwart Bedouin growth in Negev'
The Jewish National Fund is planting increasing numbers of trees in the northern Negev. The organization says it is doing essential work to prevent desertification and to assist in the rehabilitation of the ecosystem, and even presented the work proudly at a workshop on desertification held in Israel last week for experts from around the world. However, environmental protection specialists contend that the forestation causes serious and irreparable damage to nature and the landscape. Critics suggest that one goal of the planting, rather than being environmental, is actually to prevent illegal Bedouin construction or grazing.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Settler stone throwers cause Palestinian car to skid off road; two injured
Two Palestinians were injured Saturday evening when their car skidded off the road after being showered with stones by settlers. The work colleagues were on their way to Nablus, heading home after working for the day in Ramallah. Palestinian medical sources identified the two as 23-year-old Atef Ibrahim Muhammad Rashid and 29-year-old Samah Husam Baslat. The man and woman were moved to hospital in Nablus, where their conditions are described as moderate.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Settlers storm mosque and attack Imam on Muslim holy day
Dozens of settlers stormed Duma Mosque, opening fire on the building and attacked the Imam early Monday morning in the south of Nabulus. More than twenty cars loaded with settlers from the nearby Migdalim settlement barged into the village at 4:30am, broke into the mosque and attacked Imam Mohamed Hassan Dawabsheh who was trying to stop them. Israeli forces intervened more than an hour and a half after the settlers entered the mosque. No one was injured during the incident, which lasted more than two hours and took place on the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Witnesses: Israeli police, soldiers "deeply involved" in settler attacks following Hebron house evacuation
"They were deeply involved. It was obvious." This is how Jamal Abu Sa'ifan described the role in the Israeli police and military forces during the settler riots in the aftermath of the evacuation of settlers from the "House of Contention" last Thursday. Abu Sa'ifan filmed the now-famous footage of an Israeli settler shooting two of his relatives during the riots. His account of Thursday's violence suggests that not only did Israeli forces fail to prevent the settlers' violent and apparently ethnically-motivated attack on the local population, but in fact facilitated these attacks.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Hebron: Security forces stand by as settlers riot
Despite the likelihood that settlers would take revenge following the eviction of the new settlement in Hebron last week, security forces did not prepare to protect Palestinian residents of in the city.
http://www.btselem.org/
Slideshow: Jewish Terrorists in Hebron
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Defense official: Settler attacks could worsen tensions with Muslim world
Recent confrontations between hard-line West Bank settlers and Palestinians, surrounding the evacuation of Hebron's so-called House of Contention, are likely to entangle Israel in a religious confrontation with Muslim communities the world over, a senior security source told Haaretz this weekend. The violence included the desecration of Muslim cemeteries in Hebron and anti-Muslim graffiti on mosque walls in the city, as well as around Qalqilya and Ramallah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
A Report on the 4 December Settler Attacks on Palestinians in Hebron
Palestinians passing by tires set on fire by settlers in Hebron, protesting their forced removal from a Palestinian home on 4 December. On Thursday, 4 December, in the early evening, hundreds of Israeli settlers from settlements in the Hebron region attacked Palestinian residents of the city of Hebron. The settlers, mostly armed young men from Kiryat Arba, split into smaller groups and set fire to five homes and nine cars. They also damaged nine other vehicles, including the city's ambulances and a fire truck that was dispatched to put out fires started by the settlers.
http://www.alternativenews.
Palestinian Police Force in Hebron: Shame
Palestinian security forces arresting a student who supports Hamas during a protest rally near Hebron University in September of 2007 On Saturday, 6 December, a delegation of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) traveled to Hebron to meet with the local Palestinian leadership, in order to coordinate further actions against settler violence in the city.
http://www.alternativenews.
Sneh to Barak: Jail Daniella Weiss
Former Labor MK Efraim Sneh on Sunday laid the blame for a portion of the unrest in Hebron last week on the head of right-wing activists, particularly former Kedumim mayor Daniella Weiss. In a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, he demanded that Weiss be placed in jail. Weiss was arrested in the aftermath of last Thursday's evacuation of the disputed four-story Hebron building known as Beit Hashalom. She was later released, although she was banned from reentering Judea.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
AIC Initiates Israeli Solidarity Delegation to Hebron, Meets with Mayor, Governor and Political
On 6 December, following the increase in settler violence, Israeli anti-occupation activists traveled to Hebron for a solidarity visit. As part of their visit, they met with the Mayor of Hebron, Khaled Osaily. Following the recent spike in settler violence in Hebron, which culminated in riots, the Alternative Information Center (AIC) initiated a solidarity visit to Hebron of Israeli anti-occupation activists this Saturday (6 December).
http://www.alternativenews.
