December '05 Archive
12-31-05 - Palestinian gunmen blow up U.N. club in Gaza City Gunmen burst into the U.N. club, one of the few places that alcohol is served in conservative Muslim Gaza. It had been closed for the day
12-31-05 - Two Palestinians killed in Gaza Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike in Israel's newly declared buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip.
12-31-05 - Kidnap Briton to go on working for Palestinians 'Kate remains committed and passionate about working alongside the Palestinians to improve their external image and alleviate the difficult conditions being suffered by the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.'
12-31-05 - 'Israel is trying to push us out of Jordan Valley'
12-31-05 - Palestinian militants say truce ends at midnight
12-31-05 - Gunmen occupy Gaza ministry to demand jobs
12-31-05 - Palestinian candidates drop out of parliament race About 20 Palestinian candidates have dropped out of the race for next month's parliamentary election to protest a threatened Israeli ban on voting in East Jerusalem
12-31-05 - Freed British Hostage Will Continue Work
12-31-05 - Palestinians attack kidnap of Briton devoted to their cause
12-31-05 - Gaza chaos could derail Palestinian poll - official "What message are they sending the international observers we're inviting to monitor our elections?" Erekat said. "Maybe the reason behind such a despicable act, is to keep these observers out because some want to sabotage these elections."
12-31-05 - Escalation or "retaliation"- Israeli attacks on palestinians
12-31-05 - Nonviolent protest against occupation, checkpoints
12-31-05 - Israel captures Palestinian intelligence headquarters in Jenin
12-31-05 - Army arrests a university student from Dir Al- Ghsoun
12-31-05 - Israel appoints a team to draft stand with Hamas if it takes over P.A
12-31-05 - Palestinian President Abbas vows to impose order
12-31-05 - Criticizing Israel Is Anti-Semitism This resolution is only marginally about anti-Semitism and very much about Israel?s treatment at the U.N. It specifically equates anti-Israel actions with anti-Semitism.
12-31-05 - American Jews' split personality The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which mounted a similar offensive, refrained from directly criticizing the president and called on its member groups to exert pressure on Congress and foreign governments, and to send letters to top administration officials
12-31-05 - Abdullah Meets Abbas
12-31-05 - EU to send more observers for Palestinian vote
12-31-05 - 'I knew I would lose friends over this film' He certainly ticked off the nutters, he can't be all bad :)
12-30-05 - Palestinian boy dies in Gaza clash Fathy Mushtaha was caught in a gunbattle as members of a powerful Gaza family tried to storm the police station.
12-30-05 - British hostages freed in Gaza - officials "They are secure and in good hands," said a senior Palestinian security official.
12-30-05 - Gaza border reopens after protest
12-30-05 - Palestinian Police Storm Gaza-Egypt Border Palestinian policemen angry over the killing of a fellow officer stormed the Gaza-Egypt border crossing Friday, firing shots in the air and forcing European monitors to close the border and flee
12-30-05 - Settlers attack several homes in Hebron A local source in Hebron reported that the settlers came from several illegal settlement outposts, and from Keryat Arba? settlement in Hebron, attacked dozens of homes and pinched dozens of chickens after hurling stones at the homes in the area, and attacking the residents
12-30-05 - There's still a catch for Gaza's boatmen even this harvest is restricted. Pointing to a patrolling Israeli naval vessel on the horizon, one fisherman said: "Even this season when we tried to fish, the Israeli boats came and shot at us."
12-30-05 - Unknown Palestinian group claims kidnap of British hostages, now freed
12-30-05 - Bil?in: Land Grab thanks to the Wall The barrier Israel is building confiscates about half of the lands of the village.
12-30-05 - With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation
12-30-05 - A Palestinian house faces settlement The Palestinians maintain the Israelis have taken large tracts of their lands and uprooted trees to further expand the settlement town of Mod'in Illit, one of the biggest and fastest-growing settlements in the West Bank.
12-30-05 - Israel dismantles 3 W.Bank settler outposts - army
12-30-05 - Army shells areas in the northern Gaza Strip
12-30-05 - Jerusalem candidates quit poll Fatah party candidates in east Jerusalem have said that they will boycott parliamentary elections next month.
12-30-05 - Barghouti says future government will include Hamas
12-30-05 - No Buses Roll From Gaza to West Bank, Despite Deal Israel was never very interested in providing a way for Gazans to travel to the West Bank, and agreed to the idea only under strong American pressure. Washington's motivation is to try to help the beleaguered Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, whose divided Fatah faction faces a tough electoral battle against the militant faction Hamas in legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 25.
12-30-05 - Eight residents arrested in Atteel
12-30-05 - Kidnapped British family freed in Gaza The gunman went on to threaten foreign officials at work in Gaza if the international community did not rein in Israeli military activity...With large numbers of international observers expected to arrive in Gaza in the coming weeks to monitor the Palestinian elections on January 25 So let me get this straight, a previously unknown group is threatening the very people that are coming to help the Palestinians?
12-30-05 - Villages in South Hebron Isolated between Apartheid Wall and Jewish-only Road
12-30-05 - Princeton Panelists Share Cautionary Tales Of Dangers to Academic Freedom Describing The David Project?s mission as political rather than academic?to improve Israel?s image on campus?he said it has succeeded in casting a shadow on the future of Middle East studies You will teach Israel's version or else you will be smeared as an anti-Semite, evidently.
12-30-05 - The Future of Palestine; Turning the Page, Again
12-30-05 - Greek patriarch boycotts Israeli Christmas party The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem boycotted an annual Israeli Christmas party on Thursday because the invitation failed to recognise him as the church's new leader
12-30-05 - Flemish Palestine Solidarity Committee Steps up Israeli Goods Boycott Campaign
12-30-05 - AJC Launches International Campaign to Stop a Nuclear Iran
12-30-05 - Millions of Syrians sign anti-US petition The petition rejected "everything that is mentioned in the two reports" because they lack "objectivity and impartiality in order to serve the United States and Israel's greed, which threatens peace and international security."
12-30-05 - Review of the year: The Middle East
12-30-05 - US warns Israel of escalation THE US has warned Israel it risks a serious escalation in a continuing artillery showdown with Palestinian militants by establishing a no-go zone in the northern Gaza Strip.
12-30-05 - Washington poised for revelations from top lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a Republican activist for 20 years and a generous donor to President George W. Bush's election and reelection campaigns, is accused of fraud in a criminal trial due to begin in Miami, Florida, on January 9.
He was found to have given money to radical settlers in the Occupied Territories.
12-29-05 - Suicide bomber kills Israeli soldier, Palestinian civilians
12-29-05 - Two killed in Gaza clash
12-29-05 - Let's Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran* The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran.
12-29-05 - Israel's Sonic Booms Terrifying Gaza Children Targeting innocent civilians violates the Geneva Conventions. Both Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have asked Israeli High Court to stop the air force from this practice.
12-29-05 - Palestinian Envoy Brings New Strategy to Washington Asked if it was prudent to make such a remark during his first meeting with American Jews, Safieh was unapologetic. "In situations of belligerency, there are fighters on each side," he told the Forward, "and I don't accept the Israeli-Jewish approach that there is no moral equivalence and that Jewish blood is more precious than Palestinian blood."
12-29-05 - Israel army chief rules out early strike on Iran Halutz however said he did not believe Iran would actually complete manufacturing a bomb "before the start of the next decade."
12-29-05 - Palestinians Negotiate for Return of Brits Palestinian security forces were negotiating Thursday with gunmen who kidnapped a British human rights worker and her parents, a security official said
12-29-05 - Group Claims Rocket Strike on Israel Al-Qaida in Iraq said Thursday that it fired a barrage of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel this week, in a rare claim by the group of a direct attack against the Jewish state. The statement, on an Islamic Web forum where al-Qaida in Iraq often posts statement, could not be independently verified.
12-29-05 - Frantic search for aid worker and parents as gang fails to make contact Unlike previous kidnappings of westerners in Gaza, usually resolved within hours, the kidnappers made no contact with the authorities to make demands or arrange for the release of Kate Burton, 25, and her parents Hugh and Helen. They were snatched by seven armed men in Rafah, a deprived town in a very poor area.
12-29-05 - ?Kate is a warm, loving person trying to help?
12-29-05 - N. American Jews Arrive to Set up Life in the West Bank About 250 North American Jews landed on Wednesday in Israel hoping to build their new homes in the West Bank settlements
12-29-05 - Creation of "Death Zone" in northern Gaza Strip is illegal An o rder to open fire at any person present in a particular area in the northern Gaza Strip, if indeed given, is a flagrant breach of International Humanitarian Law....Furthermore, attacks directed at civilians, and attacks that are carried out with the knowledge they will cause disproportionate injury to the civilian population, are defined as war crimes
12-29-05 - Olmert: "No limitations in attacks against Gaza"
12-29-05 - Arab League says it will not stand idle to Israeli measures against Palestinians
12-29-05 - Palestinians attack kidnap of Briton devoted to their cause
12-29-05 - Israel to probe settlers attacks on Palestinian groves Mofaz said that "if it turned out that the settlers were involved in these attacks, the victims might receive compensation". Wow.
12-29-05 - Palestinians in Iraq Pay the Cost of Being 'Saddam's People' Hussein made world headlines by promising a house and $25,000 to each Palestinian family in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that had a member killed while attacking Israel
12-29-05 - No end in sight to Gaza 'no-go zone' Israel vowed to keep areas of the Gaza Strip off-limits to Palestinians until cross-border rocket attacks cease.
