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'Quiet transfer' in East Jerusalem nears completion
Israel is close to implementing a long-term plan to transform the demographic structure of annexed East Jerusalem. Policies to revoke the residency permits of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to Judaise the city have been described as ethnic cleansing. Their (The international community) support of the Palestinian claim to East Jerusalem was bolstered by the fact that at the time of occupation Palestinians constituted the majority of residents in this sector of the city. Israel has engaged in a demographic battle to secure Israeli sovereignty over the whole city.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10907
Despite Beating, Former CBU Student Continues Protests Against Middle East Violence
While most of the bruises have faded, some still paint his legs more than a month after his beating - and he's finally walking without a limp. But 23-year-old Kyle Kordsmeier vividly recalls kick after kick, punch after punch, delivered at the hands of Israeli police officers Aug. 1. Kordsmeier just had graduated from Christian Brothers University in May, and rather than relish the summer before starting a teaching job in his home state of Arkansas, he ventured into violence-filled territories to help defend the rights of Palestinians simply trying to survive.
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/Editorial/StoryInside.aspx?id=94207
"It's much worse": Anti-Apartheid Activist Farid Esack Speaks on Palestine and South Africa
How is the current situation in Israel/Palestine similar to that of apartheid-era South Africa? How is it different? Is Zionism a form of racism? What can we learn from the South African experience to strengthen and empower the movement for justice and peace in Palestine and Israel? Leading South African Muslim Theologian and anti-apartheid activist Farid Esack addressed these questions in a timely engaging and moving lecture at Oak Park Public Library in Illinois on September 6, 2006
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5709.shtml
The Twilight Zone / The boy who was buried twice
Abdullah a-Zakh identified his son's body by the belt. The shoes and socks also looked familiar, irrefutable proof that he had lost his son. In the morgue of Shifa Hospital, after hours of searching, he found the bottom part of the boy's body. The next day, when Operation "Gan Na'ul" - "Locked Kindergarten" - ended and the Israel Defense Forces exited the Saja'iya neighborhood of Gaza, leaving behind 22 dead and large-scale destruction, the other body parts were found.He was 14 years old at the time of his death.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760138.html
Photo Evidence From the Last Incursion into Nablus
A small home demolished in order to allow the American-made Caterpillar wrecking equipment a parking spot to position itself in order to demolish the main target building. Three homes surrounding the target building were demolished in a similar manner. The damage sustained to the north eastern corner of the Labadda house, an apartment complex that housed 17 families, 8 of which are from the Labadda family.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/06/nablus-photos/
Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps
The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies. "The pressure and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise," Karen Abuzayd, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency is said to have warned. "But rather they have created mass despair, anger and a sense of hopelessness and abandonment."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1431114.ece
Army invades a town in southern Gaza, uproots trees and exchanges fire with resistance fighters
Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday that one resident was injured by Israeli military fire after the army invaded Khazza'a town east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Soldiers clashed with resistance fighters and uprooted farmlands and hothouses.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21362/1/
Army takes three prisoners in Hebron
The three were identified as Hussam Al Natsha, 22, Ahmad Al Khateeb, 17, and his brother Ismail, 15. Eyewitnesses said that soldiers stopped the three residents and detained them for several hours before taking them to an unknown destination.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21356/1/
Gaza businesses urge end to border crossing attacks
Palestinian businessmen appealed for armed groups to halt attacks near crossing points into the Gaza Strip in order to allow Israel to reopen them and boost economic activity.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060909/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza_060909193025
Unknown gunmen attack the YMCA headquarters in Qalqilia
Unknown gunmen attacked and set fire to the Young Men Christian Association YMCA headquarters in the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Saturday morning. Local clergy and officials in the city condemned the attack and called it 'illegal and irresponsible'.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21364/1/
Olmert meets Blair, says 'dedicated' to road map
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Saturday that he remains "dedicated to advancing the political process with the Palestinians" in accordance with road map," and said that he intends to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. ( Road Map is Pre-Apartheid Wall plan!!! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760308.html
Hamas sources: Prisoner swap negotiations at dead end
The sources said the talks, on the exchange of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, have ceased due to Israel's refusal to respond to demands made by Palestinian militant groups.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760536.html
Abbas willing to meet with Olmert
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that he was willing to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and would not set any conditions for any such meeting.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154526035254&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Austria Muslims Send Ramadan Aid to Palestine
"The Palestine Humanitarian Group in Austria is seeking to provide food packages for the needy Palestinian families during Ramadan as well as providing `Eid presents for children by the end of the holy month,"
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/09/03.shtml
UNRWA says living conditions in Gaza Strip have reached breaking point
Karen Abuzayed, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said that living conditions for Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip have reached a breaking point due to the withholding of of tax and customs revenues by the Israeli government, the cutting of financial aid by the European Union and the ongoing Israeli offensive against the population, with the destruction of the Gaza Strip's main electrical power plant, the closure of all entry and exit points and the daily bombarding.
