links for 2008-01-23
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Senior political sources said Jerusalem is very concerned that the council, which will meet Tuesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, will likely accept the Arab states’ position and charge Israel with collective punishment.
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White House website
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President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday. “The negotiations will continue, we should reach an agreement by the end of the year,”
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The Egyptian security forces fought off the protestors, beating them and using dogs and water hoses to push them back. Several Palestinians were arrested by the Egyptian forces.
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Meanwhile, masked Palestinian gunmen detonated explosives early Wednesday next to the border wall separating Gaza and Egypt causing several holes in the iron barrier,
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“Shas will not divide Jerusalem and will not sit in a government that divides Jerusalem,” Yosef told Yishai. “I want everone to know this.”
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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, speaking Tuesday night at the Herzliya Conference, said that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority “must refrain from letting problems from the outside come into the negotiating room.”
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“If Israel does not stop extending Jewish settlements immediately, there will be no peace deal in 11 months. The expansion of Jewish settlements puts at risk the continuation of the peace talks,” a German newspaper on Monday reported Prime Minister Salam
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MK Zahalka said, “The State of Israel has turned Gaza into a prison, but even prisoners’ light is not turned off in jail.”
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John Ging, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza said the civilian population was living in “abject misery” and had been stripped of their human dignity.
“People here in Gaza have been living in abject misery and hardship
