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Israel raises wall down Jerusalem-West Bank street
Israel erected the first sections of a towering concrete wall on the middle of a main street linking Jerusalem to the West Bank on Thursday, adding to growing Palestinian feelings of isolation and gloom.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02322456.htm
Sharon's Desire to Include More Settlements Delays Construction of Southern Wall
Sharon rejected the plan, prepared by the defense establishment, to bring the route closer to the green line after he took a helicopter tour over the area on Sunday. Following the High Court of Justice ruling from June, a new line was planned further to the south, leaving only three settlements south of the wall.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week1/090204/sharon%20desire.htm
Back Cover - Letter from Beit Jala
At the beginning of the 1970s, he was still living with his family in their ancestral home on Ras Beit Jala, the highest point in the town. But in 1972 the Israelis came to the house and offered to buy the land from Nabil's father. “We refused. So almost every day and night they would come to the house, to threaten us, to intimidate us. They would take me and my brothers to jail.
http://meionline.com/backcover/264.shtml
Right of Reply / Still Jerusalem, after all these years
The answer apparently has to be sought in Israeli government policy, which is trying to maintain in Jerusalem the "sacrosanct" demographic balance of 70 percent Jews and 30 percent Arabs. The act of leaving Jerusalem is perceived by many of those who move away as a declaration of defiance in the face of this stupid, racist policy.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472262.html
Palestinian prisoners call off hunger strike in Israeli jails
all the inmates, with the exception West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti, had stopped fasting... He told reporters in Gaza City the hunger strikers had agreed to resume eating meals after the prison authorities had agreed to satisfy some of their demands. "The struggle will resume if the prisoners' rights are not fulfilled," he added.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20040902/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_040902180633
Security prisoners say 18-day hunger strike over
The Prisons Service said the prisoners had begun eating, under medical supervision.
Palestinians said Israel had agreed to meet key demands for improving their conditions, but Israeli authorities denied giving in to any Palestinian demands.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472703.html
Settlers in Hebron, and the “Jewish Hebron”
Settlers in Hebron repeatedly target Palestinian homes, markets, cars and residents and continued their efforts to occupy more lands from its Palestinian owners and erect new settlement outposts. Keryat Arba, Sousa, Kharseena, Ramat Yeshai, Hagai, Beit Hadassah, Beit Romano… and endless names of settlements encircling the city of Hebron
http://www.imemc.org/features/2004/september/settlers-hebron.htm
Israel Escalates Terror: Civilians Wounded, Houses Demolished in Khanyounis
Witnesses said that tens of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles, backed by helicopters, stormed Khanyounis Refugee Camp and al-Namsawi neighbourhood. Israeli troops bombarded houses and a mosque as well as opened heavy machine guns wounding several citizens.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1644
Palestinians: IDF troops kill 3 Palestinians, wound 35 in Gaza
Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot dead four Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, on Thursday and wounded 20 in the army's biggest incursion in weeks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472641.html
Palestinian beer comes to the UK
A former volunteer who worked in a peace camp in Palestine is importing a Palestinian beer into the UK. The beer will be launched in a select group of bars and pubs at the end of September and Miss Davis is looking to push the beer nationwide if initial sales go well. She may also set up a mail order system on the internet.
http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=14616&d=32&h=24&f=23&dateformat=%25o%20%25B%20%25Y
Iranian hard-liners praise Palestinian bombers
The "Supporting Islam's Martyrs" committee organised placing the symbolic gravestone at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery for the two Palestinian suicide bombers. "We are proud of you as martyrs of Islam," was written on the grave.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAF250175.htm
Turkey's AK Party Delegation in Palestine
Bagis told reporters prior to the meeting that they arrived in Palestine for peace, adding, "we came here for our Palestinian and Israeli friends to find the ways of contributing in peace and of assistance."
