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Marooned
This month sees the launch of an initiative - Open Bethlehem - intended to help rescue this town, at least, among all the towns on the West Bank facing isolation and collapse. By spreading word of Bethlehem's surprising calm and the endlessly hospitable spirit that has made pilgrims welcome for centuries, the campaigners hope to encourage visitors to return. There is a particular urgency because Israel's infamous security barrier is near completion, while a ring of expanding Jewish settlements eats into Palestinian territory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607870,00.html
Houses in ILLEGAL Amona outpost to be demolished by January '06
There are 53 mobile homes, housing 25 families in Amona. According to a report by attorney Dalia Sasson on illegal outposts, Amona was built on private Palestinian property, and the Housing Ministry financed the outpost's infrastructure construction to the tune of NIS 2.1 million without authorization from the government or the Defense Ministry.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642083.html
Demons in the skies of the Gaza Strip
Parents in Gaza speak about the fears their children have suffered in recent weeks, the nightmares and bed-wetting. Husbands tell about pregnant women who have experienced panic attacks. The windowpanes in homes shatter one after another. Here is a scoop: Palestinians can also be "trauma victims."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641839.html
Grieving parents donate organs of Palestinian boy
"We have no problem whether it is an Israeli or a Palestinian (who receives his organs) because it will give them life," the boy's mother, Ablah al-Khatib, told AFP. Several thousand people, including hundreds of children from Ahmed al-Katib's school flooded the streets of Jenin for his funeral on Sunday, with many holding up photographs of other youngsters killed during the conflict.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051106/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianjeninhealth_051106154850
5 Citizens Arrested in WB
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Sunday five citizens including a girl in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses and security sources said. In the meantime, Israeli soldiers detained tens of vehicles at Etsion military checkpoint and searched the citizens, witnesses said.
http://english.wafa.ps/cphotonews.asp?num=942
15-year old girl arrested in Hebron
The Maan News Agency reported that soldiers arrested Faras Mokhles Al Qasrawi, 15, at the entrance of the Ibrahimi mosque in the old city of Hebron. The source claimed that the girl admitted during interrogation that she intended to stab a soldier.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14838&Itemid=1
Shalom: Ban Hamas from elections
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Sunday urged the Israeli government to reach a decision calling on the Palestinian Authority to prevent Hamas from participating in the upcoming general elections. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon backed Shalom’s demand during Sunday’s cabinet meeting
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164764,00.html
EU to train 'credible' PA police force in Gaza, West Bank
The European Union plans to announce Monday it will launch a three-year mission - starting January 1 - to help the Palestinians build up a credible police force, EU officials said on Sunday. The EU currently has seven advisors working with regular Palestinian Authority police forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641797.html
The Rafah Border Crossing to open for 4 hours on Monday
A Palestinian source reported on Saturday that the Rafah border crossing will be opened next Monday for four hours in order to test the surveillance cameras which will be installed there, in preparation to officially opening the crossing.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14831&Itemid=1
PNA Denies Reaching Deal on Reopening Rafah Crossing
the PNA accepted the Europeans as a third party besides the Egyptians and the Palestinians to supervise the operation of the crossing, however it objected to an Israeli demand for cameras installed at the crossing to enable the Jewish state to monitor the passengers' movement.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2005-11-6/88@280532.htm
Israel in talks with EU to reopen Rafah border
Israeli officials said Sunday they hoped to be able to finalise an agreement within two weeks which would see the border crossing, which is the Palestinians' only direct link to the rest of the world, reopened soon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051106/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_051106142319
Israeli cabinet postpones vote on Rafah crossing
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday postponed a vote to approve the reopening of Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border due to disagreement over the role of the European Union (EU), local newspaper Ha'aretz reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/06/content_3742546.htm
PA to receive Egyptian ammunitions
On Sunday, the first load of Kalashnikov magazines will cross the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, Yedioth Ahronot, Israel's leading newspaper, reported Sunday. Security officials said that the United States has funded the purchase.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164631,00.html
Nine Palestinian prisoners launch hunger strike
It was the first time that Palestinian prisoners jailed in Palestinian detention went on hunger strike. The sources said the nine prisoners called for transferring them from the Jericho military prison to the Muqata prison in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/06/content_3741566.htm
Erekat: “Meetings with Rice will discuss several important issues”
“We will discuss issues regarding the Palestinian detainees, deportees, and wanted fighters”, Erekat said, “We will also discuss reactivating the committees which are in charge of talks regarding these issues, and further Israeli withdrawals”.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14846&Itemid=1
Armed wing of Fatah movement supports Iran president comments on Israel's destruction
According to Maan news agency, the Brigades declared their "solidarity with the destruction of Israel as being God's will." They added that "[The Brigades] consider the recognition of Israel as an underestimation of the Palestinian people, who give sacrifices of blood for the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem."
