14/12/07

Concern rises regarding Gaza health care access
By via the Electronic Intifada(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Friday, December 14, 2007 :JERUSALEM, 13 December (IRIN) – The isolation of the Gaza Strip is “intolerable” said a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on 10 December, urging better access for Gazans to medical care outside …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/14/18466869.php

Israel’s Palestinians speak out
Electronic Intifada / The Nation. The Annapolis peace talks regard me as an interloper in my own land. Israel’s deputy prime minister, Avigdor Lieberman, argues that I should “take [my] bundles and get lost.” Henry Kissinger thinks I …
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/
2007/12/14/israel_s_palestinians_speak_out

Police State 101 – You Are Being Watched
By EuroYank(EuroYank)
“More than 111 million Americans carry mobile phones, each of which creates a rough electronic account of the user’s location in time and space.” A harmless little detail, right? Not exactly. During the first year of the second intifada …
euroyank.blogspot.com/2007/12/police
-state-101-you-are-being-watched.html

Palestinian leader calls for end to Gaza sanctions
International Herald Tribune – France
Fayyad emphasized that the plan was “for Gaza and the West Bank together,” that the Gaza Strip is “an inseparable part” of the Palestinian homeland. …
www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/13/news/mideast.php

Israeli-Palestinian talks off to tense start
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Israel’s immediate concerns center mostly on security in the West Bank and Gaza, from which militants launched more than 20 Kassam rockets and mortar rounds …
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-
mideast13dec13,1,5244351.story?coll=la-news-a_section

Israeli-Palestinian Meeting Ends in Acrimony
Chosun Ilbo – Seoul,South Korea
He also says they raised the issue of Israeli military activities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tuesday, Israeli troops launched a ground incursion into …
english.chosun.com/w21data/html/
news/200712/200712130031.html

World Bank urges Israel to ease Palestinian blockade
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Foreign governments and the PA must increase the pressure on the Israeli government to lift the blockade of Gaza and make it possible for people in the West …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2227465,00.html

‘Israel and Palestine came close to peace deal at 2001 talks’
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
Both sides insisted on keeping sovereignty over the passage linking the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Both sides agreed that sovereignty over Jerusalem, …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007
%5C12%5C14%5Cstory_14-12-2007_pg4_1

PA: Security plan lacking ahead of donors’ meeting
Jerusalem Post – Israel
However, he expressed hope that the political situation would improve and Israel would ease travel restrictions in the West Bank, which would allow more and …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11968473364
10&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Palestinians call for Israel to ease curbs
Financial Times – London,England,UK
… Jerusalem The Palestinian prime minister warned on Thursday that only the easing of Israeli restrictions on movement and trade in the West Bank and Gaza …
www.ft.com/cms/s/ea22ce40-a9a2-11dc-aa8b-0000779fd2ac.html

ICRC warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Palestine
People’s Daily Online – Beijing,China
The ICRC appealed for immediate political steps to be taken to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Moreover, it called on Israel …
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6320940.html

Israeli troops raid three West Bank news media
Reporters without borders (press release) – France
Reporters Without Borders condemns the searches of three West Bank news media that were carried out yesterday by Israeli troops. One of the news media, …
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24734

Report: Israeli military installations near Arab villages harmed …
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
by via the Electronic Intifada Thursday, December 13, 2007 :The following is the summary of the Arab Association for Human Rights’ report “Civilians in …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/13/18466698.php

13/12/07

ELECTRONIC INTIFADA update 07 12 13
By Naphtali HIRSCH
UPDATE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA :Latest articles on EI: Palestine : Multimedia: Audio: Crossing the Line focuses on Annapolis (13 December 2007). Lees verder… Reageer…
www.bloggen.be/jesjoeroen/archief.php?ID=281

In afterglow of high-profile conference, Israelis and Palestinians …
International Herald Tribune – France
Hamas’ takeover of Gaza paradoxically opened the door to peace talks between Israel and the moderate Palestinian leadership now in charge of the West Bank. …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/13/africa/
ME-GEN-Year-end-Mideast-Push-for-Peace.php

Rockets, settlements raise concerns at Mideast peace talks
CNN – USA
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israelis complained about rocket attacks from Gaza while Palestinians questioned Israeli plans for West Bank settlements during peace …
www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/12/mideast.talks/

