31/12/07

Attack on 2 Israeli Settlers Rattles Peace Negotiations
New York Times – United States
The Palestinian Authority and international aid organizations have long pressed Israel to ease its security regime in the West Bank, especially to remove …
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middleeast/31mideast.html?ref=world

Israel: No Peace Until Militants Stopped
The Associated Press –
But that was before the shooting of two off-duty Israeli soldiers Friday by Palestinian attackers, in a valley near the West Bank city of Hebron. …
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Abbas approves new Palestinian central bank chief
Reuters – USA
The PMA is mandated to manage a Palestinian currency once a state is established. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza now use Israeli shekels, …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL3026512020071230

EU disavows suspect chemicals seized by Israel
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
… army said on Saturday it seized 6.5 tonnes of potassium nitrate aboard a Palestinian truck travelling through the occupied West Bank en route to Gaza. …
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Palestinians: Israeli Troops Fire on Pilgrims Returning From Mecca
Voice of America – USA
On Friday, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli hikers near Hebron, in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority has condemned the Hebron killings and says …
www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-30-voa21.cfm

Report: IDF kills two militants near Gaza fence
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Israel has been limiting its operations in the West Bank, ruled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as it negotiates a peace agreement with Abbas’s …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939739.html

Barghouti: Israel doesn’t want peace
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Barghouti, formerly Fatah’s secretary-general in the West Bank who is serving five life sentences for his role in terrorist operations, said he does not …
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Narrowing Hamas’ horizons means one thing: Helping al-Qaida
The People’s Voice – Nashville,TN,USA
Israel, the West and certain Arab regimes think that an implosion of Hamas’s house will enable Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to capitulate to …
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/12/30/
narrowing_hamasa_8217_horizons_means_one

30/12/07

OSC: Bin Ladin Vows Jihad for ‘Liberation of Entire Palestine …
By Juan Cole(Juan Cole)
This is to be added to the media campaigns aimed at misrepresenting the Islamic State of Iraq for which the Riyadh rulers, their scholars, and their media outlets are to blame.” Bin Ladin adds: “Amir Abu-Umar (al-Baghdadi) and his …
www.juancole.com/2007/12/osc-bin-
ladin-vows-jihad-for-liberation.html

Palestinians Arrested in Israeli Deaths
The Associated Press –
The two armed off-duty soldiers were hiking Friday in hills north of the Palestinian town of Hebron in the West Bank when they were attacked by a group of …
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Israel captures truckload of bomb chemicals in W. Bank
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Moazzem Sherif, 22, was shot during an attempt to arrest him in Beitunia, west of Ramallah. In the Gaza Strip, Hamas leaders yesterday declared a ban on …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939513.html

Palestinians say West Bank security better despite attack
AFP –
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Palestinian officials insisted on Saturday that their forces were improving security in the West Bank despite a shootout the day …
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Chemicals used in making explosives caught at West Bank checkpoint
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Potassium Nitrate is a banned substance in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to its use by militants for the manufacturing of explosives and Qassam …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939493.html

Hamas bans Gaza anniversary rallies by rival Fatah
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Fahmi Zaarir, a Fatah spokesman in the Abbas-controlled West Bank said the movement would hold rallies in Gaza next week, regardless of the latest order. …
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Palestinians say West Bank security better despite attack
AFP –
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Palestinian officials insisted on Saturday that their forces were improving security in the West Bank despite a shootout the day …
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2 soldiers slain on W. Bank hike; kill 1 attacker
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said his security forces had arrested an unspecified number of suspects in the killing and had passed on to Israel …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939519.html

29/12/07

The Palestinian Resistance Will Never Extinguish
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
The Israelis have in recent weeks open threatened to murder the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on the Gaza Strip – but the Palestinian resistance will never extinguish and the Palestinian people can never be forced to submission under Zionist fascism. The Palestinian people will continue its righteous cause to resist the Israelis occupation…
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Palestinian Hajj-Pilgrims Returning from Mecca – Denied Secure Home-Coming
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
In November beginning of December 2200 pilgrims left through Rafah border crossing to travel to Mecca via Egypt for the celebration of Muslim Hajj. The Israelis and its allies in United States opposed loudly. what appeared to be an agreement between the Egyptian government and the Hamas government on Gaza Strip. Some 1700 home-coming Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca have been at the sea waiting for more then 3o hours on a ship outside the Egyptian Red Sea post of Nuweiba. The stranded Palestinians have been forced to stop the crew members of the ship intended to return to Jordan….
www.uruknet.de/?p=39644

Ilan Pappe interviewed in Italy
ETHNIC CLEANSING GOES ON AND ISRAEL WANTS YOU TO ACCEPT IT
Emanuela Irace, il manifesto – Translated by Diego Traversa, Peacepalestine
…After having denounced in recent months the impossibility of working peacefully in a hostile milieu, namely at Haifa University, Pappe moved to Britain where he now teaches at Exeter University. Historian of dissent, “revisionist”, born in 1954 in Israel, son of Jews who fled from the Germany of the ‘30s, he has published a half dozen books. Amongst the most recent works there is “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine”, not yet translated into Italian. The core of the exploration by the great historian is the Zionist policy comprised of deportations and compulsory expulsions carried out against the Palestinians during and after the 1948 war, when some 400 villages were evacuated, razed and destroyed in the space of five years…
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