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Palestinian villagers to hold non-violent protest against Israeli ghettoization and annexation
It is feared that ten houses and large tracts of agricultural land will be cut off from the rest of the village and effectively annexed to Israel. Azun Atme, in the Qalqilya region and near the village of Mas’ha, is already surrounded on both sides by illegal Israeli settlements. The village is about 2 km outside of Israel and within the internationally recognized Green Line, or 1949 ceasefire line.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/15/azun-atme/
Israeli firm gets Mexico border wall contract
How ironic. We noted in August that ex-Israeli security chief Uza Dayan was warning the US against emulating Israeli strategies in securing the Mexican border. Now it appears that Elbit Systems, an Israeli firm which is building the "Aparthied Wall" in occupied Palestine, has been awarded a contract, along with Boeing, to build the wall on the Mexican border.
http://ww4report.com/node/2743
Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted - By Robert Fisk
Journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much that has happened in the Middle East because they have, with their gullibility, sold a fictitious version of events. Their constant references to a "fence" instead of a wall, to "settlements" or "neighborhoods" instead of colonies, their description of the West Bank as "disputed" rather than occupied, has bred a kind of slackness in reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=11412
Red Cross says strike worsening West Bank health situation
"Only two days ago, a child suffering from acute fever was turned away by the local hospital," ICRC health coordinator Eileen Daly said. "The doctors and nurses, unpaid for months, were on strike. The mother spent all morning traveling to various clinics, only to find out she could not afford their fees. Her little girl died."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/15/europe/EU_GEN_Red_Cross_Palestinians.php
Making a decent living: small business transforming lives in the West Bank
Trying to make ends meet in the West Bank is a daily battle, with spiralling costs, diminishing incomes, road blockades cutting off access to fields and markets and a worsening water shortage. Despite immense challenges, our SAFES project, is helping nearly 800 families increase their income and food supplies by providing sheep, goats and fodder as well as crucial training in how to make their flocks and gardens more profitable.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YAOI-6VK4KE?OpenDocument
Palestine-Israel Peace Road Map Not Workable, Says Malaysia
Syed Hamid said Malaysia felt that there must be a new approach to the peace efforts because "the road map is being ignored and blatantly sidelined." He stressed that it was important to recognise the Palestinian issue as an international issue and not only as an Arab issue. "It is the issue of injustice committed against a nation and the international community must be able to handle it," he said.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=230194
Israeli forces raid southern West Bank and arrest two mothers
Both were blindfolded, bound, and taken to unknown locations. The Dura woman is the mother of five children and the Al Fawwar mother has eight sons. They are added to the 10,500 political prisoners in Israeli jails, the latest figure released by Palestinian Legislative Council deputy and former Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Issa Qaraqa'.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1008&Itemid=49
International actions against Gaza massacres and Apartheid Wall
In Montreal on Saturday, protestors marched through the streets carrying a symbolic coffin with the writing ‘United Nations' to represent the international community's failure to condemn the Gaza atrocities. A vigil was held after the march. In New York on Saturday a day of action against the Apartheid Wall was held by the Ad-Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East and DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving)...
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/15/gaza-wall-actions/
“The truth here is plain for anyone with eyes to see it”
One woman and her daughter were startled by a concussion grenade thrown outside their window and, unable to go back to sleep, moved into the living-room. Ten minutes later, 12 soldiers crawled through a large hole in the wall, knocking a heavy wardrobe onto the bed where the two women had been sleeping only moments before. Sledgehammer in hand, the first soldier to enter the home ordered the women to get into the kitchen and locked the door.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/15/alein-invasion/
The Guardian: “Getting to know the neighbours”
The 16-year-old was lying in bed when a bullet pierced her window and hit her thigh at around 3.30am. She screamed and the soldiers threw a percussion grenade at the window. It detonated, shattering glass over her sister, Sabrine, 18, who had gone to her aid. The pair are two of the 10 injured during a raid on al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus that began at 2am on Tuesday and ended at 10.30am.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/15/guardian-alein/
Qassam seriously hurts teen in Sderot, hours after deadly strike
"We know it is impossible to eradicate the Qassam rocket fire to zero," Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal told Israel Radio after the barrage. "The solution is that by means of the army, it is possible to force the Palestinians to think differently and that, basically, is the name of the game," he said. "The fact that it is impossible to eradicate them to the last Qassam rocket is clear. An equation has to be created in which it is not worth it for the Palestinians to fire," he continued.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788352.html
Preparing for the next invasion
The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a well in the hospital's yard. By Saturday, laborers and bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is readying itself for the next invasion by the Israeli army.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788016.html
Palestine Independence Day - By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
Moreover, as another express condition for its admission to the United Nations Organization, the government of Israel officially endorsed and agreed to carry out UN General Assembly Resolution 194(III) of 1948, which determined that Palestinian refugees have a right to return to their homes, or that compensation should be paid to those who choose not to return. Furthermore, that same article 13(2) of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human rights which Soviet Jews relied upon to justify their emigration from the former Soviet Union provides that: "Everyone has the right...to return to his country."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BOY20061114&articleId=3864
Historic Black Churches Delegation to Holy Land Finds Pain and Hope
A delegation of leaders from historic African American churches just returning from Jerusalem and the Holy Land says conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank painfully echo the injustices suffered by people of color during South Africa's apartheid era and during the pre-civil rights era in America.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/284081/116359727395.htm
Qatar's emir criticizes Western attitudes to Hamas
"The Palestinian government, formed by Hamas in accordance with the free will of the Palestinian people, should have the opportunity to work for the people who elected it," he told the European Parliament. But "instead of rewarding the Palestinian people for practising democracy, something rarely witnessed in our region, they have been punished for it," with an international embargo, he said. "Is this not a double standard: to demand free elections, and then object to the results?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061115/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpoliticsqatar_061115180350
EU lawmakers criticize IDF maneuvers in Gaza
"Israel is a democratic country which needs to ask questions. We should ask them how they can describe something like Beit Hanoun as an accident. In democracy people who are responsible need to be held up to their responsibilities," said Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378406427&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UN Rights Council to send fact-finding mission to Gaza
Members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference were joined by China, Russia and Cuba in criticizing Israel for alleged rights abuses, deploring the IDF artillery barrage in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun that killed 19 civilians last week.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788503.html
PA soccer team: No-show at qualifier due to Gaza travel ban
The head of the Palestinian Football Association said his national team's no-show at an Asian Cup qualifier against hosts Singapore on Wednesday was due to Israel's refusal to allow players to travel from Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788528.html
Hamas: Unity government will not be based on our ideology
But hinting at a possible indirect recognition by the planned unity government of Israel's right to exist, he added: "Certainly the position of Hamas is different from that of the new national unity government, which would not be based upon (either) Hamas or Fatah ideologies, but on the prisoners' document."
