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Dear Readers,
The daily headlines I am providing you with will be off for about three weeks, as I am due to visit my other homeland Bosnia, also have a few tasks to finish before it. Please don't ignore the daily crimes Israel is committing and keep on accessing www.imemc.org , www.palsolidarity.org/main and www.electronicintifada.net
Yours,
Shadi
Journalists Join with Villagers of Bil’in in Solidairty With Emad Bornat
Cameramen were marching at the front of the crowd to show their solidarity with Emad. Demonstrators chanted slogans in Arabic, English and Hebrew. One Palestinian activist from the village was detained and dragged away by border police and beaten. The Israeli soldiers didn't listen to protesters demanding his release. A few minutes later, he managed to escape and run away. One Israeli activist was arrested in the process of de-arresting another activist.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/10/13/bilin-emad/
Palestinian assulted by IOF after roadblock removal
Shafiig Khlayel intervened when Israeli occupation forces began assaulting a Palestinian woman shortly after her husband had participated in the Beit Ommar roadblock removal. As people tried to stop the assault, they themselves came under attack. Shafiig was punched in the stomach and back, as well as being hit several times with a rifle butt. After he was thrown to the ground, he was then set upon again, being kicked in the back and on the legs. Internationals who had been involved in the road block removal happened to be passing by the site of the incident and were able to intervene, putting themselves in between soldiers and those being attacked. Several internationals were injured.
http://palestinesolidarityproject.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/palestinian-assulted-by-iof-after-roadblock-removal/
Palestinians clash with Israeli troops on way to prayer in Jerusalem
Soldiers dispersed the crowds with stun grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons. At one checkpoint, desperate protesters tried to scale Israel's massive concrete separation barrier with ladders. The protesters were on their way to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Friday is the weekly holy day for Muslims, and it is considered an honor to attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa during Ramadan. Tradition says Al-Aqsa is where the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, ascended to heaven.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/13/africa/ME_GEN_Palestinians_Protests.php
U.S. begins $42 million program to bolster Hamas opponents
The plan to promote alternatives to Hamas includes funding to help restructure Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group and provide training and strategic advice to politicians and secular parties opposed to Hamas Islamists.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774570.html
2 kidnapped, 15 injured in Hamas-Fatah clashes
While the IDF is attacking gunmen in Gaza, the Palestinians continue to fight among themselves. Since the early hours of Friday morning, 15 Palestinians were wounded in clashes between rival armed factions in the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. In addition, Fatah forces managed to kidnap two Hamas activists, and negotiations are underway to ease the tensions and release the two activists.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314485,00.html
3 Palestinians killed, five wounded in Israeli air strike in Gaza
At least three Palestinians were killed and five where injured Friday morning, in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia, Palestinian sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22049/1/
Criticism of Israel an 'act of solidarity'
“Being against Israel is the best act of solidarity and compassion with the Jews that one can have,” Tanya Reinhart, a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University, told a full house at the University of Sydney’s Seymour Centre on Monday. Professor Reinhart was in Australian to deliver the second annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide last weekend, which was sponsored by the Australian Friends of Palestine Association.
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=1811
Tragic Palestine Diary, Not Prime `Jean Brodie': John Simon
Corrie's fever was less real but no less lethal; she called it a fever in the belly. Yet she could be perfectly rational, as when she wrote of the Palestinians: ``I am amazed at their strength in defending such a large degree of their humanity against the incredible horror occurring in their lives and against the constant presence of death. I think the word is dignity.'' She was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while shielding a Palestinian house with her body.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aH9LEKXfKH9c&refer=muse
A New Deadly Weapon is Being Used Against Palestinians
Italian journalists discovered that Israel has been using an experimental weapon against Palestinian these past several months. After examining the bodies of the wounded and dead, journalists found that the weapon most likely caused more than 300 serious injuries, leading to 62 amputations and 200 deaths between June and July 2006.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22058/1/
In-depth look into suffer of Palestinian women under Israeli Occupation
the occupying Power, has not deliberately engaged in the violation of international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and in especially in the Gaza Strip...
