November '05 Archive

November '05 Archive

11-30-05 - Palestinian youth shot, injured in Israeli army operation in West Bank The Palestinians say the 14-year-old was hit in the head by live fire.

11-30-05 - 14 arrested, more than 17 injured in the West Bank Eleven residents were injured in the West Bank city of Nablus, among them a 14-year old child who suffered a serious injury in his head.

11-30-05 - Israel and the Occupied Territories: The fence/wall violates human rights Amnesty International believes that the construction by Israel of the fence/wall inside the Occupied Territories violates international law and is contributing to grave human rights violations

11-30-05 - Joint Police, IDF, and Settler Campaign to Remove Human Rights Workers from Tel Rumeida, Hebron Police fail to respond to phone calls for assistance from HRW?s or Palestinians when settlers attack. When police do respond, they often do nothing, refuse to stop settlers from attacking and do not arrest settlers

11-30-05 - Palestinians offer their help to gain freedom for kidnapped CPTers CPT Hebron feels deep gratitude for the efforts of these speakers, and for the organizers who worked so hard on behalf of the CPTers taken hostage in Iraq. As the participants left, one after another stopped to express their sympathy, and their hope that the hostages will soon be free.

11-30-05 - Israeli soldiers stop villagers from plowing, assault An Israeli military commander for the At-Tuwani area arrived, saying although 'the civil administration doesn't have any decision on the [ownership of] the land', the military was declaring it a closed military zone, effectively preventing Palestinian access to the land.

11-30-05 - An Interview with Congressman Jim Gerlach PJV: In a recent interview, Gov. Howard Dean, who visited Israel just last month, said that while Israelis were initially happy to see the U.S. remove Saddam Hussein from power, they're starting to disagree with the assessment you just gave. He said there is growing anxiety among Israelis that the war in Iraq has destabilized the region, increased terrorism and emboldened Iran. Americans being blamed by Israelis for destabilization of the ME. This is rich.

11-30-05 - For Christian hostages, a perilous peace trek Last month, Fox helped lead one of the team's more grueling missions, helping 19 Palestinian refugees who were trying to migrate to Syria because of rising animosity against Palestinians in post-Hussein Iraq. Team members rode with the Palestinians to the Syrian border and camped with them in the desert for a portion of the five weeks it took to get the refugees entry. Fox, who is tall and thin, later joked that the trip had been a great weight-loss program.

11-30-05 - Israel sees Iran nuclear countdown "If, by the end of March, it does not succeed in transferring the issue to the Security Council, it will be possible to say that the diplomatic effort has failed,"

11-30-05 - Israel bothered by Gaza crossing He threatened the Palestinian Authority with the closure of border crossings from Israel. "If there is not a positive Palestinian response, we will close the Erez and Karni crossings until the information is transferred," he said. Here we go..

11-30-05 - AIPAC slams White House on Iran The American Israel Public Affairs Committee criticized the White House for not pushing the U.N. nuclear watchdog to recommend sanctions for Iran.

11-30-05 - Rebuilding the Palestinian police The Gaza Strip is littered with deadly devices, from mines left behind by the Israeli army to explosives planted by militants and even shells dating back to WW1.

11-30-05 - UN launches biggest annual appeal

11-30-05 - Arab MK Ahmad Tibi says Israeli courts can?t try Palestinian legislators

11-30-05 - Peres quits Labour to support Sharon

11-30-05 - Comments from Commissioner Michel during his visit to the Khan Yunis refugee camp and the Rafah Border Crossing "Be sure that Europe does not forget you, we will never let you down. The agreement I just signed is a clear sign that we are and will be supporting Palestinian refugees"

11-30-05 - UN gives up on anti-terrorism treaty by year-end The dispute has centered primarily on how to classify Palestinian suicide bombings and Israeli military actions in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza.

11-30-05 - Hamas Leader Says He Won't Renew Truce "Hamas is not going to renew the truce because Israel did not abide by the conditions of the truce."

11-30-05 - Greens, Calling for Palestinian Rights, Urge Divestment from Israel

11-30-05 - EU told, 'Act Now for Peace in Palestine' Former Dutch Prime Minister, Andreas van Agt and Clare Short MP, former Secretary of State for International Development, will address MEPs in Brussels tomorrow at a reception calling on the EU to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement until Israel?s Occupation of Palestine is ended.

11-30-05 - Profile: Christian Peacemaker Teams Volunteers live among the Palestinians, accompanying children to school and ordinary people through Israeli checkpoints.

11-30-05 - Israeli admits helping militant An Israeli woman facing charges of aiding a wanted Palestinian militant has agreed a plea bargain deal with the authorities, legal officials said.

11-30-05 - Palestinian president to meet Pope The Pope's meeting with Arafat in Bethlehem, during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2000, was a powerful signal of the Vatican's concern for the rights of Palestinians and the peace process in the Middle East.

11-30-05 - Little town of Bethlehem imprisoned by Apartheid wall Perhaps you simply did not have time to stop by and greet us, the people who would be the other half of any agreement which would allow Israel to live in security and peace. Or perhaps while you had Bethlehem in the background of the publicity photos, you had certain of your constituents in New York in the forefront of your mind.

11-30-05 - Undercover unit exposed in Bethlehem The incident comes at troubled times for the Duvdevan unit which suffered another humiliation last week when an officer and two soldiers in its ranks refused to participate in a key anti-terror operation in Jenin, citing their unwillingness to put their lives on the line.

11-30-05 - Abbas condemns Israeli assault of Palestinian prisoners

11-30-05 - Move to Shrink Palestinian Programmes Spurs Protest A New York newspaper quoted U.S. Ambassador John Bolton as saying that the United States would oppose the adoption of the U.N.'s two-year budget for 2006-2007 until and unless there were wide ranging changes in management, including "the elimination of outdated missions". According to one Arab diplomat, "this is a code word for Palestinian programmes". He said the move to "shrink" the U.N. Division for Palestinian Rights and the proposal to eliminate or downsize the two committees dealing with Palestinian issues are being prompted by two countries: the United States and Israel.

11-30-05 - Palestinian Authority: Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza

11-30-05 - Israel-Palestine Clash on West Bank

11-30-05 - Jailed Fatah leader to be appointed as Abbas deputy: official A senior Fatah official hinted on Wednesday that Marwan Barghouti, jailed Fatah leader, could be nominated as deputy to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas

11-30-05 - Amid celebrations, Gazans fully aware of reality

11-30-05 - Israel can hand suspected drug kingpin to US: court Israel's Supreme Court gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the extradition to the United States of an Israeli suspected of running an international ring that smuggled 700,000 Ecstasy pills into New York.

11-30-05 - Tufts students get preview of film on peace activists

11-30-05 - Senators spar over Mideast policy Prud?homme, an independent from Quebec appointed to the upper chamber in 1993, wondered whether Cotler, the Jewish member for the Montreal-area riding, ?is responsible in cabinet for vetting every word, comma and paragraph of anything pertaining to the Middle East.?

11-30-05 - King stresses Bahrain's solidarity with Palestine

11-30-05 - Erdogan Meets Leaders Of Palestine, Lebanon And Israel

11-30-05 - National Guard begins exchange with Israeli forces "We are two nations in a world that is a very, very dangerous place. We are two democracies with a common purpose and common values. There are some things that we can offer to you back in the states, and there are some magnificent opportunities for us over here." Apartheid, as one example, is not an American value, last I checked.

11-30-05 - Taxpayers, Beware: It's Time to Act on Bias! Instead of this board, a Senate version of a bill on the issue leaves it all in the hands of the Secretary of Education. The secretary would have the power to suspend federal funding to universities where bias is rampant. But after 60 days, the funding would be reinstated, no matter whether complaints had been resolved or not. Pro-Israeli groups seek to force, via the withholding of federal monies, their viewpoints down the throats of college students. It will backfire in the end.

11-30-05 - UN senior official says peace process in Middle East hopeful with immense challenges

11-30-05 - Bomb targets house of Syrian resident in Ain al-Hilweh camp bomb targeted the house of a Syrian resident in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon on Wednesday. No injuries were reported.

11-30-05 - Do You Know What I Know? And so I am left, disheartened that Ahmed?s uplifting story is buried behind more of the same mind-numbing stories of car bombs and election analyses and how a Supreme Court nominee might vote on a particular issue.

11-30-05 - Holy Land Christians "We are obliged this year to draw attention to the growing difficulties faced by Palestinian Christians who, although they belong to a faith born in that very land, are sometimes viewed with suspicion by their neighbours," Archbishop Migliore said at the United Nations Nov. 1.

11-30-05 - Germany?s new leader backs Israel Angela Merkel stressed her commitment to the Jewish state and said Iran, whose president recently called for Israel?s destruction, must cooperate with International Atomic Energy Agency inspections See this article from yesterday's news.