12-29-05 - Bulgaria pressed on Holocaust compensation The property was confiscated in 1943, and an administrative court ruled in 1992 that the Jewish community was entitled to just under 50 percent of it.
U.S. Representatives do not, however, demand the same of those who have unlawfully seized the property of the Palestinians.
12-29-05 - Suspects' body language can blow their cover Careful observation and questions of escalating intensity can unmask possible terrorists, who typically become anxious and deceptive around authorities, says Rafi Ron, former security chief at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. Ron founded New Age Security Solutions in Virginia in October 2001 to teach police how to detect "indicators" of a possible terrorist.
12-29-05 - Hamas slams Quartet statement
12-29-05 - Arab MK: Syria will hasten Palestinian J'lem
12-29-05 - The Two Faces of Hezbollah "Hezbollah is Hezbollah," he says, "there's no change in its definition. It's a political, religious party created as a reaction to Israel's invasion [of Lebanon] in 1982. Politically it's represented in both cabinet and parliament, and considered by all to be a legitimate party. But if you're against Israel, the U.S. administration labels you as they want."
12-29-05 - Palestinians seek $7 billion in investments
12-29-05 - Farkash: "Hezbollah is using weapons Syria purchased from Russia"
12-29-05 - Workshop on Media and Nonviolence in Bethlehem
12-29-05 - Holocaust survivors 'in poverty' A Holocaust survivor's support group has said 40% of survivors in Israel are living below the poverty line, Israel Radio has reported What has Israel done with all of the money recouped on behalf of the Holocaust victims?
12-28-05 - Israel bombards Gaza security zone Electricity supplies were also cut in the attacks as locals were ordered to take cover in bomb shelters. Several people were treated for shock but no one was wounded
12-28-05 - Three residents, including a child, injured in Beit Lahia, Jabalia
12-28-05 - Lebanon Condemns Rocket Attack on Israel "These acts _ the firing of rockets and the Israeli raids and air violations _ are eventually aimed at undermining stability in Lebanon and distracting attention from efforts to continue internal dialogue on major issues,"
12-28-05 - British activist, parents kidnapped in Gaza: police
12-28-05 - Guide tracks US reps' votes on Israel The decision to include legislator's voting records on Israel in the Christian Voter's Guide was arranged at the urging of the Knesset's increasingly-influential 'Christian Allies Caucus,' and comes at a time of increasing cooperation between Israel and Christian supporters of Israel worldwide, a goal the cross-party parliamentary lobby works to further.
12-28-05 - Official: IDF, settlements 'a bad mix' "The Administration designates land, declares it State property, and approves water and electricity connection," she said. "The Administration is the body that allows, in practice, settlement activity in the territories."
12-28-05 - There's a system for turning Palestinian property into Israel's state land
12-28-05 - Palestinian ministry denies receiving Israeli warning to evacuate posts Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfik Abu Khousa told reporters that the ministry had not received any Israeli warnings, adding that the ministry had issued firm instructions to Palestinian security forces and police to stay in their outposts and not to leave under any circumstances.
12-28-05 - Israeli military violates Knesset order to escort The escort is required because the children must
pass the Israeli settlement of Ma'on and the Havot Ma'on (Hill 833) outpost,
and settlers have harassed and attacked the children as they walked on the
road. CPTers and members of Operation Dove monitor the escort and report
any problems that occur.
12-28-05 - Mideast quartet pushes for East Jerusalem voting
12-28-05 - Locked in Limbo Along with employment restrictions, there are also legal codes that prevent Palestinian children from attending Lebanese schools. With their concentration in these refugee ghettos, most Palestinians here live in limbo, caught between the dream of returning to their Palestinian homeland and the nightmare of their current status as non-citizens. Strange how our government doesn't give one rat's about these people, and bringing 'democracy' to them.
12-28-05 - U.S.: No Militants in Palestinian Cabinet
12-28-05 - Gunmen Take Over Election Offices in Gaza
12-28-05 - West Bil?in Outpost exposes truth behind the Wall-Press conference Tomorrow A small building erected at the outpost this week has been threatened with demolition while nearby settler structures built without plans or permits continue to rise. This
12-28-05 - Fatah party reunites for election
12-28-05 - Al Arabiya journalist barred in latest case of discrimination against Arab media
12-28-05 - Israeli planes attack in Lebanon
12-28-05 - Abbas condemns Israel over Gaza no-man's zone
12-28-05 - Gaza kidnaps 'not driven by hatred' Palestinian-Israeli conflict expert Dr John Strawson, a reader in law at Birzeit University on the West Bank, says abductions are usually driven by a desire to embarrass the authorities rather than by a hatred of foreigners
12-28-05 - Nuking Iran With the UN's Blessing As for how it will all get started, there is room for speculation. One possibility is that Israel will pull the trigger, with a surprise (conventional) bombing of Bushehr and other facilities, which could "force" the U.S. to join in to protect Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq from Iranian retaliation. Recent statements by Israeli officials hint at this possibility,
12-28-05 - Court halts fence building near Arab village
12-28-05 - General: 'Israel should deal with Hamas'
12-28-05 - The children of occupation
12-28-05 - Israelis Born in Iraq Plan Visit to Area Now the Mosul Jewry Heritage Center in the Israeli port city of Haifa is organizing tours to northern Iraq, where Kurds, traditionally friendly to Jews, are in control, said Aharon Efroni, chairman of the center
12-28-05 - Spielberg on Munich: the humanization of Israeli killers, and the dehumanization of Palestinian civilians Did you notice how one lone critical opinion of the movie by one Israeli diplomat, which only mildly criticized the movie, got so much press in the US? It was needed; and it even helped to promote the movie to give a ?balanced? cast to the narrative, that it of course does not deserve.
12-28-05 - Occupiers in another land, but hated all the same
12-28-05 - When Reel Life Intrudes on the Mideast Conflict Spielberg's own statements to the media did not assuage specific Jewish fears. For example, his language of "peace" and "ending the cycle of violence" are taken to be code phrases for the continuation of the war against the Jews and the extermination of the Jewish state. Does Spielberg not know this? ?????
12-28-05 - Top Jewish group 'terror' apology Washington said it would freeze any assets of the charity in the US and banned US nationals from having any dealings with the organisation.
The Charity Commission, the UK watchdog, froze the charity's accounts and launched an investigation. It later cleared Interpal, saying Washington had not been able to substantiate the claim.
The US Treasury has however kept Interpal on its list of suspected organisations, a situation that continues to infuriate many British Muslims. Ever wonder why politics in Britain (our best ally) are so profoundly different than they are here? Is there an AIPAC in Britain?
12-28-05 - President angers Greek patriarch by inviting his predecessor to bash Theofilos, 53, has said he will not recognize any land deals signed by his predecessor. He has accused Israel of not recognizing him in an effort to extort his support for the lease of the property, which includes two hotels and several shops.
12-28-05 - Cyprus trains Palestinian civil servants
12-28-05 - In East Jerusalem, 23 students study in a single bedroom
12-27-05 - Israel: Expanding Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Dear President Bush,
12-27-05 - Israel strikes Gaza after threatening buffer zone
12-27-05 - Army levels a home in Jerusalem Also, soldiers attacked several members of the family and hit them with their batons when they tried to evacuate some of the household, especially the belongings of their children. Some members of Al Emwassi were hospitalized.
12-27-05 - Peretz slams PM's policy on illegal outposts "The outposts are damaging Israel's image as a lawful state.
12-27-05 - Palestinian gunmen seize Gaza offices demanding jobs
12-27-05 - Three rockets fired from Lebanon hit Israel
12-27-05 - Army confiscates 231 Dunams in Hebron Area
12-27-05 - Abbas urges Palestinian militants to follow truce
12-27-05 - Iran could have bomb in two years: Israeli intelligence "One or two years from now at the latest, Iran will have the fissionable material to make a nuclear bomb. From then on, producing the bomb is just a straightforward technical process," Two years? Not so long ago they said six months.
12-27-05 - State seeks arrangement for East J'lem voters in PA elections Nevertheless, Israel is remaining publicly vague and is refraining from presenting a clear-cut position so as not to be blamed by the Palestinians for delaying the elections.
12-27-05 - Israeli jets hit militant base in Lebanon
12-27-05 - Israeli settlers start wave of West Bank outposts
12-27-05 - The Killing of Mahmoud Shawara
12-27-05 - Report: Israel building Arab ghettos "The Arab Association for Human Rights believes these fences and barriers are a reflection of a ?racial segregation' and ghetto mentality, which is rooted in institutions and pervasive among Jewish communities against the Palestinian minority."
12-27-05 - Army arrests two residents from Hebron
12-27-05 - Labor plan to call for 'Hong Kong principle' for settlement blocs Labor Party Chair Amir Peretz's diplomatic team is formulating a platform calling for the long-term leasing of large West Bank settlement blocs from the Palestinians,adopting the model of Great Britain and China with regard to Hong Kong.
12-27-05 - Munich mastermind spurns Spielberg's peace appeal "Spielberg showed the movie to widows of the Israeli victims, but he neglected the families of Palestinian victims," said Daoud. "How many Palestinian civilians were killed before and after Munich?"
12-27-05 - Israel bans Arab-Israeli author from leaving "I couldn't believe it when I opened the letter - my only role is to write books, and I am also a literary critic. Why have they suddenly decided that I will try to harm the security of the country? I will try to change this evil edict this morning already."
