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Rice: Palestinians should live free of 'humilation of occupation'
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Palestinians deserve to live under better conditions than they are subjected to and be "free of the humiliation of occupation" in a state of their own. "I promise you my personal commitment to that goal," Rice said at a dinner marking the third anniversary of the American Task Force on Palestine.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773549.html
Holy Land Christian leaders call for "open" Jerusalem
Slamming the impact of walls recently erected by the Israeli government, Catholic and other Christian leaders in Israel and Palestine have called for a renewed effort to reach agreement on a special status for Jerusalem as an "open city" as part of an effort for a definite and just peace.
http://www.cathnews.com/news/610/61.php
Bil’in to Demonstrate in Solidarity With Cameraman held by Israel
At midday, Friday the 13th of October, the villagers of Bil’in will march in solidarity with Emad Bornat, the Reuters cameraman and video-journalist, also a resident of Bil’in. The demonstrators will hold up cameras as a sign of solidarity with Emad and protest against the Israeli army’s crackdown on freedom of press. Today, October 11th, at the appeal hearing, the Israeli military decided to launch an indictment against Emad. The judge will make a ruling tomorrow at 4pm, but that might not be the end of his captivity.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/11/emad-demo/
Nonviolent resistance: I sell grapes
Eleven tons of grapes are on sale in Jerusalem. Sitting under trees and along the sidewalks of East Jerusalem's Salah Addin Street, against door pillars in the Old City and outside Damascus Gate, Palestinians are defying Israeli attempts to crush their yearly sales. Jerusalem is the largest market for grapes and just last week southwestern Bethlehem farmers demonstrated to be able to reach the city with their crop. But as the assault on economic sustainability continues, Israeli forces will not allow grapes and seasonal vegetables into Jerusalem.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=769&Itemid=1
Report: 290 killed in the Gaza Strip since June 25th, amongst them 135 children and 25 women
The death toll, given in the report, since the beginning of the operation has reached 290 civilians, amongst them 135 children and 35 women. The number of injured is 4,350, out of these 750 are left permanently disabled, 117 injuries were to the upper body, 54 burns were sustained and 53 severe burns. 1700 injuries out of 4350 were to children.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22028/1/
Rights group: Shin Bet denies vital treatment to Palestinians
The Shin Bet security service is systematically preventing Palestinians who need medical treatment unavailable in the territories from entering Israel... According to the organization, in many cases, patients have been denied urgent, life-saving treatment. The report says that the Shin Bet automatically refuses entry permits, and reconsiders its decisions only if legal action is begun.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773502.html
IAF missile strike on Hamas man's Gaza home kills three
An IDF spokesman confirmed the air strike targeted the house of a Hamas commander, Sharaf Farwana, in the Sajaiyeh section of Gaza City near the border with Israel. Farwana survived the attack, but the strike killed his brother, 25-year-old Aiman Farwana, and a 8-year-old girl.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773817.html
Seven killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Five of those killed belonged to the same family -- bystanders 13-year-old Suheib Iqdah, his 40-year-old father Adel and three militants from the armed wing of ruling Islamist movement Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades. They died after an Israeli aircraft fired a missile into a group of people in Abassan, near the southern town of Khan Yunis, medical and security sources said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061012/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflict_061012192530
Qassam rockets fired at Israel, no injures
One of rockets landed in the town and the other fell in an open area outside of Sderot. Residents reported of a particularly loud explosion. The rocket that landed inside Sderot fell only 50 meters away from a bus, shocking the passengers aboard.
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/12/eng20061012_311286.html
Army closes Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus
Due to the closure of the checkpoints scores of residents who were out of the city for education, work, or heath purposes were trapped and could not return to their homes in Nablus or the surrounding areas.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22029/1/
Peretz orders IDF to speed evacuation of illegal West Bank outposts
The order to immediate evacuate illegal structures was given during a meeting Peretz convened with senior officials from the Defense Ministry, the IDF and the coordinator for government activities in the territories.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774018.html
Olmert courts hard-line party in Israel
With his political fortunes plummeting after the war in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scrambling to shore up his rickety coalition by courting a hard-line party that favors redrawing Israel's borders to exclude Arab citizens.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_politics_1
Police arrest 10 settler youths who beat Palestinians harvesting olives
Police on Thursday arrested 10 youths from the West Bank settlement of Hashmonaim who are suspected of attacking and beating local Palestinians harvesting olives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774011.html
Meshal: Israel does exist, but I don't recognize its legitimacy
Exiled Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshal on Thursday said that while Israel did exist, he refused to recognize its legitimacy, and blamed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the delay in the release of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773550.html
My Friend, the Enemy
The dispossession of the Palestinians by the Zionist movement, representing a people who had suffered centuries of persecution in Europe, continues to haunt the Middle East, influencing events far beyond the Levant. The story of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and its present-day reverberations has been told from almost every conceivable angle. Rarely, however, have the competing narratives of individual experience been set forth so poignantly as in Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree .
