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Palestinians say prisoner's life in danger
Marwan Barghouti, the secretary of the mainstream Fatah movement led by Yasser Arafat, has lost about 40 pounds (18 kilograms) and is suffering from dehydration. representatives of the International Red Cross who recently visited Barghouti in detention as saying the prisoner's condition was "very bad and he is no longer able to walk or get up because of his hunger strike."
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040904-013154-7512r.htm
PNA Condemns Acceleration of Israeli Apartheid Wall's Construction
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), criticized yesterday an Israeli decision to accelerate construction of the Apartheid Wall, amidst reports confirming expropriation of arable Palestinian-owned lands over the last month.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/013.html
Fall Anti-Aparthied Action Plan
Israeli Apartheid in Palestine and the Apartheid Wall (underwritten by US and worldwide money and support) and the Occupation of Iraq must be stopped! Act in solidarity and make the call of those struggling on the ground heard throughout the world. Together we can and must defeat Occupation, war and oppression!
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/684.shtml
Gandhi In Palestine
As Gandhi began to speak, a youth climbed the wall and lustily waved the Palestinian flag. "This wall which I see here reminds me of the Bantustans (self-governing enclaves) which the apartheid regime in South Africa tried to create," Gandhi said. "I've come here to protest two kinds of injustices, the injustice of a wall and the injustices of prisoners who are treated worse than animals."
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040913&fname=Arun+Gandhi+(F)&sid=1
State continues to implement anti-Arab segregation
The ILA justifies its policy by claiming it is carrying out the policy of the JNF, the owner of the land on which the project in question is being built, and one of its biggest owners. The JNF (Jewish National Fund) predates the establishment of the state. It was founded in order to purchase land from Arabs for Jewish settlement
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10917
?Palestinian youth seriously injured in Rafah
A 15-year old Palestinian was seriously injured Saturday morning in Oraiba, north of Rafah, where Israeli troops opened random fire. Palestinian medical sources said that five bullets were lodged in Nithal Humaidan's body, and that he was transported to hospital in critical condition.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=661330
Fifth Gaza teenager dies
Husam Abu Zarka, 18, died of his injuries on Saturday after being wounded in Wednesday's clashes with Israeli occupation troops. Abu Zarka was fatally wounded when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of stone-throwing youths and died soon afterwards.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49DFB82E-9DBC-45E9-BF1E-84BE31AD2E45.htm
Israeli Occupation Arrests a Girl, Erects Several Checkpoints in the West Bank
A 14 year old girl was arrested today in Yatta town of Hebron by the Israeli occupation forces as the control on the Israeli were strictly gripped on the city, towns and villages of Hebron province since last Tuesday.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/015.html
Villages put under Israeli curfew
Commanders made the order in the villages of Jaba, Sandakumieh and Asafa this morning. The curfew was imposed in Hilat Adaher the previous day following clashes between troops and stonethrowing protesters. All four villages are close to the town of Jenin...
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10668588%255E1702,00.html
Jihad vows to continue attacks on Israel
The group said in a leaflet that the attacks will continue "until the end of occupation of our occupied territories.""Settlements and military posts would continue to be targets ofour militants," it added.
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/04/content_1945042.htm
Occupational hazards
They were "My Story" books where the children set down in words and pictures their history and their wishes. Every one I picked up said it was very difficult to see the future. Many of them wrote that they dream of becoming doctors, many asked, "Am I going to end up performing a martyrdom operation?"
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1296739,00.html
Meager turnout in PA voter registration drive for Dec. elections
Palestinians launched a voter registration drive Saturday, a first step toward long-overdue elections, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat promised that voting for parliament and president would take place this winter.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473350.html
Arafat says not sure about running for presidential election
Asked by reporters at his headquarters in Ramallah if he isintending to stand for elections, Arafat replied that if he wouldrun in the coming elections "it will not be him who decides."
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/05/content_1945283.htm
Palestinians eye polls next spring as pressure builds on Arafat
"We hope to be able to hold general elections next spring," Jarbawi told reporters at Arafat's battered West Bank headquarters flanked by the Palestinian leader, indicating that simultaneous presidential, parliamentary and municipal polls would be held.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20040904/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_vote_palestinian_040904174654
Egyptian officials set to hold Gaza talks with Arafat
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman are due to hold talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday, Abul Gheit told a joint press conference with his visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/September/middleeast_September109.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
AG warns: Shelling civilians is war crime
"If they are shelling us, we should shell them," he burst out at one point during the discussion yesterday.