Reham Alhelsi-Despite all odds, Palestinians carry on with living in the Heart of Hebron
Hebron, or Al-Khalil, lies 30 km south of Jerusalem and is the second largest Palestinian city with a population of 163,000 Palestinians. Hebron is one of the commercial centres of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and several industries emerged in Hebron and continue to find their home there. Like the rest of Palestine, the cancer of illegal settlements has set its lethal teeth in Hebron. This city is not only surrounded by settlements like other Palestinian cities and towns, but has settlement points in its heart. In 1968 a group of Israelis rented a hotel room in Hebron for 48 hours, after which they refused to leave, and 6 months later the establishment of a Jewish neighbourhood in Hebron was approved by the Zionist state, to be followed in 19070 by another approval to establish the illegal settlement Kiryat Arba. In 1980 the Israeli government decided to add a floor to the Beit Hadassah point, to be used as a school, the corner stone for a settlement in the heart of the old city of Hebron. 4 years later, a Jewish settlement point was established in Tel Rumeida.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
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Pal. Resistance Retaliates for Al-Khalil Violence
An armed group linked to the Fatah movement of Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said it fired a volley of rockets at occupied territory from Gaza in protest at a West Bank rampage by Israeli settlers. The Al-Buraq group said in a statement released in Gaza City on Saturday that it fired the three rockets on Friday to avenge the "barbaric actions" of the settlers in the flashpoint city of Al-Khalil. On Thursday, a mob of Jewish extremists shot and wounded three Palestinians in the city, hurled rocks at others and torched homes, fields and cars.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Israel threatens 'no restraint' if Hamas keeps retaliating
Israel threatened tougher action against rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the territory's sole power plant again shut down in the face of a crippling blockade. Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he has told security chiefs to draw up contingency plans for military action against militant groups in Gaza.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
IDF warns Ashdod it could soon be in range of Gaza rocket fire
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday advised Ashdod residents to begin preparing themselves for the possibility that their northern Negev city could soon be susceptible to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported. Ashdod, situated just north of the Negev city of Ashkelon, is not considered to be within the current range of Gaza militants' fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Gaza Fishermen Play Cat and Mouse with Israeli Navy
Israeli naval commandos recently hauled off three international peace activists off Palestinian fishing boats seven nautical miles off Gaza's coast. They were accompanying 15 Palestinian fishermen attempting to complete a day's fishing without being shot at or arrested by the Israeli navy.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.
Gaza electric company says totally dependent on Israel
The ongoing electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip remains dependent on fuel supplies from Israel, says Jamal Badrasawi, director of public relations at Gaza's sole electricity company. He told Ma'an, "Industrial diesel delivered by Israel on Thursday will suffice for a few days until a new shipment is delivered."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli defence officials reimpose ban on media entering Gaza Strip
Israeli defence officials have reinstated a ban on international journalists entering the Gaza Strip, despite protests from the heads of major news organizations and an appeal to the country's Supreme Court. The ban was originally imposed in early November, then lifted last Thursday after weeks of complaints by the international media.
