Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 12/8/1997
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of December 8, 1997
- Mahmoud Darwish criticizes Palestinian writers
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who described the controversies over the Palestinian Literary Awards as proof that the cultural sector is sick with coercive and totalitarian tendencies. Palestine, Culture, 12/13/1997 - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestine-Israel, Local, 12/13/1997
- Arafat - Indyk Palestine, Politics, 12/13/1997
- No plans defined for redeployment, intelligence report Sunday
Foreign Minister Levy said during the kitchen cabinet meeting that Netanyahu must arrive to his meeting with Albright with a “clear proposal” on the second phase and not “empty-handed.” “We will be caught in an impossible situation, in which we will be isolated. It’s a very dangerous gamble,” Levy warned. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/12/1997 - The dead man is not waiting anymore
A compromise was reached Friday between the two families, the Muslim and the Jewish, by which Shaukat Qouza'a, the 56-year-old man from Haifa, will be buried Palestine-Israel, Culture, 12/12/1997 - The World Bank supports the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations
the World Bank (WB) signed an agreement with the Cooperation Establishment through which the latter will run this project whose budget is $14.5 million Palestine, Economics, 12/12/1997 - Arafat popularity Palestine, Politics, 12/12/1997
- Arafat - Netanyahu meeting Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/11/1997
- Knesset - census Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/11/1997
- UN - Palestine Palestine, Politics, 12/11/1997
- Palestinian development and housing bank
The Palestinian Development and Housing Bank is ready to begin working in the Palestinian self-rule areas with a capital of 50 million dollars. Palestine, Economics, 12/11/1997 - UN General Assembly urges Israel to withdraw from Golan
The UN General Assembly today demanded Israel's full withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967 border line. Palestine, International, 12/10/1997 - Census in East Jerusalem: A compromise in the making
The Israeli government was determined not to allow Palestine to conduct its census in East Jerusalem, claiming that it is in violation of the Oslo accords and that it undermines Israel’s self-declared sovereignty in the city. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/10/1997 - Israel's desire for Arab waters
A detailed study on Israeli ambitions on Arab waters, compiled by the secretary general of Arab geologists, Dr. Wisam al-Hashimi, asserted these ambitions went back to the end of the 19th century. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/10/1997 - Population in the Palestinian territories Palestine, Local, 12/10/1997
- Israel - Albright Israel-Palestine, Politics, 12/10/1997
- Uprising's 10th anniversary marked
The Palestinian Intifada started on December 9, 1987 when an Israeli truck driver killed four Gazans, triggering clashes between the two sides that spread through the occupied lands seized by Israel in the 1967 June war. Palestine, Local, 12/10/1997 - Census preparations at peak, Israeli police on alert
How many Palestinians live in East Jerusalem is a question Israel does not want anybody to be able to accurately answer. At least not before it finishes the purification process it started to rid East Jerusalem of as many as possible of its Palestinian residents. Palestine, Politics, 12/9/1997 - Cemetery desecrated, army doing nothing
The body of Hadi Nasrallah, son of Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, was not brought to the cemetery where Palestinian and Arab commandos are buried after their death in clashes with Israeli troops but to a different place, yet unidentified. Palestine-Israel, Local, 12/9/1997 - Houses still await demolition
The five houses belong to families of five Palestinian suicide bombers whom Israel said were involved in two attacks July 30 in Mahaneh Yehuda market and on September 4 in Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in West Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Judicial, 12/9/1997 - Israeli extremists attack Sourboune
Israeli extremists from the Kakh movement threw tear-gas bombs and chanted anti-Arab slogans during a symposium held on Saturday in Sorbonne University in Paris on the partition of Palestine. Palestine-Israel, International, 12/9/1997 - US wants greater redeployment
Peres: I don’t hear voices from the Arab side calling for war. Now that it’s clear to us that Assad doesn’t want war and that someone lied to us, we will make a mistake if we postpone the process. The price of peace will not go down, but the cost of victims is likely to rise. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 12/8/1997 - EU for Middle East just peace
Poos added that the EU and the US are working on a joint declaration on the Middle East peace process following meetings US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held in Paris with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Palestine, Politics, 12/8/1997