12-27-05 - Israeli police recommend indicting sailors in fatal Nemuro collision
12-27-05 - U.S. Defends Israeli Firing on Gaza And the sun will rise tomorrow, story at eleven.
12-27-05 - Telling it like it isn't This is only the tip of the semantic iceberg that has crashed into American journalism in the Middle East. Illegal Jewish settlements for Jews and Jews only on Arab land are clearly "colonies," and we used to call them that. I cannot trace the moment when we started using the word "settlements." But I can remember the moment around two years ago when the word "settlements" was replaced by "Jewish neighborhoods" - or even, in some cases, "outposts."
12-27-05 - Mossad warns of Iranian atomic arsenal
12-27-05 - ZOA: Don't See Spielberg's 'Munich' Unless You Like The ZOA is urging everyone to stay away from the new Stephen Spielberg film 'Munich,' Oh my.
12-27-05 - Retired UNI administrator to work for Vatican television station Nijim, a former U-N-I international services director, says the satellite channel has a presence in the occupied territories of Palestine for the first time
12-27-05 - Al Arabiya TV requests Israel lift travel ban on journalist
12-27-05 - Christmas lights in Bil?in It is really a great irony that the Israeli authorities are going to demolish the tiny Bilinian house built on Bilinian land when, at the same time, they allow massive construction in the settlements nearby against international and even israeli law
12-27-05 - Bethlehem hosts nonviolence conference with 350 attendees from around the world
12-27-05 - Israel lobbies for U.S. convicts According to the report, Israeli officials would release them eventually since the convicts already have spent 27 years behind bars.
12-26-05 - Four Palestinians shot at ex-settlement protest Palestinian guards shot and wounded four farm labourers protesting on Monday against a plan to cut the number of days they can work at a former Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip
12-26-05 - Israeli missiles slam into Gaza
12-26-05 - Settlers, hands off the olive trees As we tried to explain to the soldiers what was agreed to, dozens of teenagers from the settlement approached the Palestinians and unleashed a string of verbal attacks that were nothing less than blood-curdling. They called an elderly Palestinian women "whore," "pig," "dirt" - vowing - "we will finish you off!"
12-26-05 - Photostory: Christmas in Palestine
12-26-05 - Israel orders start to Gaza 'security zone'
12-26-05 - Sharon party wants to fix borders of Israel The last attempt by a nation to procure land taken by force was by Saddam Hussein in 1991. Yet, Israel is allowed to do the same and receive the full backing of the US.
12-26-05 - Israel to Expand West Bank Settlements Israel said Monday it will build more than 200 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements - a blow to peace efforts despite word that Ariel Sharon's new party plans a major push for Palestinian statehood if it wins upcoming elections Israel to build new settlements, and bears defecate in the woods, story at 11.
12-26-05 - Sharon's doctors go public to calm Israeli poll jitters
12-26-05 - Court boosts Fatah election hopes A West Bank court has authorised the governing Palestinian party, Fatah, to submit a unified list of candidates for parliamentary elections due next month.
12-26-05 - Expand city beyond the Green Line, Jerusalem panel urges Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel and two of the top researchers at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Dr. Yisrael Kimche and Dr. Maya Hoshen, called for the hasty construction of the area known as E-1, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim.
12-26-05 - Israel's War Deadline Iran in the Crosshairs All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran. The thinking behind this date is to heighten the pressure on the US to force the sanctions issue in the Security Council. The tactic is to blackmail Washington with the "war or else" threat, into pressuring Europe (namely Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia) into approving sanctions.
12-26-05 - Security zone is opposed
12-26-05 - Palestinian militants declare success of new homemade rockets
12-26-05 - Bilin: Illegal outpost may become school
12-26-05 - IDF responds with artillery strikes to Qassam fire from Gaza To counter Qassam attacks, Transport Minister Meir Sheetrit of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party has proposed firing Israeli-made Qassam rockets at the Gaza Strip in order to deter Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from firing Qassams at Israeli targets. "In the present situation we are dragged into responding in banal and routine means of firing artillery at the outskirts of towns in order to make residents leave their homes and pressure authorities to stop the firing of Qassams,"
12-26-05 - Russia to donate 50 APCs, 2 helicopters to Palestine
12-26-05 - Settlers uproot 100 trees in the West Bank village of Borin
12-26-05 - Militants vow to carry out joint anti-Israeli attacks Three Palestinian armed groups Monday vowed to carry out joint attacks against Israel in the next few days in response to that country's move to build a security buffer zone here
12-26-05 - No talks yet on renewing truce with Israel, says Islamic Jihad
12-26-05 - Palestinian children contribute 1000 olive & fruit trees to villages The Palestinian news agency WAFA said that "The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF) has contributed 500 olive trees and 500 fruit trees to the villages of Atoof and Tammoun in the West Bank."
12-26-05 - "Israel is the reason behind Iraq war"
12-26-05 - U.S. national menorah lit The U.S. homeland security secretary helped light the National Menorah in Washington. So it's only the Christmas symbols that can't be displayed on govt property?
12-26-05 - Kibbutz members suspected in drug ring Family members on Kibbutz Gesher Haziv, which was settled after Israel?s War of Independence with immigrants from North America, were allegedly part of a ring that smuggled cocaine from Argentina into Israel
12-26-05 - The perils of normalization with Israel
12-26-05 - Israel, Arab World Engage in Hidden Trade Experts say the camouflaged trade, with just a small portion receiving publicity, has been going on for years between Israel and its officially hostile Arab neighbors.
12-26-05 - InterPal wins case over Jewish lobby
12-26-05 - Report: Shin Bet sets up 'Chinese unit' An academic paper submitted by a senior Shin Bet official studying at Derby University revealed that Israel?s internal intelligence agency has launched a unit specializing in China.
12-26-05 - Will ?black list? sabotage Rafah agreement?
12-26-05 - Palestinian militants say barred from leaving Gaza
12-25-05 - Settlers suspected of cutting down 120 Palestinian olive trees The perpetrators are unknown, but signs point to residents of the adjacent settlement of Yitzhar, who have been known to harass their Palestinian neighbors.
12-25-05 - Abbas meets with Fateh regional committee in Bethlehem
12-25-05 - Vatican, Bethlehem Pilgrims Mark Christmas
12-25-05 - Israel extends closure of Palestinian territories Israel imposes a total shut down on the Palestinian territories as a matter of course during each Jewish festival.
12-25-05 - Bethlehem Hosts Huge Christmas Crowds
12-25-05 - Sharon orders Gaza security zone
12-25-05 - Israel detains Australian woman "I can confirm that there are black lists in Israel and people who have come as peace and human rights activists, the state doesn't really want to have them in Israel,"
12-25-05 - Bethlehem pilgrims beat new security for messages of hope Thousands of Palestinian Christian pilgrims took advantage yesterday of an easing of restrictions by the Israeli security forces that allowed them to travel to Bethlehem and crowd into the candle-lit grotto of Jesus?s birthplace beneath the Church of the Nativity
12-25-05 - Christ is crying for town of birth, says Cardinal THE Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O?Connor, used his Christmas sermon to attack the way that Bethlehem has been treated.
12-25-05 - 4 NGOs Call on Israel Ban Students Travel to Bethlehem The ten students have been denied access to their studies at Bethlehem University because of a sweeping ban on travel by students from Gaza seeking to reach their studies in the West Bank.
12-25-05 - Palestinians barred from border Officials said soldiers along the border would receive orders to shoot Palestinians who entered restricted areas in the coming days.
They do this anyway. It's nothing new.
12-25-05 - Israel edges away from Palestinian vote ban
12-25-05 - EU monitors turn away wanted Palestinian
12-25-05 - Room at the inn in Bethlehem The key to understanding the rationale behind building the Wall here is Israel's settlement policy. There is a large bloc of settlements in the Bethlehem area. The Wall here has been built to separate (and presumably protect) these settlements from the Palestinian areas.
12-25-05 - Islamic Jihad: "More Qassams, attacks, if Israel impalements its security strip in Gaza"
12-25-05 - Peace activists held in Israel Israel regularly forces peace activists from pro-Palestinian groups to turn back upon arrival out of fear they will demonstrate against its controversial separation barrier being built across the West Bank.
12-25-05 - Palestinians, left-wing activists rebuild 'outpost' in village of Bil'in "Private Palestinian land is in question here, not state land. The village council approved setting up a caravan and thus this is a legal structure,"
12-25-05 - For Palestinians in Bethlehem, season offers little to celebrate Today, pregnant Palestinian women must endure the degrading Israeli checkpoints in order to reach a hospital. While the Virgin Mary found refuge in a humble stable, many contemporary mothers-to-be are forced to stand endless hours at checkpoints manned by teenage soldiers who couldn't care less about a woman in labor.
12-25-05 - Settlements council: "Sharon is preparing for a second Disengagement"
12-25-05 - US calls for holding Palestinian election on time: sources
12-25-05 - Palestinian's memoir balances humor, pain Asked in 1973 by the grandson of Winston Churchill how he would deal with the Palestinians, Ariel Sharon replied, "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians, and then another set of settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years, neither the United Nations, nor the U.S.A., nobody, will be able to tear it apart."
12-25-05 - Palestinian police return stolen car to owner
12-25-05 - 'Anti-Semitism', The Provocative Accusation The purpose of delving into the application of the word ?anti-Semitism,? is done solely to provide a clearly stated definition of what that word should mean and how its meaning has become distorted to the point where it excludes the vast majority of those it should theoretically be applied toward
12-25-05 - Pro-Israel Group Criticizes White House Policy on Iran the news releases mark the first major criticism of the Bush White House Because everything that Bush has done thus far has been done in accordance with their agenda.