http://www.google.com/
Fayyad asks Barak to allow cash into Gaza
Palestinian caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad met Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday afternoon, Israeli radio reported. Fayyad asked Barak to allow Israeli banks to transfer cash to Gaza, where a shortage of banknotes has forced banks to shut down. According to the report, the meeting also addressed the easing of Israeli access restrictions for the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
UNRWA: Our stores will be empty within two days
UNRWA announced that its stores in the Gaza Strip would run out of stock within two days if the Israeli occupation authority refused to allow passage of relief material into the Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Hamas: Opening Rafah practical response to IOA obstruction of relief ships
The Hamas Movement on Saturday denounced the Israeli occupation authority's obstruction of ships carrying relief material to the Gaza Strip especially the Libyan and Qatari ones.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Thousands march in Paris against Gaza siege
Thousands hits the streets of the French capital on Saturday evening to protest the Israeli siege on Gaza and to demand its immediate end.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Free Gaza Ship to Break Through Israeli Blockade for the Fourth Time
The Free Gaza Movement announced today that it would send a delegation from Cyprus to Gaza aboard their blockade-busting ship, the Dignity, at 11pm, Monday, December 8. The Free Gaza Movement has successfully challenged the siege on three previous occasions this year, landing missions in Gaza in August, October, and November. Free Gaza ships are the first to dock in GazaPort in over 41 years.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
European Politicians Sail to Gaza but Not Via Egypt
Eleven European politicians set sail to Gaza from Cyprus on Friday after saying attempts to get to the Palestinian territory via Egypt failed. Members of parliament from Britain, Ireland, Switzerland and Italy left the Mediterranean island on a boat arranged by a pro-Palestinian group. "We were going to witness the living conditions in Gaza. We were not allowed through the Rafah crossing so we are going by boat because it is the only way to get in," said British MP Clare Short.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Radical Palestinian calls for breaking Gaza siege
DAMASCUS, Syria — The leader of a Syria-based Palestinian militant group has called on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to break an Israeli blockade by storming the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/
Report: Hamas cooperating with Muslim Brothers
London-based al-Hayat quotes Cairo source as saying Palestinian organization, Egyptian opposition movement holding talks in bid to organize worldwide protests against Gaza blockade.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
After Israel objects, Qatar gives up plan for Gaza aid shipment
In recent days, Israel prodded Qatar, a pro-Western Persian Gulf nation, into calling off a delegation that was preparing to transport aid from Cyprus to Gaza, according to officials who were briefed on what they said were high-level talks... Hours before a Qatar aid group was scheduled to board a boat Thursday with $2 million in cancer medication, they abruptly pulled out of the trip.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
Israeli government denies Qatari request to allow its ship into Gaza port
On Sunday, the Israeli government denied an official request from Qatar to allow their aid ship to dock in the Gaza port. Yet Israel said that it would consider the possibility to allow the ship to dock in Ashkelon port and to carry the aid by land to Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Hamas Slams Israel for Preventing Aid Ships to Gaza
Islamic Hamas movement spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri slammed on Sunday Israel for preventing an Israeli ship, loaded with food products and medicines, from arriving in Gaza. "Preventing the ships of aids from arriving to Gaza shows that the occupation authorities insist to keep Gaza under siege and isolate it from the rest of the world," said Abu Zuhri in a written statement sent to reporters. Abu Zuhri called on Arab countries to do their best to end the Israeli tight blockade by pressuring on Egypt to open Rafah crossing on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Hardships intensify in Gaza
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No salaries before Eid: Gaza banks fold as treasuries run dry
The 1,000 Israeli shekels promised to Gaza Strip government workers will not be paid out by some banks before the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Adha, according to bank employees who were told not to go to work on Saturday. Several bankers told Ma'an that they received phone calls on Friday evening from bank managers telling them not to head to work on Saturday morning as there is no cash left in banks' treasuries to distribute.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
In Gaza, No Cash for Holiday
Every year, Ali Hussein, 35, looks forward to Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, which begins Monday. He works for the police force and earns a good salary by Gazan standards, about $800 a month. Along with some friends, he buys a sheep every year, slaughters it and donates the meat to the poor. He buys new clothes and special sweets for his four young sons, and he gives his mother, sisters, nephews and nieces gifts of cash.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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Little joy in Gaza on Eid
Eid Al Adha will bring little cheer for most of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip languishing without food, money or electricity and bracing for fresh Israeli raids.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Curbs make Gaza fete like turkey-less Thanksgiving
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Salah Afana's cattle business usually booms with the approach of the Muslim feast of the sacrifice. But this year he's hit a snag: He's out of cows. Afana, Gaza's largest cattle trader, has been unable to import cows since Israel shut the strip's borders last month in response to Palestinian rocket fire. He has since sold all his stock — less than half of what he sold last year — and is turning customers away. The Gaza-wide shortage of cows and sheep for slaughter is one of many disappointments Gazans face before Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar. For them it's tantamount to Thanksgiving without turkey. The four-day holiday beginning Monday is supposed to be one of the year's most joyful, but nothing is as it should be, Gazans say. An Israeli blockade on the ruling Hamas government has caused shortages of basic goods, and Palestinian political squabbling has kept thousands of would-be pilgrims from traveling to Mecca.