11-30-05 - O.U.: Hands off Israel elections The Orthodox Union called on U.S. Jews not to intervene in Israel?s electoral process. Passion for Israel "ought not be channeled into inappropriate interventions in the policy decisions of the duly elected Israeli government, Israel?s elections or into lobbying the American government to pressure Israel to make concessions it would not otherwise make,"

11-30-05 - Palestinians demonstrate in support of prisoners

11-30-05 - Prosecutors drop charges in smuggling of fake money Prosecutors in federal court decided to drop all charges yesterday against an Israeli man who had wanted to plead guilty to smuggling $1.5 million in fake U.S. currency into Maryland

11-30-05 - Palestinians demonstrate in support of prisoners

11-30-05 - Jordan Backs UN Resolution Relative to Palestinian Sovereignty on Territories

11-29-05 - Israeli, Palestinian forces clash in Bethlehem

11-29-05 - Three Palestinians murdered in refugee camp

11-29-05 - P.A security, Israeli Special Forces clash in Bethlehem, two residents injued

11-29-05 - Israeli Security officer attacks a Palestinian at Maali Adumim settlement

11-29-05 - UN holds meeting to observe Palestinian Solidarity Day

11-29-05 - Hoyer looks to Israel aid Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he believes the United States will approve a supplemental aid package for Israel next year. This aid will be used to develop the Negev and Galilee while New Orleans still lays awaste

11-29-05 - European solidarity with the Palestinian people

11-29-05 - Assembly president urges Israel, Palestine to build peace along Road Map In an address marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Eliasson said "it is crucial that Palestinians and Israelis cooperate to the fullest extent possible. "

11-29-05 - Palestinian FM warns that Israeli settlements threaten chance for Palestinian state

11-29-05 - U.S., Israel discuss Iran Iran was a focus of the renewed Israel-U.S. strategic dialogue.

11-29-05 - Abbas condemns Israeli raid on W. Bank city Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Tuesday an Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Bethlehem which led to a clash with Palestinian police.

11-29-05 - Fatah vote delayed by gunmen, fraud charges

11-29-05 - Israel begins trial run of new West Bank crossing Israel has said it is building dozens of checkpoints -- from simple gates through which farmers can access their land to massive passenger and cargo terminals -- along its barrier.

11-29-05 - Chief Palestinian negotiator urges US to back upcoming polls "These elections, mark my word, will constitute a turning point in Palestinian political life,"

11-29-05 - EI EXCLUSIVE: Did UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw help sell out Jerusalem? British officials in Tel Aviv were treating Occupied East Jerusalem as if it were a part of sovereign Israel.

11-29-05 - Court nixes petition to connect power for young cancer patient How many Jewish settlements and neighborhoods in both Israel and the Occupied Territories are without power?

11-29-05 - E.U. official blasts Hamas Hamas will remain on the European Union?s list of terrorist organizations until it renounces violence and recognizes the State of Israel, E.U. officials said.

11-29-05 - Ongoing humanitarian commitment: Commissioner Michel visits the Palestinian Territories

11-29-05 - PARC calls for supporting the people of Salem village number of Jewish settlers from "Elon Moreh" settlement near Nablus uprooted at least 300 olive trees owned by the families of Salem from which they make a living

11-29-05 - Mofaz Urges Mushrooming Settlements in Private Palestinian Lands

11-29-05 - Palestinian youths put lives on line with checkpoint arrests "I wanted to go to prison as I am fed up with life. I would prefer to be in prison for I can study inside and my family will be entitled to a monthly allowance,"

11-29-05 - War against Olives Yesh Hok Israeli organization, reported that 15 complaints were filed to the Israeli police since April 2005, after the settlers uprooted and burnet hundreds of olive trees. So far, the police closed five cases without progressing them. The total number of complaints filed since April is 84; the complaints were filed after the settlers attacked and damaged Palestinian properties and orchards.

11-29-05 - Clashes in Ofer detention facility dozens injured Dozens of Palestinian detainees in Ofer Israeli detention facility were injured last night after an Israeli army special force broke into the branches of the facility, sprayed gas at the detainees and fired rubber-coated bullets.

11-29-05 - Palestinian Christians face struggles

11-29-05 - Sabbath Riot by Settlers in Hebron

11-29-05 - Ayalon: ?I killed Arabs more than Hamas killed Jews?

11-29-05 - UAE urges world community to force Israel dismantle wall

11-29-05 - Day in pictures Palestinian children are made to wait at an Israeli roadblock in Hebron after an upsurge in tensions there. Photo number 2.

11-29-05 - Peace team loses narrowly to Barcelona Spanish champions Barcelona beat a joint Israeli-Palestinian soccer team 2-1 on Tuesday in a "match for peace" aimed at promoting reconciliation in the Middle East

11-29-05 - New Book Exposes Pervasive Anti-Semitism in U.S. Higher Education Thus does the propaganda campaign (which is naturally playing the 'anti-Semite' card and equating anti-Israelism to anti-Semitism) to force colleges and Universities to be more pro-Israel continue.

11-29-05 - The Pro-Israel Campus Besides the dearth of Israel scholars and plethora of anti-Israel faculty, the situation on campus was never as bad as it was portrayed. This article contradicts recent ones that claim that criticism of Israel on campus (now deemed anti-Semitism) is out of control in America.

11-29-05 - Jihad denounces Israeli arrest campaigns in W. Bank

11-29-05 - Settlers 'cut off' by W Bank barrier Rabbi Fruman disagrees and has formulated his own peace plan to the Palestinian Authority under which the settlers would be allowed to stay. The BBC is running an awful lot of settler-sympathetic articles these days. Wonder why?

11-29-05 - Canada sets up peace center Canada will establish a center to provide wide-ranging support for peace efforts in the West Bank, Gaza and throughout the Middle East, Canada?s foreign affairs minister announced yesterday.

11-29-05 - Sharon calls for strict control over Egypt border

11-29-05 - Peres prepares to leave Labour to join Sharon Senior Labour figures warned Mr Peres that the prime minister's plan to create a Palestinian state was a "hoax" which would perpetuate the conflict

11-28-05 - Secretary-General, in message to mark Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, reiterates call for renewed action on Road Map obligations

11-28-05 - No evacuation of settlement outposts before the elections

11-28-05 - Police accused after brother and sister are cleared of failing to tell of bombing plan Months before the discovery of the note Israel had asked Britain to be extra vigilant for suicide bombers being recruited in Britain, Israeli sources told the Guardian.

11-28-05 - End of the road for the Bedouin Israeli police and ministry of interior officials arrived to put formal notices on 12 houses slated for demolition in what the villagers believe is the first of a multi-stage operation in which they will be moved off the land they regard as having been theirs since Ottoman times.

11-28-05 - Fatah halts polls amid violence The main Palestinian political group, Fatah, has halted its primary elections in Gaza after militants raided some polling stations and fired in the air.

11-28-05 - Blair accused as summit on anti-terrorism ends in failure A Spanish foreign policy adviser was caught on an open mike yesterday accusing Tony Blair of preparing to "throw the towel in" and blaming the Israelis for being intractable at a summit on countering terrorism which ended in failure.

11-28-05 - Israelis, Palestinians to play for Mideast peace

11-28-05 - New Sharon party seeks demilitarised Palestinian state Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima will seek the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state and keep Israeli control of occupied east Jerusalem, a senior party member said...It also wants to retain the larger Jewish settlement blocs elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, which account for the majority of the 240,000 Jewish settlers there.

11-28-05 - Supreme Court Passes Up PLO Case Clark said U.S. courts "are marching off to the conflicts of the Middle East and elsewhere carrying with them the integrity of the U.S. judiciary and risking the foreign perception that U.S. courts will extend their jurisdiction globally deciding the most sensitive political questions affecting the foreign policies of the U.S. and other nations as they go."

11-28-05 - One of our lions is still missing Sawar hopes that the zoo will have a therapeutic effect on the children of Gaza, many of whom suffer from trauma after the violence of the past five years.

11-28-05 - BBC chief holds peace talks in Jerusalem with Ariel Sharon Understandably, an official BBC spokesman was anxious to downplay talk of an exclusively pro-Israeli charm offensive.

11-28-05 - Palestinians grow frustrated waitingfor the expected economic recovery

11-28-05 - UN applaudes Syria?s Role In Helping Palestine

11-28-05 - Soldiers fire 10 tank shells at the Gaza Strip

11-28-05 - E.U. won't press Israel on Barghouti

11-28-05 - No casualties in bomb attack on Israeli troops

11-28-05 - Israel Carries out Ethnic Cleansing Policy in Hebron City

11-28-05 - Israel alone against joint Euromed declaration: source Israel was not ready to accept a general reference to the Middle East peace process.... The chairman's statement calls for "a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement consistent with the Road Map and principles of the (1991) Madrid Conference including land for peace and based on relevant UNSC (UN Security Council) resolutions, including 242, 338 and 1397."

11-28-05 - China marks International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians The United Nations designated November 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people in a resolution adopted in 1977

11-28-05 - Young guard rises in Palestinian politics

11-28-05 - A History of Violence Dreyfuss also reveals how Israel helped to create and empower the forerunners of Hamas as a bulwark against Palestinian nationalism (as embodied by Yasser Arafat and the PLO). The Likud-Hamas link - with both organizations thriving in unstable, warlike environments - is sure to be one of the book's most controversial points

11-28-05 - PALTEL to be listed on ADSM in landmark agreement

11-28-05 - Finding a future between walls and trees This place honored by Christians for almost 2,000 years as the place where Jesus was born is a city isolated from Israel, isolated from the world, isolated from portions of its own community as the barrier and restricted roads cut through the boundaries of the city.

11-28-05 - Train track from Jerusalem to Ramallah

11-28-05 - Israel-U.S. dialogue resumed The United States suspended the dialogue in recent years because of Israeli arms sales to China

11-27-05 - Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees

11-27-05 - Extremist Jews attack eight Arab residents in Shfa-Amr, eight injured

11-27-05 - Armed robbers snatch lion cub from Palestinian zoo

11-27-05 - Palestinian police crack down on Gaza chaos

11-27-05 - Russian analyst: Israel had motivation in the Hariri crime Bogdanov underlined that Israel intends to destabilize Lebanon, replace it with a financial center in the Middle East. It also aims at weakening the positions of Syria and Iran who are two regional states that have big influence in the region.

