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City of Bethlehem to issue own Passport
The Mayor of Bethlehem arrives in London today (Wednesday 9 November) to declare Bethlehem an open city and announce that his city is to issue a Bethlehem passport, open to anyone in the world. The initiative is designed to transcend the imprisonment of his city by a combination of the illegal wall and militarised fences, with only two gates to the outside world.
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week2/091105/report4.htm
Shin Bet-Defense Min. row stalls fence work near Jerusalem
For the past few weeks the Shin Bet has been demanding to leave Beit Iksa outside of the fence being built in the area, and the Defense Ministry insists that the Palestinian village remain on the Israeli side of the fence. the dispute between the Shin Bet and the Defense Ministry was delaying the construction of the fence north west of Jerusalem... ( Fence = Jerusalem Wall ! ! ! )
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/643492.html
New Israeli (ILLEGAL) settlement near Hebron
The Land Defiance Committee in the village reported that army caterpillers bulldozed the land and cut down trees to construct the new settlement which will be adjacent to another settlement in the area called Karmael. The settlement will be built on 50 Dumams (12.5 acers) of land that belong to Eid Al-Hathaleen from the village, local sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14913&Itemid=1
Judge rejects police request to deport four foreign activists
The activists were arrested earlier Wednesday near the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron where they have been living for the last few months, involved in protests against the construction of Jewish settlements in the region and against the settlers' treatment of Palestinian residents in neighboring towns.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643632.html
Border clampdown forces Gaza's businesses into fight for survival
At the industrial zone next to the Karni cargo crossing point - the only one open between Gaza and Israel - increasingly desperate clothing manufacturers yelled abuse and wrestled with each other yesterday, competing to get their goods on the few trucks allowed to join the long queues at the terminal.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325747.ece
The IDF tars a road
It is a contract between the state authorities and the Jewish citizens of Israel which permits them to use Palestinian land and property to the detriment of the Palestinian public. The tarring is under way right now, and it deserves more than a line in the paper. But the problem is that even 50 lines, and even were these to appear on the front page, would not put a stop to this evil plunder.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643181.html
Mofaz adviser quits amid claims he assisted illegal outposts
In a report on illegal outposts submitted March by former senior state prosecutor Talia Sasson, she recommended firing Shechner, who held this position for the past three years. Sasson said that Shechner had misled the World Zionist Organziation by telling its settlement department that the outposts received government authorization.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643545.html
Rebuilding Palestinian economy is vital for a peace deal, says Brown
The challenges are formidable, however. Unemployment in Gaza is at least 35% while two-thirds of its 1.4 million population live on less than $750 a year, compared to an average annual income for Israelis of more than $20,000. Since the pullout, movement of trade and people between Israel and Gaza has slowed, rather than increased, as Israel has kept a firm grip on border crossings...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1637296,00.html
76 Palestinian workers including 3 Jordanians arrested
Palestinians are not allowed to enter Jerusalem without permits issued by the Israeli military. Most Palestinian workers, however, enter Jerusalem without permits risking arrest and being fined.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14910&Itemid=1
World Bank report: Three West Bank-Gaza routes needed
The report, which details the proposed use of bus, cargo truck and passenger vehicle convoys, is expected to come up in discussions between Middle East Quartet envoy James Wolfensohn and Israeli and Palestinian security officials. Both Israel and the PA accept, in principle... The report, dated September 30, suggests that operations begin with bus convoys.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643451.html
Only four out of 104 communities covered by Galilee development plan are Arab
The Hadash movement is set to launch its campaign against the new plan for developing the Galilee region, announced last week by the office of Vice Premier Shimon Peres, which the movement says blatantly ignores or discriminates against Israeli Arabs in the north.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643600.html
One year on, Arafat immutable Palestinian icon
One year after his death, Yasser Arafat remains the ultimate symbol of the Palestinian struggle for independence and his absence has done nothing to hasten the advent of their longed-for state. The foundation stone of a new Arafat museum-mosque-mausoleum complex will be laid, Friday prayers delivered and a rally organised to honour the leader whom millions of Palestinians knew simply as Abu Ammar.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051109/wl_mideast_afp/mideastarafatanniversarypalestinian_051109074334
Palestinian lawmakers drop plan to hold a no-confidence vote
Abbas had rejected an earlier non-binding request by deputies to sack the cabinet, saying it made no sense ahead of the January parliamentary election. Officials planning to stand in the polls are in any case obliged to resign by November 24.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643601.html
Haniyeh: The Gaza Strip should intensify its support for the resistance in the West Bank
Hamas politburo member Ismail Haniyeh said that the Gaza Strip should not halt its activities in supporting the resistance in the West Bank so that the Zionist government will not single it out. He also stressed on the need for all the Palestinian factions to unite in order to protect the people.
