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Court annuls administrative detention of anti-fence activist
A military judge annulled Tuesday an order for the administrative detention of a Palestinian resident of the village of Budrus near Ramallah, saying that the order was instated as a result of the man?s record of anti-separation fence activities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=496766&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Campaign Poster – 2nd International Week against the Apartheid Wall
The poster summarizes the Campaign calls against the Apartheid Wall and against Racism, Colonialism and Occupation and for widespread popular boycott campaigns to pressure governments to impose sanctions on Israel and to Isolate Israeli Apartheid.
http://stopthewall.org/activistresources/791.shtml
Sticker: “Boycott & Sanctions on Israeli Apartheid!”
Get the new sticker of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign! The call for sanctions and boycott on Israeli Apartheid is stamped on the image of the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/activistresources/792.shtml
Medical Relief accuses army of killing a wounded boy
The Palestinian Medical Relief Association accused the Israeli army of killing 14 years old boy after abducting him from one of its ambulances in Jenin.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week1/110204/relief.htm
Settlers' assaults bar Palestinians 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.(Outpost = Illegal Settlements)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496259.html
On This Day 1917: THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
1. His Majesty's Government accepts the principle that Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people. 2. His Majesty's Government will use its best endeavors to secure the achievement of this object and will discuss the necessary methods and means with the Zionist Organization.
http://www.wzo.org.il/home/texts/d152.htm
Amnesty International opposes the practice of administrative detention, and is calling for an end to the practice
Administrative detention is a procedure under which detainees are held without charge or trial. No criminal charges are filed, and there is no intention of bringing a detainee to trial. By the detention order, a detainee is given a specific term of detention. On or before the expiry of the term, the detention order is frequently renewed. This process can be continued indefinitely.
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/isr-action-detention
Israeli Troops Arrest Two Palestinian Teen Sisters
Samah Abdullah, 16 years-old, was arrested last on October 6, 2004 and then taken to the Israeli investigation center of Bitah Tekva, after breaking into her house and messing up with all the furniture inside including her own belongings. Six days later, mainly in October 12, the Israeli troops detained her sister Ayam, 20 years-old
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=833
UN still awaiting Israeli apology over 'rocket'
But within days, he heard from other governments -- which he did not identify -- that the Israeli government was making the rounds with a private briefing spelling out 29 additional allegations of UNRWA wrongdoing, he said. UNRWA had responses to all 29 allegations but had never been informed of the charges directly by Israel, he said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01190092.htm
Prisoners in Israel "forgotten" in draft policy
The letter called on the state to work toward the liberation of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, especially the longest-serving of them, Samir Qantar, and for resuming payment of compensation to former prisoners.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=9804
Welsh campaigner detained in Israel
Mr Davies was stopped when he arrived at the airport late last night on his way to deliver donations from public collections in Cardiff and the Valleys, to Palestinian charities, nurseries, rehabilitation centres and hospitals in the West Bank. On arrest he was strip searched and repeatedly interrogated by six military police.
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Politics&F=1&id=7504
Palestinian PM condemns Israeli raid in Nablus
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei condemned on Tuesday Israel's operation in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, during which four Palestinians, including a child, were killed.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/02/content_2169992.htm
French doctors say Arafat improving, rule out leukemia
The statement, drawn up with doctors treating the 75-year-old Palestinian leader, said there had been a "general improvement" in Arafat's condition over the past 72 hours, including an improvement in his white blood cell count.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/496754.html
Bin Laden's 'October surprise?