11-27-05 - Theofilos III decries Israeli attitude toward Greek patriarchate Theofilos says the Israeli government is exercising a type of "blackmail" in making its recognition of him conditional upon validation of real estate deals conducted by Irenios, in which church-owned property was leased for hundreds of years to companies owned by Jews living in East Jerusalem

11-27-05 - Israeli troops attack a voting station Bethlehem

11-27-05 - Fatah set to play Barghuti trump-card to counter Hamas

11-27-05 - Pact may aid Israeli Red Cross bid Officials from Israel's Magen David Adom (Red Star of David) said the deal, to be signed in Geneva, would guarantee speedier passage for Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances through Israeli military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank

11-27-05 - WHEN SHARON SAYS JUMP BUSH SAYS HOW HIGH?

11-27-05 - US Report Calls on Israel to Begin Nuclear Disarmament This is the correct URL for that PDF file

11-27-05 - Army closes the Erez Crossing

11-27-05 - Shopkeeper Shot, Daughter Killed In Robbery Fakri Elayyan, a Palestinian immigrant, had run the shop for 18 years, but family members said he was planning to sell it because the neighborhood had become so dangerous.

11-27-05 - Security court sentences a Palestinian lawmaker to 7 years in prison

11-27-05 - Israel urges citizens to refrain from entering Gaza

11-27-05 - Israeli Occupation Tightens Grip on Old City of Hebron As Settlers Flock to Ibraheem Mosque

11-27-05 - After several surgeries, Palestinian goes home

11-27-05 - Arab leaders' absence dims summit But while nearly all 25 EU leaders attended, only two of the 10 Mediterranean partners -- Turkey and the Palestinian Authority -- sent their top leaders to the two-day conference.

11-27-05 - Caritas Backs Day of Solidarity With Palestinians

11-27-05 - Arab Christians are nationalists, not 'fifth-columnists'

11-27-05 - Israel says it uncovered an organization that finances Hamas? military activities

11-27-05 - Israel Hinders Use of Palestinian International Dialing Code

11-27-05 - EU reaffirms support for "two-state" solution in Middle East

11-26-05 - Landmark day on Gaza-Egypt border Among the first to cross was wheelchair-bound mother Naimeh Bayah, travelling from Jabaliya refugee camp to Egypt for surgery. "I am so tired, but happy, because I made the crossing as a human being for the first time,"

11-26-05 - Settler Mobs Attack Palestinians and Besiege Internationals In Hebron Other quotes from settlers throughout the day: "death to the Arabs", "we hate all the Arabs", "Palestinians are animals who should be in cages", "they shouldn?t be caged just in Hebron but everywhere", "I hope that God burns all the Arabs in hell? they are not men but dogs".

11-26-05 - Smooth Debut for Palestinian-Run Border

11-26-05 - Palestinians assert control of frontier Travellers exchanged embraces and some flashed V-for victory signs, happy to be freer to travel and to be processed by Palestinian police rather than Israeli soldiers who occupied the Gaza Strip for 38 years before they withdrew in September

11-26-05 - Christian leader signs secret document The man enthroned last week as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem signed a secret document obliging him to nullify the recent sale to Jewish groups of land comprising much of a key entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, WND = pro-Israeli mouthpiece, if you couldn't already tell.

11-26-05 - Pre-Emptive Selling of Ariel Sharon as a Dove Ariel Sharon has dedicated his career to destroying any sort of peace negotiations, and to denying the Palestinians a viable state. Far from representing a Damascene conversion, his statements reveal the underlying continuity of his plans.

11-26-05 - Kibbutzniks help Palestinians restore destroyed olive groves Ten volunteers from the Kibbutz Movement's assignment division, headed by Yoel Marshak, arrived Saturday at the olives grove of the West Bank village of Salem, in order to help its Palestinian residents restore the olive groves that were destroyed by settlers from Elon Moreh a month ago.

11-26-05 - Future of West Bank at stake in Israel polls: president Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has set himself the target of finalising Israel's borders while retaining the main Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank.

11-26-05 - Jailed intifada leader heads list for Palestinian polls

11-26-05 - In pictures: Rafah re-opens

11-26-05 - Attacks getting more personal

11-26-05 - The New Israel Lobby in Action (David Noble) After its first year of operation, the CIJA boasted of its "success stories." These included "new initiatives initially sponsored by Israel Emergency Cabinet," like symposia, conferences and seminars designed to promote pro-Israel "education." They more than doubled the number of visits, dubbed "missions," to Israel arranged for Canada?s politicians and "opinion makers"

11-26-05 - Prime minister plans to draw 'the final shape of Israel' "Either the borders are those from 1967, or there is a swap of land that is equal in quality and quantity," said Ghassan Khatib, the Palestinian Authority labour minister. "Palestinians will not settle for less." Israel- the only nation in the world that gets to draw up its own borders at will, at the expense of another people, AND with the full backing of the United States.

11-26-05 - Holy Land Christians: An Endangered Species Israel today seems to welcome only those pilgrims known as Christian Zionists, who stand with Israel?s political and religious right. Mostly American, these groups routinely refuse to meet with indigenous Christians, who are considered theologically and politically "incorrect."

11-26-05 - UNRWA plans to construct 600 new homes for refugees Neocon John Bolton wants to abolish UNRWA

11-26-05 - Female detainees in Telmond complain of bad conditions

11-26-05 - Bethlehem passport launched to protect city from wall

11-26-05 - Soldiers close the Ibrihimi Mosque for Jewish feasts

11-26-05 - From 2001: Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged A criminal investigation into Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon�s role in the massacre of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla should be launched, Human Rights Watch urged today. The Israeli leader will meet on Tuesday at the White House with President Bush.

11-26-05 - ?Arab Talk With Jess and Jamal? Debuts in San Francisco

11-26-05 - Philanthropists Vow to Keep Seeking a Just Peace on Both Sides of Apartheid Wall

11-26-05 - Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and The Abuse of History

11-26-05 - Spielberg set for an Oscar-winning row Clinton has read the screenplay and encouraged several of his former aides to help Spielberg prepare for the political fall-out

11-26-05 - Total Embrace of Israel Threatening Judaism?s Ethical and Humane Tradition

11-26-05 - Dr. Margaret Kay (Maggie) Grater (1942-2005) She traveled throughout the Middle East and provided training to teachers and administrators throughout the occupied territories.

11-26-05 - Time to send a letter opposing $1.2 billion more for Israel

11-26-05 - Anti-Semitism on the rise on college campuses "We would argue that anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Israelism " Anti-Israelism has now become 'anti-Semitism'. The definition is drawn up at will just like Israel's borders.

11-26-05 - UN Amb. John Bolton And Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be the Keynote Speaker at the annual ZOA Louis Brandeis Award Dinner. He will also receive ZOA?s Defender of Israel award Defender of Israel award? Why would that be? Because John Bolton is ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the U.N., that's why.

11-26-05 - Walker's World: The Mideast's new map

11-26-05 - Palestinian-Americans Offer Coloring Books to Palestinian Refugees

11-25-05 - Soldiers attack a peaceful procession against the Wall in Aboud, eight injured

11-25-05 - Palestinians Assume Control of Crossing "From this moment, we feel that we are free," said Fathia Najar, 55, one of a group of Palestinian travelers waiting to cross the border when the terminal starts operations Saturday. "Before this, we lived in a jail."

11-25-05 - P.A security foils infiltration of Bethlehem by Special Forces A bloody clash was prevented when the Palestinian Police and security officer fist-fought with the soldiers in order to bar them from opening fire in an area which was filled with civilians, children and vehicles.

11-25-05 - Jailed man leads in early Fatah vote count Jailed Palestinian Marwan Barghouthi was emerging as one of the most popular candidates in a vote called to choose people to run for Fatah in Palestinian elections in January, an official said on Friday.

11-25-05 - EU accuses Israel over Jerusalem

11-25-05 - Foreign Office 'unrelentingly pro-Palestinian' says Israel It's worth noting, the British were once the victims of the terrorism of the Irgun and Stern gangs.

11-25-05 - B?Tselem calls for compensation for demolished home They said the soldiers did not bother to tell the people inside, including small children, to get out of the house. Instead the residents were awoken after their home went up in flames while they were still inside.

11-25-05 - Israel to build 310 lots to Maleeh Adumim Settlement

11-25-05 - State officially admits politics are preventing evacuation of illegal outposts The State of Israel announced on Wednesday for the first time - in an official document - that political considerations such as the upcoming general elections are preventing the evacuation of illegal outposts, including those that have been established on private land taken from Palestinians.

11-25-05 - EU mulls renewing ties with Palestinians in East J'lem After a terrorist attack in 2001, Israel shut down Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem, and they have not been reopened since. Former Shin Bet security force head Avi Dichter considered the move one of the most important Israeli achievements during the intifada.

11-25-05 - Aoun: no Palestinian refugees Speaking Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, Aoun said he favored repatriating the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees to their original homes, a solution Israel flatly rejects and that Palestinian officials have backed away from in recent years.