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Sad holiday in Gaza Strip
As Muslim world marks Festival of Sacrifice with lavish festivitis, Gazans try and celebrate despite difficult financial situation.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Political and economic troubles mean quiet Eid for Jerusalem
A subdued feeling prevailed on the normally bustling streets of Jerusalem, the putative Palestinian capital, as the city marked its forty-first Eid Al-Adha under Israeli occupation on Monday. The holiday is a celebration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son before God, traditionally marked by slaughtering of sheep and goats. Most Palestinians, like Muslims everywhere, exchange gifts and spend time with family during the feast. In addition to an economic crisis and a homeland bitterly divided among political factions, some Palestinian Jerusalemites voiced concern that decades on, the persistence of the occupation spoils what should be a festive mood.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
One Eid Al-Adha in Palestine
It is the custom of Palestinians to wake up at dawn on Eid Al-Adha, dress in their best often new clothes, and head to the mosque to perform the Eid prayer. In Duma, south of Nablus, the Mosque's Imam was awoken at 4:30am by settlers from the nearby Migdalim colony who shot at the building and physically attacked the religious leader. In Hebron, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Dr Mustafa Barghouthi performed the Eid prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in an act of solidarity with the city's civilians, targeted by settlers in a week of attacks.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel postpones release of Palestinian prisoners
Israel has decided to delay the release of 230 Palestinian prisoners until Dec. 15, a week later than planned, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Monday. Saeb Erekat, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the delay stemmed from legal issues on the Israeli side.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Officials: Abbas wants to keep prisoners in jail until his return from hajj
Israeli officials on Monday said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had requested that they delay the release of 230 Palestinian prisoners until he returns from a Muslim pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The officials, who acceded to Abbas' request, said the Palestinian leader wanted to be back in the West Bank to greet the freed prisoners.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Haaretz: Israel Deterrence against Hamas Is Weakening
Israeli daily Haaretz published in its edition Monday an analysis concerning the Israeli deterrence against the Islamic resistance Hamas Movement. The report said that there are three numbers at the heart of Israel's decision-making process over the Gaza Strip: 20, 40 and 70. Twenty-plus kilometers is the maximum range of Hamas' rockets in the Strip (which can hit Sderot, Ashkelon, Netivot and Kiryat Gat); 40 kilometers is the range they will be able to reach in the coming months, if missile production is not halted (Ofakim, Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod, Be'er Sheva and Yavneh will be at risk of attack); 70 kilometers is the range the Palestinians are striving to reach. At that point, occupied Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Dan Region would be within range of Palestinian rockets.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Tense Egypt-Hamas Relations Take a Turn for the Worse
Already tense relations between Egypt and Hamas have soured after Cairo for the first time openly accused the Islamists of torpedoing Palestinian reconciliation talks. Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying on Thursday that months of Egyptian-mediated talks between rivals Hamas and Fateh failed in November because of "Hamas' lack of enthusiasm towards reconciliation".
http://www.miftah.org/Display.
(Abbas Lies) : Abbas: Israel never prevented Palestinians from making Hajj like Hamas is
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas of preventing thousands of Palestinians from making the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Israel Radio reported in Saturday night., Abbas told reporters in Mecca that Israel had never once prevented Palestinians from making the holy visit., Palestinians wishing to travel to Saudi Arabia through Egypt were not given permits and both Fatah and Hamas were blaming each other for the incident.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
Barak tells Fayyad Israel would allow deploying P.A forces in Bethlehem during Christmas
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, met on Sunday at night with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, and informed him that Israel agreed on the deployment of Palestinian Security Forces in the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem especially during Christmas Celebrations.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Rights watchdog: After U.S., Israel is least egalitarian country in West
The past year has seen a dramatic rise in the number of violent attacks perpetrated by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the territories. Yet, only 8 percent of the police investigations of settler violence result in indictments. This finding is contained in a new report, published yesterday by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), to mark the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The report states that in most instances of innocent civilian bystanders being killed in the territories, no investigation is opened. Also, only a small number of the cases that are investigated result in an indictment.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
UN recieves low score on Palestine
UNITED NATIONS (IPS)-People in seven majority Muslim countries favor a more active United Nations with broader powers, while simultaneously viewing the world body as dominated by the US and failing to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global network of research centers. The survey was conducted in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, Indonesia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Azerbaijan. Nigeria, which has a 50 percent Muslim population, was also polled.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Next EU presidency keen to boost Israel ties, despite some member doubts
The Czech Republic said Monday it would push its partners in the European Union to strengthen the bloc's relations with Israel once it assumes the EU presidency in January.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israel and Morocco quietly discussing Livni visit to Rabat
Israel and Morocco are quietly discussing having Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visit the North African kingdom in the coming weeks, senior Jerusalem sources said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Obama Could End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
As Barack Obama enters the oval office he will face a series of daunting challenges. One of these is confronting the age old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been seriously, yet unsuccessfully, tackled by every American president since Jimmy Carter. The inability to reach a peaceful solution has not only had fatal repercussions for the people residing in Israel and the Occupied Territories, but has also been detrimental to Middle East stability and to vital US interests in the region.