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=15570&lang=en
Meshal: Freeing Shalit will cost Israel; Egpyt says exchange deal not imminent
The paper does not say when its reporter interviewed Meshal, who said, "Now it is impossible to free the soldier for no price and even Israel knows that anyone who does that will be seen as a traitor."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760275.html
MK Bishara on illegal trip to Damascus: We are Syria's ally
Bishara, who joined other members of the Balad Knesset faction, expressed his support for Syria and for the country's struggle to free "occupied Arab land." He also praised Syria's support for "resistance to the occupation." The Balad MKs are slated to meet with Syrian leaders, in violation of Israeli law.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760186.html
Tony Blair to tell Olmert: Progress in PA talks vital
Blair visited Israel several times during his nine-year term of office and hosted Olmert in London at the beginning of June this year. Their meeting centered on Olmert's realignment plan, which has meanwhile been removed from the agenda.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760278.html
Blair's peacemaking hopes fade
Downing Street sources said the prime minister's personal envoy in the Middle East, Lord Levy, was already in the region, in contact with all the key parties including Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. In preparation for the visit Lord Levy has pressed for prisoner releases as well as the formation of a unity Palestinian government between Hamas and Fatah.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1868516,00.html
More earthquakes expected in the eastern West Bank's Jordan Valley
Center Director, Dr. Jalal Al Dabeik, said that the latest jolt came in a series that has continued to threaten the region for the past three years. However, said Dr. Al Dabeik, “These are the kind of tremors that are light and do not cause significant damage.” He also reported that more of the same are sure to come.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=517&Itemid=30
Islamic Jihad: British PM Blair not welcome in Palestine
Habib wrote, “Blair is a companion in the criminal acts of US President George W. Bush and has blindly backed the unfair and unjust policy of the US. For this reason, we will not welcome Blair on his visit, which comes within the framework of support for the Zionist enemy.”
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=518&Itemid=28
A policy of punishment - By Ismail Haniyeh
Despite the historic responsibility of successive British governments for what has befallen our people, from the Balfour declaration to the catastrophe of dispossession, Palestinians had hoped that the new generation of British politicians might break with the past and stand for truth and justice in the Middle East. Regrettably, however, the last decade has witnessed the most unfair and one-sided British policy towards the region since the creation of the state of Israel in our homeland close to 60 years ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,1868379,00.html
Khatami: Suicide bombings are an injustice and hurt Islam
"We Muslims should condemn these atrocities even more strongly," he said. "[A] terrorist, which means killing of civilians, is a human being that lacks morality ... (and) will not go to heaven" and those who do it in the name of Islam "are lying," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760505.html
The curse of living by the sword
There are all kinds of commissions of inquiry about wars, even ridiculous ones, such as Ehud Olmert's. There is never an inquiry into the failures in negotiating peace. Their victims, after all, are not quantifiable. Yet, the prime minister's political behavior at present is no less dangerous than the way he ran the war.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760287.html
Rethinking Jewish American deterrence
The height of Israel's appeal was reached in the decade following the Six-Day War, during what sociologist Steven M. Cohen has termed "the golden age of American Jewry's mobilized model," when a sometimes paradoxical concern over the state's very existence mixed with a new-found Jewish pride over its military prowess and machismo character.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760249.html
Patti Smith rails against Israel and US
The singer-songwriter Patti Smith has produced an emotional indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy in two new protest songs she will premiere in London next week. The American singer takes the Israeli bombing of Lebanese civilians and the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and as her subjects in the songs "Qana" and "Without Chains".
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article1431117.ece
70-year-old man critically wounded in S. Lebanon from cluster bomb
A 70-year-old man was in critical condition after he was wounded Saturday when a cluster bomb left over from IDF operations against Hezbollah militants exploded outside his south Lebanon home, security officials said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760517.html
200 French troops arrive in Beirut
The amphibious ship La Foudre arrived around 8:30 A.M. and soldiers began filing out shortly afterward, witnesses and an AP photographer said. The ship, which sailed from the Mediterranean port of Toulon on September 4, is also carrying some 100 armored personnel carriers, trucks, weaponry and equipment for the troops.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760380.html
Saudi tycoon: Arab investors launch bid to raise $2B for Lebanon
Saudi billionaire Sheikh Saleh Kamel said on Saturday a group of Arab investors has launched a campaign to raise $2 billion for reconstruction and aid in war-torn Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/760541.html
Jordan's King Warns Long-Time Violence If Israel-Palestine Conflict Not Resolved
In an interview with Time magazine, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that world would witness long time violence in Middle East if the Israel-Palestine conflict not resolved as soon as possible.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004804643 |
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