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Plan for the Olive Harvest Campaign 2006
On the 5th of October a special meeting made up of regional ISM coordinators took place to present their plans for the olive harvest and to make everyone aware of each other's activities so that better coordination between the regions can take place. Below is a summary of each region's activities to give an idea of how well organized we are this year and to hopefully encourage more people to come and support the Palestinian farmers and their families against the violence of the colonist settlers and the obstruction and harrassment of the Israeli army.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/07/oh-plan-2006/
Palestinian child deaths in conflict with Israel already nearly double that of 2005 – UN
“They are confronted with regular military operations, shelling, house demolitions, checkpoints on their way to schools,” UNICEF Child Protection Officer Anne Grandjean said. “As a result we find high prevalence of signs of stress such as anxiety, eating and sleeping disorders, and difficulties concentrating in school. “All of these signs need to be tackled as soon as possible to avoid a long-lasting impact on the child’s development,” she added.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20148&Cr=&Cr1=
Hebron commemorates anniversary of massacre in Ibrahimi mosque
It was 13 years ago on this, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, that Dr. Baruch Goldstein walked into Al Haram Al Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank's Hebron and opened fire. He killed 29 Palestinians in the midst of prayer. Among them were three children. The Israeli response to the massacre was to punish the victims by taking over half the mosque and turning it into a synagogue - exactly what Goldstein had been hoping for.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21905/1/
We Can’t Go Home Again
Now the Israeli authorities have decided that my life here has come to an end. Even after the Oslo Accords were signed and the Palestinian Authority established, Israel retained control of all borders and of the Palestinian Population Registry. Nothing or no one gets into or out of the West Bank and Gaza without Israeli permission. For a dozen years I have waited for Israel to approve my application for Palestinian residency. American Jews, indeed Jews from anywhere in the world, can come to Israel and be granted automatic citizenship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/opinion/07bahour.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Israel is about Jewish togetherness, return from Diaspora
To Israeli-born "sabras," the Land of Israel is taken for granted. Yet I, who spent my childhood in a foreign country, feel fortunate every day for being able to build my home and to plant my garden in Hebron, as cited in the prophecy of Amos. ( Hebron = Occupied Palestinian Town of Khalil, in West Bank)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3311579,00.html
Women activists harvest/expose the Rabin Square olive trees
`You have no permit to demonstrate here, you must disperse!` `We are not demonstrating, we are harvesting olives.` `What?` For once, the tough Tel Aviv Municipal Marshals were caught unready. Nobody had ever thought of passing a municipal ordinance or by-law forbidding the picking of olives.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16685
Jerusalem's patriarch visits area
"I hope he's able to spread the message that (Palestinians) are not terrorists. They are people; they are Muslims, and they are Christians," said Nancy Hemminger, chairwoman of Twal's visit and coordinator of the Children's Peace Project that brought the Palestinian children in Cincinnati.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061007/NEWS01/610070362/1056
Attempt to use explosives against IDF
In Nablus, Palestinians threw an explosive charge at IDF forces operating in the Balatta refugee camp. In a separate incident, operatives opened fire at IDF forces from the Askar refugee camp in the city. There were no IDF casualties in either incident.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312002,00.html
Rice offers Abbas plan to ease blockade of Gaza
Ms Rice, who left yesterday for a surprise visit to Baghdad on her way back to Washington, proposed a $25.5m (£13.5m) security centre for checking lorries on the Palestinian side of Karni. To meet Israel's concerns, it would be manned by Mr Abbas's presidential guard, supported by international monitors. The Americans are also offering $26m to expand the presidential guard from 3,500 to 6,000 men.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1813570.ece
Haniyeh: Hamas won't be forced out, won't recognize Israel
"There are new scenarios, such as an emergency government, a technocrat government, or early elections," Haniyeh told tens of thousands of supporters. "They all aim for one thing, getting Hamas out of the government."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771460.html
Abbas, Haneya likely to meet this week: Hamas spokesman
Spokesman Ghazi Hamad told reporters that Abbas was expected to arrive in Gaza before Thursday and discuss with Haneya about the forming of the proposed government of national unity.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/07/content_5173690.htm
Non-Hamas officials criticize Haneya's Friday speech
Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio, lawmaker Hannan Ahsrawi called the speech "a popular, calling up speech away from real reading of the Palestinian people' suffering," adding that the speech addressed only Hamas supporters instead of the Palestinian people."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/07/content_5173616.htm
Fatah leader urges Abbas to sack Hamas government within two weeks
The comments from Azzam al-Ahmed, head of Fatah's parliamentary bloc, underlined the increasing bitterness of the power struggle between Islamist group Hamas and Abbas, from Fatah, after their failure to agree on a coalition government.