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=151170
Kidnappers blame Israel for impasse in Shalit hostage talks
Abu Obaydeh, a spokesman for Hamas' military wing, told Haaretz that Israel had withdrawn its consent to certain elements of an emerging agreement that it had previously accepted, and that is why the talks were halted. Among other things, he said, Israel is refusing to allow the Palestinian organizations to decide which prisoners from their ranks Israel should release as part of the exchange; instead, it insists it decide which prisoners (DETAINEES) to free.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788008.html
Arab MKs slurred in Sderot
Barakeh told Ynet: "It was necessary for us to be in Sderot, as we need to make an unequivocal statement against harming citizens. We wanted to say enough to calls for revenge and plans for escalation. We are here to share the city's bereavement and that of the bereaved family. But, at the end of the funeral some teenagers shouted slurs at members of the Hadash faction. Residents were restrained."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3328709,00.html
Hamas deputy tries to enter Gaza Strip with 2 millio euros
A Palestinian official in Egypt confirmed Masri had been delayed while trying to take cash across the border, which is jointly operated by Egypt and the Palestinians, and overseen by European monitors. He said the money was aid for the Palestinian people.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788004.html
Israel and Palestine are key to peace, says Blair
The Prime Minister - speaking by video link to the ISG, headed by former US Secretary of State James Baker - argued that without progress on a secure two-state solution, moderate Muslim countries would not support efforts to rebuild Iraq. Mr Blair said greater priority must be given to resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/74500.html
Speaker: We need to‘push people’ for peace
Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem have separate schools and for the most part speak different languages. The Palestinian Authority has designated East Jerusalem as the future capital of the Palestinian state. Many Jewish people are afraid to go to a mosque because they feel Muslims are terrorists. For the Muslim, it is the same, he said. Christians are caught in a delicate position. Their numbers have dwindled dramatically to about 2 percent of the entire population, he said.
http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/11/15/news/local/doc455ab9ee5060b058099359.txt
Military sales to Israel challenged
The government is being taken to court today over the sale of military equipment to Israel including parts for Apache helicopter gunships, laser range finders, and communications equipment. Saleh Hasan, a Palestinian who lives in Bethlehem, argues that the sales are in breach of the government's guidelines covering arms exports and are unlawful. The guidelines say exports should be blocked when there is a "clear risk" they "might be used for internal repression".
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1947982,00.html
Independence Day in Palestine: a lifeless holiday
Palestinians living under Israeli occupation aspire to liberation and freedom, but eighteen years after the Palestinian leadership, from exile, announced the Palestinian independence day, the Palestinian people are still under Israeli military occupation, facing daily attacks by the army, and even further from independence than they were in 1988 when the holiday was declared. The following is a segment of the declaration of independence, written November 14, 1988...
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22660/1/
Dear student, what does Dad think of the army?
Although these numbers include Arab and ultra-Orthodox youth, even according to IDF statistics only 65 percent of those who are supposed to be drafted each year are in fact drafted, or complete three full years of service in the IDF. Of them, according to data recently published by the IDF Personnel Directorate, in 2005, 4.7 percent of the draftees were released for psychiatric reasons. In 2006 this percentage rose to 5.6 percent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788033.html
State: No way to reinforce all Sderot classrooms
The state claims that the NIS 210 million budget promised for the reinforcement of the Gaza envelope communities was already disbursed to the Home Front Command, and was used to secure communities near the Gaza border against terrorist infiltration.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788006.html
Majority isn't always right
Fifteen months after the uprooting of Gush Katif, the northern Gaza Strip settlements, and settlements in northern Samaria, it seems that most people prefer not to talk about, and not even to think about, this traumatic event, at the time euphemistically misnamed disengagement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788015.html
Iran vows to resist West, pursue atomic plans 'until the end'
"Time is on the Iranian nation's side. With each passing day, (the West) must retreat one step and acknowledge the rights of the Iranian nation and with each passing day the Iranian nation goes ahead towards the summits of victory," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788525.html
US commander says Iraq force must not be reduced
The US military commander for the Middle East said that American troops levels in Iraq should not be reduced as he faced a barrage of intense and often hostile questioning in Congress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061115/wl_afp/usiraqmilitary_061115194021 |
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