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Military Operations between August 26-September 2, 2004
Army accelerated the construction of the Separation wall in the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem and completed the infra Structure of the Wall in the area between Qalandia checkpoint, in the south of Ramallah and Al-Qhahia area, in the north of Jerusalem. Soldiers, on the other hand, started erected Concrete Walls in the north east of Jerusalem .
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week1/090304/Violation.htm
Damian Clarke's Update From Palestine
Now there are plans to build the apartheid wall between this settlement and Nillin. Nillin stands to lose between 1,000 and 2,000 acres of land as a result depending on a final court decision on the route of the wall. Either way there will be people in Nillin who lose all of their olive groves and their livelihoods when the wall is built.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0409/S00059.htm
Claiming victory, Palestinian security prisoners end 19-day hunger strike
The Palestinians claimed that the Prisons Services have agreed to end invasive body searches, allow food and televisions into their cells, broaden the rights to purchase food at the coop, improved medical treatment, and telephone rights.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473141.html
Prisoners adjourn hunger strike until Sunday
Following the transfer of inmates Khader and Qanttar to Ha Darim Prison, prisoners there decided to adjourn their hunger strike until Sunday 5 September 2004 but will continue o take liquids only. This decision applies to all Israeli prisons except Beer Shiva' as its representative Tawfic Abu-Na'im and the Beer Shiva' administration had failed to agree on certain issues...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3067.shtml
Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Strip
A Palestinian teenager was killed and three wounded by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian medics said. Munir al-Sindi, 17, was killed in the impoverished Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood hard by the Israeli-controlled border with Egypt, the medics said. One of the three wounded was seriously hurt.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20040903/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_toll_040903155534
EU opposes Israel's resumption of construction of settlements in West Bank
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot made the statement while addressing the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers here on Friday. "We oppose recent steps by Israel to resume construction in certain settlements on the West Bank," Bot stressed.
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/03/content_1942739.htm
Palestinian Parliament protests to push Arafat to ratify laws
Palestinian lawmakers will go on a month-long strike to protest Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's refusal to ratify new laws that would force reform in the corruption-ridden Palestinian Authority, officials said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=8021
Visiting Turkish lawmakers: No crisis in ties with Israel
"We were very saddened by the attacks that took place while we were in Israel and condemned them... But at the same time, we view the use of violence in the name of war on terrorism, the targeting of civilians, assassinations by the state, the construction of walls, and unilateral withdrawals as obstacles to creating a peaceful environment," Celik said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473151.html
Iraq's U.K. envoy: Strong Baghdad lobby wants ties with Israel
Al-Shaikhly told Haaretz that he did not have "any problem with Israel or Israelis who wish to visit Iraq," but he also noted, "I really don't know what is the position as of yet, but you should know there is a strong lobby working for you in Iraq."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472998.html
LAVROV BEGINS HIS MIDDLE EAST TOUR
Mr Lavrov will visit Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and Syria. Moreover, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Jordanian King Abdallah II in Moscow yesterday, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is expected here next week.
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=126&msg_id=4801493&startrow=1&date=2004-09-03&do_alert=0
Israel escalates war of words with Syria
The latest threat came from Israel's deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim, who warned that Israel ought to consider carrying out military action against targets inside Syria.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1AB05A39-EAE4-43EA-952A-043197531A01.htm
EU's Solana urges Israel not to threaten Syria
"I don't think it's helpful to start talking about attacking new countries. The situation in the Middle East is complicated enough," Solana told reporters on arriving for an EU foreign ministers' meeting in the Netherlands.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473297.html
UN tells Syria to leave Lebanon, Hezbollah to disband
In response to the resolution, Mohammed Issa, Lebanon's secretary-general for foreign affairs, said the 17,000 Syrian soldiers were there at the government's request to protect against "radical action emanating from Israel."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472881.html
Lebanon refuses UN resolution on foreign interference
"This resolution is misplaced since it goes against the principles of non-interference in internal affairs," Foreign Minster Jean Obeid said in a statement.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/03/content_1942287.htm
LA Times: Israel has long spied on U.S., officials say
"There is a huge, aggressive, ongoing set of Israeli activities directed against the United States," the former official said. "Anybody who worked in counterintelligence in a professional capacity will tell you the Israelis are among the most aggressive and active countries targeting the United States."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473264.html
Gulf Arabs voice support for Palestinians during tour of South Lebanon
