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Settlers: We're next to go
“The prime minister promised us nine months ago that under no circumstances will the community be left out of the fence route, but there you have it, the fence is being constructed to our West and left us out.” ( Apartheid Wall was built ILLEGALY by those claiming to represent Jews! )
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3166071,00.html
Rise in (ILLEGAL) settlement population
Updated data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that the growth rate of the settlements' population is particularly high. The number of people living in settlements has increased by 4.3 percent since September 2004 to 243,100 people. ( EXCLUDING ILLEGAL SETTLERS IN & AROUND JERUSALEM ! ! ! )
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3165998,00.html
UK Pacifist Donates Kidney for Palestinian Child
He said Lina had suffered a renal failure after her birth as they failed to take her to hospital for treatment from severe diarrhea due to the then Israeli blockade on Ramallah. Anne Wix decided to put off her wedding party and go all the way from Britain to the occupied Palestinian territories to save the life of a three-year-old child through a kidney transplant surgery to translate her solidarity as a peace activist into action.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20051108001836148
Israel in talks to give troops for UN peacekeepers
"In light of our improved standing at the United Nations, we are exploring greater membership and involvement in a number of U.N. agencies. These talks are preliminary only," Regev said. ( IMPROVED BY DEVELOPMENT OF APARTHEID WALL, REJECTION OF ICJ DECISION, & CONTINUOUS CRIMES!?? )
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08748315.htm
Israel: FM Shalom meets with new UNWRA commissioner
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday held his first meeting with United Nations Works and Relief Agency Commissioner-General Karen Koning Abu Zayd since her appointment in June 2005. The minister congratulated her on her appointment and said Israel has already felt an improvement in the atmosphere.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6HX456?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Palestinians slam Israeli call to end UN mandate in Gaza
Senior Palestinian officials on Tuesday slammed an Israeli call to suspend activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip. Hatem Abdel Qader, a Palestinian legislator, told reportersthat Israel attempts to end the UNRWA's mandat e to remove the issue of refugees and their right of return.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/08/content_3752256.htm
IDF troops kill Palestinian teenager near Nablus
Israel Defense Forces troops on Tuesday evening shot dead a Palestinian teenager while firing on a cluster of houses on the slopes of Mount Eival, near the West Bank town of Nablus. The youth was later identified as Muhammad Abu Salha, aged 16.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642922.html
IOF Wounds Child and Arrests 10 Others in WB
Israeli soldiers backed by armoured vehicles stormed Balata refugee camp, eastern Nablus, amid intensive fire shooting at citizens' houses, wounding the child Shahda al-Shaf'i 15. He was shot in the chest with live bullets and his condition is reported to be critical. While 2 other citizens were also arrested and led into an unknown location.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4527
Israeli Peace Activists To Be Sentenced Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 08:30 in the new Kfar Saba court, Israeli peace activists Neta Golan and Shelly Nativ will be sentenced by Judge Nitsa Maymon-Saashua. In April 2001, the two were arrested when they chained themselves to olive trees in the West Bank village of Deir Istiya in an attempt to prevent the destruction
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/11/08/israeli-peace-activists-to-be-sentenced-tomorrow/
Under-cover forces invaded Jenin refugee camp
The Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fateh, reported that their fighters were able to uncover an Israeli under-cover army unit operating in Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Jenin.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14893&Itemid=1
Meetings on resolving Gaza-Egypt border fate
"It is a fundamental question of security over which Israel will not deviate," an official was quoted as saying by public radio. Without agreement on how the Rafah and other border crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip will function, Israel has threatened to withhold customs duties from the Palestinian Authority in the impoverished territory.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LSGZ-6HXDTB?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
OPT: Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner to meet PM Sharon and President Abu Mazen
The active monitoring mission that the EU is currently preparing should help rebuild confidence between the parties, improve Gaza's economic prospects, and boost the Palestinians' capacity, to manage their own borders - building on our very extensive programme of support for their customs operations".