11-25-05 - "Honor killings" in Israeli Arab sector Most recently, 23-year-old Samar Hasan was allegedly killed by her Christian father and uncles because she was living with a Muslim man

11-25-05 - Palestinians open Gaza gateway to the world "We want the roadmap to be implemented. We are asking for nothing more but we will accept nothing less,"

11-25-05 - EU downplays leaked memo on east Jerusalem

11-25-05 - Army taught a lesson in Bil?in

11-25-05 - Palestinians Oppose Armed Attacks from Gaza Many Palestinian adults believe the "Disengagement Plan" should not become an excuse for violence, according to a poll by An-Najah National University. 58.7 per cent of respondents reject launching armed resistance operations against Israel from the liberated areas in the Gaza Strip

11-25-05 - Call for sanctions on Israel as West Bank and Gaza suffer at their hands "There is an appaling level of poverty and child malnutrition throughout the West Bank and Gaza as a result of land confiscation, and restriction on movement and trade in the area. Due to Israel's persistent flouting of international agreements and human rights conventions, the European parliament has voted for a suspension of the preferential trade agreement and this has only been blocked by a lack of a majority among the Council of Ministers."

11-25-05 - Agreement on neutral 'red crystal' Magen David Adom and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society have reached agreement on the adoption of a new neutral symbol.

11-25-05 - Putting a face on the Arab world

11-25-05 - Egypt's ties with Israel bolster Islamist campaign In Egypt's textile heartland, popular support for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in the parliamentary election has also fed off anti-Israeli sentiment since the government developed a trade agreement with the Jewish state.

11-25-05 - Arafat report 'broke BBC rules'

11-25-05 - Presbyterians meet with Hezbollah MEMRI said that a delegation of families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks also met with Hezbollah officials. MEMRI=an Israeli-run outfit.

11-25-05 - Speakout: For Palestinians, situation not so rosy

11-25-05 - U.S.: Elections shouldn?t hinder progress Forthcoming elections in Israel and the Palestinian areas should not hinder Palestinian-Israeli cooperation, the U.S. State Department said

11-25-05 - Israeli held as Hezbollah spy

11-25-05 - Koizumi plans Middle East visit

11-25-05 - The Reality in "Paradise Now"

11-25-05 - Abramoff used DeLay to fund anti-intifada militia It is hard to stomach the irony. If there is any group in the US that can empathize with the occupation of the Palestinian people -- it's the Native Americans. But here Abramoff's clients were, unknowingly donating tens of thousands of dollars so that Israeli settlers in the West Bank could continue to occupy defenseless Palestinians. You can bet that DeLay and Abramoff snickered all the way to the (West) bank.

11-25-05 - Hizbollah says has duty to abduct Israeli troops

11-25-05 - Israel trip brings Bible to life for local woman She recalled a visit to the city of Hebron, where she was baffled about the cage-like sheets of wire that overhang the streets. When she asked her tour guide about it, she was told the wire exists to protect Palestinians in the streets below from the rocks and garbage thrown from the windows of apartments above by Jewish settlers. Van Riesen said she wouldn?t have believed the claim, had her tour group not been showered with rocks shortly thereafter. Christian Peacekeeper Teams, who are stationed in Hebron, are there to protect the Palestinians (children, in particular) from soldier and settler violence. Their blogs are here

11-25-05 - Bulldozer rolls on To keep its national identity, Israel must consolidate its shrinking Jewish majority over a smaller territory. This means keeping Jerusalem and the adjacent settlement blocks, where most settlers live, in Israeli hands behind the security barrier. This will leave about 10% of West Bank territory under Israeli control and gradually free the rest from occupation

11-24-05 - Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel The confidential report, prepared by top diplomats representing the 25 EU governments in the city, warns that the chances of a two-state solution are being eroded by Israel's "deliberate policy" - in breach of international of law - of "completing the annexation of East Jerusalem". Who leaked the report, and why? To abort the opening of the Rafah crossing?

11-24-05 - Secret British document accuses Israel It adds: "Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law."....The Foreign Office also concludes that the vast concrete barrier, which Israel asserts is a security measure, is being used to expropriate Arab land in and around the city. "This de facto annexation of Palestinian land will be irreversible without very large-scale forced evacuations of settlers and the re-routing of the barrier."

11-24-05 - In pictures: Palestinian student protest Palestinians objected to having their bags searched and being made to lift their shirts before being allowed to pass.

11-24-05 - Olive trees uprooted in Palestinian village The residents of the West Bank village of Bil'in were amazed to discover several weeks ago that dozens of olive trees had been uprooted from the village's orchards, tearing down the livelihood of dozens of families

11-24-05 - PNIC: Three Killed, Eight Wounded in 41st Week of Ceasefire

11-24-05 - On hatred the Israeli ex-Londoner was not finished. 'Have you got cancer yet? I hope so,' he said to me. 'Please don't say that. My husband died of cancer six years ago,' I replied. 'I am happy about that,' he said.

11-24-05 - Hebron Update: 1 to 7 November 2005 The committee's assumption is that Israel will try to connect the new wall segment with an existing segment by confiscating more land. This would complete a wall looping around the Israeli settlement of Eshkalot, locating 3,200 dunams (800 acres) of Palestinian land on the Israeli side of the Wall. Some fifty Palestinian families would be affected by this larger confiscation in an area where many families have already lost their land.

11-24-05 - At-Tuwani Update 1-11 November 2005 the Israeli military DCO arrived and told the villagers that the Palestinians needed to leave the valley by 3:30 PM, because the settlers wanted to come down and pray in the area. The Israeli police then said that they would not protect the Palestinian land unless the Palestinian owners showed documents proving ownership. A Palestinian man said that it was their land and that they stay as long as they needed to finish the harvest (which ended up being 3:30 PM). No settlers appeared in the area to pray at any time during the afternoon.

11-24-05 - Hundreds of Israeli spies in Lebanon: Syria press charges "You have to recognize the danger of having more than 400 men from Israel's Mossad in Lebanon who are working with the other (Lebanese) agents who once supported the Zionist enemy and its militias,"

11-24-05 - Lebanon fighting shows UN-Beirut rift over Hezbollah Highlighting the differences in perspective, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salukh complained that "the aggressor (Israel) is being treated as if it were the victim" by international organisations such as the United Nations

11-24-05 - EU prepares for Gaza-Egypt border opening

11-24-05 - Hamas: No plan to renew truce

11-24-05 - US resigned to waiting with Mideast agenda till spring

11-24-05 - THE MISERABLE OCCUPATION ON A MISERABLE MORNING Yesterday, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD) received information that the Israeli government was planning on demolishing houses in Anata, Beit Hanina and Silwan. Although the demolition of Palestinian homes was supposed to end with the first phase of the Road Map, Israel insists disingenuously that we are only in a "pre-Road Map" phase ? even though the Road Map was initiated in mid-2003.

11-24-05 - Top West Bank militant surrenders

11-24-05 - Court gives Mofaz 10 days for plans to demolish illegal outpost

11-24-05 - Death in French Park Were the high school students Mohammed, Ala, Ramzi and Ahmed members of a dangerous terrorist band, or an innocent group of hikers?

11-24-05 - Teachers, students hold classes near a military checkpoint in Hebron

11-24-05 - Israel concerned about EU report slamming J'lem policy On the same day Israel officially invited the European Union to be the third party monitors at the Rafah border crossing, Israeli officials were bracing for a "problematic" report on Jerusalem the EU is expected to release next month It's such a coincidence that the reported was leaked TONIGHT the eve of the opening of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing which is being helped along by the EU, no?

11-24-05 - Human Rights Observer to be Deported from Palestine by Israel. He had just finished escorting Palestinian children to school and was walking home on Shuhaddah street when he was stopped by an armed Border Police unit in a targeted arrest.

11-24-05 - Inside Iran Part III: The Jewish Question

11-24-05 - Sharon names his party 'Forward'

11-24-05 - Israel agrees to return Hezbollah remains

11-24-05 - Appearance in Toronto causes headaches back home for Hardball host

11-24-05 - Tense situation in Lebanon's south sparks fear The fear among the southern villagers was sparked by the latest clashes that took place on Monday between militants of the Shiite group Hezbollah and Israeli troops

11-24-05 - Pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' outfit tells the CBC how they are to report

11-24-05 - Israel close to foreign currency financing independence Who is buying up these bonds? Many US cities, towns, states - "In addition to attracting Israeli business to Georgia, the trip was a nod to the local Jewish constituents. According to Israel's Consul General in Atlanta, Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, Georgia's Jewish community is 100,000-strong. The recent repeal of a state law against investing in foreign national bonds, which will clear the way for the purchase of $5 million in Israel Bonds, will also help to strengthen ties between Georgia and Israel."

11-24-05 - Financial Boost For Aliyah? Nefesh B?Nefesh, an organization promoting North American immigration, is poised to score government resources ? but only if an Israeli cabinet decision is actually implemented.

11-23-05 - Palestinian killed by Israelis during Jenin incursion Saleh Fuqahaa, 24, died after being shot by Israeli soldiers who opened fire to disperse Palestinian stone throwers

11-23-05 - Six Palestinians wounded as Israeli army enters Jenin The six youngsters were wounded when Israeli soldiers opened fire towards schoolchildren throwing stones in defiance of a curfew imposed after troops rolled into the flashpoint town

11-23-05 - Israel's message to Lebanon from above only adds insult to injury Imagine if the Lebanese flew combat aircraft deep into Israeli airspace and littered messages for the people of Tel Aviv, Haifa and northern Israel. How would the citizens of Israel and the international community react to such a blatant intrusion?