12-25-05 - PSM to Hold its Fifth Annual Conference at Georgetown University
12-25-05 - Rob's religious art spree ROBBIE Williams has paid a graffiti artist £30,000 for a controversial painting of the Nativity scene.
It shows Mary and Joseph blocked from getting to Bethlehem by a graffiti wall ? mimicking the Israeli barrier round the Palestinian territories.
12-25-05 - PALTEL stock makes debut on ADSM
12-25-05 - Mideast scholars hope dictionary helps define peace
12-25-05 - Human Rights, The Rule Of Law Must Govern The Peace Process Oppression, intimidation, humiliation and deprivation can never breed the trust and hope without which neither partnerships nor peace can ever take root.
12-24-05 - Two Palestinian policemen wounded by Hamas gunfire Officials said the policemen stopped a group of armed Hamas members at a routine checkpoint in Gaza City. When they demanded the gunmen hand over their weapons, they opened fire and fled.
12-24-05 - Pope calls for peace at first Christmas mass "On this night, when we look towards Bethlehem, let us pray in a special way for the birthplace of our Redeemer and for the men and women who live and suffer there,"
12-24-05 - Bethlehem a 'prison' - patriarch
12-24-05 - Massive Palestinian majority favours ceasefire extension
12-24-05 - Collective punishment
12-24-05 - Pilgrims throng Bethlehem amid hopes for peace
12-24-05 - Pilgrims bring Christmas hope to walled Bethlehem
12-24-05 - EU envoys boycott tour of crossing at Qalandiyah A diplomatic source told Haaretz they refused the invitation to tour the facility, which opened the next day, because it is located in the heart of occupied territory.
12-24-05 - Patriarch tells Bethlehem mass: Holy Land thirsts for peace
12-24-05 - Christmas Pilgrims Flock to Bethlehem
12-24-05 - Military sources: Abbas at all-time leadership low
12-24-05 - Israeli officials call for military operation in Gaza
12-24-05 - Woman forced to undress at a military roadblock near Tubas
12-24-05 - MK Steinitz calls for Gaza blackouts
12-24-05 - Two homemade shells fired into Israel
12-24-05 - Qurie blames U-turn on Israel Ahmed Qurie, who quit as Palestinian prime minister to stand in forthcoming elections, has blamed his subsequent decision not to run on Israel's threat to ban voting in east Jerusalem.
12-24-05 - Palestinian pilgrims caravan crosses Jordanian borders
12-24-05 - IDF raids headquarters of anti-fence organization Some 5,000 dunams out of 8,200 dunams of Qafin's agricultural land has been blocked by the separation fence. Haaretz has learned that, excluding a few days during the olive harvest and plowing season, farmers are barred from accessing their land.
12-24-05 - Qurie says returned to post as Palestinian PM
12-24-05 - Internet trend: Talkbacks for sale Limor, 23, (not her real name,) is a 23-year-old sociology student from northern Israel who is making a living from a new profession: Writing "fake" talkbacks on Israel's large news websites.
12-24-05 - MK Ramon: We'll make peace in stages
12-24-05 - Israel to seek cash for pre-WWII investments in Palestine Thousands of Palestinians were forced or chose to flee their homes ahead of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Here's why they 'chose to do so'. Israel has never compensated Palestinians for their property that was seized despite UN resolution 194 which was drawn up for that purpose, as well as for the right of return.
12-23-05 - Israel plans Gaza 'aerial siege' The minister also revealed that the Israeli army might now begin to fire shells at populated areas of Gaza in response to an attack by rockets
12-23-05 - Christmas Appeal: Hope for the children of Bethlehem The fact that Sana's flat is in the centre of the building gives some protection, but little comfort. When she and her husband asked to move somewhere quieter, the Israeli army opposed a plan, she says, because she and her family were, in Sana's words, "human shields" against Palestinian gunfire. Israel does exactly what it says Palestinian terrorists do: hides inside of the civilian population and uses them as human shields.
12-23-05 - In pictures Palestinian Christian children discover faith through puppetry
12-23-05 - CJPP Launches Quebec Campaign of Boycott to Israeli Products
12-23-05 - On apathy Although the Department for Investigating Policemen found no relationship between the border policemen's behavior and Shawara's death,testimony indicates that this is an abusive practice well known to Palestinians. It even has a nickname: "the donkey procedure."
12-23-05 - Residents, peaceful activists in Bil?in, protest against the Wall, settlements The Israeli activist suffered fractures in his hand after the soldiers threw him on the ground and clubbing him severely before arresting him along with another Israeli activist.
12-23-05 - Thousands join Hamas march against US, EU in Gaza
12-23-05 - AL warns Israel of banning Jerusalem residents from taking part in elections
12-23-05 - Report: Security forces beat four protesters near Bil'in village Security sources said that it was clear to them that immediately after the evacuation, they would need to explain to the court why they are hurrying to act against Palestinian illegal construction and tarrying on curbing illegal construction in the settlements.
12-23-05 - Bethlehem alive with the sound of Christmas
12-23-05 - Muhammad Khaled from Beit Surik: "The Wall steals all our land to transform the village into a refugee camp."
12-23-05 - In praise of ... Bethlehem
12-23-05 - Indicted Officials Consider Suing Pro-Israel Lobby *
12-23-05 - Christian Right Leader Warns Foxman on Israel Wildmon's comment is the latest thrust in an ongoing duel between liberal Jewish leaders and the religious right after Foxman condemned what he called a campaign "to Christianize America"
12-23-05 - Report: IDF doctor says Dirani rape claim backed by evidence Channel 1 television on Wednesday reported than Israel Defense Forces doctor who examined kidnapped Lebanese guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani found physical evidence to back his charge that he was raped.
12-23-05 - The other 'Munich': Israeli spies tell their side The assassins in "Munich" are shown as occasionally inept, especially when it comes to planting novel booby-trap bombs. But Shimron noted that by the 1970s Mossad had perfected this tactic
12-23-05 - Churches owe millions to Jerusalem The State of Israel and the Vatican are in negotiations over the repayment of the money. Wonder what concessions this will lead to.
12-23-05 - Local hospital treats girl shot by sniper fire It was about a year ago that Samah Ouda stood by a window in her home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, and was shot in the head by a stray sniper bullet.
12-23-05 - FBI Talks to Muslim High School Student about "PLO" Initials on His Notebook "the agents asked the student to recount an incident that had occurred two years earlier in a math class. He told the agents that his teacher had reprimanded him for having scrawled the letters ?PLO' on his binder. The teacher said that anyone who supported the PLO was a terrorist."
12-23-05 - Ex-Palestinian PM quits race
12-23-05 - Norwegian public opinion shifts "It is shocking and ironic that this one-sided boycott effort comes at a time when Israel is making a series of dramatic steps toward peace," Building illegal settlements and a wall on someone else's land are 'dramatic steps toward peace'?
12-23-05 - Eriksson and Dell?Olio promote Mideast peace England football team manager Sven Goran Erikkson and his girlfriend Nancy Dell?Olio this week announced they would be contributing a five-figure sum to the Peres Centre for Peace in Tel Aviv.
12-23-05 - U.S. Jews: Arabs want to destroy Israel 78 percent of American Jews think Arabs seek the destruction of Israel
12-23-05 - Congress gives Israel defense money The allocation, $150 million more than the White House request, passed the House of Representatives Thursday as part of the Defense Appropriations Bill. The measure passed the Senate Wednesday. The earmark includes $133 million for the Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile System, $37.4 million for the LITENING Targeting and Navigation Pod, $22 million for Reactive Armor tiles for Bradley fighting vehicles and $17 million for the ITALD aircraft decoy system.
12-22-05 - Israel kills three Palestinians amid more rockets Witnesses and medics said that the army responded to the latest attack by pounding an uninhabited area of the territory with artillery fire, killing a 21-year-old Palestinian civilian.
12-22-05 - Israeli artillery shell kills Palestinian in Gaza
12-22-05 - Israeli troops seize home of West Bank cameraman At one stage, soldiers brought an elderly security guard from a neighbouring building into the room in handcuffs and made him sit down with the family.
12-22-05 - Legal Palestinian "Outpost" Removed Immediately, Hundreds of Illegal Israeli Settlements Remain
12-22-05 - Israeli police 'tied Palestinian to galloping mule'
12-22-05 - Bethlehem's Christians cling to hope A carpenter, like Jesus' father Joseph, he has had little work for the five years of the Palestinian intifada. Curfews, closures and the newly-built West Bank barrier have cut him off from business in Jerusalem.
12-22-05 - US Corporate Media Erases Israeli Role in Rise of Hamas Israel originally supported Hamas when it was founded in 1987 as an alternative to the PLO, another fact ignored by the media
12-22-05 - Bethlehem looks forward to merrier Christmas
12-22-05 - Katz: Bomb Strip, make Gazans flee
12-22-05 - A message from Bethlehem Our history is full of inspirational stories but also of bad times. The bad times under the recent Israeli aggression have led to enormous pain and suffering for Bethlehem and to unprecedented deterioration in its situation.