But Attorney General Menachem Mazuz intervened. "That would be a war crime, on the part of both the state and you personally," he said...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/471345.html
Israel tallies up compensation claims by Iraq's Jews
Discussion of Jews and property has also surfaced within Iraq itself. In late December 2003, a source within the Iraqi Governing Council told the Jerusalem Post that the council was considering restitution of Jewish property seized as of 1951. Rumors of "foreign Jews," presumably former Iraqi citizens, seeking to buy land in Iraq, were rife.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=8047
The Timing of the Israeli Crimes
It seemed clear that the Israelis were stunned from the success of Hamas at secrecy in Jericho. They were equally staggered with the loss of human life in Beer Shiva. Israeli analysts acknowledged the presence of a "black hole" in the intelligence information about Hamas in Jericho;
http://english.daralhayat.com/OPED/09-2004/Article-20040904-c962fb54-c0a8-01ed-0022-da177bacabde/story.html
State to buy homes of evacuated settlers
“The law for the implementation of the disengagement plan” – that is the name of the bill that would be brought before the Knesset in November, which would allow the government to carry out the plan. The main principles of the bill have reached Maariv.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10903
Meager turnout in PA voter registration drive for Dec. elections
However, Arafat was also one of the few. While more than 1,000 voter registration centers opened throughout the Palestinian territories, turnout was light on Saturday morning, in part because of voter apathy and a widespread belief that the elections will not bring real change.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=473350&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
How Are You, Non-Violence? - By Uri Avnery
There are people amongst us who are ready for a compromise peace but have been led to believe that “there is no one we can talk with”, because “they” don't want peace but seek to annihilate us. But we must understand that Palestinian violence, which causes so much bloodshed, is the predictable result of our cutting off every other road in front of them.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uri_avnery/2004/sep4.html
No answer to the Qassam
When one of the leaders of the Israel Defense Forces heard about the difficulties in combating the Qassam rockets, he jokingly replied that we can provide the Palestinians with Scud missiles, which Israel has learned how to bring down with Arrow missiles.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473164.html
Off the road map?
A cynical interpretation of the administration's waffling response to expanding the settlements is that it helps both Sharon and Bush politically — Bush with pro-Israeli voters here and Sharon with a governing coalition fragmented over his plans to pull out of Gaza.
http://www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040904/NEWS/40904008/1008/OPINION01
U.S. refrains from intervening in Israel-Syria spat
"Israel has a right to defend itself, and they don't come to us and we don't approve Israeli military operations," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. "That's not a subject of discussion," he replied when asked if the Bush administration was concerned that Israel might move against Syria.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=472270&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Not anti-American, but anti-Bush
To the Europeans, the war in the Middle East is of an entirely different nature, and it threatens to set the world back 100 years, to the eve of World War I. Because there was only one real reason why George W. Bush embarked on the campaign of conquest: to consolidate the imperialist status of the United States, and to subjugate the world to its national interest.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473163.html
On This Day 1997: Suicide bombings put peace visit in doubt
Two days later the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, announced he felt no longer bound by peace accords with the Palestinians and would suspend Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. ( While killing of Yitzhak Rabin had no impact on peace!?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/4/newsid_2499000/2499009.stm
Sabotage hits oil pipelines in northern, southern Iraq in new export blow
The attack on a pipeline near the southern port city of Basra came less than two days after the country's key revenue earner was dealt a serious blow by another act of sabotage in the north which halted all exports of Kirkuk crude.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20040904/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_oil_040904155333
Twelve Iraqi police killed in raid south of Baghdad: al-Arabiya
Twelve Iraqi policemen were killedand five national guardsmen wounded Saturday in a joint US-Iraqioffensive on Latifiya, a stronghold of insurgency south of Baghdad,Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite channel reported.
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/05/content_1945263.htm
French hostages 'handed to intermediaries'
Amid signs that France's forceful, and successful, handling of the affair had infuriated the Iraqi government, it appeared that the hostages had already been handed over to French security agents and an "intermediary" group of Iraqi militants.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=558105
Iraqi government extends ban on Al-Jazeera
"During this temporary closure the Government of Iraq had expected the Al-Jazeera management to offer an explanation to the presented allegations or to officially request a description of the possible threat that the channel may be imposing. However, none of this has happened," a statement from the prime minister's office said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=7&u=/afp/20040904/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_media_jazeera_ban_040904175847 |
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