"As a result of some of the violations of human rights mentioned above, such as home demolitions, women who are traditionally the central figure in the homes, caring for their children and managing the domestic affairs inside the home, suddenly find that the center of their existence has been pulled from under them, she highlighted.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22050/1/
Israel: No Medical Care to Palestinians
The investigation said that Tel Aviv applies discriminatory criteria and only admits cases with legal claims. Those considered threats are people between 16 and 35 years, and some up to 40. Tel Aviv is a signatory of international agreements to give medical attention to residents in autonomous territories, but is refusing to recognize its legal obligations.
http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BD1775661-947E-4530-85DF-B03F219E7549%7D&language=EN
Palestinian refugee situation worsens on either side of Wall and in Iraq
Under UN Resolution 194, the Right of Return, Palestinian refugees and displaced persons have the right to return to their homes, and are entitled to property rights and compensation. Families still have the keys to their homes and parents still tell their children what grew on their land. The papers are in order and those are passed down as well. These are not myths. The Right of Return is an individual and collective right that no one can legally negotiate away, regardless of the political climate at any particular point.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=775&Itemid=50
IDF sets up detention center near Gaza
The Israel Defense Force set up a temporary detention center near the border with the Gaza Strip where dozens of Palestinian men arrested by troops operating in the tiny coastal strip are interrogated each day. "We can be proud of the IDF's treatment of the Palestinians," reservist soldiers operating the center said. "It is a shame that the other side disrespects human life." ( I wish that our side could be the Occupier!? )
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314541,00.html
Public sector schools may open on Thursday in Palestine
Ma'an - Minister of Education Nasser Addin Ash-Sha'er has said that new steps will be taken in regards to the education sector starting from Saturday 13th October in order to compensate the students for the days they have lost during the strike.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=40002
PM may create new strategic affairs post for Lieberman
Lieberman recently told Olmert that he is willing to make do with control of a single ministry should his party join the government. Sources close to Olmert said the chances of that happening were greater than 50 percent, although it is not yet a done deal.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774201.html
Israel Our Home leader slams Peretz's order to IDF to start evacuating illegal outposts in West Bank
Tension has been high between the two politicians, following talks between Lieberman and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over the possibility of Israel Our Home joining the government and warnings by Peretz that Labor would leave the coalition should Lieberman join in.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314460,00.html
Popularity of Israel's right-wing rising: poll
Right-wing political parties in Israel are gaining in popularity, according to a new opinion poll. If snap elections were held, the survey published in the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Friday found that the right-wing Likud party -- heavily defeated in a general election less than seven months ago -- would win 22 seats in parliament compared to the 12 it occupies today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061013/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpolitics_061013154921
Mashaal: Entire world on its feet for one soldier
"When a Gazan hero kidnaps an Israeli soldier, who came from I don't know where to kill his son, the entire world gets up on its feet. But when thousands of Palestinians are in the Israeli jail, including women and elderly people, no one bats an eyelid," Mashaal said in a special Ramadan speech he delivered in Damascus.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314389,00.html
Understanding ‘Tears of Palestine'
Against the backdrop of this general disinterest, the publication of ``Tears of Palestine (Palestainui Nunmul in Korean, Asia Publishers, 9,800 won)'' is novel. The quality of the writing in the book, which offers 11 short essays by nine Palestinian writers of diverse backgrounds, may also come as a surprise to most of us who are not familiar with modern Arab literature.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200610/kt2006101318490110980.htm
Police officers who shot Arab motorists not indicted
On 6 October 2006, the Israeli Attorney General (AG) rejected an appeal filed by Adalah against the decision of the Ministry of Justice's Police Investigations Unit ("Mahash") to close the investigation file against Border Police officers who opened fire on and killed 28-year-old Mr. Moursi Jabali, and shot and injured his companion, Mr. Shihab Jaber. The AG informed Adalah that, in spite of the circumstances in which the incident occurred, he decided not to issue indictments against the police officers involved.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5848.shtml