An Israeli soldier with a machine gun peered through his binoculars. Suddenly, an Israeli Humvee four-wheel drive appeared nearby. Aesha, who was covering her face, proudly told other Saudis that she had just thrown stones at the Israeli outpost on the other side.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=8016
Look again, Gandhi
But, with the brief interlude of the first Intifada, Palestinians, whether in Nazareth or Nablus, have rarely been able to organise effective mass demonstrations. Increasingly, factions have been pursuing their own limited or competing agendas, often relying on the heroics of small groups...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/706/re91.htm
Prisoner Stories: Rami Rizik Fadayel
Rami himself could not be at the commencement. He was wanted by the Israeli forces and did not risk passing through the check point at Surda to get to Birzeit. Rami, who is now 24 years old, was likewise absent from his own engagement party, which his family held for him on April 4, 2004, on the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3062.shtml
Interview with Palestinian Justice Minister Nahed al-Rayyes
Basically, the wording of the new orders was vague and didn't clearly establish boundaries for different departments within the government to operate. It became impossible to work, hindered by all the interferences, the decline in the status of law, and the widespread presence of foreign interest in the field - namely Israel, the US and even some European countries.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3063.shtml
The promised future of Resolution 242 is now past
So perhaps the Palestine of Resolution 242 has gone. Perhaps the moderates have caved in to the zealots. Perhaps Palestine's only hope lies in its original image of one secular, democratic state, with equal rights for all, regardless of ethnicity or religion. But this much is certain: Since Resolution 242 was passed, only empty promises and continued suffering have visited the Palestinians.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=7990
Republicans seek a lift from Jewish voters
Mr Bush secured 19 per cent of the Jewish vote in 2000. There are roughly 500,000 Jewish voters in Florida, a state Mr Bush eventually carried by 537 votes. The Republican thinking goes that if Mr Bush can increase his share of the Jewish vote to 25-40 per cent, then that will give him a valuable lift.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6df9071a-fd45-11d8-ab9f-00000e2511c8.html
Family visit: Palestinian-born Reading man's nightmare trip
A TOP cancer expert visiting his family in the Palestinian Territories was left trapped after Israeli officials refused to let him back out through Tel Aviv.
Gabriel Salah, cancer co-ordinator at Royal Berkshire Hospital, was born in Palestine but holds British citizenship and has lived here for the past 15 years.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/story.asp?intid=10323
Testing Arrow
As a result of this success, there has been a fundamental change in the balance of power in the Middle East, especially between Israel and its immediate neighbours, which have relied on successive generations of ballistic missiles as a deterrent to Israel's conventional and nuclear weaponry.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/706/re9.htm
Made in America, in Beirut
several civic groups, including a number of resident US citizens, are holding a boycott of American products. Some protestors distributed leaflets that read, " Did you know you are supporting Israel without knowing?" outside the expo, which is being held at the Beirut Port.
http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=177489&ChannelId=1
Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens & Jerusalem
In Hawaiian Gardens, Moskowitz operates a bingo hall and owns a casino; he controls the government for the benefit of his gambling operations. In East Jerusalem, he uses profits from those operations to thwart Israeli-Palestinian peace by buying strategically placed Palestinian real estate for Jewish settlers and supporting militant anti-peace organizations.
http://www.stopmoskowitz.org/
Rabin's killer marries in secret
The ceremony with Larisa Trimbobler was performed by a rabbi two weeks ago. A ring and marriage contract were apparently obtained from Amir, as required by Jewish law, during a prison visit by his father. A request by Amir to marry was rejected by the Israeli prison authorities earlier this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3624562.stm
US shelling kills four Iraqis, wounds six in Fallujah: medics
Four Iraqis were killed and six wounded when a security force base in the Sunni Muslim insurgent bastion of Fallujah came under US tank fire, an Iraqi soldier and medics said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20040903/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_fallujah_040903180420
Pipeline attack halts Iraq's northern oil exports
"The Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline targeted this afternoon is about40-inches wide and today's attack can be considered the biggestsince sabotages started a year and a half ago," he added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/03/content_1939993.htm
Al-Sadr Says U.S. Can't Defeat Militia
Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared U.S. forces can never defeat his Mahdi militia in a defiant speech read out to 2,000 supporters during the first Friday prayers since the end of a brutal three-week standoff with American troops.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Poland to withdraw its troops from more of Iraq: Defence Minister
We will leave the province of Karbala. The contingent will remain deployed in the provinces of Babil, Wasit and Al-Qadisiyah," the defence minister said in an interview with the daily Trybuna. He did not specify which forces would assume responsibility in Poland's place.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20040903/wl_mideast_afp/poland_iraq_force_040903170809
U.S. Media Reportedly Playing Down Iraq Casualties
On July 22, the magazine said, The Washington Times headlined a story U.S. Troops Dying Two Per Day Since Turnover in Iraq, but only put it on page 10. Also, stories of the wounded, nearing 6,000 at last count, need to be told, Washington Monthly founding editor Charles Peters wrote.
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