World Bank: PA economy depends on mobility
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
However, the report contends that if Israel cancels its policy of restricting mobility and trade in the West Bank and lifts the siege on the Gaza Strip, …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934078.html

FACTBOX: Olmert and Abbas: the distance between them
Reuters – USA
Israel wants to be compensated in territory for a 35-km (20-mile) corridor of land that would connect the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1236468820071212

Mideast Teams Begin Peace Talks
New York Times – United States
In the hours before the meeting, Palestinian militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells at Israel from Gaza. It was a response, they said, …
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/
middleeast/13mideast.html?ref=world

Report: Palestinian anti-terror forces training in Russia
Ynetnews – Israel
… possible attempt by Hamas to conquer the West Bank as it did in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian soldiers join a special Russian counter-terror commando …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3482070,00.html

Palestine Today 121207
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
In Gaza, Israeli jet-fighters kill one Palestinian man, while troops attack and serve closure notices on media outlets in the West Bank, these stories and …
www.imemc.org/article/51979

Teenage dreams of wrecking peace process from Jewish outpost
AFP –
SHVUT AMI OUTPOST, West Bank (AFP) — Littered with leftover pizza and mattresses, the dilapidated house on an occupied West Bank hill is a squat for 20 …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7Qf0kHOR11kXd8aXpRPuku4gU_A

Israel called Clinton refugee plan vague
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Clinton’s idea on borders was for Israel to annex 4 to 6 percent of the West Bank for the settlement blocs, with the option of leasing other areas, …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934074.html

Quriea: Negotiators agree to resume talks after holidays
Xinhua – China
Israel launched a day-long large-scale incursion into Gaza on Tuesday, during which eight Palestinian militants were killed. In response to the Israeli …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/13/content_7236679.htm

12/12/07

The first intifada 20 years later
By rj
Electronic Intifada. The first Palestinian intifada (uprising or shaking off) erupted dramatically on 9 December 1987 after twenty long years of brutal Israeli military occupation. The Palestinians had had enough. …
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.ph
p/2007/12/12/the_first_intifada_20_years_later

Israeli Army attacks southern Gaza ahead of talks
International Herald Tribune – France
While Hamas runs Gaza, which Israel and the West are trying to isolate, the talks will be held with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and his …
www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/11/news/mideast.php

Abbas awaiting Israel response on settlement bid
AFP –
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — The Palestinians want Israel to state a clear intention to halt settlement activity in the West Bank at their first round of …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwD1cVJoK88woXoZJvMXV9Ce12pw

What Abbas can do
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza covered with a Palestinian flag. A month earlier, PA television repeatedly broadcast a song that described Palestine …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119684731
5338&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

IMF: Palestinian Reform Plan Doable
The Associated Press –
About three-quarters of households in Gaza and 56 percent in the West Bank live in poverty. Later this week, Israelis and Palestinians are to resume peace …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iBd1Re
vy8vS-9JsPWPxKGqY-a5CAD8TF5CA81

Key Events in Mideast Peace Efforts
The Associated Press –
_ September 2005: Israeli dismantles 21 settlements in Gaza Strip and withdraws from territory. Four settlements in West Bank also dismantled. …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-ZPq6N
PReuK1jtMWScZ0Daww7cwD8TFDCS81

Israeli, Palestinian businessmen urge trade talks
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Abbas appointed Western-educated Salam Fayyad as prime minister in the West Bank. Sanctions on Gaza remain. Fayyad will ask international donor states to …
www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7143968

Hopes brighten of Arab-Israeli settlement
Central Chronicle – Bhopal,India
No doubt, a divided Palestine with Abbas controlling only the West Bank and Hams fully in change of the Gaza strip, is in no shape to given it self. …
www.centralchronicle.com/20071212/1212301.htm

New settlements may hinder Middle East peace talks
Times Online – UK
The Palestinians fear that the new housing will cut East Jerusalem off from the West Bank and complicate the new talks.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world
/middle_east/article3037203.ece

Israel’s Palestinians Speak Out
The Nation. – New York,NY,USA
They remain refugees to this day, scattered throughout the West Bank and Gaza, the Arab world and beyond. We Palestinian citizens of Israel are among the …
www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/rouhana

