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Join Jenin childrens' struggle to break the Walls of Hatred through art
Walls of Hatred are being built in the Middle East. In the West Bank and Gaza these walls are built with concrete, whereas another Wall of Hatred has been constructed through Aerial Bombs in Lebanon. Within the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Jenin is also turning into a big prison, surrounded by an electronic fence and guarded by Israeli army patrols. As peasants are being cut off from their land, students cannot reach their universities and children are unable to get to school, the separation ideology and policy are becoming daily reality.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5833.shtml
Rabbi leads defence of Palestinian olive groves
For the first time in four years, the family has been able to harvest the crop. Last time Mr Karni tried, radical Jewish settlers set fire to the tinder-dry land and beat him as he fled. “I’m so happy to be here,” he said, stretching to reach a branch in the relentless sun. “This is my land and if I can’t come here to farm it I feel incomplete. I must do this to keep the land in my family.” Mr Karni, 58, a Muslim, can go about his business without threat largely because of a rabbi who has co-ordinated with the Israeli Army and police to be on the spot to provide protection
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2394974,00.html
IDF aims to keep out 'escorts' of Palestinian farmers during harvest
The Israel Defense Forces is demanding that Palestinian farmers not allow Israeli and foreign sympathizers to escort them during the olive harvest to places where military protection is needed against abusive settlers, Palestinian sources in the Nablus region told Haaretz. An Israeli security source confirmed the report, saying that IDF officers have been influenced by statements of settlers, who say they are enraged during the harvest by the presence of Israeli leftists who act as provocateurs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772279.html
Army kills Nablus resident at Huwwara checkpoint south of the city
Eyewitnesses at the checkpoint said that the Sa'adah ran towards a car at the checkpoint when he was shot by a number of soldiers. They said that he was not holding a knife as the soldiers claimed. However, soldiers insisted that they found the knife in his clothes after killing him while searching the body.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21942/1/
Israel Arrests Bil’in Journalist
Emad, who was filming at the time, was arrested by an Israeli Border policeman. When Emad arrived at the police station in Givat Zeev, he was wounded. The Border Police soldiers claimed a radio “fell” on him in the jeep, on the way to the station. He was taken to the Hadassah – Har Hatzofim hospital and was then taken back to the police station in Givat Zeev. After he was interrogated, the police refused to view the tapes that Emad filmed. Emad is accused of “assault on an officer” and of stone throwing and was sent to the Etzion prison.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/09/bilin-journalist-stands-trail/
Jordan's king gives carpet to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque
The site is part of east Jerusalem, which was ruled by Jordan until Israel captured it and the adjacent West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war. In 1988, the current's king's father, King Hussein, renounced his country's claim to the West Bank, but maintained Jordan's authority to look after the Holy Sanctuary - a custodial role that Israel recognizes.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772403.html
Rightists to Halutz: You ruined Jews' lives
During a visit to the (OCCUPIED) city Hebron Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz toured the area together with Commander of the IDF's Central Command Yair Nave and watched the thousands of pilgrims who came to the city for the holiday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312915,00.html
Israeli air strike kills 1 in Gaza: witnesses
An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded three others in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses and medical officials said. A hospital doctor said the dead civilian was a 14-year-old boy, correcting medical officials who earlier said he was 17. The boy's father was among the wounded, medical officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900232.html
Freed detainee: “Female detainees were attacked after administration claimed that two tried to flee"
She added that the conditions in Ayalon are very bad, and that the detainees are lacking the basic needs such as soup, clothes and toothpaste and that the soldiers walk through their room several times while they are sleeping. The detainees who were moved from Telmond prison to Al Ramleh and Al Jalama are currently carrying a hunger strike and demand to be moved back to Telmond detention facility.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21943/1/
Abbas, Haniyeh meet to end escalation of violence
Preparations were being made in the Palestinian Authority for a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh scheduled to take place on Monday evening. The two will meet in a final attempt in preventing an escalation of the political crisis in the PA, which could spiral into civil war.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312857,00.html
Hamas PM: Political infighting won't lead to Palestinian civil war
Addressing 300 religious and political leaders in Gaza at a "unity and reconciliation" feast on Sunday, Haniyeh appealed for calm. "We may criticize each other, raise our voices," he said. "However, it is certainly our concern and religious and moral commitment that matters don't come down to conflict, infighting and civil war."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771947.html
Qatari FM to hold separate talks with Abbas, Haniyeh in Gaza
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al Thani was to hold separate talks with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza on Monday evening, after a hoped for three-way meeting seemed unlikely to go ahead. The Qatari foreign minister helds talks in Syria on Thursday with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772328.html
Fatah chair in PA parliament calls for new elections
The chairman of the Fatah faction in the Palestinian parliament yesterday called for new elections in the Palestinian Authority. "How can one authority have two heads blaming each other?" Azzam al-Ahmed told a press conference in Ramallah. "If so, we must turn again to the people," he said. "Any country whose government reaches a dead end calls for early parliamentary elections. Those who trust themselves do not fear the people," he added.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771526.html
Christian Zionists Boost Post-War Tourism for Israel
Thousands of Christian Zionist tourists who are visiting here this week are giving Israel a much needed boost and signaling a major recovery of Israel's tourism industry following the Israeli-Hizballah war this summer, Israel's Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog said.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200610/INT20061009c.html
Peres: Presidential system would be mistake
Will there be a presidential system in Israel? Lieberman perhaps supports it, perhaps Olmert too, but at least one of the senior ministers in Kadima is against the initiative. Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Sunday evening that a presidential system in Israel would be an "error."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312538,00.html
