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Dear Readers,
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Shadi
Israel Pushes for New WB Settlements
The Israeli Housing Ministry published advertisements in the local press inviting the bids for 88 new units in Ariel in central West Bank, 56 units in Alfei Meache in the north and 26 units in Karnei Shomron, also in the north. Peace Now said in a statement that "the (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert government again is proving that instead of dismantling outposts and freezing construction in the settlements, the government is planning to authorize tens of illegal outposts, and continues to construct throughout."
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093128148
Popular Committee Member Targetted in Bil’in
At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil'in today around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall but were stopped by soldiers on the edge of the village. As the demonstrators tried to march through the olive groves the soldiers started firing tear gas and rubber bullets, forcing the peaceful protesters back into the village. Soldiers invaded the village and arrested Mohammed Katib,
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/22/bilin-22-09/
Palestinian and International Activists Remove Roadblock
In 2002, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) created the illegal roadblock to prevent the villagers of Surif and the villagers of Al'Jab'a from commuting back and forth by car. The roadblock consists of dirt, large stones, at least five massive boulders, and more than nine 2-5 ton concrete slabs and blocks.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/21/jaba-roadblock-action/
Parents of activist Rachel Corrie speak in Ashland
Their message, although they say the don't take sides in an extremely politically charged conflict, is to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and to bring freedom, justice and a secure peace to the region. While not pretending to have the answer to Mideast peace, the Corries, in a phone interview, said Americans are well exposed to the Israeli argument. They need to hear the Palestinian story of how they've lived under occupation for 40 years, said Cindy Corrie.
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2006/0921/local/stories/corrie-new.htm
New Pro Israel Lobby will be created in Europe
The organization, “European Friends of Israel,” already has 150 members from the European Parliament. The body is backed financially by Jewish businessmen. Lobby members decided to make their activities as a pan-European lobby official and to network Israel supporters among members of the European Parliament and in national parliaments where no such lobby currently exists.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=9399
Israel, Arab League discuss potential for negotiations
Israel rejected Thursday night an Arab League proposal made in the UN Security Council meeting of foreign ministers to start peace and reconciliation negotiations with Arab countries based on returning to '67 borders and establishing a Palestinian state whose capital is in Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3307006,00.html
Detainee facing death as health condition sharply deteriorates
Abu Atsha, a father of 6 children, was taken prisoner on May 17, 2004. He suffered three strokes causing paralysis that forced him to depend on a wheelchair. Yet, he also suffers ulcer and slipped disc. The detainees wrote in their letter that the Israeli Prison Administration does not provide Abu Atsha with any medications or medical equipment, and still refuses to transfer him to Al Ramleh detention hospital.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21616/1/
Gunbattle breaks out at Rafah crossing after it opens
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. Other media reports said that the incident took place inside the Gaza portion of the border terminal, which was corroborated by other Palestinian officials inside the building.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/22/content_5125654.htm
Tarqumia “Terminal” - A Checkpoint by Any Other Name
Six hours. This is how long Palestinians have to wait before they can pass the “terminal” at Tarqumia in the West Bank, which leads either into Israel or, eventually on to the Gaza Strip. The soldiers at the checkpoint deny this. “All they need is permission from the District Coordination Office (DCO, the civil administration wing of the Israeli military in the occupied Palestinian territories) and ID-papers and they'll get through in one minute,”
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/22/tarqumia-cp/
IDF kills five in two Gaza Strip incidents
Five Palestinians, including a woman and three teenagers, were killed by the Israel Defense Forces fire yesterday in two separate incidents. The IDF says the teens were killed while picking up Qassam rocket launchers in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. ( Writen for Stupids who have no clue about size of the launchers! )
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766062.html
Thousands of Fatah supporters stage anti-Hamas march in Gaza
Thousands of Fatah supporters staged an anti-Hamas march Friday amid growing tension between the political rivals. The marchers, led by hundreds of gunmen firing in the air, chanted slogans against Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766280.html
Nablus: Soldiers injured by explosive device
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was moderately wounded and six other troops sustained light injuries after Palestinians hurled an explosive device towards them early Friday, during an arrest raid in Nablus.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3307063,00.html
Israel to impose full closure on Gaza, W. Bank during Jewish new year
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Thursday ordered the army to impose a full closure on the West Bank and Gaza during the Jewish New Year holiday, local media reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/22/content_5122250.htm
Abbas says new Palestinian government will recognise Israel
"I would like to reaffirm that any future Palestinian government will commit to all the agreements that the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority have committed to," he said in a speech to the assembly.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060922/ts_afp/unassemblymideast_060922094850
Haniyeh: I won't head a government that recognizes Israel
