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In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... Palestinian suicide bombing escalates.
51 reserve soldiers and officers of the Israel Defence Force sign a "Combat Troops' Letter" or "Combatants' Letter" in which they declared their refusal "to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people." |
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Thursday 24: In Beirut Lebanon – ELIE HOBEIKA, a key witness in the Sabra-Chatila war crimes case being pursued in a Belgian court against Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, is assassinated outside his home with a car bomb by Israel secret service Mossad. (The explosion occurs two days after Hobeika had met Belgian Senators Josy Dubie and Vincent van Quickenborne in east Beirut, and agreed to be a witness at any trial of Sharon for the Sabra and Chatila massacre).
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Mossad hit-squad silences witness! |
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| February | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues ... Palestinian suicide bombing escalates. An Arab Peace Initiative, based on a Saudi peace plan, calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six Day War, including east Jerusalem, in exchange for normalizing ties with the Arab world and for the return to Israel of Palestinian refugees and their descendents. |
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| March |
Tuesday 5: In Jerusalem – Jewish terrorist organisation Kahane Movement explode a homemade time-bomb in the courtyard of a Palestinian school in the Sur Bahir neighborhood, injuring 24 students and 2 teachers. Monday 28: In Lebanon – All Arab countries issue the Beirut Declaration offering complete normalization of relations with Israel. ARIEL SHARON responds the following day by a re-invasion of the West Bank, and over the next two weeks hundreds of Palestinians are killed. Tuesday 29: In Palestine – Israeli forces storm Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT's compound and West Bank cities after two suicide attacks kill 26 people in Netanya. In Palestine – The Israeli army launches Operation Defensive Shield, the country's biggest military operation in the West Bank since the Six Day War in 1967. (In June this year Israel begins construction of its separation/security wall and annexes large areas of Palestinian land). ARIEL SHARON's right-wing allies' real intention (Israel's annexation of Palestinian lands to fulfil Zionist ideology) becomes more evident to objective observers. |
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| April | The Israel-Palestine conflict continues to escalate, with Syrian troops re-entering Lebanon. Jewish Settlers residing in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza are now – 214,000 in 163 settlements. |
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| Oppression of Palestinians continues |
Palestinian Arab Population –
Region's Average Per Capita Income
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| Please Note: | April | Monday 8: At George W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University, in the United States – SARA ROY (senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, whom Noam Chomsky once described as 'the foremost commentator and academic on the [Israel-Palestine] conflict') states that –
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Thursday 11: In Tunisia – a synagogue on the island of Djerba is hit by a truck-bomb by the al-Qa'eda Islamic terror network. |
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Tuesday 23: In Ramallah, Palestine – YASSER ARAFAT, leader of the PLO, writes to Rabbi MOSHE HIRSCH of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs, Palestine Authority, Jerusalem, as 'President of the State of Palestine' expressing his appreciation and support for the Ultra-Orthodox Jews public opposition to Zionism. |
See signed PDF copy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... Wednesday 22: In West Jerusalem – The Israel Supreme Court rules in favour of the Reformed Jewish women's organization 'Women of the Wall' being allowed to pray at the Kotel (Wailing Wall). |
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| June | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... Saturday 16: Israel begins a unilateral segregation plan (Hafrada) in the West Bank, so-called security wall, at an estimated US$3.7 million per kilometre. The plan includes building a segregation wall, and also a segregation 'buffer zone', most of which is built inside the Green Zone on the Palestinian land occupied by Israel thereby confiscating it. |
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| July | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... Monday 22: In Gaza – From their Hatzor airbase, the Israeli Air Force, on instruction of their Defense Minister, BENJAMIN BEN-ELIEZER, bomb the home of SALAH SHEHADEH (leader of HAMAS' armed wing), in the densely populated Daraj neighbourhood, killing both him and the neighbouring MATTAR family, leaving 15 dead (including eight children and three women), and more than a hundred injured. (The Washington-based Crimes of War project later studies the case in detail and concludes that the Israeli bombing was a "disproportionate punishment" that resulted in the loss of civilian lives). (See January 22, 2009). |
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| August | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September
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In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine war continues... Engineers of the Israel Antiquities Authority report a 5mm increase over the year of an outward bulge (first mentioned in a 1974 document) in the 2 metre thick southern perimeter wall of Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif), near 'Solomon's Stables' (Al-Marwani Oratory) that endangers its stability. Prime Minister ARIEL SHARON calls a security meeting to discuss the issue after an open letter from 21 Israeli archaeologists warns of an impending "grave tragedy". |
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| October | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... The Islamic Waqf employ Jordanian engineer RAEF NIJEM to solve the problem of the increasing bulge in the southern wall of the Haram (Temple Mount). |
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| November | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to issue a final call on Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruction listed by UN inspectors before they were expelled by Iraq (UN Resolution 1441 being the 18th in this regard). Thursday 28: In Kenya – a car bomb attack is carried out by the al Qa'eda terror network on a hotel frequented by Israeli tourists. To (Yemeni sourced) missiles are fired at an Israeli airliner but miss. |
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| December | In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues... In Canada – National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, DAVID AHENAKEW, states that Jews "created the Second World War", are a disease, and that Hitler was trying to "clean up the world" when he "fried six million of those guys". (See July 8, 2005). Friday 20: In New York – The United States vetoes (12 to 1, 2 abstentions) condemning the killing by Israeli forces of several United Nations employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse. |
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