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Settlers assaults bar Palestinian children from attending school
Some 20 Palestinian children from the south Hebron hills area cannot attend school due to continuing harassment and assaults by residents of the nearby outpost of Havat Maon. The case was revealed in a probe conducted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Doctors Without Borders and the Ta?ayush group for Arab Jewish partnership.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496259.html
Israeli Bullets Deprive a Palestinian Child of Talking
Ahmad is as similar as many other handicapped children, but he is a unique one, as he lost his voice due to three Israeli bullets that had hit his head while playing with friends in front of his house in April 27, 2004.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=825
Prisoner Stories: Majdi Hasan Mousa
Israeli soldiers broke into the back of the family compound to pick Majdi up in the early hours of the morning a few months ago. He was sleeping in the same room as his mother, a room that also doubles up as a kitchen. He is now in Ofar awaiting a hearing scheduled for November 25th.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3266.shtml
Thinking beyond Arafat
As Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weisglass, recently made clear, the Israeli government is determined to block any peace process, particularly the "road map" peace plan, so that it can keep its West Bank settlements and ensure that no viable Palestinian state can emerge west of the Jordan River.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3274.shtml
One child shot dead, two others wounded, in Askar refugee camp
A medical source in Nablus said that the child was identified as Bashshar Jabara, 12 years old, from Askar refugee camp; Jabara sustained a fatal injury to his neck. The source added that Fadi Ahmad Abu Zir, 12, and Sameh Hussein Arayshi, 14 years old; both sustained gunshot injuries to the lower parts of their bodies.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week1/110104/One%20Child.htm
Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
Israeli occupation troops have killed four Palestinians during a raid on the West Bank city of Nablus. Witnesses and medics said three Palestinians, including a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Yasir Arafat's Fatah group, were killed on Monday by an Israeli special unit in the Old Town of Nablus.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2C845D0E-6E35-4618-AABB-4EEBC447F395.htm
Palestinian teenager blows himself up in Tel Aviv market; 3 killed
A Palestinian teenager laden with explosives walked into a crowded outdoor market and blew himself up Monday, killing three Israelis, wounding 32 and scattering bloody vegetables and spices along the ground.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041101/w110148.html
Bomber's mother expresses shock
"Why didn't they send someone older? We are all ready to sacrifice ourselves for the motherland, but my son was little, he was just a baby," the mother sobbed. The boy had for the past week kissed her hand and forehead every day and asked her to pray for him.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1FE566B4-E211-441A-8479-9FC79947A9FF.htm
Top UN officials condemn suicide attack in Tel Aviv market
A statement issued in Jerusalem for Terje Roed-Larsen said he "condemns in the strongest terms this terrorist act" Monday at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12407&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
As 2 more Palestinian children killed, Annan says avoid civilian casualties
After two more Palestinian children were recently killed during Israeli operations in the occupied Palestinian territory, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the Government to take steps to avoid civilian casualties. (Please compare the two statements "From UN")
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12406&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Israel blast an 'enormous obstacle' to peace: Britain
Britain condemned a Palestinian "suicide" bomb blast in the heart of Tel Aviv, saying such acts provided "enormous obstacles" to the Middle East peace process. "Acts of violence like this present enormous obstacles to moving the peace process forward," he said in a written statement.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041101/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_blast_041101161253
165 Palestinians, including 50 civilians, killed in October
An inquiry by Haaretz found that 50 of those killed (30.3 percent) were civilians, including women, the elderly, children and teenage boys under age 16; 115 (69.6 percent) were killed in the IDF operation launched in the northern Gaza Strip... (Had no influence on PEACE)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/495832.html
Ill Arafat condemns blast
Abu Rudeina said the frail Arafat, in France for treatment of what is believed to be a mystery blood ailment, has asked him to condemn the attack on his behalf. "He noted that he has always been against attacks targetting civilians, whatever their nationality or religion," the aide said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1614054,00.html
Palestinian human rights institution supports Hansen
The institution asked the international community to reject the Israeli pressure against Hansen, demanding that all Arab and international human rights organizations write to UN chief Kofi Annan to support Hansen and the UNRWA. Meanwhile, a Palestinian children institution also showed its support to Hansen.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/01/content_2165865.htm
Palestine urges Arab countries to offer financial aid
Chief of the Finance Affairs Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Sa'edi al Kronz, said that Arab financial aid would be used to pay salaries for PNA employees as well as to offer basic services for the Palestinian people.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/01/content_2165772.htm
