4/12/07

The Palestine that we struggle for
By Stefan Christoff
Jamal Juma’, Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2007 Image: Latuff 2006. Last Tuesday’s demonstrations, which brought thousands onto the streets of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus and Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) …
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Israeli prisoner release derided by Palestinians
Independent – London,England,UK
While the homecoming detainees – most from the West Bank but some from Gaza – were greeted with emotional scenes from their relatives, they remain a small …
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3220970.ece

Abbas Shuts Hamas Charities in West Bank
The Associated Press –
_ Israel held up the transfer of 25 Russian armored vehicles to Palestinian police in the West Bank because the Palestinians want to have them mounted with …
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Settlers for sale
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Vilan says that even though the population in question is 10 times bigger than the Israeli community was in Gaza, evacuation-compensation in the West Bank …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/930818.html

‘Christian groups in PA to disappear’
Jerusalem Post – Israel
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS The ever-dwindling Christian communities living in Palestinian-run territories in the West Bank and Gaza are likely to dissipate …
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Barak’s West Bank maneuvers
Jerusalem Post – Israel
In the run-up to Annapolis the lines of confrontation became more clearly drawn, and the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip …
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Jordan’s king urges int’l support for Palestinian-Israeli negotiations
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… would “lead to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state on their national soil in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” the statement added. …
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Egypt relaxes its Gaza border for haj
Jerusalem Post – Israel
It was also a blow to the rival Fatah-led government in the West Bank, which promised to ship pilgrims out through Israel. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, …
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Colin Rubenstein: Chance for peace
Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
Palestinian obligations may be particularly difficult to implement and judge. PA President Mahmoud Abbas controls only the West Bank while Gaza is firmly in …
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/
0,21985,22864142-5000117,00.html

Israel frees Palestinian prisoners to help Abbas
China Post – Taipei,Taiwan
Israel’s Prisons Service said 20 prisoners were sent to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and 409 to a crossing near the West Bank city of Ramallah, …
www.chinapost.com.tw/internationa
l/2007/12/04/133434/Israel-frees.htm

3/12/07

An Indigenous Response to the Annapolis Conference
By Zinjabeelah(Zinjabeelah)
THE PALESTINE THAT WE STRUGGLE FOR By Jamal Juma’, The Electronic
Intifada, 2 December 2007 Last Tuesday’s demonstrations, which brought
thousands onto the streets of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus and
Gaza in defiance of the …
zinjabeelah.blogspot.com/2007/12/
indigenous-response-to-annapolis.html

Palestinian shepherds’ livelihoods in jeopardy …& more from EI
By annie(annie)
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 3 December 2007 DHAHARIYA, WEST BANK,
2 December (IRIN) – Palestinian herders in the southern part of the West Bank are facing increased poverty due to rising costs of fodder and water, …
annies-letters.blogspot.com/2007/12/
palestinian-shepherds-livelihoods-in.html

The Palestine that we struggle for
By Bouvard Pécuchet(Bouvard Pécuchet)
Jamal Juma’, The Electronic Intifada, 2.12.07 Last Tuesday’s demonstrations, which brought thousands onto the streets of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus and Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) attempt to silence the …
palestina-etulsai.blogspot.com/2007/
12/palestine-that-we-struggle-for.html

Partition or apartheid in Israel?
Trinidad & Tobago Express – Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
… when Yasser Arafat persuaded the Palestine Liberation Organisation to adopt the goal of a Palestinian state within the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and …
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=161244634

Abbas attempts to provide West Bank security
CTV.ca – Canada
Hundreds of newly-trained Palestinian police are on patrol in the West Bank, hoping to increase stability in its often lawless streets. …
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Palestinian Authority to request $5.5 bln in aid
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
“If the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza don’t feel an improvement in their daily lives, Abbas’ peace policies will be weakened,” Palestinian analyst …
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL02433997.html