Bogged down by politics, Palestinian and Israeli doctors fail to …
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Abu-Moghli was supposed to have spoken, but according to WHO Gaza and West Bank office head Dr. Ambrogio Manenti, he could not attend because he had to deal …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119684730658
7&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

11/12/07

Crossing The Line: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Continues
By admin
Electronic Intifada frequent contributor and Crossing The Line correspondent, Rami Almeghari will speak more on this story. Plus, masked Palestinian resistance fighters take over a classroom in Gaza, but they haven’t come to violate …
www.palcast.org/2007/12/397

Background : Facts about the Wall
Map courtesey of Electronic Intifada. Much more information can be found at
the international Stop the Wall site: www.stopthewall.org …
wow.webbler.org/Facts%20about%20the%20Wall+8234.twl

Towards first-rate university instruction by Rima Merriman
By annie(annie)
Rima Merriman, The Electronic Intifada, 10 December 2007 In one of those reports commissioned and written in Palestine and then promptly forgotten, the challenges facing higher education and the consequences of not heeding these …
annies-letters.blogspot.com/2007/12
/towards-first-rate-university.html

Demography is the key
Ynetnews – Israel
The rightist call for Palestinian recognition of a Jewish state as a precondition for renewing the diplomatic process, a call that received the odd backing …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3480630,00.html

Cop’s killing shows strain of W.Bank security plan
International Herald Tribune – France
Israel is holding three Palestinian policemen on suspicion they killed a Jewish settler in the West Bank last month. Palestinians, wary of stop-gap accords …
www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2007/12/06/africa
/OUKWD-UK-PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-SECURITY.php

A pa’s security service detains office manager of plc’s speaker
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The pa’s security forces have been reportedly arrested scores of Hamas-linked people in the West Bank, since the Islamist group has seized the Gaza Strip in …
www.imemc.org/article/51928

Palestinians Ready to Repel Israel Raid
Alalam News Network – Tehran,Iran
… Palestinian territories in the upcoming days. “Given the Zionist regime’s siege of the Gaza Strip and its efforts to surround the West Bank, (Israel) is …
www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp
?newsid=041030120071209123316

Fuel Crunch Adds To Misery In Gaza Strip
Guardian Unlimited – UK
The West Bank government, formed after Hamas seized Gaza, denies it. Israel says Hamas is responsible for bringing hardship to Gaza. ``The Israeli policy is …
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7132704,00.html

Israel Says Army Ready for Gaza Invasion
The Associated Press –
As part of the peace efforts, Abbas has launched a crackdown on West Bank gunmen to try to show Israel that he can meet Palestinian obligations to impose …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSk
DPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8TBDKEO0

A Gaza Development Corporation
Media For Freedom – Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
The divisions between Gaza and the West Bank are real and need to be overcome. Hamas, in control of the Gaza strip, was not part of the Palestinian …
www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=7318

Israel Rebuffs Criticism Over Settlements
Alalam News Network – Tehran,Iran
Palestinians want East Al-Quds as capital of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ramon said all Jewish neighborhoods, including Abu Ghneim, …
www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.
asp?newsid=041030120071209144539

Olmert ally insists Israel would keep Jewish sections of east …
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria
… marked by bloody Palestinian suicide bombings in Israeli cities and punishing Israeli raids in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel captured east Jerusalem, …
www.pr-inside.com/olmert-ally-insi
sts-israel-would-keep-r339369.htm

Press Release: The Genocide of Gaza Continues
uruknet.info – Milan,Italy
30 of them were terminally ill people waiting for the Israeli authorities to allow them to leave Gaza in order to get treatment in the West Bank, …
uruknet.info/?p=m39044&s1=h1

View from America: Unraveling more than Iran policy
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… hasn’t the power or the ability to make a deal, or to finally end Palestinian terror, even if Israel retreated from the West Bank, as it did from Gaza. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847286
322&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The Lebanese are always waiting
Voltaire Network – Saint-Denis,France
… work that forces Israel to respond to some Palestinian humble demands. The siege arrangements and the division of the West Bank increased after Olmert’s …
www.voltairenet.org/article153553.html

Gaza’s donkeys in demand as fuel crisis mounts
Independent – London,England,UK
The new cut followed the failure by the emergency West Bank Palestinian government in Ramallah, set up in June by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, …
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3233332.ece