Mazuz to PM: State commission most appropriate
Mazuz, they said, did not actually recommend that the government appoint a state commission of inquiry, and has expressed support for Olmert's position that such an inquiry would search for people to blame and make it difficult for the government to conduct affairs of state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772006.html
Bleak Ramadan in Palestine
The village mosque in Qisarya has been "converted into a bar," according to Walid Khalidi's All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated in 1948 (184). Qisarya (Caesarea) according to Benny Morris in Khalidi (183) "was the first pre-planned, organized expulsion of an Arab community by the Haganah in 1948." The expulsion took place on February 15, 1948, before any Arab army entered historic Palestine, and before Israel was declared a state. -Respected Palestinian journalist, Khalid Amayreh writes about Israeli ethnic cleansing, 21st century style.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/10/08/p11349
Robert Fisk: The Age of Terror - a landmark report
In the past, we - the "West" - could have post-war adventures abroad and feel safe at home. No North Korean tried to blow himself up on the London Tube in the 1950s. No Viet Cong ever arrived in Washington to assault the United States. We fought in Kenya and Malaya and Palestine and Suez and Yemen, but we felt safe in Gloucestershire. Perhaps the change came with the Algerian War of Independence when the bombers attacked in Paris and Lyons, or perhaps it came later when the IRA arrived to bomb London.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1814843.ece
Hamas' fall is nearer
In this context, portions of Haniyeh's speech were interesting. He complained about powerful forces in the world, headed by the United States, that have been wrestling his government since it was first established. Clearly hinting at PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his Fatah movement, Haniyeh added that to his great regret, there are those in the Palestinian camp who are abetting this. Haniyeh had a clearer cavil about his brothers, the Arab governments. Since his party's election victory, no Arab government has invited him to visit aside from the emirate of Qatar.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772018.html
Vital but unlikely
Also very low is the rate of those who believe Israel may achieve peace with the Palestinians and Lebanon within the next five years. The prevailing assessment is that these three regional actors - the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon - are not interested in an agreement with Israel, even though a majority of the Israeli-Jewish public views achieving peace, particularly with the Palestinians and Lebanon, as being in Israel's vital interests.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772025.html
Beleaguered Olmert courts Right-wingers
With his current coalition under threat, Mr Olmert, who won the general election in March at the head of the centrist Kadima party, has put out feelers to Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home). The move indicates that Israel's dalliance with centrist politics will end soon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/09/wisrael09.xml
Government reform / Haaretz review: Israel's ministers last just 16 months
Since the establishment of the state there have been 31 governments and 17 Knessets, meaning that each government served on average less than two years. Over the past 10 and a half years there have been five governments and four Knessets. However, Zevulun Orlev, a former welfare minister and director general at the Education and Religious Affairs Ministries, says the situation is actually far worse, since a coalition's makeup frequently changes in the course of a governmental tenure.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771999.html
In N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism
The historian, Tony Judt, is Jewish and directs New York University's Remarque Institute, which promotes the study of Europe. Judt was scheduled to talk Oct. 4 to a nonprofit organization that rents space from the consulate. Judt's subject was the Israel lobby in the United States, and he planned to argue that this lobby has often stifled honest debate. An hour before Judt was to arrive, the Polish Consul General Krzysztof Kasprzyk canceled the talk. He said the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee had called and he quickly concluded Judt was too controversial.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800817_pf.html
MK Sneh: North Korean nuclear test shows West must act fast on Iran
"Perhaps this case, that of North Korea, will teach them a lesson regarding the Iran issue," Sneh told Israel Radio, referring to the West. "Israeli policy should take advantage of what happened, in order to explain and persuade the international community, saying to it, 'Do something, before it's too late.'" ( Just ignore Dimona! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772278.html
Assad says Syria ready for peace talks if 'impartial arbiter' found
Assad said the only way to achieve peace is implementation of UN resolutions by all parties - Syria, Israel, America, the UN and EU. The Syrian president accused the West of being "too ready" to make Syria a "scapegoat" for the problems in the Middle East.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772399.html
UN says Israel provides maps of minefields in southern Lebanon
Disclosing the locations of several hundred thousand mines that were laid during Israel's 1982-2000 occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon has been one of the main demands of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772410.html
Dragged into war
For the first time in Israel's history, the military's and the cabinet's erroneous evaluations led the country to a war it never intended to embark on, and preparations were not made ahead of it accordingly. Without much thought, and based on erroneous estimates, the army dragged the country into a war it never expected, didn't plan for, and didn't want.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312810,00.html
Syria: Establish Arab defense alliance
It was also reported that efforts were being made in Damascus to revive the Syrian-Egyptian-Saudi axis, needed for consultations and closer contact between the countries. In the meantime, Syria insisted on taking the possible outbreak of war with Israel seriously.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312797,00.html
US casualty rate in Iraq worst since Fallujah
The number of US troops being wounded in Iraq is now at its highest level for two years as American forces are confronted by increasing sectarian violence and a continuing insurgency. Figures released by the Pentagon show that 776 soldiers were wounded in action in Iraq last month.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1822196.ece
Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women
They came for Dr Khaula al-Tallal in a white Opel car after she took a taxi home to the middle class district of Qadissiya in Iraq's holy city of Najaf. She worked for the medical committee that examined patients to assess them for welfare benefit. Crucially, however, she was a woman in a country where being a female professional increasingly invites a death sentence. As al-Tallal, 50, walked towards her house, one of three men in the Opel stepped out and raked her with bullets.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1890260,00.html |
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