Why might bin Laden ever throw the rope to a distressed Bush? The simple answer is, it takes two to tango. Bush and his neoconservative administration need such a personification of evil to justify their vision of and action for empire. Without bin Laden the whole scheme of dominating the world and spreading "freedom and democracy" would not convince...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9777
Between the Lines / Mazuz's new dilemma - to indict or not to indict
The Israel Police are convinced that they have enough evidence in the file for an indictment, not only against MK Omri Sharon and attorney Dov Weisglass but also against Sharon, Sr. The anticipated charge is a violation of the Parties Law (1992). But how will Mazuz rule on the case?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496598.html
IDF intelligence chief: Old guard will succeed Arafat
Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ze'evi said the senior echelon, which includes Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, will be pressured to transform Israel's unilateral disengagement plan into a bilateral agreement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496736.html
U.S. Elections / No election upset for Sharon
Most Israeli officials involved in Israel's relationship with the United States assumed over the past few months that President George W. Bush would beat his challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry, in the elections and win a second term in the White House.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496556.html
'US policy to Israel won't change'
If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat exits the scene, however, the US may use the opportunity to "balance" its policy in the region, including seeking to get Israel's unilateral disengagement plan into the peace road map, Ze'evi said in a meeting with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099371831829
Wanted: A serious American peace policy
Third, the asymmetry of power - negotiations succeed when they are based on a balance of interests, not on an imbalance of power. Despite the creativity and courage of the Oslo architects, the balance of interests was not found. Indeed, Oslo helped accentuate a skewed asymmetry of power that created a dysfunctional environment for negotiations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496579.html
Arafat 'faces weeks in hospital'
Other aides, speaking privately, told the agencies it could take "three or four weeks" to treat Mr Arafat once the diagnosis was complete. Mr Arafat had been suffering stomach pains for more than two weeks before his condition worsened sharply on Wednesday last week, prompting doctors to recommend treatment abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3975401.stm
Analysis / A signal to Abu Mazen
Journalists from East Jerusalem said that since Arafat was a unifying symbol for the Palestinian people, in his absence, every faction would try to emphasize its existence, inter alia by carrying out further attacks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496566.html
Why we are still backing Arafat
Jerusalem and refugee rights. Since Arafat refused, Barak has never ceased to brand him a terrorist who wants the destruction of Israel, and blamed the continuing conflict on Arafat's refusal - rather than on Israel's failure to address any core issue, such as its increased settlement building during the Oslo years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1341326,00.html
National Union to split into two parties
The reason for the split was based on polls presented Tuesday by National Union strategist Eitan Dor-Shav, which showed that the party could double its parliamentary strength and obtain 15 Knesset seats in the next election if it ran as two separate parties.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=496703&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israel about to close $230m. drone deal with India
Heron/Eagle is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance type unmanned aerial vehicle that can operate at a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers and at altitudes above 25,000 feet for more than 24 hours, providing real-time intelligence, according to IAI.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496638.html
US prepares for major Fallujah assault
American troops are gearing up for a major offensive in Fallujah. The order to launch the assault is believed to have come from Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. On Sunday, he warned that his patience with negotiations was running thin.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/02/content_2169809.htm
Iraqis split over any US attack on Falluja
Any such attacks on rebel-held Sunni towns would be “as if someone shot his horse in the head to kill a fly that landed on it”. His remarks, in an interview with Al Qabas, contradict the views of Iyad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister and a Shia Muslim. They place US command in a difficult position as it prepares for a possible assault on Falluja.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dbe8e0de-2c33-11d9-8339-00000e2511c8.html
'Distressing' new video of Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan: Irish PM
"It is a distressing video which was decided by the station, on humanitarian grounds, not to show this. But they did make available early this morning the text of what was on the video," Ahern said. Ahern told MPs the text of the latest video warns of "dangerous and serious timescales".
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041102/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hostages_ireland_041102200221
Spectacular attacks hit Iraq oil flow
Saboteurs have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials say.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=613931§ion=news
Shia look to dominate a new Iraq parliament
Less than three months to go before planned January parliamentary elections, which the US reluctantly assented to under pressure from Mr Sistani, the elderly spiritual leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims is poised for the culmination of his strategy.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/983188e4-2cf3-11d9-8b8d-00000e2511c8.html
EU agrees support for Iraq ahead of Allawi talks
In pre-summit talks EU foreign ministers said they stood ready to disburse 30 million euros, already announced by the 25-nation bloc, "immediately" to support the election process before Iraqi polls planned for January.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20041102/wl_mideast_afp/eu_iraq_041102183727
377 tons small part of absent Iraq explosives Missing prewar stockpiles may total 250,000 tons
From the deserts of the south and west to the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq is awash in weapons sites — some large, others small; some guarded, others not. Even after the U.S. military secured some 400,000 tons of munitions, as many as 250,000 tons remain unaccounted for.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=6760&s2=02 |
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