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A committed intellectual
Edward Said came to embody the Palestinian cause via the broader and more abstract gateway of his intellect, through his espousal of noble and universal humanitarian values and his finely honed sense of truth and justice. It was, in a sense, with his mind before his heart that he perceived the horror his people are living through, and grasped the extent of the crime perpetrated against them. He was simultaneously acute to the complicit hypocritical silence kept by various intellectuals, political bodies and international agencies
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/820/op11.htm
Anti-wall demonstration in Bil’in suffers from Israeli violence
The demonstration against Israel's apartheid wall in Bil'in today was resolute, if small. Protesting against the construction of the barrier that is effectively annexing land to Israel for the use of Jewish-only settlements (illegal under international law), the villagers were once again joined by Israeli and international supporters — about 100 demonstrators in total. Six Palestinians were injured by rubber-bullets, tear gas canisters and shrapnel from the concussion grenades.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/17/bilin-17-11/
Israeli hospital refuses continued treatment for Palestinian shot by special forces
An Israeli hospital is refusing to continue the medical treatement of a Palestinian resident shot by Israeli special forces, Waleed Athba, 23, was near his home in the northwestern West Bank's Qalqilia city center when he was shot near the heart. Due to the severity of the injury, he was taken to an Israeli settlement hospital under guard.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22703/1/
Abbas, Shabir to hold first meet; source: Gov't to quit within days
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is expected Friday to hold his first meeting with Mohammed Shabir, who is expected to take over as Palestinian prime minister once a new PA unity government is formed. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will also attend the meeting.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789096.html
Beit Hanun families planning to sue Israel for monetary damages
The three Palestinian families who lost 19 relatives in last week's shelling by the Israel Defense Forces of Beit Hanun plan to sue Israel for monetary damages. Representatives of the Athamneh, Kassem and Aduan families have already hired attorney Ehud Segev to represent them in their suit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789184.html
Twenty-five Palestinians injured in Qalqilia, three taken prisoner
Palestinian sources in Qalqilia town, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that twenty-five Palestinians were injured on Friday evening during clashes that erupted after the army surrounded a house of a Hamas activist, south of the town. Six residents, including three brothers were taken prisoner by the army.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22708/1/
EU, UN soften language of resolution on Beit Hanun deaths
European Union diplomats at the United Nations were busy yesterday with efforts to soften the language of a draft resolution on the deaths of at least 19 Palestinian civilians in an accidental IDF shelling of Beit Hanun last Wednesday. The resolution will be brought to a vote on Friday at an emergency session of the General Assembly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789145.html
Spanish FM: Nothing in peace plan 'Israel can reject'
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos sought Friday to reassure Israel over a new Mideast peace initiative proposed the day before by Spain, France and Italy, saying that there was nothing in the plan "that Israel can reject."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789009.html
Israel rejects European draft for Middle East peace initiative
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that Israel rejected out of hand a new peace initiative sponsored by Spain, Italy and France, which calls for increased international intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Livni told her Spanish counterpart, Miguel Angel Moratinos, that it was unacceptable for an initiative concerning Israel to be launched without cooridnation with (OCCUPIED) Jerusalem.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789009.html
State to pay millions to families of October 2000 riot victims
Yesterday, Jabarin said the families had emphasized at all times the civil damages suit was filed in addition to the criminal proceedings. "In the criminal case, we will forge ahead until those responsible serve their sentences."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789150.html
A project of dispossession can never be a noble cause
Before Donald Rumsfeld departed from the Pentagon, the "Transformation Group" he headed worked with an Israeli army team to develop ideas for controlling the Palestinians after Israel withdraws from the occupied territories. Eyal Weizman, an Israeli academic who has written about this cooperation, tells us that they decided to do this through an invisible occupation: Israel would "seal the hard envelopes" around Palestinian towns and generate "effects" directed against the "human elements of resistance".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1950244,00.html
Wanted: A moderate pro-Israel lobby
AIPAC claims that it champions the policies of the elected Israeli government, whatever they may be. But it does not faithfully live up to this promise: Over the past 20 years, it has supported right-wing governments in Israel wholeheartedly, while being halfhearted, or worse, about the policies of left-wing administrations. I am a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789167.html
Israel's UN envoy walks out of session on Beit Hanun shelling
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman walked out of a UN General Assembly emergency session on Gaza Strip shelling in protest Friday, saying his words were falling on deaf ears and that he was better off holding a nearby press conference.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789457.html
China feels deeply concerned about Israel-Palestine situation
Jiang Yu, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, made the remarks Thursday in Beijing at a regular press conference. "China calls upon Israel to stop its military action immediately, and hopes the two sides respond to the mediating efforts and prevent deterioration of the situation," she said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/17/eng20061117_322316.html
Blair: New initiatives could come soon to resolve Mideast conflict
Blair, who plans to travel to the Middle East in coming weeks, said leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are among the nations eager for progress in resolving the conflict, the Washington Post reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789442.html
'Creating a balance of fear'