http://www.counterpunch.com/
Obama spells end of blank cheques for Israel
AFP-Israel can no longer expect "blank cheques" from Washington once president-elect Barack Obama's administration takes over in January, a former US ambassador to the Jewish state said on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Israel risks hurting U.S. ties by pushing for Iran strike, says ex-Carter aide
Israel will do harm to its relations with the United States if it insists on lobbying Washington for an American military strike on Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, said in an interview with Haaretz over the weekend.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
TA elementary school: No Arabs allowed
Parents at Hatikva neighborhood's Hagalil School outraged by decision to integrate Arab students in classes, say their concerns are for school's academic level, not racially motivated.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Shin Bet vetoed Arab Israeli's job as mosque imam
Israel's secret police blocked a Muslim Arab citizen from being appointed to a publicly funded job, in its latest attempt to assert authority over public political debate in Israel, a case in Tel Aviv's labour court has revealed. The case emerged when the state rejected Sheikh Ahmed Abu Awaja's application to serve as the imam at a mosque in Jaffa, a neighbourhood south of Tel Aviv. He appealed to Tel Aviv's labour court after he was told that he did not get the job even though he was the only candidate to meet the requirements. The court is due to deliver its decision today.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israeli soldier allegedly assaults Haaretz photographer in Hebron
An Israeli photographer on assignment for Haaretz was assaulted by an Israel Defense Forces soldier in Hebron on Saturday. The photographer, Tess Scheflan, suffered light head injuries and was taken by an ambulance to hospital. The IDF issued a response later Saturday, apologizing for the assault and emphasizing its stance that the soldier acted inappropriately, even if it emerges that he struck her after being attacked.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
This election's real meaning
It happened four weeks before the heroic evacuation of the House of Contention in Hebron. In the middle of the night, police officers entered a small apartment in the Shimon Hatzadik compound in the Sheikh Jarra neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The police officers easily overwhelmed a handful of human-rights activists and evicted the al-Kurd family, which had lived there for 52 years. The media barely covered the incident. An article about Jews evacuating Arabs has long since become as uninteresting as a "dog bites man" story. Even the death of Abu Kamal al-Kurd, a disabled man in a wheelchair living in a tent next to the house-before the tent was destroyed by the municipality-generated no interest. The family and a Palestinian paramedic on the scene said al-Kurd had a heart attack during the evacuation, but was never treated for it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israel's "Auschwitz borders" revisited
In 1969, Israel's legendary diplomat Abba Eban warned that withdrawal from the territories his country occupied in June 1967 would be a return to "Auschwitz borders." Since then some Israeli politicians have used these provocative words to attack almost anyone who defies them. In 1992, for instance, the George H. W. Bush administration briefly suspended US loan guarantees to Israel to protest settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A symbolic sanction that cost Israel little, it was nevertheless unprecedented for the US to condition aid on Israeli behavior. Israel's then Deputy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the move as an American effort to force Israel back within the "Auschwitz borders." He later attacked then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for signing the 1993 Oslo Accords which, he alleged, would also take Israel "back to Auschwitz." Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli Jew brought up on such rhetoric. Netanyahu served as prime minister from 1996-1999 and may do so again following elections next February.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Tulkarem man receives permit to visit wife, newborn son after issuing appeal through Maan
'Sa'ed Khaled Badran, a resident of northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, allowing him to visit his newborn son, Khaled, and his wife at the Al-Maqassed hospital in Jerusalem. The permit will allow Badran to enter Jerusalem between 5am until 7pm every day until 13 December. In November, Ma'an published a story Badran's plight. His wife gave birth prematurely to their son. Badran had appealed to Hussein Ash-Sheikh, the chief of Civil Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, seeking a permit. Palestinian residents of the West Bank are barred from entering Jerusalem, their capital, without special permits issued by Israel. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Holy Land faces uncertain New Year
AFP-The Holy Land enters the New Year amid renewed political uncertainty with snap elections looming in Israel and a deepening chasm dividing the Palestinian territories.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Protesters Crash Diamond Billionaire's Party
On Thursday night, diamond billionaire Lev Leviev, a gaggle of socialites, and members of (quasi) elite social networking group A Small World gathered at Leviev's Madison Avenue boutique to, as organizers put it, "Buck the Recession with Champagne & Diamonds." Inside the store, sparkling wine and jewelry may have been the focus, but outside, a small but vocal group of protesters drew attention to Leviev's human-rights abuses. Chanting "Stop the Human Rights Abuse," members of Middle-Eastern justice group Adalah-NY tried to raise awareness of the violent behavior by Angolan authorities towards diamond miners that Leviev reportedly condones and his building of Jewish settlements in Palestine, which Adalah-NY opposes. Even though there were only a handful of protesters (we counted five but a post-event press release from Adalah-NY said there were 10 in attendance), they may still have made an impact. "I think people should know that when they associate with people who abuse human rights, that people are watching," said Adalah-NY's Alexis Stern. "You can't just associate with human-rights abusers and have it go unnoticed."
