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RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Khaled Meshal, whom the Israelis tried to assassinate in Jordan in 1997, arrived for his first visit to the&n
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip —
Dec 7 (Reuters) - Fifteen years after Israel tried to assassinate him in Jordan, Islamist leader Khaled Meshaal says the Jewish state would not risk trying again on his triumphant return to Palestinian land.
Fifteen years later, it is starting to view him in a slightly different light and Israeli analysts say he might yet prove the man who can open a dialogue between the Palestinian Islamist movement and the Jewish state.
Members of Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad say Israel has warned the militant group's two top leaders against trying to enter the Gaza Strip this week.
The pair had planned to visit Friday, along with Khaled Meshal the leader-in-exile of Hamas, Islamic Jihad's sister group.
JERUSALEM —
RAMALLAH, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian King Abdullah II conveyed U.S. assurances to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Washington will not allow a new Israeli settlement plan to pass, a Palestinian official said Thursday.
BERLIN (Reuters) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to avoid "one-sided moves," amid uproar over Israeli plans to build 3,000 settler homes in a highly sensitive area of the West Bank.
Canada believes Israel went too far when it declared its intent to build 3,000 new settlement units in a controversial tract of the West Bank in response to the Palestinians achieving non-member state status at the UN last week.
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- More than 20 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli forces in central Hebron on Thursday afternoon, after a skirmish between Israeli troops and Palestinian police. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israel's Ministry of Education has suspended a literature program for fifth graders because a Palestinian novel was on its syllabus, Israeli media reported Wednesday. A round white dome stands in the middle of the vacation village at Dor Beach, near Caesarea. I've visited this place dozens of times but never noticed the sheikh's tomb on the well-tended lawn. Nor did I remember the large stone building right on the shoreline, a few dozen meters from the water, opposite the bobbing fishing boats. Among the diverse sectarian and ethnic groups caught up in the uprising in Syria there are nearly 500,000 Palestinian refugees. Most have tried to stay on the sidelines of the fighting but in recent months it has reached several refugee camps. NEW YORK (JTA) -- Rabbis at B'nai Jeshurun are expressing "regret" over an email sent out by the prominent New York synagogue praising the United Nations vote to elevate Palestinians to non-member state status. As Israel reflects on losing Europe in Thursday's vote to upgrade Palestine's UN status, mystery shrouds the positions of four Pacific island nations that broke with international consensus and sided with Tel Aviv. Israel's education ministry 'suspends program' over Palestinian novel
Media Outlet:
Ma'an News Agency
Date:
December 5, 2012
The Arab villages that were; a new Israeli guidebook
Media Outlet:
Haaretz
Date:
December 7, 2012
Source Link(s):
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-arab-villages-that-were-a-new-isra... [17] Palestinian refugees increasingly drawn into Syrian war
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BBC News
Date:
December 6, 2012
N.Y. shul’s rabbis ‘regret’ email praising U.N. Palestine vote
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Date:
December 6, 2012
Source Link(s):
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/06/3113836/ny-shuls-rabbis-regret-email-... [19] Why we lost Pacific Islands
Media Outlet:
Ma'an News Agency
Article Type:
Opinion
Date:
December 6, 2012
Article Author(s):
Sandy Tolan
The Obama administration [22]’s refusal to support the success
Ehud Barak was wrong. He minimized the cabinet decision on massive construction in Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim as little more than cold leftovers reheated by Master Chef Bibi. On the eve of the national election, he said, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to dress up recycled scraps as a tasty feast for his Likud voters. Don't take him seriously, the defense minister told the Americans.
An examination of national liberation struggles pursued since the end of World War II reveals a mixed record of success by different rebel leaderships in their ability to balance prudently their political and their military (or, if one prefers, terror ) wings, in their fight for political independence. This applies to the organizations that fought for the creation of the Jewish state - Israel.
The State of Israel is conducting regular negotiations, more or less, with Hamas. About once a week an Israeli delegation travels to Cairo, where it holds talks on easing financial constraints, which effectively means Israel is holding talks on easing the siege on Gaza.
In a small gallery in an ancient house in the village of Qalandiya, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Khaled Jarrar stands alongside his latest art project placed on a podium: a small soccer ball made of cement. But not just any cement – this cement had been cut out of the barrier built by Israel separating the West Bank from Israel. For Israelis living at the epicenter of the settlement-building storm, there’s widespread suspicion that Bibi is bluffing. A front-page headline in The New York Times last Monday startled me for a few seconds. It read: “Obama brings end to giving in”, which for a few seconds I thought was related to how US President Barak Obama was on the verge of adopting a more even-handed stance towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or more correctly twisting the arm of Israel. The tired, depressing scripts too many of us follow regarding the Middle East have been on full pathological display these last two weeks. Unfortunately, during this time, neither the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas nor Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu displayed the grace, vision, or creativity needed to move forward. Links:
Article Author(s):
Diana Atallah
Media Outlet:
The Media Line
Article Type:
Opinion
Date:
December 6, 2012
Could Plan for E1 Be Just a Bluff?
Media Outlet:
The Jewish Daily Forward
Article Type:
Opinion
Date:
December 7, 2012
Why is Obama handcuffed?
Media Outlet:
The Jordan Times
Article Type:
Opinion
Date:
December 6, 2012
Both Bibi And Abbas Pander To Extremes
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The Daily Beast
Article Type:
Opinion
Date:
December 6, 2012
Source Link(s):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/06/both-bibi-and-abbas-pander-to-e... [29]
Source URL (retrieved on Nov 24 2024 - 9:07pm): http://www.americantaskforce.org/world_press_roundup/20121207t000000
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[2] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printmail/29276
[3] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printpdf/29276
[4] http://www.americantaskforce.org/rss/wpr
[5] https://www.americantaskforce.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/world/middleeast/khaled-meshal-hamas-leader-gaza-visit.html?ref=middleeast
[7] http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/religion/islamic-jihad-says-israel-warns-against-gaza-trip/nTPJt/
[8] http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/newsmaker-hamas-leader-returns-to-gaza-with-wider-ambitions/
[9] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/uk-palestinians-hamas-israel-idUKBRE8B50KE20121206
[10] http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-israel-threatens-to-cancel-hamas-truce-if-islamic-jihad-leaders-enter-gaza-1.483156
[11] http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/social-issues/rights-group-israeli-strike-on-gaza-home-unlawful/nTPnw/
[12] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/06/c_124059522.htm
[13] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=545691
[14] http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?q=node/98706
[15] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=545670
[16] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=545387
[17] http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-arab-villages-that-were-a-new-israeli-guidebook.premium-1.483305
[18] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20630517
[19] http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/06/3113836/ny-shuls-rabbis-regret-email-praising-un-palestine-vote
[20] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=545618
[21] http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/1206/Obama-and-Israel-are-walking-away-from-two-state-solution-with-Palestinians-video
[22] http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Barack+Obama
[23] http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-e-1-plan-recycled-and-oppressive.premium-1.483313
[24] http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/what-if-gaza-and-ramallah-get-their-act-together.premium-1.483311
[25] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4316713,00.html
[26] http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36642
[27] http://forward.com/articles/167341/could-plan-for-e-be-just-a-bluff/
[28] http://jordantimes.com/why-is-obama-handcuffed
[29] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/06/both-bibi-and-abbas-pander-to-extremes.html
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