Sunday, December 30, 2007

Headlines for 12-29-07

Egypt rerouting Palestinian pilgrims "We are aware of the Israeli and American pressures on Egypt, and we urge Egypt to reject these pressures and to allow the pilgrims a safe return through Rafah," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.


Armed Israeli among three arrested in Bethlehem Palestinian security forces on Saturday arrested three Israelis, one of them armed, outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.


At-Tuwani: The Birth of Jesus and the occupation of Palestine We were there to protect the people from possible attacks from the occupiers, from the people with guns, from those who wield worldly power. We were standing with the shepherds, with the dispossessed, people like those to whom the angels announced good news 2,000 years ago.




Israeli military raids Hebron hospital in search of two wounded fighters


Report: Hamas to ban Fatah from marking 43rd anniversary in Gaza Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which rules Gaza Strip, is going to prevent rival Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas from celebrating its 43rd anniversary, a pro-Hamas newspaper reported on Saturday.


Islamic Jihad vows not to disarm A senior leader of Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement in Gaza said on Saturday that his movement would not disarm since resistance against Israel was a way to achieve the Palestinian people's goals.


Erekat: Exceptions to Israeli settlement freeze not to be accepted


Arab League ministers to meet on Israel settlements


Fatah armed wing rejects PNA declaration on its dissolution


Fatah militias dismantled: Palestinian minister


Hamas accuses Fatah over stabbing in Lebanese camp A Hamas member was fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the head on Saturday at the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon in an attack which the Palestinian Islamist group blamed on rivals Fatah.


14 Hamas members arrested in West Bank: officials


Israel says finds explosive chemicals in EU aid bags "We are looking into this report," said an EU official in Israel. "If it is found to be accurate, this is an illegal act that should be condemned."


Palestinians say West Bank security better despite attack


Abbas's govt condemns shooting attack on Israelis


Palestinians arrested in Israeli deaths The Palestinian prime minister said Saturday his security forces had arrested a number of suspects in the killings of two off-duty Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and had given Israeli authorities weapons taken from the dead men by their attackers.


Bin Laden says U.S. seeks to exploit Iraqi oil The militant leader also vowed in a recording posted on an Islamist Web site on Saturday to expand jihad to liberate all Palestinian land "from the (Mediterranean) sea to the (Jordan) river" and said his group will never recognize Israel.




A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians


ANALYSIS / Nipping new W. Bank Jewish terror group in the bud


U.S. court overturns $156 million award in terror case The decision is the latest setback for U.S. government efforts to implicate U.S. Muslim charities in funding Islamic terrorism.


Palestinians also have claim to land


Balance of Power Is Continuing to Shift From the US the US military "surge" in Iraq, coupled with the growing expectations that America is not going to attack Iran in 2008 and that the Israeli-Palestinian peace will continue to "process," will allow the Bush Administration will sit out most of next year without igniting a major explosion in the region that could put even more downward pressure on the US geo-strategic position and bring about a massive increase in energy prices, unless that is, Israel decides to attack Iran.


Syria sees no peace before Israel quits Golan Heights


Brownsville Muslims pray for Bhutto, victims of attack ?(Terrorists) are opportunists and hypocrites. They are criminals, they are not clerics. When the terrorists attacked America they were not fighting for Islam, they are fighting for themselves,?


Bhutto killing sets off alarms in Israel over Pakistan's nukes "If the government fell into extremist hands, the bomb also falls into the hands of extremists," Rosen told JTA "You don?t need to worry about a nuclear Iran; you have a nuclear Pakistan in the hands of extremists."


U.S. funds to Israel on human trafficking The State Department this year removed Israel from its Tier Two watchlist in human trafficking but kept it designated as a Tier Two nation -- one with identifiable problems in human trafficking but making strides toward addressing them.


Italian delegation denied entry to Gaza - Another soon to follow


Faith in a World of Conflict The three photographs of Christmas in Bethlehem that appeared on Page A12 on Dec. 24 under the headline "In Bethlehem, Tourists Return Amid the Checkpoints" looked as if they could have been acquired from the Israeli Ministry of Tourism rather than Reuters and the Associated Press.


Mustafa Barghouthi Talked at Dar An-Nadwa Hall

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