Indeed, most of the coverage of the event has focused on the protest. While Stern said that no one turned away because of the protest, she said only 10 people went into the party during its first 45 minutes and that of that small group, a few did take the flyers Adalah-NY was distributing.[end]
http://businesssheet.
Anarchists Against the Wall awarded German human rights prize
A group that demonstrates every week against the fence separating Israel from the West Bank was handed a German human rights prize Sunday in Berlin.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Our reputation – our fault
Israelis' violent, vulgar behavior abroad is root of growing hatred towards us that has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hebron, Feiglin, and the self-hating Jews of the right
You know them. These people who blatantly, instinctively, inveterately trash Israel. These people who miss no opportunity to brand IDF soldiers as Nazis. Who accuse the Shin Bet of human rights violations and defense officials of collective punishment. People who will tell everyone, anyone who will listen-Western journalists in particular-that the government of Israel is committing war crimes.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Billionaire, politician and Priest launch campaign for Palestinian unity
A billionaire, a charismatic former Fatah lawmaker, and a priest launched on Monday a new initiative to bring together the bitter Palestinian rival factions, Hamas and Fatah. Among the key figures in the campaign are three men from the northern West Bank city of Nablus: billionaire Palestinian businessman Munib Al-Masri, Melkite Priest Yousef Sa'adeh, and Fatah lawmaker Husam Khader.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Coming Soon: The Palestine Monitor 2009 Factbook
The Palestine Monitor is proud to announce the impending release of the 2009 Factbook: A Reference Guide for Negotiators, Researchers and Civil Society Leaders Concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Factbook is being released in hardcopy, and in sections online, to coincide with the one year anniversary of the Annapolis Peace Process launched in November of 2007. The topics discussed within are the economy, the plight of Palestinian children, refugees, prisoners and torture, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, Settlements, Checkpoints and Movement Restrictions, the Wall, Water and Non Violence.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
The Historical Meaning of the Palestinian Flag
Political Zionism-the quest to establish and hold a Jewish-majority state within historic Palestine-has largely been predicated on the belief that Palestinians should not have the right to live on their ancestral lands. In 1948, Israel's founders carried this philosophy to its logical conclusion and used military force to drive more than 700,000 Palestinians out of their homes in a carefully planned campaign of ethnic cleansing. In 1967, Israel conquered and occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and then proceeded to build hundreds of colonies in violation of international law while abusing the human rights of the indigenous Palestinian population.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Freedom Fighters
The word "Freedom" is scribbled on the light-blue door of Jameel Aldweek's classroom in the New Kufar Aqab Girls School on the outskirts of Ramallah. It is a welcome reprieve from the swastika and "All Jews are pussies" emblazoned on the security barrier as I entered the West Bank. Aldweek, director of the Al-Razee Association and co-teacher of a new pilot project in two Palestinian schools, begins by asking the dozen sixth-grade girls in attendance, "What does democracy mean to you?" "Liberty and responsibility," one student immediately shoots back. "What is the link, then, between liberty and responsibility?" he retorts. The girls enthusiastically give examples of conflicting interests in their homes. One girl answers that often she wants to watch one television channel but her brother wants to watch another. Cooperation and dialogue are the keys to solving problems, Aldweek says. "It is forbidden to impose on the freedoms of others."