11-23-05 - Israel drops anti-Hizbollah leaflets over Beirut Reda Nemeh, a 41-year-old security guard who saw the leaflets on his way to work in downtown Beirut, slammed them as an Israeli attempt to terrorize Lebanese citizens

11-23-05 - Israel shelves 'drastic steps' to halt building of illegal settlements

11-23-05 - Israeli-Hezbollah Clashes Erupt Again Israeli soldiers clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas Wednesday to cover the escape of an Israeli hang glider who had inadvertently floated into Lebanon and landed across the border

11-23-05 - Israeli Army Knocks Down Suspected Hideout

11-23-05 - Sharon Saying Little About Peace Plans In the absence of a peace partner, Israel will go on building its West Bank separation barrier and expanding Jewish settlement blocs Israel wants to keep under a final deal, said Lior Horev, a Sharon political adviser.

11-23-05 - Abramoff and the Israel Connection That an Israeli firm should be given such a contract through a selection process that was described as "deeply flawed and unfair" is inexplicable, particularly as there were American suppliers of the same equipment, and it suggests that the private conversations of some of our congressmen might not be so private after all

11-23-05 - Palestinians to build 10 industrial zones: minister Sanakrot said among the 10 zones, one will be built near the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun with a 3 million US dollar donation by the United States.

11-23-05 - Jenin: Officers injured from friendly fire

11-23-05 - Gaza to reopen window to outside world Hailing the reopening of the terminal as an "extremely important step" for Gaza residents, telecommunications minister Sabri Saydam said a functioning border would help to revive a moribund economy overly dependent on Israel.

11-23-05 - Israeli parachutist falls inside Lebanon There was also dispute over the parachutist's identity, with the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah telling AFP he was a soldier and Israeli military sources insisting that he was a civilian.

11-23-05 - Six Palestinian ministers to resign for election bid

11-23-05 - Dahlan Heads for Cairo to Discuss Rafah Terminal as Reopening Preparations Draw Near

11-23-05 - Palestinian kids hold classes at checkpoint Palestinian schoolteachers taught pupils in the road outside an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday to protest what they consider to be unnecessarily intrusive searches of the children on their way to school.

11-23-05 - Syria wants Israel expelled from UN over its "terrorist" policy "The international community, with the United States at its leader, should apply Chapter Seven of the UN Charter to Israel and if necessary expel it to force it to renounce its terrorist policy and preserve global security."

11-23-05 - Israel sets date for early poll

11-23-05 - Campuses team up against terror Israeli and American universities plan to cooperate on national-security issues.

11-23-05 - Israeli right: purists vs. pragmatists

11-23-05 - AIPAC seeks Iran sanctions ?It will be very disappointing if the IAEA fails this week to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council,? the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said in a statement Wednesday.

11-23-05 - Sharons seen as corrupt Israelis consider Ariel Sharon and his son to be among the most corrupt elected officials in the country, a poll found.

11-23-05 - Rabbis: Take back Gaza Strip Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon must immediately take back the Gaza Strip and cease any future land transfers to the Palestinians, a group of prominent rabbis told WorldNetDaily

11-23-05 - Reform Head Blasts Right For 'Bigotry,' 'Blasphemy' It comes just two weeks after the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, delivered a November 3 speech in which he warned of a growing campaign to "Christianize America" and called on Jewish organizations to join him in coordinating a communal strategy for confronting religious conservative groups.....Jewish organizations, including ADL, have shown a much-discussed tendency to ally themselves with pro-Israel evangelical Christians on foreign policy issues, while downplaying or even overlooking their deep disagreements on domestic issues.

11-23-05 - Calls To Monitor Pro-Arab Bias Rejected The main proposal, which Jewish groups have been lobbying Congress to write into law, would be the establishment of an "advisory board" to monitor Middle Eastern studies departments and report to the Department of Education on whether these departments are balanced in their teaching of regional affairs. The advisory board would include political appointees.

11-23-05 - The French flow rightward Although he was put out to pasture against his will, Lionel Josepin foresaw what the suburban uprising would do to the French soul. Last week, as a dinner guest of the French ambassador to Israel, the former socialist premier predicted strong erosion toward the right and even the extreme right

11-23-05 - Hamas rejects amending Palestinian elections law

11-23-05 - Signs of hope Because they did not visit the West Bank, which includes Bethlehem, Hillary and husband Bill, who joined her on the trip, missed an opportunity to see firsthand the hardships that the wall has imposed on Palestinians

11-23-05 - President Decorates Former Swedish FM "Bethlehem 2000"

11-23-05 - The Times smears Robert Fisk Bronner also takes Fisk to task for calling the Israeli occupation of Palestinian areas as the ?last colonial war.?

11-23-05 - OPT: Palestinian children's right to quality education

11-23-05 - Protest for Pollard The rally was called to mark 20 years since Pollard, a U.S. Navy analyst, was arrested for spying on behalf of Israel.

11-22-05 - Lawmakers want U.N. Palestinian bodies nixed The Bush administration has proposed abolishing the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division of Palestinian Rights. The congress members, all senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives? International Relations Committee, also proposed doing away with the Special Committee to investigate Israeli human rights practices affecting the Palestinian people More legislation for Israel.

11-22-05 - Harsh UN resolution condemning Israel removed from agenda The resolution on the state of Palestinian children and humanitarian aid they receive contains very negative references to Israel. Among other things it expresses serious concern for the fact Palestinian children are still denied basic rights anchored in the Convention on the Rights of Children. Israel managed to garner sufficient support for its initiative to remove the proposal from the agenda of the current assembly and prevent a second vote. Israel's main support came from EU country members. The rejected proposal will be replaced by an old resolution on a Palestinian issue, but it will be devoid of any negative mentions of Israel.

11-22-05 - EU stays mum on East Jerusalem as ties with Israel improve EU foreign ministers discussed the Middle East in a meeting Monday and decided to express "deep concern" over Israel's activities in East Jerusalem and its environs, including establishing settlements, constructing the West Bank separation fence and demolishing homes.

11-22-05 - Lebanon celebrates Independence Day amid border bloodshed Siniora blamed the Jewish state for the latest clashes, saying that Israeli aircraft "have never stopped violating Lebanese airspace in the past weeks", fuelling tension at the frontier

11-22-05 - Palestinians closely follow Israeli political upheaval "I don't see Sharon's new party as a centrist party. It's a party that represents a unilateral approach," said independent MP Hanan Ashrawi. "He wants to annex most of the West Bank and impose a unilateral solution on the Palestinians," she added.

11-22-05 - East Jerusalem residents fume over lack of mail delivery Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Jerusalem is the "undivided" capital of Israel. But many Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in East Jerusalem say there is a big divide between the two sides when it comes to the quality of government services.

11-22-05 - Sharon rejects land for peace approach, says aide Arad fails to mention that during Oslo, Israel DOUBLED the number of settlers in the Occupied Territories. Pres. Bush I, to his credit, threatened to withhold aid to Israel if it did not stop building the settlments. He was cowed by the Israeli lobby and backed off in the end, but he gets credit for trying.

11-22-05 - Palestinians doubt Israel's political regrouping will help their cause

11-22-05 - Lawmakers want Hamas out Six lawmakers introduced a resolution calling on the Palestinian Authority to prevent Hamas participation in upcoming elections. More legislation for Israel.

11-22-05 - Peretz criticized over housing plan Amir Peretz allowed the Israeli housing minister, Isaac Herzog of Labor, to allow for the construction of 350 apartments in Ma'aleh Adumim this week, despite a clause in the U.S.-led "road map" peace plan calling for a freeze on settlement expansion

11-22-05 - Canadian Arab Federation takes Martin to task for pro-Israeli remark "Canada does not share common values with some countries - like Israel - who break international law and whose human-rights record is clearly questionable."

11-22-05 - Israeli Warplanes Hit Targets in Lebanon

11-22-05 - Abbas to discuss re-opening Gaza crossing

11-22-05 - PA security detains IDF undercover troops spotted operating in Bethlehem The IDF refused to respond to the Palestinian report of the incident

11-22-05 - Annan: barrier, settlements and security challenge two-State Israeli-Palestinian

11-22-05 - SYRIA: Palestinians from Iraq seek shelter in Syria

11-22-05 - Catholic villagers join protest against Israeli separation barrier "We are the Catholic Church here. There are few Christians here, and if they take our land what should we do? We live from our olives and if they take them, how can we live?"

11-22-05 - Children, troops scuffle in West Bank Here are some photos from Yahoo of this event. See this one in particular.

11-22-05 - PNA: EU Monitors Can Contact Hamas Members

11-22-05 - EU sends police to monitor operations of Rafah

11-22-05 - Thankfulness blooms at Palestinian dinner

11-22-05 - Erekat welcomes EU decision to send 70 monitors to Gaza crossing

11-22-05 - New Jerusalem patriarch sworn in

11-22-05 - Are Israel's values Canada's values?

11-22-05 - Israel sets March election

11-22-05 - Israel maintains its strategic advantage, says Jaffee Center The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University has determined that the strategic balance in the Middle East clearly favors Israel No kidding? Who would've guessed it?

11-22-05 - Israel talks tough after border clash Israel blamed Syria and Iran for a fierce clash with Hezbollah militiamen on its northern border.

11-22-05 - Trudeau?s documentary about Mideast draws criticism Trudeau equated the Palestinian cause with the plight of the Canadian aboriginal people. "It's like asking (Canadian aboriginals) why haven't they developed and progressed despite their conditions? There is a slow process of restoring dignity,"

11-22-05 - Sharon?s Game of Ping Pong Wastes US Taxpayer Money; Imperato Speaks Out "I stand up for the American people to say that it?s about time that we truly evaluate our stance and financial input behind the Israeli policy and the country of Israel. I believe the United States has been in a ping pong match and is the ball being pinged and ponged. It is time that the United States stands up, and stops the game of ping pong that is continuing to milk billions of dollars from the American people paying taxes."