On Tuesday morning, Martyrs' Square in the center of town here was practically deserted. A small group of children sat at the foot of the minaret of the Nasser Mosque, the only remnant of the 250-year-old structure, whose walls were razed by Israel Defense Forces bulldozers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789124.html
U.S. envoy in Jordan to revive peace talks
Welch's talks with Foreign Minister Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib in Amman came a day after he participated in a Cairo gathering of envoys from the "Quartet" of patrons of the peace process - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789151.html
PM nixes broad IDF operation in Gaza Strip
"There are many thoughts on how to deal with the Qassam rocket attacks, and we should remember that this is not a war with a 'quick fix' solution," Olmert told reporters on the plane to Israel. ( IT'S AN OCCUPATION! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789154.html
In Memory of Edward Said, a Discussion on Orientalism
Though almost 30 years old, Orientalism, the late Edward Said’s famous thesis, has found renewed relevance in today’s climate. As such, it has also found recent appeal with Turkish audiences. For a closer look, Istanbul will host an international symposium Dec. 9-10 in memory of Edward Said (1935-2003), a Palestinian-born intellectual.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=culture&trh=20061116&alt=&syf=butun
Realities of death - By Azmi Bishara
The premise might be correct but just think of the implications of such reasoning were it not. If the occupation did not rebound negatively on the society and government of the occupying power, then the only way for an occupied people to damage the occupier is to exact an ever greater price for the premeditated crime of occupation so as to open eyes, not only to the practical dangers of occupation, but to its moral dangers as well.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/820/op2.htm
A simple solution: Rights or sovereignty for Palestinians
While peace has remained elusive, the solution is quite simple. Two people live in the same land. About five million Jewish Israelis enjoy the full range of rights accorded to citizens of any democracy. And roughly five million Christian and Muslim Palestinians live either as second-class citizens in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories, where they enjoy virtually no rights. Every aspect of their lives is controlled by a foreign army, and their land and resources are systematically taken for the use of Jewish settlers.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16032487.htm
Washington gets real
Experts, diplomats and historians who only a few years ago believed in the power of the United States to transform the Middle East into a paradise of peace and prosperity are now bewailing "the end of American dominance" in the region. As they see it, the double failure of the U.S. army in Iraq and the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon embodies the depth of the fall, and the rise of the counter-bloc of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789115.html
The summit of the bunglers
Bush has let his secretary of defense go; Ehud Olmert is still in partnership with his. Both were dragged into a military campaign without thinking about the consequences or the price tag. Both are doing poorly in the opinion polls. Some 72 percent of Israelis are in favor of ousting the defense minister and the chief of staff, and Olmert's popularity has taken a similar dive.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789165.html
There is something that can be done
How far can our curiosity be strained with Ehud Olmert's declarations that he is going to surprise the world with concessions, if Abu Mazen will just agree to talk with him? There is nothing to disturb Olmert from speaking with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and from revealing to him at last what he intends to do. Olmert is the one who is stopping Olmert from doing this.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789163.html
Strife feeds the blues at West Bank zoo
The number of visitors dropped off, employees had to work under curfew, three zebras perished after tear gas was fired near their enclosure. And in 2002, during an Israeli incursion into the city, soldiers fired at demonstrating students from a nearby high school, and Brownie, terrified and galloping around his enclosure, ran straight into a metal pole. He fell over and died, leaving Ruti alone.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061117.ZOO17/TPStory/TPInternational/Africa/
Founder of Holocaust museum in Nazareth invited to Tehran
The founder of a private Holocaust museum in Nazareth has been invited to address a Holocaust study conference to take place next month in Iran. Nazareth resident Khaled Ksab Mahamid is waiting for permission from the Foreign Ministry and final authorization from Tehran to attend the conference.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789142.html
French troops in Lebanon take 'preparatory steps' over IAF jets
No hostile action from either side was reported in the incident, which was the second time in three weeks that French forces have come close to firing on Israeli aircraft over flying Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789446.html
Too late to talk Palestine
The prospective removal of Saddam Hussein gave President Bush great potential leverage on Israel in late 2002. Middle East experts and others publicly predicted the importance of prior movement on Palestine/Israel, if support for action against Iraq was to be consolidated. No doubt Foreign Office officials privately said the same. But instead of making this a British (or European) condition, No 10 went along with the neocon fantasy.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2456794,00.html
Sunni urged to quit Iraqi government
The influential Association of Muslim Scholars on Friday called on Sunni politicians to quit Iraq's government and parliament, a day after the Shiite interior minister issued an arrest warrant for the association's leader.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_sunnis
Five seized after convoy hijack
British and US forces have mounted raids across southern Iraq after four Americans and an Austrian were abducted when trucks in a civilian convoy they were guarding were hijacked. And Iraqi police said they shot dead an American in civilian clothes and wounded another after the men killed two police officers who had stopped their unmarked vehicle.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=32138&sid=10946907&con_type=1
Iraq rape soldier jailed for life
A US soldier has been jailed for 90 years after pleading guilty to his part in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family in Iraq. James Barker, one of four American soldiers accused in the March 12 rape and murder of Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, pleaded guilty at a court martial in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49284D4D-3E32-4E9E-8AC1-678A0C6C8A93.htm |
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