http://www.miftah.org/Display. cfm?DocId=18308&CategoryId=5
Labor's Long Demise
Don't blame Ehud Barak, he's just the victim. Don't blame Eitan Cabel, he is the one who registers the death certificate for the corpse that is the Labor Party, which has been wallowing in the streets for years, twitching and gurgling.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Iconic Palestinian headdress brings colourful clash to Beirut
AFP-The iconic black and white keffiyeh, or Arab headdress, famously donned by late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat has hit the streets of Beirut in a rainbow of colours--much to the chagrin of older Palestinians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
SLA Food?
Retirees of the army of mercenaries and torturers (armed, trained and financed by Israel), known as the South Lebanon Army, are running this shitty food store in Tabariyyah. Boycott.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
One dead as Palestinians battle in Lebanon camp
SIDON, Lebanon (AFP) — A Palestinian youth was killed and two more people were wounded in a gunfight between rival factions in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Monday, a Palestinian official said. Militants from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah faction and the rival Islamist group Hamas fought each other with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in the Miyeh Miyeh camp near the main southern city of Sidon.
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Blast kills wife, sisters-in-law of AQI leader
DIALA /Aswat al-Iraq: A wife of an al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader, along with two of her sisters, was killed in an explosion that tore through a house in Diala's Balad Rouz district, according to a local security source. "An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated inside a house of an al-Qaeda leader in Balad Rouz [...]
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2 Yazidis running liquor store killed in Mosul
NINEWA /Aswat al-Iraq: Two Yazidis running a liquor store were killed in a gun attack in northern Mosul city, a local police source said on Sunday. "On Sunday, unknown gunmen shot down two persons from the Yazidi community inside their liquor store in al-Majmoua al-Thaqafiyya area (northern Mosul)," the source told Aswat al-Iraq. The store had [...]
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Iraq mayor among dozens wounded in bombing
The mayor of Baquoba was among 34 people wounded in a roadside bombing on Sunday, medical and security sources said.
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Police commandos will protect historic sites: Iraq
BAGHDAD-Iraq announced plans Sunday to send police commandos to protect some archaeological sites such as the ancient city of Babylon, which have long faced threats from looters or damage from military operations. The move comes as Iraqi forces are laying out plans for taking over their own security under a recently approved pact with the United States that sets a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of 2011.
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Iraqi relatives want death for Blackwater guards
Employees of U.S. security firm Blackwater who shot and killed Iraqi civilians should face the death sentence, relatives of some victims said on Sunday.
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Blackwater guards ready to surrender over Iraq killings
Five guards from the American security firm Blackwater have been ordered to surrender to the FBI by today to face charges in connection with the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad square. Charges against the men remain sealed, but news reports yesterday said that at least two of the guards who did most of the shooting could be charged with murder or manslaughter, more than a year after the shooting exposed the lack of accountability over private security guards operating in war zones.
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Hard times hit Iraq's Feast of the Sacrifice
AFP-At a time of year when Muslims sacrifice animals to mark the feast of Eid al-Adha at the end of the hajj, sheep in Iraq are almost worth their weight in gold because of drought and poor pastures.
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Festive season brings smiles back on streets of Baghdad
Fear no longer stalks the streets of Baghdad as the Eid spirit floods the city now full of families shopping for everything from new clothes for the children to sheep for the sacrifice.
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Iraqis wish for better security, economy in Eid al-Adha festival
Thousands of Iraqi Muslims filled mosques across the country at dawn Monday to start celebrating the four-day Eid al-Adha festival or feast of sacrifice, expressing strong desire for better security and solid economy. The festival annually falls on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja of the lunar Islamic Calendar, which is a religious ritual celebrated by Muslims worldwide in commemoration of the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to mighty God.
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Rights group challenges US government censorship of torture testimony of Guantanamo detainees
WASHINGTON-US rights group the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday it has filed a legal action to end US censorship of testimony by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay about torture at the hands of US officials. In the motion filed with the judge overseeing the prosecution of five defendants charged in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the ACLU is seeking to bar the practise of suppressing testimony about torture and demanding the release of transcripts of past proceedings in which the audio was turned off.
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If Only US Law Applied to the US Government
Excerpt: The U.S. government does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy, but no other government can match the hypocrisy of the U.S. government.
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