4/1/08

Violence flares in Gaza and the West Bank
Euronews.net – Lyon,France
Israel confirmed 28 people were arrested across the West Bank overnight. President George W. Bush is due to meet Israeli and Palestinian politicians in the …
www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=462642&lng=1

PA rejects Israeli demands for a demilitarized Palestine
Jerusalem Post – Israel
“There will never be peace without a Palestinian state in the entire West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. We insist on a full withdrawal to the 1967 …
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Five killed in new Israeli strikes on Gaza
Africasia – London,UK
Israeli troops in about 70 army jeeps also rolled into the West Bank town of Nablus in search of wanted militants on Thursday. In Gaza, brothers Ahmad …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php
?area=mideast&item=080103095028.tkyzde1z.php

Erekat: Israel’s settlements, checkpoints in W Bank harm Mideast …
Xinhua – China
3 (Xinhua) — Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Thursday that Israel’s settlement activities and the remaining army checkpoints in the West Bank …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/03/content_7360789.htm

Jordan king presses Israel PM on settlements
AFP –
In its first phase, the roadmap peace plan requires Israel to freeze settlements and the Palestinians to improve security in the West Bank. …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUgE-vSo0m3QXX94CiCRNL2Y9vDw

Israeli Attacks Kill Five in Gaza and West Bank
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Gaza, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) At least five Palestinians were killed and more than 50 were wounded on Thursday, after the Israeli Army attacked the West Bank …
www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BA159AC0D-86
5D-4280-A3FA-1C45F3088853%7D&language=EN

Study: Gaza pullout hurt Israel’s image
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
Then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cast the Gaza withdrawal as a stopgap measure in the face of a Palestinian Authority that was unwilling or unable …
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106215.html

Palestinian official accuses Israel of creating pretext to block …
Xinhua – China
Bush will visit Israel, the West Bank, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt during his Middle East peace-promoting journey on …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/03/content_7360887.htm

FACTBOX: Major US-Middle East peacemaking events
Reuters – USA
September 28, 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip is signed in Washington. After signing, Clinton hosts a summit …
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0323784820080103

Palestinian Democracy: An Existential Threat?
By Pan-African News Wire(Pan-African News Wire)
Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Omar Barghouti is an independent analyst and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the …
panafricannews.blogspot.com/2008/01
/palestinian-democracy-existential.html

Democracy in Palestine: An Existential Threat?
By XXPANTHAXX
Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 30 December 2007 As two of the authors of a recent document advocating a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli colonial conflict we emphatically intended to generate debate. …
www.assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26595

3/1/08

Palestinians Shave Their Heads in Show of Solidarity
Voice of America – USA
Mr. Bush begins a three-day trip to Israel and the West Bank on January 9 to encourage Middle East peace talks that were relaunched in November at a …
www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-03-voa1.cfm

Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades: We fired a rocket at West Bank settlement
Ynetnews – Israel
Gaza become the focal point of Palestinian terror this year, but organizations there are working tirelessly to aid their counterparts in the West Bank A …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3489701,00.html

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Donors’ Conference: Any High Hopes?
Newropeans Magazine – Paris,France
Just ponder on the portentous significance of a recent statement by Ambrogio Manenti, head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the West Bank and Gaza, …
www.newropeans-magazine.org/index.php?op
tion=com_content&task=view&id=7461&Itemid=86

How The News Is Made
Global Politician – Brooklyn,NY,USA
… coupled with the unwillingness and inability of the two Palestinian governments (Palestinian Authority-Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza …
globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3962&cid=1&sid=112

2007: Shin Bet sees drop in terror attacks but more use of rockets
Ynetnews – Israel
Gaza become the focal point of Palestinian terror this year, but organizations there are working tirelessly to aid their counterparts in the West Bank The …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3488901,00.html

Israel prepared to evacuate strategic territory in peace agreement
WorldNetDaily – Grants Pass,OR,USA
As Israel prepares to withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terrorists claim they fired a rocket into the Jewish state from the West Bank city of Yabed, …
www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59502

Abbas says Bush must speak out on Israeli settlements
AFP –
Since then, Israel has announced two expansions of settlements in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem — moves slammed by Palestinians and …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTxgTgMdQx8GLYi6W9AMWkO70N5Q

Dark Christmas in Palestine
Elias Akleh, MIFTAH
…Israelis fear the existence of Christian Palestinians might obstruct their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. So they discretely persecute Christian Palestinians, who suffer the worst Israeli persecution tactics to drive them out of the country, especially out of Jerusalem. Christian Jerusalemite Palestinians are offered huge sums of money to sell their properties to Israelis. Israeli tax collectors, accompanied with armed Israeli soldiers, routinely raid Christian shops in Jerusalem, and impose unreasonable huge sums of taxes on their owners, and when they default payments their shops are closed, confiscated, and sold in auctions to the highest bidders – usually Zionist financiers. Zionist extremists had many times invaded and settled in Christian homes in Jerusalem claiming ownership through fake deeds. Transfer of young Christian Palestinians is covertly encouraged in the form of offering them “refuge” and ease of travel to some European countries and to Canada…
www.uruknet.de/?p=39767

Israel’s Jews-only Land Policy
Hasan Afif El-Hasan, Special to PalestineChronicle.com
“Jews-only land policy is at issue” was the title of an article in my US town local newspaper. It is about a housing discrimination story in Israel against an Arab Israeli couple Baha, an attorney, and Fouad Abu Raya, a dermatologist from the Israeli town of Sakhnin, referred to them by the paper as Muslims. According to the paper, the couple offered to buy a house in the Israeli town of Karmiel. And when these buyers went to the local land registry to transfer the ownership “the clerk told [them] she couldn’t transfer ownership because the house was built on land belonging to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and it is illegal to sell JNF land to Arabs”. The JNF is the biggest Israeli land owner….
www.uruknet.de/?p=39785