http://www.eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/en/international-news/accuses-pm-haniyeh-of-sedition-
fatah-leader-urges-abbas-to-sack-h?itemId=B24_14284&cl=%2Feitb24%2Finternacional&idioma=en
Olmert, Abbas aides meet to plan summit
Olmert's chief of staff Yoram Turbowicz and a senior advisor met with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and one of Abbas's aides two weeks ago in order "to prepare the grounds for a possible meeting," the official told AFP Saturday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061007/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisrael_061007134009
P.A payment to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon stopped since March
One of the refugees, Qassem Ahmad, a member of Fateh at the Ein Al Hilwa refugee camp, said that his monthly salary from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has stopped since March. Ahmad depends on this salary as his main source in income and livelihood since the Lebanese government does not allow the Palestinian refugees to work, obtain work permits and to own lands.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21894/1/
Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Mohammad
Danish state TV on Friday aired amateur video footage showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples' party engaged in a competition to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3311987,00.html
Jordan denies hosting secret Saudi-Israel talks
"These sorts of reports are put about every time there are positive signs emerging in the peace process, probably with a view to damaging it and creating a climate of suspicion around it." Israel's top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot reported Thursday that Olmert had held a secret meeting lasting several hours with Saudi officials at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061007/wl_mideast_afp/mideastsaudiisrael_061007095051
Four Egyptians arrested for trying to enter Gaza Strip via tunnel
The four men were arrested at dawn and were transferred to the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya for military prosecution, police officer Mohammed Badr said. No weapons or drugs were seized in the arrest, The Associated Press reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771425.html
Tunnels feed new Hamas army
This new Hamas army consists of several specialized units, including a short-range missile unit, a long-range missile unit, an anti-tank unit, and a sniper unit, among others. Intelligence sources estimated the army would reach operational capacity, and be capable of confronting the IDF as soon as the coming summer, if the flow of arms, military experts, and money into the Gaza Strip was not stopped.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3311372,00.html
Israeli academic speaks out about Palestinian conflict
So, since '67 Israel is holding to the territories and is not willing to give them up. So if there's no, so there's one route that Israel has never tried, namely ending the occupation, signing agreement with the Palestinians and opening a new page. But if you want to stick to the territories your fate is always to use more aggression and more violence on both sides and more, more and more need to protect yourself and then to destroy others.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1757639.htm
'You Never Know What's Next'
Lubin was born into a conservative Zionist family. She had been taught that the Jews needed to establish a state of their own, so that what had happened to her relatives during World War II, when their land was occupied, and family members murdered in camps, should never happen again. For much of her life Barbara Lubin felt that the Zionist ideal was the right thing. However, in 1982 her eyes were open to a new horror: a new form of occupation, enacted by Israelis.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=10&no=321452&rel_no=1
Despite, not because
What should be done instead of the declamatory "because?" Aid should be transferred to Gaza, the routes for agricultural exports should be opened, help must be given in restoring the electricity supply, the number of Palestinian workers in Israel ought to be increased, Palestinian prisoners should be released (in the same numbers that will in any case ultimately be released) and Gilad Shalit brought back, talks should be held with the PA chairman and prime minister, a unity government should be encouraged rather than sabotaged, there should be serious discussion of the Saudi initiative
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771192.html
Film considers Palestine peace
A film, “Gaza Strip,” that shows why peace is so difficult to achieve in Palestine, will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Martha Room at First United Methodist Church, 1165 N.W. Monroe Ave. Released in 2002, “Gaza Strip” shows a population under Israeli occupation and resultant frustration of the people, especially young Gaza males.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/10/07/news/community/1loc21_brfgazafilm.txt
Journalists honored with Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents
John Stephenson, of the New Zealand magazine Metro, won the print prize for his reporting on the Iraq war in June last year. The photography prize was given to Jaafar Astiyeh, of Agence France-Presse, for his photos in the West Bank showing violence between Israelis and Palestinians over the last two years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/07/europe/EU_GEN_France_Journalists_Award.php
Lebanese PM urges UN action over Israeli flights
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has appealed to UN chief Kofi Annan to put pressure on Israel to stop its warplanes from overflying Lebanon and withdraw from a village.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061007/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictlebanon_061007092220
Assad: Syrian military preparing for war with Israel
Syrian Information Minister Muhsen Bilal also said Saturday that his country is preparing for war with Israel, but added that Syria is interested in peace. "Syria is taking into account the possibility that Israel will embark on a military adventure in against Syria," said Bilal. "We are preparing for every possibility."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771495.html
UN sources: Agreement reached in principle on Iran sanctions
A senior official in the U.S. State Department said Friday that while the the six powers had agreed in principle to impose sanctions, the parties have yet to agree on the extent of the sanctions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771443.html
India to purchase Israeli-made anti-aircraft missile systems
SPYDER truck-mounted air defense system use a combination of active radar missiles and infrared missiles to track and intercept jets, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and precision guided munitions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771488.html
At least 25 killed in Iraq violence
A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle Saturday, killing 14 people, including some who died when their homes collapsed in the blast. The suicide bombing in Tal Afar — a city cited by President Bush earlier this year as an example of improving security in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Kuwait gets 11.2 bln dlrs in war reparations from Iraq
Kuwait has received 11.2 billion dollars in war reparations from Iraq for Baghdad's 1990-1991 invasion and occupation of the emirate. A report by Kuwait's compensation authority, published in Al-Qabas daily, said Saturday the UN Compensation Commission had so far approved 41.3 billion dollars in war reparations for Kuwait. The emirate has filed compensation claims worth 178 billion dollars to the UNCC
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061007/wl_mideast_afp/iraqkuwaituncompensation_061007101139
Kurds show signs of seceding from Iraq
With violence bloodying Iraq, Kurds in the peaceful north have been showing signs of going their own way, raising their own flag and even hinting they could secede in a dispute over oil wealth — moves that have alarmed Shiites and Sunnis.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurds |
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