11-22-05 - Bribe plea cites Israeli deal A guilty plea in a congressional bribery scandal included allegations that an Israeli high-tech firm played a role.

11-22-05 - Poll: Elites more likely to blame Israel

11-22-05 - Whom Do We Really Fear? GOP and Dems take aim at Jewish vote with calls to arms against different foes The affair was yet another demonstration of the wall-to-wall support for the pro-Israel agenda of AIPAC among both officeholders and activists

11-22-05 - Discovery of Ancient Church Highlights Lure of Christian Tourism there's a catch: Christian pilgrims, especially Catholic, don't consider the tour complete without a visit to Bethlehem See this article Bethlehem gets a wall for Christmas

11-22-05 - Hossan Villagers Protest Land Seizure Policies

11-22-05 - Annan condemns Lebanon-Israel border clash

11-22-05 - Quakers, Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

11-21-05 - Lebanon marks independence day amid tension with Syria In an independence day address, under-fire pro-Damascus President Emile Lahoud defended Hezbollah against UN demands for its disarmament, which he dismissed as a foreign plot against its "resistance" to Israel.

11-21-05 - Three Hezbollah men killed in cross-border fighting The violence erupted when the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah launched an intense bombardment of Israeli positions in a disputed border area, firing as many as 300 shells in an hour and triggering retaliatory Israeli air strikes.

11-21-05 - Images of the West Bank divide Photographer Elisheva Smith, 73, the Israeli and Holocaust survivor who took the pictures, has an opinion some might not expect. "I am against it," said Smith

11-21-05 - For first time, Arab citizen appointed to panel that vets senior civil service nominees

11-21-05 - Internationally Acclaimed El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe to Perform in Dearborn, Michigan on Saturday, December 3, 2005

11-21-05 - EU to send observers for Palestinian polls "Free and fair elections are essential steps on the way to a viable Palestinian state"

11-21-05 - Early Israeli vote could freeze peace process -UN Israel would never want to stall the peace process, would they? What year is it again?....

11-21-05 - Sharon alters political landscape by leaving Likud Israel and Sharon in particular, know that they must allow for the creation of a Palestinian state. Sharon wants to grab as much of the West Bank as possible for Israel in the perhaps final setting of its borders. To leave it to a more dovish PM is out of the question for a hardliner like Sharon - it might mean less land for Israel in the end.

11-21-05 - State to fund private immigration groups The retroactive grants, starting with immigration for 2005, would benefit organizations that offer immigrants financial assistance upon their move to Israel. Meanwhile, Israel has refused to implement U.N. resolution 194 for 57 years:

Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible

11-21-05 - Israel's new middle way

11-21-05 - Erez crossing partially reopens with strict restrictions: official

11-21-05 - Risking all for a place in history He made his decision encouraged by polls showing that many Likud voters will follow him, driving the ruling party to the margins as representative only of an ideological hard core opposed to concessions to the Palestinians.

11-21-05 - 'This is good for the peace process'

11-21-05 - The clash of civilizations that today defines our world His book is not simply about 9/11 and its repercussions. It's an account that takes readers from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire through the relentless terrorism and wars that have plagued the region ever since.

11-21-05 - UN Council fails to agree on Hizbollah-Israel clash The United States wanted the reference to Israel deleted

11-21-05 - Israel threatens to leave EuroMed parliament However Mahmud Alkharabsheh, an independent Jordanian EuroMed deputy, criticised Israel for "occupying Palestinian lands and depriving the Palestinians of their nation".

11-21-05 - Norwegian PM notes passing of "leading Palestinian symbol"

11-20-05 - At-Tuwani: Palestinian landowner forbidden to cultivate his land The Palestinian restated that his family owns the land and that he does have documents proving ownership, including a recent Israeli High Court decision differentiating his land from Israeli State Land. The police responded by ordering him not to return to his land. The man insisted he would return, as it is his family's land.

11-20-05 - Bethlehem gets a wall for Christmas on the ground Bethlehem?s 30,000 Palestinians are walled off from Jerusalem, two of the most popular destinations for visitors to the Holy Land. ?Bethlehem has become a big prison for its citizens,? Victor Batarseh, its Mayor, said

11-20-05 - Sharon to quit Likud and form centrist party Mr Sharon wants to take advantage of what he perceives as the weakness of the Palestinians and a favourable international climate to create new borders for Israel out of the West Bank territory it conquered in 1967.

11-20-05 - Soldiers Expelled from IDF for Placing Anti-Disengagement 'Bomb'

11-20-05 - Jordan denies Jerusalem's Old City in danger of collapse

11-20-05 - Fayad resignation to deliver blow to Palestinian reform drive

11-20-05 - Israel accused of damaging mosque Shaikh Ikrama Sabri said the walls marking the boundaries of al-Haram al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary) around al-Aqsa mosque and those around the old city had been weakened by Israeli excavations.

11-20-05 - Israel: Syria will 'likely' give up terror Mofaz told the weekly meeting of the Israeli cabinet that the broad international pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad, following allegations that officials of his government were implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, was beginning to bear fruit

11-20-05 - Suspect's family: Shin Bet harassing

11-20-05 - US Federal Court Rejects PA Arabs' Suits Against Israeli Top Brass The suit sought to charge the officials with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other atrocities supposedly committed by Israeli security forces in PA-controlled areas since the start of the Oslo War ? particularly during the anti-terror Defensive Shield operation.

11-20-05 - EU set to launch Gaza police mission

11-20-05 - World Bank pessimistic about Palestinian economy

11-20-05 - Tubas Area Residents to Hold Anti-Checkpoint Demonstration on Tuesday

11-20-05 - PNA calls for int'l conference on Palestinian-Israel issues

11-20-05 - IDF confirms soldier was passing guns to Palestinian

11-20-05 - Erez crossing partially reopens with strict restrictions: official

11-20-05 - Israeli Arab MK backs Arafat conspiracy theories

11-20-05 - Flashback 2002: Secret Israeli-Iranian Ties Resurface Over Ship Seizure Germany's impounding of Israeli military equipment headed for Iran points once again to the shadowy relations some Israeli companies have with the Islamic republic, a country the Jewish state has often branded its worst enemy.

11-20-05 - America still hasn't learned to know enemies instead of hating them: Matthews When asked what caused the U.S. to invade Iraq, he said it was a combination of factors......"Our friendship with Israel (is part of it) and 9-11 created a kind of crazy zeitgeist in the country.."

11-20-05 - Fake kosher food caught in Gaza

11-20-05 - Remarks By President Bush to The Troops If they're not stopped, the terrorists will be able to advance their agenda to develop weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate Europe, and to break our will and blackmail our government into isolation. I'm going to make you this commitment: This is not going to happen on my watch

11-20-05 - American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls For Global War For Evans, and numerous other rabid Christian fundamentalist preachers of hate like him, one of the most crucial purposes of America's invasion of Iraq is the 'defence' of Israel, which he regards as a solemn Christian duty.

11-20-05 - Palestinians make slow progress transforming former Gaza settlements

11-20-05 - Report: Europe allows anti-Semitic TV European nations allow the broadcasting of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages over Arab satellite television stations, a report released by a Jewish group concluded.

11-20-05 - Rabbi appeals for Pollard In a letter he sent Bush ahead of the 20th anniversary this week of Pollard?s arrest for spying for Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu referred to the former U.S. Navy analyst as ?an honorable man with noble sentiments that should be taken into consideration.?

11-20-05 - PM Qureia Meets with Foreign Officials

11-20-05 - Bush aide says Iraq withdrawal bad for Israel In remarks prepared for delivery to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) summit, Stephen Hadley said building democracy where Saddam Hussein's regime once stood would help that staunch US ally.

11-19-05 - Gaza youth killed over land dispute The 17-year-old boy, a bystander, was shot on Friday in a gunbattle outside a police station in the southern town of Khan Younis where members of a prominent Gaza family had gathered to demand the release of two relatives held in a land dispute.

11-19-05 - VIDEO: Protests in Bil'in "So why are you here with guns forcing me out of my land?". One of the Israeli soldiers then stepped towards the questioning Palestinian in an attacking motion threatening to hurt him for questioning the soldiers, reminding the Palestinian of his formidable power. Palestinians must be extremely careful at such protests as they are frequently beaten and arrested by Israeli soldiers without charge.

11-19-05 - Walls of Jerusalem's Old City in danger of collapse

11-19-05 - The compromise of the U.S. government by Israeli interests

11-19-05 - West Bank Road Vs. Peace

11-19-05 - Palestinian firm offers high-speed surfing via electric cables in Gaza

11-19-05 - Christy?s flaming passions CHRISTY Moore?s latest album is dedicated to Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003 while trying to defend Palestinian homes against demolition

11-19-05 - Dozens Injured in Weekly Anti-wall Demonstration in Bil'in

11-19-05 - Divestment Martin Luther King Jr.'s protest actions led him to a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. There he received a letter from local religious leaders telling him that his actions were "unwise and untimely" because they harmed relations between blacks and whites. King's response, in his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail," was that he had already done a lot of talking. Now it was time to act.

11-19-05 - Making their voices heard The recording will make Fara the first rap artist in Gaza to have his work on CD.