Pope: religion is no excuse for hatred
Religion should never be used to justify hatred and violence, Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday during a meeting with representatives of a Jewish group. "May the Eternal One, our Father in heaven, bless every effort to eliminate from our world any misuse of religion as an excuse for hatred or violence," he told a delegation of the Anti-Defamation League.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774037.html
Detached from reality
It is difficult not to be dismayed by Shimon Peres' call for a new economic order in our region and his insistence on greater investment in weaponry over diplomacy by Israel's leaders. Peres reminded us that, "At one time, I had the privilege to introduce new weapons systems ... that gave Israel the deterrent capacity it still enjoys today ... I am convinced that it is possible to do so again, and for a long time". It seems incongruous that these words were penned by a Nobel Peace laureate and founder of the Peres Center for Peace.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774030.html
Secretary of State Rice Offers To Arm Fatah
Just one week ago, on Oct. 6, The Evening Bulletin broke the story that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, during her Middle East sojourn, had met with and encouraged the Fatah, which sponsors the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, defined by Rice's own U.S. State Department in its annual report as one of the "terrorist groups in this region", listed as: "The Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades (Fatah's militant wing)." Now it can be confirmed that Rice not only met with and encouraged Fatah, which continues to operate the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, but she offered to arm the Fatah.
http://www.theeveningbulletin.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17323872&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6
Lebanon: IAF planes infiltrating Lebanese airspace will be shot
Lebanese Defense Minister Elias al-Murr said on Friday that the Lebanese army has received orders to open fire upon all Israeli aircrafts violating Lebanon's sovereignty by entering its airspace, reported the London-based Arab language publication Al Hayat.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774542.html
The BBC and Israeli Propaganda
At this potentially cataclysmic moment in global politics, it is good to see that one of the world's leading broadcasters, the BBC, decided this week that it should air a documentary entitled "Will Israel bomb Iran?". It does not explain that, without a United Nations resolution, a military strike on Iran to destroy its nuclear research programme would be a gross violation of international law. It does not clarify that Israel's own large nuclear arsenal was secretly developed and is entirely unmonitored...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook10122006.html
War-inspired ads in Lebanon
A giant billboard east of Beirut shows a dapper figure with a top hat and cane, striding across a broken bridge with the slogan: "Keep Walking." The advertisement is for Johnnie Walker scotch whiskey, and the bridge is a reference to the more than 90 bridges destroyed by Israeli air strikes last summer.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314590,00.html
U.S. finds no radiation in initial North Korean air sample
Initial tests of air samples taken by U.S. planes near North Korea found no evidence of radiation, but the United States is not ready to declare that Pyongyang did not detonate a nuclear device, a U.S. government intelligence official said on Friday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774567.html
Part One: Winning the Intelligence War - How Hezbollah Defeated Israel
Our overall conclusion contradicts the current point of view being retailed by some White House and Israeli officials: that Israel's offensive in Lebanon significantly damaged Hezbollah's ability to wage war... Just the opposite is true. From the onset of the conflict to its last operations, Hezbollah commanders successfully penetrated Israel's strategic and tactical decision-making cycle across a spectrum of intelligence, military and political operations, with the result that Hezbollah scored a decisive and complete victory in its war with Israel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/crooke10122006.html
Part Two: Winning the Ground War - How Hezbollah Defeated Israel
Senior Israeli officers continued to tell their press contacts that the timing of a ground offensive was a tightly kept secret when, in fact, they didn't know themselves. After-battle reports of Hezbollah commanders now confirm that IDF troops never fully secured the border area and Maroun al-Ras was never fully taken. Nor did Hezbollah ever feel the need to call up its reserves, as Israel had done. "The entire war was fought by one Hezbollah brigade of 3,000 troops, and no more," one military expert in the region said. "The Nasr Brigade fought the entire war. Hezbollah never felt the need to reinforce it."
http://www.counterpunch.org/crooke10132006.html
Foreign Ministry slams envoy's comments about 'yellow race'
The Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned remarks by the Israeli ambassador to Australia in which he told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774471.html |
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