12-22-05 - Israeli secrecy a hurdle in US terror case: lawyer Salah's lawyer, Michael Deutsch, said his requests to prosecutors for documents detailing Salah's arrest at a West Bank checkpoint, subsequent interrogation and the methods and policies of the Israeli security agency have been stymied
12-22-05 - US judge wants Israel to provide documents in Hamas case
12-22-05 - Web Boosts Bethlehem's Woodcarving Trade Handal said he had to fight a legal battle with the Israeli army to get wood from his own trees after they were cut down for the wall
12-22-05 - US raises pressure on UN to change Bolton, an outspoken critic of the UN, has suggested adopting an interim three-month budget that would keep the pressure on for a package of changes. True to Bolton's Israel-first agenda, some of the changes involve doing away with Palestinian Human Rights Committees, as well as others devoted to Palestinian issues.
12-22-05 - Israeli jailed over militant help
12-22-05 - Arab rep for civil rights group refused entry to gov't compound
12-22-05 - Presbyterian resolutionsidesteps divestmentSynagogue, church initiated statement The overture "sidesteps the issue" because it "does not deal with the immorality of divestment Calling divestment 'immoral', makes sense to those who see nothing wrong with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
12-22-05 - Norway: Parliament shuns Israeli products The Norwegian parliament in the Sor-Trondelag region ruled Saturday to boycott products made in Israel and to forbid the sale and purchase of Israeli goods.
12-22-05 - 'We won't be war criminals' "It's very easy for people with no responsibility to suggest that we fire at population centers; we do not plan on facing the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. This, after at least two lawsuits were filed in recent weeks against the IDF for crimes against Arabs. An attempt was made also in Britain over the summer to arrest an IDF official. And this comes just as the Israelis shelled a civilian area, killing a Palestinian civilian.
12-22-05 - Israel: Gaza Power Cut Would Violate Laws of War A reported proposal by Israeli government officials to cut the Gaza Strip's electricity supply in retaliation for Palestinian militant groups' rocket attacks on Israel would constitute unlawful collective punishment of Gaza's civilian population, Human Rights Watch said today When has the violation of international law stopped them in the past?
12-22-05 - Hamas warning over election delay
12-22-05 - Israel Is Easing Barrier Burden, but Palestinians Still See a Border The Israelis decide everything, he said. "When I stand here humiliated to go between my own cities, I feel like exploding with rage," he said. "There is no justice. The strong side decides what and how to do. In Biddu, my village, our land is gone. "Walls, gates, this!" he said, gesturing to the new terminal. "Maybe the solution is to send us Palestinians to another planet!"
That's the end game for many Israel-supporters, evidently. They attempted to do this very thing in '47 and '48 by forcibly expelling Palestinians from their land.
12-22-05 - Today's Joseph and Mary would face 15 checkpoints
12-22-05 - Egypt Opposition Leader Denies Holocaust
12-22-05 - Status of UN refugee agency mission upgraded
12-22-05 - Norwegian county boycott of Israel ires Jewish groups "We see Israel as an occupying force that could be compared with the apartheid regime in South Africa," she told the regional newspaper Adresseavisen. "We also want to campaign for the people of Soer Trondelag to also boycott."
12-22-05 - Israel Pays UN $25m In AID for Gaza Strip Israeli 'aid' to remove the rubble of the illegal settlements in Gaza that should not have been built there in the first place. Ultimately, Uncle Sam pays.
12-22-05 - US halts Arabic magazine meant to boost US image the efforts have been hampered because many Arabs strenuously object to U.S. foreign policies, particularly over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq war.
12-22-05 - Group meets to discuss North African Jews A group that is pushing for restitution for Jews who fled Arab countries wants to preserve Jewish sites in the Muslim world.
12-22-05 - Senators urge Bush on Hamas Seventy-three U.S. senators signed a letter urging President Bush to call on the Palestinian Authority to disarm Hamas before elections next month More legislation for Israel.
12-22-05 - Israel trusts in BMD against Iran threat Israeli military commanders are confident their multi-arrayed anti-ballistic missile defense system can shoot down any nuclear-armed Iranian missiles aimed at their country.
12-22-05 - Human rights hypocrisy A glaring example of Washington's double standard is U.S. support for Israel in the form of financial and military aid totaling nearly $3 billion a year, along with vetoes of U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel's denial of the human rights of Palestinian Muslims and Christians
12-22-05 - Foxman: No moral equivalence in ?Munich? "The Palestinians are projected as terrorists" When aren't they 'projected as terrorists' in American media?
12-21-05 - Senior Hamas militant shot dead
In the nearby city of Nablus, Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian stone throwers during a raid searching for suspected militants. Palestinian security officials said a Palestinian boy was injured when troops fired plastic bullets at the demonstrators.
12-21-05 - Kidnapped teachers released in Gaza City
12-21-05 - Palestinians may delay poll over voting ban
12-21-05 - Israel bans Jerusalem Palestinian vote over Hamas
12-21-05 - Bethlehem walled off by Israel this Christmas
12-21-05 - Half of Israelis favor talks with Hamas: poll
12-21-05 - Syria said mulling plan to cede Shaba Farms to Lebanon If the Shaba Farms are considered Lebanese territory, Israel will be asked to withdraw from the region. Failure to do so will provide Hezbollah with justification to act in South Lebanon and call the Israeli occupation ongoing.
12-21-05 - Senators push to exclude Hamas from elections Seventy U.S. senators on Wednesday called on President George W. Bush to make it clear to Palestinian leaders that Hamas and other groups that the United States wants terrorist organizations to disarm or be banned from upcoming Palestinian elections. Why is this our problem? Who made it so? Do our legislators have so little to do that they feel the need to wile away their time on matters that have little bearing on the American taxpaying public?
12-21-05 - Israel to defend interrogation methods at US trial Deutsch also said Israeli officials asked for "special procedures to protect the agents" when they testify but it was not specified what they were seeking and the judge overseeing the case will determine the guidelines
12-21-05 - Bethlehem becoming a giant prison: Latin Patriarch
12-21-05 - Japan to provide $4.8 million for Palestinian refugee aid
12-21-05 - MI head Ze'evi warns of northern border escalation Making his final appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ze'evi said the risk of the northern border heating up stems from Iranian-Syrian influence on Hezbollah to initiate action against Israel.
12-21-05 - "Container protest" held against Israel's intrusion
12-21-05 - Residents, activists in Bil?in protest against settlement outposts
12-21-05 - Israel to finance removal of settlement rubble
12-21-05 - US, Israel strengthening Hamas - Pope Pope Benedict's representative in the Holy Land said today that the United States and Israel were helping strengthen Islamic militant group Hamas through policies towards the Palestinians.
12-21-05 - Cleric arrested in Jerusalem while trying to attend prayers at Al-Aksa Mosque
12-21-05 - Bil'in residents set up 'outpost' west of separation fence Mohammed Khateb, a member of Bil'in's Popular Committee Against the Wall, said that the container was placed on land belonging to a village resident and comes with a building permit from Bil'in village council....Dealing with the caravan is liable to be an embarrassment for the IDF and the Civil Administration. The container is adjacent to the Matityahu East neighborhood of Upper Modi'in, where hundreds of illegal housing units have recently been constructed.
12-21-05 - Poll: Most U.S. Jews oppose Iraq war, have never visited Israel This poll is further evidence of a concerted effort by the pro-Israeli groups to back away from their support of the Iraq war in light of the current political climate. This poll may have been valid if they had done it in the run-up to the Iraq war, and not after the fact.
12-21-05 - France beefs up Palestinian aid Paris has doubled 2005 aid to the Palestinian territories to $6.5 million, the French Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Wednesday.
12-21-05 - IDF: Iranian threat on Israel substantial IDF Intelligence Chief says Iran's threat on Israel growing due to U.S.'s deep involvement in Iraq
12-21-05 - Muslim, Israeli officials establish close relations
12-21-05 - Republican Jewish Coalition Thanks Senator Santorum for Iran Resolution which condemned the recent disparaging and destructive statements made toward Israel and all Jewish people by Iran?s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12-21-05 - Jerusalem Palestinians inaugurate "Peace Stadium" Palestinians are slowly being closed out of Jerusalem.
12-21-05 - Christmas behind Israel's wall
12-21-05 - Israel boycott decision criticized The Anti-Defamation League condemned a regional Parliament in Norway that launched a boycott of Israeli products.
12-21-05 - Rice: Talk of Israeli strike on Iran ?unhelpful?
12-21-05 - Israeli Capt. Speaks on Mideast Conflict One student asked how many Palestinians have been killed in the five years of conflict. Dallal said 4,000 but that the differentiation between combatants and civilians is harder to establish than for Israelis because women and children are sometimes suicide bombers and, therefore, combatants. That's strange because women and children were also considered 'combatants' by the IDF long before the advent of suicide bombings. Imagine.
12-21-05 - House passes Saudi education resolution JTA recently revealed in a special investigation that Saudi Arabia is also funding teaching materials for American public schools that contain anti-Israel and anti-Western views.
12-21-05 - Unrecognised villages in the Negev expose Israel's apartheid policies
12-21-05 - Israel's special forces at the "highest stage of readiness"
12-21-05 - Republicans fear lobbyist's plea bargain Abramoff was also found to be giving money to extremist Israeli settler groups.
12-21-05 - U.S. Terror Victims' Families Sue Italy The families of three Americans killed in Palestinian suicide bombings have accused the Italian government of siding with Iran in a legal battle to collect damages from the Islamic regime's assets in Italy More legislation in US Congress to be passed in light of these recent events, news at six.