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6HXJET?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Fares after meeting Barghouthi: “Hamas is part of the Palestinian society”
Also, Barghouthi added that the movement should end all sorts of conflicts, in order to be able to counter the Israeli violations and the Separation Wall without being busy in internal conflicts. “Israel is arresting, assassinating, and annexing” Barghouthi said, “Israel is still conducting its policies against the Palestinians, we have to concentrate on countering these violations”.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14875&Itemid=1
US Secretary of State to visit Palestinian territories
The sources added that the Abbas-Rice meeting will highlight the operation of the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border and means to revive the long-stalled peace process.No further details were revealed.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/08/content_3751676.htm
IDF chief Halutz: We will continue targeted killings of militants
Halutz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the policy has proven itself to be extremely effective in curbing terror (CEASE-FIRE) activity. The targeted strikes will focus on Islamic Jihad members, the IDF commander said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643030.html
Israel political crisis could force early elections
An embarrassing defeat in parliament on Monday over two cabinet appointments has left the Sharon camp sandwiched between the prospect of early elections or finding a way to reassert control over the party.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051108/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpolitics_051108173251
Israel to target Jihad in Gaza as matter of policy
Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina condemned the policy as a threat to the peace process and called on Washington to put pressure on Israel to halt such military operations.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051108/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelarmy_051108173644
Jordan king to visit Israel, West Bank on Rabin anniversary
Jordan's King Abdullah II is expected to visit the West Bank and Israel next Monday to attend a ceremony in honour of his father and hold talks with the Palestinian leadership.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051108/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraeljordan_051108143624
Indonesian foreign minister thanks Israel for support after Bali bombing
The two foreign ministers met in New York during the United Nations General Assembly in September. After the meeting, Indonesia denied rumors that it intended to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. However, following the meetings between Israel and Indonesia's ambassadors in Singapore about a week ago, it emerged that the two countries are planning to tighten their economic, academic and medical ties.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642656.html
Poetry for Palestine - Rhythms of Resistance
The violence of the powerful Israeli occupation army using live ammunition, tanks and helicopter gunships is equated with Palestinians protesting against the loss of their rights, lands and lives." The artists in Poetry for Palestine disolve the fabrications and deceptions with their words and passion.
http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=720
Analysis / The Palestinian sine qua non
Such a formula would simply not be accepted by the Palestinian public. Even the deal between Hamas and the PA would fall apart; Hamas, after all, committed to maintaining calm in exchange for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' assurance that the group would be included in the political game.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642655.html
PM Sharon aides after rebel win: Likud party is now two factions
Analysts said Tuesday that the Knesset vote showed that the rebels, who can count on eight votes in the 40-strong Likud faction and have at times commanded as many as 16, now hold an effective veto over Sharon's parliamentary moves.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=642224
Syria: Israel using pressure on Damascus to reject peace talks
"I don't intend to enter negotiations with Syria because I don't want to withdraw from the Golan Heights," Sharon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Jerusalem, according to Committee Chair MK Yuval Steinitz.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643093.html
Barcelona to host peace match
The match against the Peace Team will take place at Barca's Nou Camp stadium on November 29, the day after a two-day Euro-Mediterranean summit being held in Barcelona. Money raised from the game will be invested in projects that help children from Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642668.html
Report: Captive deal talks renewed
The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Tuesday that Israel and Hizbullah have secretly renewed the negotiations in order to complete the second stage of the captive deal, in which Israel is expected to receive information on the fate of captive navigator Ron Arad.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3165864,00.html
Iran condemns US spy plane flights
Iran has found the wreckage of two US unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months... Iran "strongly protests against such unlawful acts and emphasises the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states", its Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A844EB2D-0100-45A3-9AAB-27F26C33F14A.htm
Report: Vilnai received illegal campaign contributions
Shimon Peres' and Ehud Barak's campaign teams have still not submitted the details of the donations they received, and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer submitted only a partial report.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=642638
Another Lawyer in Saddam Trial Gunned Down
Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a defense lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial and wounded another Tuesday, raising doubts whether Iraqis can conduct such a sensitive prosecution in the midst of insurgency and domestic turmoil.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1292148
U.S. Used Chemical Weapons In Iraq
A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it right down to the bone.
http://www.uruknet.com/?s1=1&p=17559&s2=07
Iraqi president asks for Italian troops through 2006
Visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani asked Italy to keep its troops in Iraq until the end of 2006 and warned of a "catastrophe" if international forces were suddenly withdrawn.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051108/wl_mideast_afp/iraqitalytroops_051108190931 |
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