A local PFLP leader calls on Hamas to renounce hegemony over Gaza
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The leftist leader criticized underway Palestinian Authority’s arrests among local Palestinians throughout the West Bank, as “ satan equation’, …
www.imemc.org/article/51924

Palestinian UN Envoy: Israeli attacks have destroyed hope for peace
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
Mansour is referring to the ongoing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and invasions in the West Bank, that have resulted in sixteen Palestinians killed since last …
www.imemc.org/article/51905

Israel to Build Homes in East Jerusalem
The Associated Press –
The Palestinians consider any construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem to be settlement activity. Israel says the settlement freeze does not apply …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YS
kDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8TAMVG00

As Israel prepares to abandon territories, some Jews plan State of …
Israel Insider – Tel Aviv,Israel
… and the splitting of the Palestinian Authority into Gaza and the West Bank — in additional to the Palestinian State of Jordan — has apparently …
web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12460.htm

PNA asks US to force Israel stick to Road Map
Xinhua – China
He also revealed that the Israeli government had initially decided to let 26 West Bank residents, exiled in Gaza, to return back to home while talks still …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/08/content_7219012.htm

‘Al Quds’: Gaza factions weigh ceasefire
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Al-Quds noted that the Egyptian government expressed willingness to mediate between Israel and the Palestinian factions. The sources added that Shallah …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11968472834
72&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Forum writers skeptical of peace talks Middle East in brief
Contra Costa Times – Walnut Creek,CA,USA
He cannot deliver anything with regard to Gaza, and it is unlikely he will be able to deliver security on the West Bank, which is historical Israeli land. …
www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_7670459

The “Joy” of Christmas Has Been Cancelled in Bethlehem
uruknet.info – Milan,Italy
But I say to all Christians, this is NOT just about the town of Bethlehem, this is about the ENTIRE Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza being …
uruknet.info/?p=m39007&s1=h1

Palestine Today 120607
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
Death toll reaches 16 today in Gaza, and in the West Bank the army kills one resistance fighter and injures another, these stories and more coming up stay …
www.imemc.org/article/51903

Apartheid is real
Thought Leader – Johannesburg,South Africa
In fact, the creation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem remains the mandate of the United Nations …
www.thoughtleader.co.za/bilalrande
ree/2007/12/06/apartheid-is-real/

Working to end violence in Palestine: 2 advocates to speak here …
Washington Evening Journal – IA,USA
She discusses the colonizing of the West Bank and the Palestinian ghettoes that have resulted. There is danger in the American mindset that calls criticism …
www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19095
559&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567520&rfi=6

Israeli PM pledges efforts for peace with Palestine
Times of India – India
About equal numbers of Jews and Arabs now live in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, but only Israeli citizens vote in Israeli elections. …
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Israeli_PM_pledges_efforts
_for_peace_with_Palestine/articleshow/2613034.cms

Israel plans to retain Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem
Daily Star – Lebanon – Beirut,Lebanon
Israel captured East Jerusalem, including the Old City with its holy sites, in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip. …
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition
_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=87373

IMF supports Palestinian economic reform plan for 2008-2010
Ynetnews – Israel
About three-quarters of households in Gaza and 56% in the West Bank live in poverty. Efforts to revive the Palestinian economy and build the institutions of …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3481208,00.html

Palestinian PM hopes for $5.6 billion from donors to stoke …
International Herald Tribune – France
… Palestinian state existing side by side in peace and security with Israel” was the ability of Palestinians to move freely between the West Bank and Gaza …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/
10/europe/EU-GEN-EU-Mideast.php

Arab League chief slams Israeli plan
Gulf Daily News – Manama,Bahrain
One of Israel’s leading human rights groups yesterday harshly criticised the government for widespread violations in the West Bank and Gaza, …
www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?
Article=202510&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30265

Rice hopes Israeli building will not “cloud” talks
Reuters – USA
The Palestinian Territory is divided between Abbas’s Fatah movement which controls the West Bank and the militant group Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip. …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN10437194

Palestine Today 121007
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The Israeli army attacks West Bank areas, and clashes in Gaza with Palestinian resistance factions, these stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned. …
www.imemc.org/article/51950