Conference a “long shot” to lead to peace between Israel and Palestine
Columbia Missourian – Columbia,MO,USA
The daily violence is partly due to Israel not seeing itself under the rule of law when it comes to the West Bank and Gaza strip. …
www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/12/02/
annapolis-conference-long-shot-lead-peace-between-/

Background: What the state needs to explain about Gaza fuel cuts
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Shlomi Mukhtar, who serves in the office of the Coordinator of Activities in the West Bank and Gaza. The second was Idan Weinstock, head of the Electricity …
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Israel set to release 429 Palestinian prisoners
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
The Israel Prisons Service said 408 Palestinians would be sent to the West Bank and 21 to Gaza after being freed at dawn from the Ketziot prison in southern …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/930585.html

Barak to promote compensation for West Bank evacuees
Ynetnews – Israel
Senior members in Barak’s office stated that this bill is a true conceptual revolution that would allow Israel to readily evacuate West Bank settlements if …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3478073,00.html

Palestinian Census Called Off
The Associated Press –
There are an estimated 3.9 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and about 1.7 million Arab citizens of Israel. To ensure that Israel can maintain …
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EU-Trained Women Join Palestinian Police
The Associated Press –
He did not have a breakdown of how many women currently serve in the West Bank, but said that before the June takeover of the Gaza Strip by the violent …
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2/12/07

For Israeli doctor, a time to kill and heal
Boston Globe – United States
There, he entered the coordinates – northeast Gaza, 4 miles from the Israeli town of Sderot – into his electronic map. The flight to Gaza took five minutes. …
www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/
12/02/for_israeli_doctor_a_time_to_kill_and_heal

Palestine: THE ONE STATE DECLARATION
By Electronic Intifada
The Electronic Intifada, 29 November 2007
For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the …
portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/12/369324.shtml

Three Hats and a Flak Jacket
Walrus Magazine – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Arafat is also president of the Palestinian Authority (or PA), which rules the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and head of the Fatah, which today holds the …
www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2004.04
-Field-Notes-arafat-defender-dictator-from/

Claims of chemical weapon use in Gaza
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor (Response, November 30) denies Israel used chemical weapons in Gaza. Claims and counterclaims about the use of such weapons …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2220217,00.html

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release
Turkish Press – Plymouth,MI,USA
An official at Ajrami’s ministry said 429 of them are from the West Bank and 16 from Gaza. Last week Israel published a list of 431 prisoners who were to be …
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=204869&s
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Hamas slams security forces’ detention of its members in West Bank
Xinhua – China
Commenting on the two incidents, Hamas said West Bank detentions by pro-Fatah security services and the Israeli air attacks in Gaza showed part of the …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/01/content_7180492.htm

Hamas threatens Israel after five militants killed – Summary
Earthtimes – London,UK
He also attacked the acting Palestinian government in the West Bank for implementing the US-sponsored security plans. Nine Hamas members have been arrested …
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/151525.html

Defiant West Bank settlers vow to stay on
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Almost no one believes that Israel will withdraw entirely from the West Bank, if only because any government rash enough to propose such a measure would not …
www.thestar.com/News/article/281583

1/12/07

After 40 years…
By Sim-O(Sim-O)
Electronic Intifada:. Over the past 40 years Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip has aggressively targeted both the land and the people of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). …
sim-o.blogspot.com/2007/12/after-40-years.html

Popular Beirut cafe hosts young crowd to mark Day of Solidarity …
Daily Star – Lebanon – Beirut,Lebanon
Maureen Murphy, an American activist from electronicintifada.net, a non-profit, independent Web site promoting Palestinian issues, expressed some doubts …
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edit
ion_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=87159

Israeli army shoots three children, abducts two
By CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD…(CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD…)
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9125.shtml Israeli occupation forces kill two “Hamas militants” in Gaza The body of the second man was found under the rubble in Khan Yunis refugee camp several hours after the strike, they said. …
mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/11/
israeli-army-shoots-three-children.html