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061030/carey
Israeli roadblocks in the West Bank up sharply, UN says
These physical obstacles are carving up the West Bank into separate parts, with travel between them becoming more and more difficult, said David Shearer, head of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem. UN officials in Geneva, meanwhile, expressed concern about the ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip, including the crossing between Gaza and Egypt. ``It cannot continue like it is now without a social explosion that will hurt everybody, including Israeli security," said Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/10/12/israeli_roadblocks_in_the_west_bank_up_sharply_un_says/
U.S. Teacher Freed in West Bank
Michael Phillips, 24, who teaches English in Palestinian refugee camps in Nablus, was unharmed, said Samah Atout, a manager for the nonprofit group for which the Louisiana resident has volunteered. "He's totally OK, and he doesn't want to leave Nablus," Atout said by telephone shortly after Phillips' release.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-kidnap12oct12,1,7356453.story?coll=la-news-a_section
Hamas sees Egyptian mediation between Palestinians necessary
The Egyptian mediation "became a political need to protect our national project," Ahmed Yousef said in the statement. Meanwhile, Yousef underlined that the Palestinians are in need of new Arab and international initiatives that do not give priority to Israel's recognition.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/12/content_5196304.htm
State tells High Court it should stay out of war-probe decision
The state prosecution yesterday told the High Court of Justice that the government has given much thought to the question of whether to establish a state commission of inquiry to investigate the war in Lebanon, and believes that the High Court has limited input in this deliberation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773461.html
Hamas: Revenge will be painful
The movement's spokesperson Abu Ubeida said, in an interview with Palestinian Maan news agency: "We promise the Israeli enemy many surprises and promise to show previously unrevealed military capabilities. All operations of the Israeli military in Gaza are meant to cover up their failure to release Gilad Shalit."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314235,00.html
A small Jerusalem is better
The plan, which was initiated by Golda Meir's government in order to "strengthen the capital," was severely criticized by all the experts. Thirty years later, its destructive consequences have become evident: From a compact city of 37 square kilometers, Jerusalem has turned into a huge metropolis that covers 120 square kilometers, twice as large as the area of Tel Aviv and Haifa combined.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773479.html
Over 2,000 protest outside PM's home, call for state war inquiry
"The State of Israel is anxiously awaiting for errors to be addressed, and the first condition for addressing errors is revealing the truth," former Meretz MK Yossi Sarid told the protestors.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774016.html
Armenians in Jerusalem welcome French law recognizing genocide
Armenians in the Old City of Jerusalem, many of them descendants of people who fled during World War I, on Thursday welcomed passage of a law by the lower house of the French legislature making it a crime to deny that the mass killing then was genocide.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773887.html
Syria rejects Peres' invitation for Bashar Assad to visit Jerusalem
Al-Baath wrote that Peres' move was an attempt to "evade peace and its requirements." It was also "proof of the Israeli government's weakness and failure to face recent changes stemming from the victory of the Lebanese resistance," the editorial said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773882.html
Anti-Defamation League leader asks Pope to denounce Iran
An American Jewish leader on Thursday urged Pope Benedict to help protect Jews from Iran, saying it and its president were examples of a new "global malignancy" of anti-Semitism that could bring another Holocaust.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773990.html
The role of public opinion
Israel's decision's must begin with the assumption that at the end of the day, even if we declare from every possible stage that the Iranian nuclear issue is not our problem but that of the entire world, we, and not the neo-appeasing "world," will have to find a solution to the greatest danger that has faced the Jewish state since its establishment.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773481.html
IDF: Only US operation can stop Iran
Diplomatic sources told Ynet on Thursday evening that Israel was planning to continue to act firmly along with the international community against the Iranian problem. According to the sources, more firm international moves against North Korea and Iran are now expected to take place.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314306,00.html
Will this Ehud make peace?
Clinton says that the gaps were not big to begin with, and that the Syrians came with a positive spirit, willingness to be flexible, and were eager to reach a deal. Barak, on the other hand, decided to linger a few days in order to convince the public he is a tough negotiator. In his memoirs, Clinton admits he was disappointed. He says Assad trusted him and believed Barak's promises.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3313682,00.html
Iraqi Occupation's Death Toll: Over 600,000
It has been reported that the number of deaths in Iraq since 2003, when United States occupied the country, exceeds 600,000. According to a study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, 601,027 persons died violent deaths in Iraq.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20061012&hn=37300
Gunmen Storm Iraqi TV Station, Kill 11
Gunmen, some of them in police uniforms, stormed the downtown Baghdad headquarters of a new satellite television station Thursday, killing the board chairman and 10 others in the second attack on an Iraqi station in the capital in as many weeks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200297.html |
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