11-19-05 - Sharon crackdown to win votes feared ORDERS to Israeli troops to take a tougher line against Palestinian militants have prompted fears that Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, is planning a crackdown to help him hold on to power in general elections expected in March He who treats the Palestinians the harshest, wins in Israeli politics. Lovely.

11-19-05 - 'I went to see Palestinian ghettos' On his arrival to the court Vanunu said that all he wants is to leave Israel. He told reporters that he traveled to the West Bank village of al-Ram in order to see "Palestinian ghettos."

11-19-05 - PA police confiscate stolen cars in Nablus in effort to impose order The police informed Palestinian militant groups - which oversee theft rings and possess illegal weapons - that they also intend to start collecting unlicensed guns, police said.

11-19-05 - J?lem: Stabbing attack thwarted Later the woman told interrogators she arrived at the checkpoint with the intent of stabbing a police officer

11-19-05 - UNRWA cuts, a dangerous implication says PPP activist

11-19-05 - Finance Minister submits resignation Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, who has battled parliament to force it to carry out fiscal belt tightening measures, has submitted his resignation ahead of legislative elections due in January.

11-19-05 - Soldier hands arms to terrorists Exclusive: Ynet reports that IDF soldier handed three rifles to terror groups following threats against him and his family if he fails to do so; Soldier of Druze origins arrested few days ago, his remand extended by ten days

11-19-05 - Poll: 25% of settlers east of fence prepared to leave homes

11-19-05 - Shalom shook hands with Lebanese president Lebanon's pro-Syrian president shook hands with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom earlier this week in Tunis where both men were attending a technology conference, Israel's foreign ministry said on Saturday

11-19-05 - Israel releases whistleblower Vanunu on bail

11-19-05 - Pete McCloskey interviewed, speaks about AIPAC Highly recommended.

11-19-05 - Reports: Germany to sell Israel submarines at discount price

11-19-05 - Viewpoint / James Baker remembers Yitzhak Rabin

11-19-05 - The Palestinians and the Party Line The real problem with Halper's view is that he believes it is America that is victimizing Israel in its quest for Middle East hegemony. But the fact is, is that it was Israel and her neocon cohorts in and around our government who have imposed this view on us in the first place via their 'Clean Break' strategy.

11-18-05 - IDF kills Palestinian in Hebron area Earlier, IDF troops shot at a 17-year-old Palestinian in a village north of Ramallah after the boy appeared to shoot in the air using a handgun. Later it turned out the teen was using a toy gun.

11-18-05 - Israel invites tenders for new settler homes Israel has invited tenders for the construction of new homes and infrastructure in two of the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank It has been made abundantly clear: the only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to seize and 'settle' Palestinian land - and drive the Palestinians off of it.

11-18-05 - Arab football star may join Israel's most racist club

11-18-05 - Index ranks Middle East freedom Lebanon is free in a very particular sense: it is no longer under military occupation. Most Palestinians do not enjoy that freedom, and yet they have just had local elections and are preparing for parliamentary ones in January, our correspondent says

11-18-05 - House votes to cut $700 mln in food stamps Aid to Israel will flow uninterrupted though: "Pro-Israeli sources were encouraged by the fact that legislators have not asked for across-the-board cuts in foreign aid to help finance recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere" US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package

11-18-05 - Palestinians Postpone Planned Primaries

11-18-05 - Zarqawi: Jordan bombings targeted Israelis The terrorists who struck Amman?s Radisson Hotel last week were targeting Israeli intelligence officials, terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi said. Which is why those bombs killed many Palestinians including a PALESTINIAN intelligence official, as well as three other Palestinian Authority officials?

11-18-05 - Syria sees Peretz selection as positive: Arab Israeli MP

11-18-05 - A week after Issawiya clashes, Jerusalem hospital firebombed An autopsy on 36-year-old Samir Ribhi Dari at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine revealed he had been shot in the back, which contradicted claims by Border Police officers that Dari had been shot after trying to run over an officer.

11-18-05 - Vanunu held after West Bank visit Israel insists Mr Vanunu - who has converted to Christianity - still poses a security threat.

11-18-05 - Palestinians Retiring Entrenched Diplomats

11-18-05 - Pope to receive Palestinian, Polish presidents in December

11-18-05 - Heated debate on Palestinian disarmament at AUB

11-18-05 - Israel violates peace roadmap; construction on in West Bank

11-18-05 - Al-Zarqawi Tape Threatens Jordan's King He said he was targeting Jordan because it is serving as a "protector" for Israel, helps the U.S. military in Iraq and has become a "swamp of obscenity," with alcohol and prostitution in its tourist sites

11-18-05 - China to invest in Israel complex

11-18-05 - New Pew Poll Reveals Growing Isolationist Trend and View that U.S. Support for Israel Contributes to a Decline of Global Image Just 39% of the public believes that U.S. support for Israel is a major factor that causes the nation's global image to suffer. 52% of the public cited the issue as only a minor factor. A testament to the pro-Israel lobby's success in making sure that there is little if any negative coverage of Israel in our mainstream media.

11-18-05 - RAND Presents Plan for Palestinian State at Middle East Institute Conference the RAND plan hinges on their full withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories

11-18-05 - Regents hear from divestment group close to 100 people came to speak in support of divestment from Israel and re-investment in socially responsible companies

11-18-05 - Off-key in a chorus Turner stuck to his position yesterday. He repeatedly came back to the idea that the United States, as Israel's benefactor, has a duty to speak out about the treatment of Palestinians.

11-18-05 - Jews must stand by Jews ? including the marginalized JDL The JDL is listed as a 'proscribed terrorist group' by the FBI. Two of its members plotted to bomb mosques and the office of a Congressman, among other things.

11-18-05 - Russia's Putin sees second Black Sea gas pipeline "Blue Stream gives us an opportunity for shipping gas to other third countries... There is the opportunity for building new oil and gas transport systems delivering to southern Italy, to the south of Europe as a whole and to Israel," Putin said.

11-18-05 - Commission looks at campus anti-Semitism A federal commission resisted Jewish groups? call for governmental oversight of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses...commissioners acknowledged the problem and said they would consider an investigation. Pro-Palestinian activism will fall under the definition of 'anti-Semitism', I'm guessing. That's what this is all about; too many college kids are getting the truth, and the pro-Israelis do not like it.

11-18-05 - Gunners use football for peace

11-18-05 - Embassy blasts Palestinian week The Israeli Embassy in Ireland complained to Trinity College in Dublin about a ?Palestinian Awareness Week? on campus

11-18-05 - Committee: Treat Israel fairly A powerful congressional committee passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to treat Israel more fairly. More legislation for Israel.

11-18-05 - AGREEMENT OPENS BORDERS IN GAZA STRIP An agreement on Tuesday between Israel and the Palestinian Authority gave Palestinians control over border crossings in the Gaza Strip. Paul Wolfensohn, the U.N. special envoy, explains the deal.

11-18-05 - Dear Hillary Clinton: Yes, It Takes a Global Village, But Minus Physical and Mental Walls

11-18-05 - Two newspapers try to make difference in post 9-11 world

11-18-05 - Time to take Palestinian opinion seriously As Amira Hass noted in Ha?aretz, the Israeli daily, an IDF soldier at a remote checkpoint has more to say about critical issues affecting Palestinians than does Mr Abbas.

11-18-05 - Border agreement is just a small step

11-18-05 - Politics & Policies:Jerusalem's other wall

11-18-05 - U.S.: Iran threat a disqualifier Iran?s threat to destroy Israel disqualifies it from achieving nuclear-weapons capability, a senior U.S. official said.

11-17-05 - Two P.A officers moderate injured by gunmen Two Palestinian policemen where shot and injured, on Thursday night, after exchanging fire with fighter of Al Aqsa martyrs Brigades,

11-17-05 - Palestinians 'shot by Israelis' They were attacked by members of an undercover Israeli unit, who had been waiting in a car, witnesses said.

11-17-05 - CNI Public Hearing on 'Investment or Divestment: Citizens, Financial Choice, and the Future of Israel/Palestine'

11-17-05 - Peace on hold as Israel calls election The Middle East peace process was put on hold yesterday as Israel called a snap election after a falling out between the two main parties in the ruling coalition.

11-17-05 - Russia to donate military equipment to Palestinians A senior Palestinian official said on Thursday that Russia will donate military equipment including two helicopters to the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA).

11-17-05 - Fatah members rally in Gaza, calling for probe of Arafat's death

11-17-05 - N.Y. Jewish leaders lobby Rice on Gaza Strip border deal Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it was not uncommon for Jewish organizations to lobby the administration to exert pressure on Israel. Foxman himself opposes such activity,

11-17-05 - Europeans release funds for Palestinians European Commission official Benita Ferrero-Waldner promised to unblock $29.2 million, which she earmarked for a new cargo terminal at Gaza Airport

11-17-05 - EU calls for Palestine police shake-up The European Union Thursday urged the Palestinian Authority to trim the number of police on its books.

11-17-05 - PNA condemns killing of two militants in W. Bank

11-17-05 - NIC: "6 killed, 18 injured, and 89 arrested in one week"

11-17-05 - Palestinian self-determination, human rights in Democratic People's Republic of Korea addressed in texts approved by Third Committee A text on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination -- approved by a vote of 162 in favour to 4 against, with 3 abstentions -- reaffirmed the Palestinians? right to their independent State of Palestine, and urged all States and United Nations agencies and organizations to continue to support realization of that goal

11-17-05 - PPS: "40 residents arrested in Hebron since the beginning of November"

11-17-05 - Israel wants US to pull out from Iraq Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak today called upon the United States to reduce its forces in Iraq, saying Washington had ''made mistakes'' and its continued presence in that country would complicate the problem with fallout in the entire West Asia

11-17-05 - City councilor not sorry for anti-Israel sentiment This week, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner refused to apologize for calling Palestinians "prisoners of war" at a civil rights march last month, despite an agreement that no speakers would veer from the day's agenda.

