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Christmas in Bethlehem
13 hours ago ago from WalesHome.org | Independent analysis from and about Wales – seven days a week
Thu 24 Dec 2009 By Branwen Niclas International Noor: the human face of life in Bethlehem in the twenty first century LIGHTS DANGLE above the streets as craftsmen try to entice the holiday crowds with carved Nativity figures. Christmas is the peak tourist period for Bethlehem but the seasonal message remains depressingly bleak for Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank. Ask teenager Noor Rabia. He was playing in ...
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16 hours ago ago from Italy Entertainment News
Yesterday - 14.38 By Nidal al-Mughrabi continue reading this story a German mediator has delivered to Hamas Israel s response on the exchange between hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and an Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip, but the Islamic group has announced that it need a few days to consider the new proposal. A Hamas official, perhaps heralding a possible breakthrough in the negotiations, said the group will send a delegation to ...
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20 hours ago ago from Reading Palestine Solidarity Campaign / Peace, Justice & Dignity for Palestinians.
Reading Palestine Solidarity Campaign Peace, Justice & Dignity for Palestinians. About Reading PSC Join PSC Donate Contact Us Convoy Friends of Wadi Fuqeen Events Calendar Settlements December 23rd, 2009 News A couple of news reports from Al Jazeera English Israel vows action against settlers Give with one hand and take with the other: The Israeli army is planning to use special ...
Related contentHamas says needs time to study Israeli prisoner swap reply - Summary
3 hours ago ago from Al-Darb Diya
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Gaza/Tel Aviv - Hamas needs time to study Israel's reply to demands to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier, a senior official of the Islamist group said Wednesday. "Hamas needs several days to study the Israeli response and then we hand our answer to Israel through the German mediator," Mohammed al-Zahar, among the Hamas leaders who has been indirectly negotiating the swap with Israel, ...
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23 hours ago ago from One Region, One Future
I suppose I should apologize for not writing for so long. A few things have conspired to prevent me from doing so. First, I must admit that the obsessive dealing with the Israel-Arab conflict has resulted in a minor depression attack on me. Perhaps because I was exposed to activism at a relatively old age, I didn’t know how to pace myself and as a result found myself consumed in an effort that offers very little rewards. Second, my other ...
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Hamas: Response to Israel count-offer by next week
7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Hamas: Response to Israel count-offer by next week DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A senior Hamas official says the group will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli soldier. The Damascus-based official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says the militant group is currently studying Israel's offer and will deliver its answer "next week at the latest." Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' ...
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5 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Belgian-Israeli dual nationals sue Hamas BRUSSELS (AP) -- Five Belgians living in Israel filed a complaint here Thursday against the Hamas rulers of Gaza, saying militant rocket fire into Israel had violated their human rights. Belgian courts let citizens living anywhere in the world request criminal prosecutions for violations of their human rights. In 1993 Belgium began allowing war-crimes cases to be filed by people in any country ...
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Israeli soldiers are sometimes ordered to evacuate West Bank settlements About 200 Israeli teenagers have pledged to disobey any orders to evacuate Jewish settlements during their military service. The letter sent to Defence Minister Ehud Barak was signed by young people about to be drafted into the Israeli Defence Force. Jewish law as written in the Torah forbids the dismantling of Jewish-built homes, the letter said. The ...
Related contentBBC News - Christmas celebrations begin in Bethlehem
2 hours ago ago from BBC
Advertisement Patriarch arrives in Bethlehem Thousands of Christian pilgrims have gathered in Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas in the place where the Bible says Jesus Christ was born. Festivities began with a traditional boy scout band before a midnight mass celebration in St Catherine's Church, next to the Church of the Nativity. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land led the annual procession from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. ...
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