12-20-05 - Child injured in Al Boriej refugee camp
12-20-05 - Gunmen seize Bethlehem City Hall
12-20-05 - Palestine gets $720,000 to aid vote
12-20-05 - Peace workers denied access to Bethlehem
12-20-05 - Nablus Region: Palestinian Farmers Protest Massive Settler Vandalism
12-20-05 - Qassam shell lands in a military base in the northern Gaza Strip
12-20-05 - EU's Solana Says 1,000 People a Day Use Gaza Border Crossing
12-20-05 - Despite missed deadline, Quartet peace plan still valid: UN envoy He noted that the 15 December start of convoys between Gaza and the West Bank were suspended despite efforts of the United States and Quartet Special Envoy James Wolfensohn to ensure that Israel?s security concerns were met
12-20-05 - Right-wing group prepares to build 15 new illegal outposts A far-right group intends to build fifteen new illegal outposts across the West Bank
12-20-05 - Israel Threatens With New Tactics to Halt Rocket Fire Israel has informed the Palestinian Authority (PA) that power to Gaza would be shut on Monday for two hours
12-20-05 - World's Monetary Debt to Israel Doubles Then they don't need our billions in taxpayer aid anymore, right?
12-20-05 - Bush tells Sharon: Exercise and watch what you eat U.S. President George W. Bush advised Israel's hefty Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday to watch what he eats and get more exercise after wishing him speedy recovery from a mild stroke 'Don't die on me yet oh weighty wonder, who will replace you as my puppeteer?'
12-20-05 - IRISH ZIONIST SLUR BLASTED BY ISRAEL "We are here as our birthright not as a conqueror." Then why are almost all of Israel's territorial gains a result of FORCE?
12-20-05 - Senate passes Iran condemnation More legislation for Israel. We are now up to a resolution a week.
12-20-05 - Ze'evi: US-Iran diplomatic process 'stuck in the mud' He warned that Iran posed a substantial threat to Israel's security, and that the United States was "stuck in the mud" in dealing with the situation.
12-20-05 - The US congress message push Palestinians back to the military track For years Palestinians and the international community have been encouraging Palestinian militants to seek the civilian route as a way of demanding an end to the Israeli occupation. Veteran Israeli leader Shimon Peres repeatedly called on Palestinians to use the ballot instead of the bullet. And suddenly when this argument seems to be heeded by Palestinians, the message from the US congress seems to be pushing Palestinians back to the military track
12-20-05 - 30+ Jewish & Palestine Orgs defy EU secrecy
12-20-05 - MI chief: Int'l pressure delayed Iran's nuclear bid by two years
12-20-05 - ADL: Evangelicals threat to religious pluralism Foxman said that Evangelical Christians are attempting to implement changes "by legislation," Irony and chutzpah are two terms that come to mind.
12-20-05 - Shin Bet to testify against Hamas in U.S.
12-20-05 - Foxman: Spielberg's 'Munich' treats Israel fairly Moreover, he said, the film "shows with respect and understanding ... the need to respond to terrorism." In that sense, he added, the movie could even be seen as a defense of America's actions in Iraq
12-20-05 - Spielberg and Kushner Smear Israel
12-19-05 - Israeli strikes on Gaza injure six
12-19-05 - Palestinian: IDF dog bites boy in Nablus The latest incident marks the second time where a dog bites a child in the course of searches during anti-terror operations. Two weeks ago, a dog bit another 12 year-old child in Jenin. The IDF's Spokesperson Unit has yet to respond to the latest incident.
12-19-05 - West Bank settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees The trees had been destroyed by youths living in an unauthorised settlement outpost close to the major city of Nablus over the last few days but there had been no arrests,
12-19-05 - Jihad vows not to participate in elections, nor to renew truce
12-19-05 - Main road destroyed in northern Gaza F16 Israeli jets attacked the road and destroyed it entirely, after targeting it with two missiles
12-19-05 - Ministerial talks with Palestinians eyed
12-19-05 - Hamas wants satellite station
12-19-05 - Hebron Update: 9 - 15 December 2005 "You see that girl? She is the ring leader. She is a future
Osama Bin Laden." Nah. They're not prejudiced over there.
12-19-05 - Hebron Update: 2 - 9 December 2005 Yehuda Shaul led the tour, and at the conclusion took the
group to the top of the hill past the Jewish cemetery near Tel Rumeida.
There he gave his own testimony of his time as a soldier in 2001, with
orders nightly for "punitive fire" at Haret e-Sheikh. He read the testimony
of other soldiers from the "Breaking the Silence" project. His accounts
throughout the tour closely matched the testimonies of Palestinians and
CPTers of the time.
12-19-05 - Bethlehem visitor drive thwarted by road blocks
12-19-05 - The Israeli diplomat linked to the AIPAC affair is back in Washington Gilon's reappearance in Washington is to some extent surprising and calming - helping to make the case that there are no longer any serious allegations concerning Israel's involvement in the AIPAC affair.
12-19-05 - Beilin: No peace without Jerusalem division Meretz-Yahad Chairman Yossi Beilin could not help but smile over a recent Yedioth Ahronoth poll indicating that 49 percent of Israelis are willing to cede parts of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
12-19-05 - Gulf summit raps Israel, not Iran on nuclear issue
12-19-05 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Israel next month German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit Israel next month, the government said Sunday, on a trip meant in part to signal solidarity following recent anti-Israel outbursts by the president of Iran.
12-19-05 - Analysis / Congress keeps one eye on the Jewish lobby The resolution by the U.S. Congress, which is couched in vague terms, is typical of its behavior in an election year (elections are in November 2006) in which its members need funding and political support from the pro-Israel AIPAC
12-19-05 - Sharon recovers as chief rival wins control of Likud
12-19-05 - Sharon's aide helps Spielberg promote controversial film Steven Spielberg has hired the public relations consultant who is spearheading Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's re-election campaign to promote his film Munich
12-19-05 - Help EI Make Intelligent Noise
12-19-05 - Italians debate anti-Semitism and islamophobia The deputy prime minister of Italy has said he believes the Europe is "unbalanced" and "insensitive" towards Israel.
12-19-05 - European-Israeli honeymoon this change also stems from - perhaps mainly from ? the fact that European governments now face the same terrorist threats and violence at home and abroad. This has caused them for the first time to feel some solidarity with Israel.
12-19-05 - Sweden sends more aid to Palestine
12-19-05 - Holocaust II and the neocon conspiracy
12-18-05 - Israel mounts new air strikes in Gaza
12-18-05 - Booby-trapped car forces West Bank hospital evacuation
12-18-05 - Body of Palestinian resident found in Gaza
12-18-05 - Vote propels militant Hamas Ironically, Hamas's success is more a reflection of anger at government corruption and the growing infighting within the party established by Yasser Arafat, rather than a vote of confidence in the Islamic militants' prescription for armed struggle instead of peace talks, analysts say.
12-18-05 - EU May Cut Aid if Hamas Wins at Polls The European Union's foreign policy chief warned Sunday that the EU could halt tens of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians if the militant Hamas group wins next month's Palestinian elections and fails to renounce violence
12-18-05 - Christian Palestinian's family part of exodus from the Holy Land In 1948, during Israel's war of independence, her mother's family was given two hours to leave home.
12-18-05 - Israel reneges on bus deal The convoys across Israel should have begun operating last Thursday under the terms of the agreement overseen by Condoleezza Rice
12-18-05 - Spanish attorney Injured in Bil?in
12-18-05 - Racism in Israel In all layers of society life Palestinians are being discriminated against, from education and employment to land allocation and community subsidy. Illegal houses (built because Palestinians in Israel could not obtain building permits, where Jews from all over the world could) are being demolished. In the meantime Israel is building settlements in the West Bank illegally.
12-18-05 - Israel opposes start of Gaza-West Bank convoys
12-18-05 - Lebanon to complain to UN of Israeli land, sea, air space violations It would be the second such complaint in just over a month. Israel is quite bold now that Syria is out of Lebanon.
12-18-05 - Sharon taken to hospital Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon suffered a mild stroke tonight and was rushed to Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital for treatment, hospital officials said
12-18-05 - Israeli Arab lawmaker blasts Zionism
12-18-05 - RRJP: No Peace without Refugees Right of Return
12-18-05 - Rival Fatah groups reach poll deal LEADERS of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement agreed today to present two separate lists of candidates for January elections to try to end a damaging split
12-18-05 - Israel asks EU to fund Haifa-Jenin-Jordan railway
12-18-05 - Shells fired at Ashkelon, Sderot
12-18-05 - Four Palestinians die of anxiety attacks as army shelled Gaza In a press release, Dr. Hassanen said that the four residents had chronic diseases such as heart, diabetes and blood pressure; they died as the military apaches, and artillery were shelling several areas in the Gaza Strip
12-18-05 - Families of Jordanian prisoners protest
12-18-05 - Germany to ask UN to censure Iran over president's Israel remarks
12-18-05 - Lawmakers say Colorado can learn from Israel The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado sponsored and paid for a big chunk of the trip. Rose and Penry said legislators footed the rest of the bill.
12-18-05 - Environmental Action: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover-- NEF's 4Rs for the West Bank
12-18-05 - Muted Christmas for Russians in the Jewish state While there is no move to prevent anyone celebrating Christmas, the idea of immigrants marking Christian holidays, wearing crucifixes and selling non-Kosher products raises eyebrows among religious authorities.
"Many in the religious community are unhappy about this,"
12-18-05 - Religious McDonald's Sign Draws Attention In Raleigh Woman Asks Restaurant To Remove Sign, 'Jesus Is The Reason For The Season'
12-18-05 - NEF Support for the Palestinian Olive Oil Industry Gets Specific
12-18-05 - President Abbas Meets with EU's Solana
12-18-05 - Remarks by the Vice President at a Rally for the Troops They've made clear, as well, their ultimate ambition: to acquire weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries, to cause mass death in the United States Israel cited again as the reason why we are in 'war on terror'.
