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Nof Zion vs. Jabal Mukaber: Manipulations to Erase Reality
Nof Zion is only an example of the operative code of the settlement movement as a whole with regard to the Arab presence in the West Bank and particularly in East Jerusalem. We have a modern version here of the classic Zionist statement, “A land without a people for a people without a land.” However, if, in the nineteenth century, this was said out of ignorance, today it is said out of wickedness. This is an effort to erase the Arab presence, to take over the space, together with the land, the view, to “judaize” East Jerusalem by a combination of Jewish building projects and the erasure of the Arab presence.
http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=367
OPT: Freshwater shortage leads to health problems in Gaza Strip
This means severe water shortages for at least 70 percent of Gazans. In addition, Hallak says Gaza's water is low quality, containing sodium, nitrates and chlorides that exceed percentages recommended as safe for human consumption by the WHO. This is a health risk, he says, contributing to kidney problems, blood poisoning and conditions affecting pregnant women. He added that nitrate concentrations in water cause methemoglobinemia or 'blue baby' syndrome, which arises when large amounts of nitrates are ingested. Symptoms include headache, weakness, dizziness, and can progress to seizures, coma and death. High nitrate concentrations also cause gastric cancer and reduce vitamin C intake among infants.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/49b86f54ae4923bece25e8f9b47c3007.htm
Olive harvest season closures in northern West Bank
This year thousands of Palestinians who relive on olives for their livelihoods cannot reach their fields. Israeli soldiers have imposed a blockade on villages and towns near the site of the Wall in the West Bank. Farmers planted on their lands and are now unable to reach them for harvest
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=684&Itemid=49
"THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM"
We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ. Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation. Instead, let them pursue the healing of the nations!
http://www.wfn.org/2006/10/msg00000.html
Eight Palestinians die as Fatah and Hamas fight on streets of Gaza City
Eight Palestinians were killed and dozens injured yesterday in an increasingly violent struggle for power between rival factions in the Gaza Strip. Hours after the clashes, gunmen loyal to the Fatah movement set fire to rooms in the Palestinian cabinet building in the West Bank town of Ramallah. It was the most serious outbreak of fighting in the Palestinian territories for some months, and a sign of rising tensions between the Hamas-led government and the more secular Fatah, which lost power in elections at the start of the year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1885520,00.html
Hamas, Fatah exchange fire in Nablus, Jericho and Gaza
In the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Monday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party supporters shot at Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer's bodyguards as they rode in a government car, injuring two of them, said Shaer, who was not present during the attack. Hospital officials said a Fatah militant was also injured in the fighting.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769437.html
Hamas shuts down gov't offices to protest clashes
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party enforced a general strike, closing shops and private schools in a show of force against Hamas. For its part, the Hamas-led government ordered all ministries closed to protest Fatah attacks on government buildings.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769437.html
PNI Calls for Immediate End to Internal Bloodshed
The Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) today called for an immediate end to in-fighting between Fatah and Hamas ‘security' forces, which saw 9 killed, including a 15-year-old boy, and at least 70 wounded in the Gaza Strip yesterday, and in which the Council of Ministers building in Ramallah was set ablaze by armed supporters of the Fatah movement.
http://www.almubadara.org/new/edetails.php?id=1970
Habib: “Gaza internal clashes, free gift for the occupation”
Khader Habib, a leader of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said on Monday that the internal clashes in the Gaza Strip are considered a “free gift' for the Israeli occupation in achieving its goals to divide the Palestinian people and engaging them civil war.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21790/1/
Palestinian fisherman killed near central Gaza coast
Israeli naval forces shot dead a Palestinian fisherman near the central Gaza Strip coast on Monday, witnesses and medical sources in the town of Deir el-Ballah said. The witnesses said an Israeli gunboat opened intensive fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the sea in central Gaza Strip town of Dier al-Balah, killing a fisherman. People transported his body to the local hospital.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Palestinian_fisherman_killed_near_c_10022006.html
Just another day at Huwarra—Journalist beaten, ten men detained
Hundreds of women and men were forced into a large holding pen, with small children being crushed against the turnstiles separating the soldiers from the Palestinians waiting in line. Young and old suffered from the heat, perspiring and holding onto one another as not to faint or fall. Young infants and fragile groceries were carried on shoulders and heads so as to escape injury as the soldiers shouted and waved their weapons in the faces of people at the back of the line to make them step forward.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/02/huwarra-01-10/
Palestinians: IDF tanks, troops move into northern Gaza
The IDF said the troops entered Gaza in a routine operation to prevent militants from firing homemade rockets into southern Israel. IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said earlier Sunday that Israel is weighing the possibility of stepped up military action in the Gaza Strip to halt rocket fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769071.html
West Bank Israeli Settlers Vandalize Palestinian Villages
In a separate incident, two Palestinians were lightly wounded late Monday evening when settlers threw stones at them near the Eli settlement located east of Ariel in the West Bank. Palestinians in Fendaqumiyah, located adjacent to Homesh, said armed settlers rode through the village before dawn Sunday on all-terrain vehicles, firing their weapons in the air. Sources said settlers also entered the villages of Kuchin and Madmah, located south of Nablus. Settlers in those villages threw stones and bottles at house windows and at cars.
http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2005-08-23.3855387367
Gaza militants: Israel can't free solider by force
Palestinian militants who seized an Israeli soldier in June warned Israel on Monday that launching a stepped-up offensive in the Gaza Strip could lead to a breakdown in efforts to secure his release.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L0213252&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-2
Setting Up Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas
Today almost a half million Israelis live across the 1967 border. With financial backing of the Clinton Administration, a system of twenty-nine highways was constructed in the Occupied Territories to incorporate the settlements into Israel proper. In the meantime 96% of the Palestinians were locked into what Sharon calls ”cantons,” dozens of tiny enclaves, deprived of the right to move freely and now being literally imprisoned behind concrete walls twice as high as the Berlin Wall and electrified fences.
http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2005-10-07.2872432648
Israel to Divide Jerusalem?
