21/12/07

Analysis: Palestinian aid and politics
BBC News – UK
Our desire is to see one Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, and if we manage to get momentum and drive into the process then we’ll see all …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7152143.stm

Killing those who would kill you
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
… all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Of course, like all lies that become ironclad tenets of political belief, the lie of the genocidal Palestinian …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/936895.html

Constructing the defenses of peace
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Tel Aviv University’s most recent Peace Index shows that while a majority of Israelis believe that the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority truly …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/936896.html

Toy guns and real fears – it’s playtime in Gaza
Times Online – UK
The guns may be made of plastic, but the scenes played out by these Palestinian children look real enough. In war-torn Gaza and the West Bank, …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world
/middle_east/article3080624.ece

Israeli ministry drops plans for Jerusalem homes
Reuters Canada – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they hope to create in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAL2087610020071220

Palestine Today 121907
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
In late November, the High Court ruled that the four patients should receive permission to exit Gaza to receive treatment in either in Israel, the West Bank …
www.imemc.org/article/52045

Jaffa dreams
Jerusalem Post – Israel
IN PRINCIPLE, Israel is in favor of having groups like the EU-Copps operating in the West Bank since their work fits into policy set forth by Prime Minister …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847384
790&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The end of Israel?
By VINEYARDSAKER:(VINEYARDSAKER:)
by Hannah Mermelstein, The Electronic Intifada, 19 December 2007 (reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the editors of The Electronic Intifada) I am feeling optimistic about Palestine. I know it sounds crazy. …
vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2007/12/end-of-israel.html

20/12/07

Record 3.9m. travel abroad in ‘07
Jerusalem Post – Israel
The electronic card is being sold to groups as well as to individuals and
also provides holders with discounts and benefits in other sites, …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11968473
69822&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Bush visit to West Bank won’t be walk in the park
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
His job is to ensure Israel freezes all settlement expansion and the Palestinian Authority stops attacks on Israelis from Gaza and the West Bank. …
www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=
02923d72-da5e-4d2f-83d7-d4b458d6948b&k=15642

Hamas leader appeals for reconciliation; decries Israeli attacks …
International Herald Tribune – France
In his speech, Haniyeh avoided mentioning rival politicians in the West Bank — chiefly Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who recently relaunched peace …
www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=
02923d72-da5e-4d2f-83d7-d4b458d6948b&k=15642

Bush to make first presidential visit to Israel
Guardian Unlimited – UK
It will be the first time in his seven years as president that Bush will have visited Israel, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2230056,00.html

A second win for Ms. Rice
Baltimore Sun – United States
But an infusion of money – and promised reforms – aren’t enough to revive the Palestinian economy. Israel has to allow a freer movement of people and …
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/
editorial/bal-ed.pals19dec19,0,897116.story

Israel considers new settlement
BBC News – UK
The status of the area, occupied by Israeli forces along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Golan and Sinai, during the 1967 war, is meant to be …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7151845.stm