Washington rejects Israel's list of illegal outposts
Israel had listed 23 outposts established since Sharon's government assumed office in March 2001. The Americans believe the number of outposts built during that period is much higher. Israel and the U.S. are now waiting for the report by Attorney Talia Sasson and the defense minister's advisor...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=495881&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
PLC urges institutions to carry out duties
Chief of PLC Rawhi Fatouh said that existing law was adequate to cope with power vacuum left by Arafat's absence, therefore, no new legislation was needed.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/01/content_2165634.htm
Knesset opens debate on Evacuation and Compensation Bill
The Knesset opened a debate Monday on the Evacuation and Compensation Bill, which would provide legal and financial underpinnings to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/495795.html
Anti-disengagement protestors stage mass prayer in Jerusalem
Segregated groups of men and women turned toward the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City to pray for the failure of the plan, under which Israel will pull out of Gaza and four West Bank settlements next year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496280.html
Arafat's condition improving, Palestinian officials say
"We are now more confident and assured of the president's health and we hope that within the next 48 hours, all the tests will be completed, now that we are sure that he is not suffering from any kind of cancer," the official added.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=32466
Top Hamas leader calls Arafat in Paris
The political chief of the radical Hamas movement, Khaled Meshaal, called ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his sick bed in Paris to inquire after his health, a Hamas spokesman told AFP.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=3&u=/afp/20041101/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_health_041101163302
Behind Arafat's mask
The left adopted with a sigh the version that at the moment of truth at the Camp David summit in July, 2000, it turned out that Arafat had not relinquished the right of return - meaning the destruction of the Jewish state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/495857.html
World watch
And while it may be true that without the man Palestinians call Abu Ammar, Ariel Sharon and a re-elected George Bush would no longer be able to argue that there is no "partner for peace", the danger of factional fighting and warlordism in the disconnected territories of the West Bank, Gaza and the refugee camps of Lebanon and the wider diaspora will be very real.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1340723,00.html
The first feelers after apartheid
The meeting with Mandela, arranged at the last moment in the leader's Johannesburg home, represented a marked shift in South African policy toward Israel. Olmert was the first Israeli minister officially invited to visit South Africa since the African National Congress (ANC) rose to power in 1994 elections.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/495871.html
Both Parties Are Getting Out the U.S. Vote in Israel
Israel may not have electoral votes, but it does have an estimated 100,000 potential American voters, including a large chunk from critical swing states like Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. And an estimated 10,000 Palestinian-Americans living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are eligible to vote.
http://nytimes.com/2004/11/01/international/middleeast/01israel.html
Pro-Middle East, pro-Bush: an unusual anomaly
Others, say they are "ABB," an acronym for "Anything But Bush," and that their vote for John Kerry is not an endorsement of him, but rather a vote cast against George W. Bush. On Nov. 2, as Americans head to the polls, people from around the world will watch with interest - particularly those in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?article_ID=9712&categ_ID=5&edition_id=10
Netherlands calls for Hezbollah to be placed on EU terrorism list
Hezbollah, "the Party of God," formed by Iranian Revolutionary Guards after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, seeks the "liberation" of all occupied Arab lands, including Jerusalem.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=8&u=/afp/20041101/wl_mideast_afp/eu_netherlands_lebanon_041101195510
Iraqi leaders split over Falluja attack
“I absolutely disagree with those who believe a military attack [on Falluja] is necessary,” Mr Yawar told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas in an interview published on Monday. “The way the coalition is managing the crisis is wrong. It is as if someone shot his horse in the head to kill a fly that landed on it. The fly flies away and the horse dies,” he said.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dbe8e0de-2c33-11d9-8339-00000e2511c8.html
Top Baghdad official shot dead
Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah was killed in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the capital, an interior ministry spokesman said. The attack came as efforts began to register voters for January's polls.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3970619.stm
Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden's Vote is For George Bush"
I'm sure he realizes that further threats are more likely to help Bush than Kerry and what Osama Bin Laden wants now, of course, is a president to be elected who will further mire the country into the Middle East swamp, and cause, of course more American casualties, which Bush will surely do. So, I think that this is probably Osama Bin Laden's vote for George W. Bush.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/01/1513254 |
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