http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20040901194844347
Israeli FM to hold talks with Dutch counterpart on barrier, Gaza pullout
The Israeli government has come in for a welter of criticism over its construction of the separation barrier, with the Hague-based International Court of Justice ruling in July that the parts built within the West Bank are illegal and should be torn down.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040901153340.w7l19nz4
PNA warns Israel against carrying out assassination threats
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, top aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine that assassination would push the whole area into more complications and would undermine international and Arab efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/02/content_1938791.htm
Syria: Israeli threat against Damascus lacks credibility
"The launching of premature Israeli threats against Syria lacks the least degrees of credibility or evidence," the official SANA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Farouq Shara as saying, adding that the threats "exacerbate the deteriorating situation in the region."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472270.html
Security officials say prone to more assaults by settlers
Security officials are expressing concern over a rising number of attacks by settlers and right-wing activists aimed at those responsible for outpost evacuations and supervision over extremists.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472856.html
State continues to implement anti-Arab segregation
The court specifically issued a ruling forbidding such segregation when the Kadan family, Arab citizens residents of Baka el Gharbia were refused permission to buy public land in Katzir, a new settlement not far from their hometown. The court ruled that it was illegal to deny them the right to purchase a home in the settlement just because they are Arabs.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10917
Dr. Gandhi in the Holy Land
In the world's longest running international relations chess match known as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Dr. Gandhi's visit left a ripple. He told the Palestinians not to respond to Israeli aggression and to set their own agenda. The night before he had quoted Napoleon saying, “the general who holds the initiative wins the war.”
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=33850
Prisoner Stories: Mua'ath Mohammad Samarah
The new prison is rumored to use tactics similar to those used against Northern Irish prisoners. In particular, the courtyard outside the cells (the "forah" in Arabic) is covered by corrugated iron, which in this hot region forms a hellish greenhouse effect. Mohammad cannot be certain of these details, as he and his family have been denied visits to their son.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3059.shtml
Stronger than Sharon
On the Israeli balance sheet covering the four years of the intifada, efforts to isolate Yasser Arafat must be listed in the column of failures. Israel has invested a lot of energy in the personal struggle against the Palestinian leader, but the result is quite meager. Even from his imprisonment in the Muqata, Arafat is the supreme Palestinian adjudicator.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472310.html
Checkpoint behavior
Those in the field reported that there were instances of so-called checks that took hours, threats, bullying of women, slaps in the face, confiscation of books and CDs, gas grenades thrown into waiting cars, slashing tires, breaking car windows and shooting for purposes of intimidation and deterence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472308.html
'One Voice': Israelis, Palestinians want Palestinian state
A grass roots initiative seeking common ground between Palestinians and Israelis has found a high degree of consensus among ordinary people on some key issues often presented by politicians as deal breakers, organizers say.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=472598&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israel's 'Bulldozer' makes his move
For decades he ardently championed Israeli encroachments on occupied land, including the 21 Gaza settlements where 8,000 heavily guarded Jews live amid 1.2 million hostile Palestinians. Then, in December, he astonished friends and foes alike by announcing plans to disengage from Gaza while entrenching key settlements in the West Bank.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040902/EGAZA02/TPComment/Editorials
PalTrade, IDB, and ESCWA host Partnering for a Promising Palestine in Jordan
An Arab-Palestinian Private Sector Forum Leveraging Investment and Trade Opportunities will be held under the theme 'Partnering for a Promising Palestine' with more than 120 prominent Arab and Palestinian businessmen from the private sector to discuss mechanisms of partnership for the benefit of both parties.
http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/44653.html
Attack in Israel relevant to GOP, key voting bloc
Pictured on the front page was the shell of a bombed-out Israeli bus with the lifeless body of a young woman, maybe just a girl, hanging like a rag doll halfway out a shattered window.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/9560238.htm
FBI probe of AIPAC said to go beyond alleged mole
Quoting unnamed U.S. officials and other sources, the paper said that the FBI had been investigating for more than two years whether the AIPAC pro-Israel lobbying group has been passing classified intelligence data to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472644.html
US standing with Arabs hits a low
"They say 'democracy,' but they support dictators,'' says Mohammed, a 26-year-old designer in Jordan who asked that his full name not be used. "Look at what's happening in Najaf. The US was killing Shia - the people America said it was there to liberate."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0902/p06s02-wome.htm
More than 12 die in Falluja raid
Reports put the death toll between 14 and 20 including children and a woman. At least six people were injured. US officials say the strike was aimed at followers of the wanted militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3619858.stm
French Minister says Iraq hostages alive
Barnier made the comments in Amman after meeting French Muslim clerics who had been in Iraq trying to secure the release of journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot. He said on Thursday that from the information he had received the pair were "alive and getting good treatment".
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=575902§ion=news |
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