12-18-05 - W. Bank, Gaza Strip may split into 2 entities: Israeli official
12-18-05 - A rich and terrifying convergence The new films, likely Oscar contenders all, speak with first-person urgency, giving us radically different perspectives on the source of the present Mideast conflict, but all arriving at strikingly similar conclusions.
12-18-05 - Children of Palestine The Holy Land 2006 Calendar
12-17-05 - Israeli aircraft pound Gaza to stop rocket fire Four Palestinians were wounded in at least nine raids, including three policeman and a baby who was hit in the face with shrapnel, medics said.
12-17-05 - Palestinian militant killed in clashes with Israeli troops in northern Gaza
12-17-05 - Israeli-Arabs, PA collaborators clash Arab-Israeli Knesset members slammed the government for relocating the collaborators to the village and providing them with arms.
12-17-05 - PA, Hamas denounce U.S. Congress decision
12-17-05 - Hamas to run in Palestinian ballot despite US call
12-17-05 - Entire Region of Norway to Boycott Israeli Goods
12-17-05 - Shalom praises US House for decision The pro-Israel lobby in Washington (AIPAC) who worked behind the scenes to garner support for the resolution issued a statement Friday praising the resolution and calling on the PA to take immediate action to prevent the Hamas from participating in the elections.
12-17-05 - Palestinian officials urge Abbas to delay election
12-17-05 - Armed groups: "Truce has ended"
12-17-05 - Tanks shell Gaza
12-17-05 - Bethlehem invites increase in holiday visits it is almost impossible for ordinary Palestinians, Muslim or Christian, to enter Jerusalem for work, family gatherings or prayer.
The result is a 50 percent to 60 percent unemployment rate, according to the mayor, and steady emigration of local families. In 1990, 60 percent of Bethlehem's residents were Christians. Today that number is estimated at just 20 percent to 30 percent.
12-17-05 - U.S. threatens PA sanctions The Palestinian Authority risks losing U.S. financial aid and other support if it allows Hamas to participate in parliamentary elections next month, the House of representatives says
12-17-05 - Abbas accepts resignations of six ministers
12-17-05 - Israeli Military constructs three roadblocks on the road from At-Tuwani to Yattta This road is one of the few that
Palestinians from the villages south of 317 have to access hospitals
and markets in the larger populated area of Yatta
12-17-05 - Arab American fights stereotypes with comedy
12-17-05 - Former Head of the Intelligence Branch of the Israel Defense Forces and Chief of Staff Charged in U.S. Court with War Crimes for Shelling of U.N. Compound Pro-Israeli influence in America will likely see to it that this gets thrown out, despite all of the newfound 'concern' for the Lebanese in the Bush admin
12-17-05 - Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel Senator John Warner of Virginia, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently argued in an interview with MSNBC that a premature American pullout would "put Israel in a very tenuous and vulnerable position." And a GOP activist, Bruce Blakeman, told the Forward that Israel's security has always played a key role in the president's thinking on Iraq. Pro-Israeli groups are now backpeddling away from their critical support of the Iraq war.
12-17-05 - Israeli cluster bombs found in southern Lebanon
12-17-05 - Gulf Arabs warn against regional nuclear arms race
12-17-05 - Peres: "Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel"
12-17-05 - Giants running back Tiki Barber Giants running back Tiki Barber recently traveled for the Peres Center for Peace to Jerusalem, where he played football with Palestinian children.
12-17-05 - PNA rejects Israeli plan to resolve conflict: Erekat He said that the plan indicates Israeli attempts to topple issues of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees' rights, annexing settlements, water and defining borders unilaterally due to Israeli dictations as well as annexing Jordan valley area.
12-17-05 - A little bit of Bethlehem With hardly any pilgrims venturing into Bethlehem these days, scores of workshops have closed. The idea behind Gifts from Bethlehem is to keep as many workers employed as possible
12-17-05 - Churches strongly condemn anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial
12-16-05 - Israeli settler killed in Hebron
12-16-05 - Palestinian 'beaten to death'
12-16-05 - British UN worker unlawfully shot A British UN project manager shot by an Israeli sniper was unlawfully killed, a UK inquest has concluded
12-16-05 - Bil'in's Non-Violent Struggle Endures in the Face of Israeli Violence A 61 year old Spanish activist was pushed off of a rocky ledge by a soldier and broke her shoulder. She is currently hospitalized in Ramallah
12-16-05 - Eight injured, four arrested in Bil?in The protestors wrote the names of landowners, who lost their orchards for the construction of the Wall, on big sings in English, Arabic and Hebrew
12-16-05 - Iran vows "destructive" response to any Israeli attack
12-16-05 - PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND, helping arab children in the middle east
12-16-05 - Hamas deals blow to Fatah in local elections
12-16-05 - Israeli navy fires at Lebanese fishermen
12-16-05 - Closure imposed on West Bank and Gaza Strip, several areas shelled
12-16-05 - West Bank, Gaza USAID Vocational and Technical Program Grant The USAID West Bank and Gaza Mission seeks to implement a three-year project to provide youth with new employment opportunities leading to a reduction in unemployment among 15-30 year olds
12-16-05 - UNICEF: 200 Palestinian Children are still in Israeli Prisons
12-16-05 - House backs Jewish month The measure, introduced by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), asks President Bush to declare January as American Jewish History Month by executive order.
12-16-05 - Half of Israelis favor deal on Jerusalem: poll
12-16-05 - Former IDF chief: War crimes suit won't disrupt U.S. stay Unlike previous suits for damages against senior Israeli defense officials, the lawsuits submitted against Ya'alon and Dichter will be processed by the U.S. court system because the two are currently staying in the U.S.
12-16-05 - Influential congresswoman faults Bush on Iran Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is an Israel-firster, judging by the amount of legislation she proposes to our Congress on behalf of Israel.
12-16-05 - US confident Gaza crossing deal will be back on track
12-16-05 - Planned Billboard Angers Arab Americans The billboard, scheduled to go up this month near the state Capitol in Raleigh, shows a man in traditional Arab head scarf.
12-16-05 - Most Israelis oppose strike against Iran: poll
12-16-05 - Egypt's Muslim Brothers brand Israel a 'cancer'
12-16-05 - Hamas resolution passes The resolution, supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and opposed by Americans for Peace Now, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday in a 397-17 vote. More legislation for Israel.
12-16-05 - Pro-Rice letter garners 108 lawmakers The Zionist Organization of American opposed the letter, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was tacit.
12-16-05 - Solana to visit Gaza
12-16-05 - Iran Could Be Sanctioned for Riling Israel
12-16-05 - Growing al-Qaida threat to Jordan worries Israel
12-16-05 - Immunity was a mistake "I propose thinking very carefully before blocking the way to the these suits in Israeli courts ... There is a more realistic danger that we will find ourselves facing these suits in various courts in other countries, with far fewer defenses under far less favorable conditions ... No one will be able to defend this stupidity."
12-16-05 - Harvard Urged To Return $20M Gift Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.), wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Tuesday urging him to return the recent $20 million gift for Islamic Studies given by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. You had to know this was coming, and from the usual corners. Weiner couldn't be any more of an Israeli shill if he tried.
12-16-05 - Bolton: Israel treated unequally at U.N. ?I want to make it clear that we are not finished with the issue,? he said. The only issue John Bolton has dealt with to date at the UN is Israel. John Bolton = ISRAEL'S new ambaassador to the UN.
12-16-05 - Oppose all human rights' violators Canada should push for resolutions which condemn other human rights violators as well as condemn Israel.
12-15-05 - Israeli jets raid Gaza
12-15-05 - Israel Prepares To Demolish Elderly Couple's Home The Israeli authorities are preparing to demolish the house of an elderly couple in East Jerusalem, on the grounds that it was built without a permit.
12-15-05 - Film relives horror of Lebanese camp massacres Several mention that Israeli army officers conferred with the militia's leaders in Beirut on the eve of the massacres. Unlike massacres in some other conflicts, the perpetrators of Sabra and Shatila have not been brought to justice.
12-15-05 - Hamas says will step up attacks if Israel hits Iran
12-15-05 - Fatah faces split as militant leader quits to set up rival movement
12-15-05 - Israel delays Gaza bus link start On Thursday, Deputy Defence Minister Zeev Boim told Israel Radio that it had been a mistake to sign the agreement negotiated by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
12-15-05 - Israeli sued in Washington A former Israeli military chief of staff was sued over his alleged role in the killing of more than 100 Lebanese civilians in 1996....It was the second such serving in a week
12-15-05 - U.S.-Israel scanner deal signed The United States and Israel signed a $50 million agreement to put high-tech scanners at border crossings into Palestinian areas.
The money comes out of $300 million earmarked this year for the Palestinians Palestinians get to pay for the Israeli checkpoints.
12-15-05 - US and Palestinian children break Holy City barriers Touched by the cards and messages, the children in Bethlehem decided to write back to the children in New York to wish them a Merry Christmas Awww.
12-15-05 - 45 million euros for electricity supply of Palestinian areas
12-15-05 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY ESTABLISHES NEW EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND The Assembly also adopted a resolution on assistance to the Palestinian people, emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all children in the Middle East region, and express its grave concern at the deterioration in the living conditions of the Palestinian people, particularly children, throughout the Occupied Territories, which constitutes a mounting humanitarian crisis.