Israel's new government is drawing up a blueprint for dividing the holy city of Jerusalem - a once inconceivable notion - giving the Palestinians nearly all the Arab neighborhoods while holding onto Jewish areas and disputed holy shrines.
http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-05-04.0628060337
Mubarak and Abdullah meet, call for end to Palestinian infighting
"How could we call on [our foreign counterparts] to help push for peace, and risk being faced with their questions regarding what is currently happening in the Palestinian arena?" Mubarak asked and added, "Do these events pave the way for the reinstatement of the peace process?"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769458.html
Congress okays joint project funding
The US Congress approved an increase of $460 million in funding for joint Israeli-American defense programs over the weekend, including $20 million for the development of a short-range ballistic missile defense system which will provide protection from Katyusha rockets.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193348715&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Debating the Lobby in Manhattan
What became known as the "Mearsheimer-Walt thesis" is, to paraphrase bluntly the authors' careful formulations, that the Israel lobby has been successful in "distorting" American foreign policy in Israel's interest. In particular, Mearsheimer and Walt argue, we would not have had an Iraq war without the Lobby's contribution. These are, to say the least, fighting words. Indyk and Ross showed up in fighting trim, and Slaughter threw them a slow soft one in her first question: Was the Mearsheimer-Walt paper anti-Semitic? Well, more or less, yes, was the predictable answer from Israel's defense bench.
http://www.counterpunch.org/smith09292006.html
Starting with the individual
The refusal of the Israeli court to address our legitimate claim, symbolically compensate us for our loss, recognize that loss occurred to us or even make an attempt to hold the Israeli army responsible for the wrong it did will not register with many. Much more damage has been done to many more people. But the lofty ideals of peace and justice often come down to a simple personal case.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=686&Itemid=31
Is Israel a partner?
There is no way of knowing whether Israel's willingness to withdraw from the West Bank and the Golan Heights would result in reliable, long-term peace agreements, but it can be confirmed that Israel is largely responsible for the fact that such moves have not been seriously considered or formulated. Israeli governments since 1967 have preferred domestic tranquility over the possibility of unrest on the foreign fronts. Defining the Palestinian and Syrian enemies as non-partners is a direct consequence of that order of priorities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769342.html
UN: Israel obstructed probe of attack on UNIFIL post
Israel prevented United Nations investigators from speaking with Israel Defense Forces commanders who were involved in the bombing of a UNIFIL outpost in South Lebanon during the war, according to a UN report released Friday. The probe said that a 500-kilogram guided bomb destroyed the post, and that Israel conducted 21 sorties the same day and dropped bombs 300 meters from the post.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769322.html
Media ownership study ordered destroyed
The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says. The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/
Lebanese army troops deploy in border villages vacated by IDF
Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers in armored troop carriers (APC), trucks and jeeps deployed in the villages of Marwaheen, Ramia, Kfar Kila and Maroun al-Ras. In Marwaheen, villagers lined up the streets and threw rice and flowers at an army convoy of 10 APCs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769319.html
IDF threatens Lebanon raids
"That would be the first sign of Hizbullah's awakening, as that's how they test the ground, check the response and collect intelligence. Hizbullah never acted in a coincidental manner, as no operation was coincidental or without preplanning, including the kidnappings. If we see innocent people returning to the border, that would be a red light as far as we are concerned."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3310152,00.html
Study: 66% of Israeli weapons production is for export
According to the report, global military spending will reach an unprecedented $1,058.9 billion by the end of the year, a sum roughly 15 times the amount spent on global humanitarian aid. This sum will break the global military spending record of $1,034 billion set in 1987, during the Cold War. ( Civilized World? )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769478.html
Syria's Assad: No one can stop Hezbollah weapons smuggling
"If there is a real desire to smuggle [weapons], neither Security Council resolutions nor surveillance nor the whole armies of the world can prevent this," he said in an interview with Spain's El Pais newspaper that was released on Sunday by Syria's state-run SANA news agency.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769460.html
Operation Peace for the Winery
Behind the latest Israeli refusal is cowardice and behind this cowardice is the prime minister. Ehud Olmert knows very well that Israel will ultimately withdraw from the Golan Heights, but he lacks the courage to lead this move. Just like his predecessor, Ehud Barak, who was on the verge of an agreement with Syria, Olmert also lacks the most important quality required of an Israeli leader - courage.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/769339.html
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Meet with Iranian President Ahmadinejad
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Rabbis met with President Ahmadinejad of Iran at the Intercontinental Hotel on September 21, 2006.
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/demonstrations/2006Sept21.cfm
Iraq civilian deaths hit record in Sept - ministry
Morgue officials say they have been ordered to stop giving out data on deaths, though an official told Reuters last month that the total number of unidentified bodies, most of which are victims of violence, fell by 17 percent in August to 1,536. Morgue figures for September were not immediately available.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC145456.htm |
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