He said that Hamas was ready to establish a state that included all territory occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War - the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem - and would agree in return to a long-term cease-fire with Israel, but would not recognize it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766032.html
Israel ready to release prisoners for soldier: PM
"I told (Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak I am ready to release (prisoners) to Abu Mazen (Abbas). I am not ready to release prisoners to Hamas," the prime minister told the Yediot Aharonot newspaper in an interview Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060922/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflict_060922111901
Palestinians protest over pope's remarks at Al-Aqsa Mosque
The demonstration at Islam's third-holiest shrine concluded peacefully. Some of the 300 demonstrators hoisted banners that read, "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766311.html
Israel troubled that war in Lebanon drove its enemies closer
But even though a calm continues to hold, Israelis say the war that started July 12 with the capture of two of its soldiers has created a much more dangerous enemy as the conflict has deepened ties between Lebanese guerrillas and Palestinian militants each with ties to Syria and Iran.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060922/ts_csm/oties_1
Political horizon needed
The deployment of a beefed-up UN force in Lebanon to bolster the cease-fire led Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Massimo d'Alema to suggest in late August that a similar deployment be made in the Gaza Strip. Days later, Karen AbuZayd, the commissioner general for the UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, said "it would be great to have an international presence, civilian, military, whatever" in Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766051.html
Chirac, Olmert discuss on phone proposal for Mideast conference
On Thursday, Arab leaders and the United Nations secretary-general urged the UN Security Council to get involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the war in Lebanon showed the danger of leaving the core Middle East dispute unresolved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766288.html
Secret contacts between Israel, Saudi Arabia
"Secret negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia," headlined Yediot Aharonot, reporting that contacts had begun during the recent 34-day war in Lebanon between Israel and Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060922/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelsaudi_060922100856
Arab MK: Pope contributing to culture war
Dozens of demonstrators, members of the Islamic movement, gathered Friday afternoon opposite the Vatican embassy in Old Jaffa, in order to protest remarks by Pope Benedict XVI on Islam last week. Demonstrators called out "Allahhuakhbar" and waved green flags, as well as carrying signs which read: "Freedom of expression is not freedom to slander," "don't curse our prophet," "no to crusades and no to bringing back crusade wars," and "no to racism."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3307118,00.html
It can only get worse
A viable Palestinian economy is a prerequisite for any meaningful two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, but that economy is barely functioning. Israel has withheld transfer of Palestinian import taxes, and most donors discontinued funding after the democratically elected Palestinian Legislative Council, dominated by Hamas, constituted a new government in March. With 160,000 civil servants on strike after six months without pay, there has been a breakdown of central government functions. Meanwhile, the Israel-Palestine economic and trade accords signed in 1993 appear to be increasingly irrelevant, if not moribund.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,1878487,00.html
Between Bishara and Salah
Many in Israel's Jewish community share his opinion and believe that the Arab MKs and a few Arab public figures and intellectuals accurately reflect the mood of the Arab public, or at least of the majority. Even if they do not explicitly declare that all the refugees must be returned to "Haifa, Jaffa, Acre" and the 400 Arab villages in Israel that were abandoned and destroyed in 1948
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766080.html
Neglect Palestine, be irresponsible
The Israeli establishment has apparently failed to notice the total bankruptcy of a strategy based on force and unilateralism, and is busy debating technical issues. A consensus now rejects "over-reliance" on air power in the vain hope that better intelligence and more commando forces will produce a better outcome "next time."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=75628
Washington is signaling Tehran
Suddenly, despite the harsh threats voiced by the White House against Iran for trying to produce nuclear weapons, the world learned that Iran's former president, Mohammad Khatami, received a tourist visa to visit the United States. He was not invited to official meetings, but President George Bush himself approved the visa request. Afterward, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, received a visa for the United Nations General Assembly, and also an invitation to appear in New York before the Council on Foreign Relations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=766297
Musharraf: US threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the September 11 attacks, the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3307034,00.html
Chavez extends anti-Bush tirade on visit to Harlem
"Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups," declared the left-wing Venezuelan leader. "He walks like John Wayne." Bush "doesn't know anything about politics, he got there because of Daddy," said Chavez, referring to Bush's father, George Bush, US president from 1989 to 1993.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3307043,00.html
Iraqi captive died with 93 injuries, QC says
Captive Iraqis were beaten with iron bars, kicked, starved, and forced to drink their own urine during abuse which led to the death of a prisoner, the first court martial of British troops accused of war crimes was told yesterday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=590&ObjectID=10402221
No One Dares to Help
Four weeks ago, I came home from work. As I reached my street, I saw a man lying in a pool of blood. Someone had covered him with bits of cardboard. This was the best they could do. No one dared move him. I drove on.
http://www.uruknet.org.uk/?s1=1&p=26841&s2=22 |
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