12-15-05 - Israel delays start of bus convoys
12-15-05 - Farmers March For Their Lives This checkpoint has served as the only venue where Palestinian farmers could sell their produce to Israeli traders for distribution. For the last two weeks the checkpoint has been closed and the farmers produce has been left to rot.
12-15-05 - 23 residents arrested in Anabta and Tulkarem
12-15-05 - Settlers who invaded Hebron market face evacuation Jewish settlers from Hebron, who invaded the town's wholesale market, will be evacuated from there by mid February
12-15-05 - IDF blows up car bomb after tip off from PA security forces Palestinian security officials tipped the Israelis off to the car after it raised their suspicions
12-15-05 - Congressman: Save the holidays Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) planned to introduce his resolution Thursday evening to counter another resolution, introduced earlier by Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.), that ?recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas? and ?strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas.?
12-15-05 - Israel Troubled by Bush's Priorities The Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. fear that Washington's need for Tehran's cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and thus permitting most U.S. forces there to withdraw over the next year has weakened the administration's leverage to push for stronger action against Iran on the nuclear issue, even as it continues to insist that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability is "unacceptable."
12-15-05 - Spielberg's Munich: A Post-9/11 Cautionary Tale? later in the film another Palestinian speaks for the cause of a Palestinian homeland. Conservative pro-Israel hawks will be peeved by this
12-15-05 - Israeli consul general takes jab at Muslims "I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, but I can say something else: All terrorists are Muslims," Ben Gad said.
12-15-05 - US Jews feel threatened by religious right "Every room (from bedroom to classroom) in the American mansion is under assault to impose either de facto or de jure a Christian theocracy -- I call them Christocrats," said Rabbi James Rudin, former head of interreligious activities for the American Jewish Committee. The irony. For we American taxpayers are forced to support Israel- a state based on religion
12-15-05 - Western diplomats fear Israel will partially implement convoys deal Western diplomats expressed concerns that Israel will start operating the convoys between the Gaza Strip and the west Bank on a merely token fashion to oblige the American administration, which practiced pressure on Israel to implement the deal, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.
12-15-05 - Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says. The BS-o-meter just broke.
12-15-05 - Hawke urges US to address Palestinian statehood Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke on Thursday said that the fight against terrorism will not succeed unless the United States leads efforts to create a viable Palestinian state.
12-15-05 - Civil Rights Groups Question FBI Interrogation of Muslim Student A pair of area civil rights groups are angry after discovering a Muslim Elk Grove high school student was taken out of class and questioned by FBI agents over a doodle on his binder two years ago
12-15-05 - The Mid-East's beleaguered Christians Though they have made few converts in the Middle East, the evangelical churches are an influential part of President Bush's political constituency in the United States.
12-15-05 - Finnish national of Palestinian descent deported from Israel Qassem came to Israel to attend a special conference to be held in Nazareth over the weekend, discussing the Palestinian refugees and displaced persons in Israel
12-15-05 - Christmas Tree Lit up in Bethlehem
12-15-05 - Hamas resolution considered The resolution, supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and opposed by Americans for Peace Now, was considered late Wednesday night, and was set to undergo a roll call on Thursday.
12-15-05 - Jail time for plot against rabbi The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday sentenced the member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to 12 years in prison after he confessed to the plot against Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Same rabbi here: Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs
12-15-05 - Israel Fears It Is Zarqawi's Next Target
12-15-05 - Busharon The Israelis have also obliged recently, providing legal advice to the U.S. State Department on how to justify assassinations. Israeli military trainers have passed on the lessons of Jenin and Nablus to the Marines in Falluja. Lest you think the Israelis stingy, they don't limit their largesse to the federal government. They are now spreading their anti-terrorism gospel to every town and city police chief in the U.S. Charleston, South Carolina breathes easier, thanks to the knowledge gleaned from Israel by their Sheriff Cannon (I did not make that up), who is in charge of port security there.
12-15-05 - Coroner to see secret army report
12-15-05 - Former IDF chief sued in U.S. court for his role in Kafr Kana shelling Ya'alon is currently in Washington D.C. as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He is scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at a conference on Thursday night.
12-15-05 - Russia Blasts Iranian Remarks on Holocaust, Israel
12-15-05 - Former Israel Chief of Staff sued in U.S Courts
12-15-05 - Bush postpones embassy move President Bush extended for another six months an act of Congress that would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
12-14-05 - Gun battle erupts outside Fatah HQ in Gaza
12-14-05 - Barrier limits access to Jerusalem health care "It seems that the patients are again paying the price for the political aspirations of the Israeli government," the report said, adding that the future of the hospitals could be imperilled if patient numbers continue to dwindle.
12-14-05 - Bethlehem Mayor Asks Pilgrims to Visit
12-14-05 - Qalandiya checkpoint between yesterday and today
12-14-05 - Israel approves 200 homes in W.Bank settlement Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has approved 200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, a government official said on Wednesday, despite a call by a U.S.-backed peace plan for a halt to such construction This is in violation of international law, and is not a move conducive to peace.
12-14-05 - Election revolt against Fatah's 'old guard' splits party in two
12-14-05 - Israel delays start of Gaza-W. Bank bus convoys
12-14-05 - Sharon 'plans to share Jerusalem with Palestinians' Mr Sharon denied a report in Newsweek which said he was willing to give 90% of the West Bank to the Palestinians and compromise on Jerusalem in return for peace.
12-14-05 - Bethlehem residents protest security terminal *
12-14-05 - Bush: Don?t blame Israel for Iraq Days ago, Bush himself cited Israel's security as the reason for the push for democracy in the ME.
12-14-05 - Iranian President Calls Holocaust a 'Myth'
12-14-05 - UN brings Israeli, Palestinian law officials together to fight drug trafficking
12-14-05 - The agony of the Ecstasy "Israeli drug-trafficking organizations are the main source of distribution of the drug to groups in the U.S, using express mail services, commercial airlines, and recently also using air cargo services,"
12-14-05 - Vandalism Victim Breaks His Silence By MOE SALEH
12-14-05 - IDF figures show dramatic drop in terror
12-14-05 - President of European Jewish Congress Calls for Sanctions Against Iran
12-14-05 - Golden Globe nod for 'Paradise Now'
12-14-05 - Life returns to Palestinian village
12-14-05 - Jewish leaders praise Corzine?s choice of Menendez as Senate replacement Praising him as a strong supporter of Israel since he first entered the House of Representatives in 1992, Jewish community leaders welcomed the appointment of U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez (D-Dist. 13) to replace Gov.-elect Jon Corzine in the United States Senate next month....Josh Block, spokesperson for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, described Menendez as "among the few really outstanding leaders on issues of importance to the pro-Israel community."
12-14-05 - Annan Calls For Redoubling of Efforts to Meet Road Map Obligations
12-14-05 - Preach Peace, Sami; Get Truthful, Tribune and Prosecutors Much more important: Is it just a little bit possible that if some of the oceans of money and time you federal hot-shots wasted chasing Al-Arian had been spent looking for real terrorists, maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened? My sentiments exactly.
12-14-05 - Al-Arian's Near Total Acquittal Raises More Questions Than It Answers Evidence that the prosecution and media persecution of Al-Arian was an Israeli operation from the get-go continues to mount. In reporting the verdict, the Jerusalem Post wrote, "Israel has played a major role in the prosecution, providing countless documents regarding the conduct of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad... ."
12-14-05 - OPT: President calls on Israel authorities to contribute to creating appropriate conditions for Palestinian local elections
12-14-05 - Police chief meets with Hamilton Jews The forum at the temple came after Mullan has had to defend a visit he made to Israel last March, along with about 30 other Ontario law enforcement officials and politicians, to take part in training sessions on dealing with terrorism.
12-14-05 - Tali Fahima: I had no intention of harming Israeli security
12-14-05 - Canada votes against Israel in UN again Canada voted against a resolution on the work of a special committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting Palestinian human rights.
12-14-05 - Palestinian film hit in U.S., dud in Israel
12-14-05 - Presbyterians hold back on divestment Chicago Presbyterians on Tuesday overwhelmingly agreed that Presbyterian Church (USA) should confront corporations that prolong Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, but they divided on whether it should use economic leverage to push for peace
12-14-05 - O?Dea denies neutrality diminished "I do not think that Irish military is going to be involved with a peacekeeping mission with Israel in the near future, as long as it continues its attack on Palestinian rights."
12-14-05 - At odds over U.S. resolution on Hamas Jewish groups are at odds over a congressional resolution that threatens repercussions should Hamas join a Palestinian government.
12-13-05 - Gunbattles erupt in West Bank as Gaza farmer killed Doctors said that one of the 16 Palestinian victims, a 22-year-old student, was pronounced brain dead after being shot by the Israeli forces in the head. ...Palestinian medics said that a farmer, named as Ahmed al-Qara, was killed on Tuesday morning by one of the shells fired into the village of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis. While Israeli military sources said that they were not aware of any tank shelling since the previous evening, witnesses confirmed that there had been intermittent shelling throughout the night.
12-13-05 - Two Palestinians killed in flare-up of violence Israeli forces killed two Palestinian civilians on Tuesday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the latest flare-up of violence...They said troops shot dead a Palestinian bystander ...Israeli troops firing into the Gaza Strip also killed a Palestinian man near Gaza's boundary with Israel where militants and soldiers have exchanged fire in recent days, witnesses said.
12-13-05 - One resident killed, one injured in Gaza The source identified the resident as Fadi Abdul-Basit A