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week1/071105/report1.htm
Quartet envoy: Israel's security concerns stall talks on Rafah crossing
Lingering Israeli security issues over crossings into the Gaza Strip are making it difficult to broker an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians to open the Rafah border terminal between Egypt and Gaza, Quartet envoy James Wolfensohn said Wednesday. ( What about Palestinian security from crimes & Assasinations? )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643616.html
400 Million Fund Launched To Back Palestinian Businesses
The European Investment Bank and European Commission are set to back a $400 million fund to support the growth of small businesses in the Palestinian territories, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said Wednesday. The fund could also have the support of the U.S. administration and some banks, the chancellor said.
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/DJStory.aspx?DJStoryID=20051109DN012015
Israel dismisses Hamas chief's hints at future negotiations
Zahar, speaking to Israel Radio in English, said "Negotiation is not our intention. Negotiation is a method. If the method is to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time, we can discuss."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643457.html
Israel reaches immigration deal with Ethiopia on Falashmura
Israel said on Wednesday Ethiopia agreed to step up the immigration to the Jewish state of some 20,000 Falashmura, Jewish converts to Christianity who have complained of delays in their promised relocation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643624.html
Hamas announces its candidates for Nablus municipal elections
PNN has learned that Hamas has announced the names of its members who will run in the municipal elections in Nablus. Sheikh Yasser Mansour, a Hamas leader said, “The list, which has been named the Reform and Change List is comprised of 15 people including three women.”
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week2/091105/report1.htm
IDF choppers in service of drug cartel
Another diplomatic incident threatens to taint U.S.-Israeli relations: The American government has recently demanded Israel clarify how five U.S.-made helicopters sold to Israel in the mid-70s found their way into the hands of a Columbian drug cartel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3166377,00.html
Peres threatens to quit government
"After I'm chosen, I will request a meeting with the prime minister to discuss he government's agenda, and to demand changes in the government's conduct and objectives," said Peres during a campaign stop in Ramat Gan.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3166561,00.html
The Wall - an obstacle to educating Palestinian youth
Israel's Compulsory Education Law requires the government to provide free and compulsory education for every child aged between 5 and 15 years, regardless of whether a child has been registered in the Ministry of Interior's Population Registry or even if the child's parents are illegal residents. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs proudly claims this as part of its commitment to social and welfare rights.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/11/1782173.php
Israel's 'linchpin' settlement
When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unveiled his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, he made clear that part of that plan would involve strengthening the major settlement blocks in the West Bank - of which Maale Adumim is the largest. "These will be an integral part of the State of Israel in any future agreement [with the Palestinians]," he said in December 2003, a position endorsed by US President George W Bush some months later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4419046.stm
Gulf foreign ministers to meet Sunday in Abu Dhabi
Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers are due to meet on Sunday in Abu Dhabi to discuss the troubled situation in Iraq, Syria and the Palestinian territories, the SPA state news agency said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051109/wl_mideast_afp/mideastiraqgulf2_051109175947
Peres camp tells voters it's concerned by low turnout
Peres headquarters, seeking to boost the vice premier's chances against Histadrut labor federation Chairman Amir Peretz, telephoned supporters and told them the situation would be "critical" if turnout remained low.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643144.html
Three Hotels Bombed in Jordan; 12 Killed
Jordan, a close U.S. ally, has arrested scores of Islamic militants for plotting to carry out attacks in the moderate Arab kingdom. It has also sentenced numerous militants to death in absentia, including the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_explosion
Pillaging the Gardens of Babylon
More than two and half years after the ransacking of the museum by a mob following the "liberation" of Baghdad by US troops, almost 10,000 items, including some of the most precious treasures of antiquity in the world, are still missing. ( THIS WAS THE TOP ZIONIST GOAL IN IRAQ WAR! )
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325740.ece
Saddam trial lawyer buried in secret as trial stalls
Grieving relatives took the body of a defence lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein for secret burial on Wednesday as the rest of Saddam's team severed ties with the court trying him because they fear for their lives. Hospital sources said relatives collected the body of slain lawyer Adil al-Zubeidi from a Baghdad morgue at 9 a.m. A police source in the holy city of Kerbala said Zubeidi was buried in private there.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09252935.htm
Sudanese embassy employee shot dead in Baghdad
An employee of the Sudanese embassy in Iraq was shot dead by men who opened fire on his car in the west of Baghdad. "Hammuda Ahmed Adem, an administrative employee at the Sudanese embassy, was killed by armed men who intercepted his car in the Mansur area," a source said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051109/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestsudan_051109163633
Bombs in Iraq Getting More Sophisticated
U.S. and British troops are being killed in Iraq by increasingly sophisticated insurgent bombs, including a new type triggered when a vehicle crosses an infrared beam and is blasted by armor-piercing projectiles.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgent_bombs |
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