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/191057
JDL Member Imprisoned in Bomb Plot Killed
During the case, Krugel's lawyers said prosecutors were angered that his client withheld for several months the names of four people allegedly connected to the 1985 murder case of Alex Odeh, a regional director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Several former JDL members were suspected in the case, but no one was ever charged.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5395612,00.html
Kuwaiti investment in Palestinian real estate firm
Board Director of Palestine Development and Investment Company (PADICO) Munib Al-Masri welcomed the participation of the Kuwaiti Global Investment House as a strategic partner in Palestine Real-Estate Investment Company, a subsidiary of PADICO group, the fastest-growing Palestinian business conglomerate.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/191040
'Rebel' chief Landau: We'll still vote against PM's ministers
MK Uzi Landau, head of the Likud "rebels," said Sunday that a proposed compromise to avert a split in the Likud was a positive document, but that the dissident Likud legislators still intended to vote against all of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new cabinet appointments in the Knesset on Monday.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=641810
Peres promises Vilani defense portfolio if he quits Labor race
Vice Premier Shimon Peres on Sunday evening called upon Labor chairman candidate, MK Matan Vilnai, to withdraw his nomination from the party leadership contest and join him as a senior partner instead.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=642029
Iran reiterates call to hold referendum over Palestine fate
Iran favours a referendum to be held with participation of Muslims, Jews, Chrisitians, Palestinians and Palestinian refugees, he added, according to IRNA . He explained that Tehran "is proposing a democratic process and if Israel thinks that such a process will endanger its existance, then this shows that it has problems with democratic procedues and that it should solve its problems."
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/191056
One in five Qassam rockets hit Israeli territory
The high failure rate was noted in the wake of the army's killing of a top Islamic Jihad leader in the northern West Bank on October 24, following which 40 rockets were fired from northern Gaza into Israel. Only seven exploded inside Israel, while the other 33 landed in Palestinian territory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051106/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestgaza_051106191643
Peace between Israelis, Palestinians possible
Peace must involve the following specifics. 1. The Palestinians are owed an apology by the Israeli people — for the latter’s forceful occupation of Palestinian land. The apology would include the immediate recognition of Palestinian independent nationhood. 2. Jerusalem must be the joint capital of the two nations. This will be one key to healing the wounds between our people.
http://ydr.com/story/op-ed/93206/
Panorama of Arab science
Eagerly awaited by the French public, L'Age d'or des sciences arabes (The Golden Age of Arab Science) is an exhibition of the science and technology used in the Arab and Muslim world between the 8th and the 15th centuries CE that opened at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris last week. It builds upon a strong record of recent exhibitions at the Institut, whose aim is to make the history, culture and civilisation of the Arab world better known to European and international audiences...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/767/cu4.htm
BUT EVERY ARAB STATE HAS ITS OWN BURDENS
Nothing could be heard then in the Arab media, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf region, save the gallant appeals calling for "liberation, closing ranks and unifying the goals in front of the Israeli danger supported by colonialism and its agents" - according to the Arab rhetoric of these times, which was, for all its deficits, and compared with the current catastrophic conditions - the golden age of the Pan-Arabism and overwhelming Pan-national passions.
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=11737
Let Egypt win
Hamas now holds a double balance of deterrence: military and political, of the sort it never even dreamed of wielding when it signed a cease-fire agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Though "senior IDF officers" are angry at Egypt over its close ties with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, ties that ultimately produced the cease-fire, these officers and the Israeli government should thank Mubarak for every quiet day that passes in which Hamas continues to abide by the cease-fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641840.html
Shakira defends Arabs
Famous Lebanese /Colombian singer Shakira has publicly defended Arabs during one of her television interviews and stressed that Arabs are not terrorist and terriorism should not be associated with them. She added that she is honored that she is of Arab decent and that only a small percentage of Arabs have violent qualities as is the case anywhere around the world.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Lebanon/191026
On This Day 1956: Allied forces take control of Suez
President Abdel Nasser not only angered British and French companies by nationalising the Suez Canal, he also blockaded the Straits of Tiran - Israel's main outlet into the Red Sea. So Britain and France joined forces with Israel to take control of Suez, although this alliance was denied for years afterwards.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_3115000/3115888.stm
Pressure on Syria 'unacceptable': Iran
"We support Syria without any doubt. Syria is our friend," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters on Sunday. "The pressure on Syria is unacceptable and is above all motivated by political pressure," said Asefi, whose country is Damascus' main ally in the region.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051106/wl_afp/syrialebanonuniran_051106100623
6 top Syrian officers called in Hariri probe
The chief U.N. investigator into the assassination of a former Lebanese premier, armed with new powers from the Security Council, has summoned six senior Syrian intelligence officers, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law, for questioning, a Lebanese official said Saturday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164458,00.html
Arab League envoy meets Sunni Arab officials
"Bin Hili held talks with senior Sunni leaders about preparations of consensus and national dialogue conference, which is to be held under the auspices of the AL," a source close to an AL delegation told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/06/content_3741591.htm |
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