11-17-05 - Palestinian gunmen urge reform ahead of Fatah vote

11-17-05 - Palestinian UN refugee agency appeals for cash

11-17-05 - Arafat's widow wants his death probed

11-17-05 - Fatah members call for probe of Arafat's death

11-17-05 - Rice's gift from Gaza helped clinch border deal

11-17-05 - Israel finds an ally in American evangelicals With evangelicals in the White House and in the Republican leadership of Congress, pragmatic Israelis and American Jews value the powerful political influence available to evangelicals.

11-17-05 - Abbas: Al-Qaida Not in Gaza, West Bank He said Hamas members seeking office should not be a concern of the United States or Israel. "I don't think Hamas is running for election in Israel or America,"

11-17-05 - Palestinians reject UNRWA decision to bar families from treatment in agency's clinics

11-17-05 - Israeli Says Rockets Shipped to Hezbollah Iran has supplied Hezbollah with more than 10,000 short-range rockets, most of which are deployed in southern Lebanon within reach of Israel, an Israeli diplomat said Thursday. Syria also provided some of the weapons, which have a range of up to 68 miles, said Jeremy Issacharoff, the new deputy Israeli ambassador to Washington. Israel - still trying to build the case for (US) war on its enemies.

11-17-05 - Israeli police to investigate fatal ship collision in Japan

11-17-05 - Al-Qaida, Hamas hurting for funds ?Anecdotally, what we?re seeing is that we are having a real impact on Al-Qaida and Hamas, both in terms of putting pressure on them financially but also in terms of creating deterrents both for donors to give money to them and how they?re able to move money,? Stuart Levey, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a speech Wednesday in Washington.

11-17-05 - Travel insurance bill passes House committee Rep. Debra Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who has advocated the legislation since she was denied life insurance because she intended to travel to Israel

11-17-05 - India has important role in peace process: Palestine

11-17-05 - Nicaragua reassessingties to Mideast Following the death of its longtime "ambassador" to Nicaragua, Palestinian diplomacy in Central America faces a murky future

11-17-05 - Ambassador praises U.S. for standing by Israel "The Palestinian refugee issue is misrepresented," he charged. "And Israel refuses to take responsibility. It was the Arab leaders who were responsible for their problems. "The Palestinians were not a people until the Zionist movement got its homeland." The rot goes all the way to the top. Israel forces Palestinians to recognize it and its right to exist, but Israel refuses to dot he same for the Palestinian people.

11-17-05 - Rice Trip Raises Concern Over U.S. Pressure on Israel Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, disagreed. Focusing on a border agreement, which grants the Palestinians a degree of sovereignty, was akin to "giving your children dessert before they eat their vegetables," Klein said

11-17-05 - Pope presses for pact during meeting with Israel leader

11-17-05 - Understanding grows during Israel seminar Bradbury spent eight days in Israel in mid-September with eight other state government officials from five other U.S. states.

11-17-05 - UNRWA can't end activities in Palestinian refugee camps: PNA FM Oddly, John Bolton has sought to do just that. Why would this issue be of any concern to him anyway? The Israelis and their neocon cohorts in America are beginnning a campaign to dissuade Palestinians to give up their right of return once and for all, is the sense that I'm getting lately. "Imagine if Canada took a role in trying to convince Palestinians not to want to return,"

11-17-05 - Palestinian kids undergo heart surgery in Israel

11-17-05 - Troupe dances for peace Through traditional dance, song and theatrical choreography, the 20 girls and boys of the Ibdaa Dance Troupe portrayed Palestinian refugees? heritage and dreams to an audience of Stanford students and community members

11-17-05 - PSNI officer to head Palistinian security mission "It is a privilege to have been asked to help with the development of policing in Palestine at this exciting and dynamic period of history in the Middle East."

11-17-05 - Child abuse not illegal in Israel As long as the child is Palestinian (and moves) and you?re a member of the Israeli Defence Force you can do what you want and not be held to account

11-17-05 - Map time Palestinian-American lawyer Gregory Khalil discussed the implications of Palestinian law and spoke against the construction of the barrier that will separate Israeli and Palestinian territory

11-17-05 - Israelis smear Condi for brokering border deal It is widely assumed that President George Bush appointed Rice as US Secretary of State because of her longtime association with the oil industry

11-16-05 - Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign Begins in Gaza

11-16-05 - Settlers disrupt Palestinian olive harvest "The soldiers saw everything, but didn?t do a thing. The Civil Administration commander promised to handle the matter, but the girls continued to go wild. There were more than 10 soldiers and only 10 girls, but they didn?t prevent them from doing anything,"

11-16-05 - Settler girls attack Palestinian farmers in the West Bank Six settler girls from Benjamin, a settlement Northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah, attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working in olive orchards in the nearby village of Sinjil.

11-16-05 - EU to Send Monitors to Gaza Border Soon Israel can object to letting someone cross, but the Palestinians will have ultimate authority over who passes. The Europeans, through a joint situation room that will include the Israelis and the Palestinians, will presumably referee any disputes.

11-16-05 - Rafah accord shows need for more assertive action: analysts

11-16-05 - Iran Now Says Satellite Can Spy on Israel

11-16-05 - Nixon Papers Show Worry Over Israel Nukes I went back to Yahoo and did a title search to see if they released this to Yahoo America. This version released to the American Yahoo News site is noticeably different than the version on the Asian Yahoo News site, which is the one I posted here.

11-16-05 - Abbas meets Israeli FM at summit Elsewhere, international envoy James Wolfensohn said he was contemplating quitting his role. He said he was frustrated at his inability to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to work together.

11-16-05 - Arafat poison rumor lingers An aide to the late Yasser Arafat claims the Palestinian leader died from a slow-acting poison.

11-16-05 - Hillary: 'I Had A Lot To Prove' Clinton said her campaign next year would highlight her role in building stronger ties between the United States and Israel, seeking tougher sanctions against Syria and her opposition to the International Court of Justice?s ruling on Israel?s security barrier, as well as her role in the fight to help Magen David Adom, Israel?s emergency medical service, gain admission to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

11-16-05 - Explosive belt found with Pal. Youth is fake Four hours after the Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian youth, and claimed that he was carrying an explosive belt, an Israeli military source admitted that the belt was fake and carried no explosive materials.

11-16-05 - Annan Calls For More Palestinian Refugee Aid

11-16-05 - Hamas, Jihad reject Palestinian-Israeli deal on Gaza crossings Jihad echoed Hamas' criticism, saying the Israeli-Palestinian joint monitoring of the Rafah crossing indicated that the Gaza Strip was still under the Israeli control

11-16-05 - Mofaz: "Construction of the Wall will continue, reinforce settlement blocs" "Settlements should be reinforced in the West Bank, especially the settlements blocks of Bietar Elite, Gush Etzion, Maali Adumim, Biet Arieh, Ariel and Jordan Valley settlements

11-16-05 - Palestinian ambulance held for three hours by the army

11-16-05 - Israeli forces fire heavy artillery at targets in northern Gaza

11-16-05 - Israel officials at two-day U.S. security session Americans have not experienced terrorism to such a degree that they are willing to have shopping malls and other public areas protected by metal detectors and armed security patrols, an Israeli security expert said Tuesday. "You're not ready yet," The continuation of the Israelization of the United States.

11-16-05 - Scathing mailings political, not a bias crime Agudosi said the mailings were akin to the leafleting campaigns conducted by the National Alliance, a white supremacist organization.

11-16-05 - Palestinian group offers views with wall replica

11-16-05 - Bomb trigger Besides killing the Palestinians, the bomb was intended to send a message to the Chinese that they shouldn't be dealing with the Palestinians (I'll leave it up to you to guess the identity of the only country in the world that might want to send that kind of message).

11-16-05 - Saudi Arabia annuls embargo on Israel

11-16-05 - US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package "Patience apparently pays," said a knowledgeable source. However, intensive lobbying by the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) seems to have been the main factor behind this development....Pro-Israeli sources were encouraged by the fact that legislators have not asked for across-the-board cuts in foreign aid to help finance recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere

11-16-05 - Saudi Arabia Silent on Trade With Israel

11-16-05 - Canada urged to help resolve Palestinian refugee debate "Imagine if Canada took a role in trying to convince Palestinians not to want to return," ??

11-16-05 - Clash of cultures takes back seat to boy?s suffering The boy, Hamza Jneidy, traveled to the United States without his parents to receive the surgery on his left hand, which is partially paralyzed. He was injured after being shot while walking home from school last December

11-16-05 - Planned Christian Center Stirring Unease Rabbi Lifshitz said the park "will bring thousands of Jews in daily contact with missionaries, either at the park itself or in nearby hotels, restaurants and so on." While he acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of Evangelical Christians already visit Israel every year, "the amount of interaction between them and Jews is limited compared to this proposed park."

11-16-05 - Did Israel have Prior Knowledge of the Amman 11/9 Terror Attacks?

11-16-05 - Nevzlin: Putin won't free tycoon Russia has asked Israel to extradite Nevzlin to face charges that include contract murder, charges he called "bogus."

11-16-05 - Israel, E.U. to talk trade Israel and the European Union opene