Nine injured in the weekly non violent protest at Bil`in At the weekly non violent protest at the village of Bil`in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, nine civilians were injured due to Israeli army attacks on the protest.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/30/anti-wall-protests-army-violence-in-bilin-relative-restraint-in-walaja/

Hamas sources: "Several prisoners at a P.A prisons hospitalized due to extreme torture"

Sources close to Hamas movement reported on Sunday that a Hamas supporter imprisoned in Al Jneid Palestinian prison, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, was hospitalized on Sunday afternoon after being extremely tortured by the interrogators. Several other prisoners were recently hospitalized due to torture in Palestinian prisons.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50692

Ministry of detainees: "60 thousand Palestinians were klidnapped in the past seven years"

The Palestinian Ministry of detainees and ex-detainees, released on Saturday a statistical report revealing a noticeable increase on the abduction policy carried out by the Israeli army against the Palestinians since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada seven years ago.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50697

Israel freeing 87 jailed Palestinians to aid Abbas

Israel releases 87 jailed Palestinians on Monday in a bid to shore up President Mahmoud Abbas against rival Hamas Islamists and ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30649441.htm

Israel frees Palestinian prisoners to West Bank 

Beituniya, West Bank- Some 57 Palestinian prisoners, released by Israel as part of a goodwill gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, crossed into Palestinian-controlled territory Monday amid loud cheering and honking of car horns.  Two blue-and-white buses passed through the Beitunya checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, as the freed prisoners - most of them members of Abbas' Fatah party - leaned out the windows, showing V-victory signs and supporters clambered on the roofs of the buses, waving Palestinian flags.

http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Israel_frees_Palestinian_prisoners__10012007.html

Nablus faces a new wave of internal unrest

Regardless of the reasons behind the incidents of civil unrest that took place recently in the northern West Bank of Nablus since the Palestinian security forces has started a new law and orders campaign, there are countless obstacles that that stands in the way of ending the state of lawlessness in the city. One meager obstacle that the city faces is the daily invasions and attacks done by the Israeli army.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50690

Fatah uses false video as evidence

As part of a campaign to discredit Hamas, Fatah has been using a video showing the killing of a girl in Iraq as "evidence" of Hamas's "atrocities" in the Gaza Strip.  On Friday, officials from the Fatah-controlled General Intelligence contacted The Jerusalem Post, offering the "exclusive" video and story for publication in Sunday's Post. They claimed that it provided fresh evidence of Hamas's "barbarity."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411518043&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel dismisses Hamas ceasefire

Gaza's Hamas government "is ready to offer a truce at this time," Mohammed Awad, a senior Hamas official, told a Gaza website affiliated with the Islamic group. Awad's office confirmed he had made the statement, which echoed similar calls by Hamas in recent months.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/israel+dismisses+hamas+ceasefire/862662

Palestinian refugees in Iraq caught in the crossfire

Palestinian refugees living in Iraq are the hidden victims of the Iraq conflict -- suffering threats, torture, killings and appalling living conditions in refugee camps such al-Waleed near the Syrian border, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The report Iraq: human rights abuses against Palestinian refugees looks at the human rights abuses committed against Palestinians living in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 and highlights the lack of action by the Iraqi government and the Multi-National Force to protect them.   "Palestinians are currently one of the most vulnerable groups in Iraq. They are being hunted down, abducted, tortured and, in some cases, killed without any effective steps being taken to protect them," said Malcolm Smart, Middle East and North Africa Program Director at Amnesty International. "They also face great obstacles in seeking refuge as the authorities in both Syria and Jordan, the main countries hosting Iraqi refugees, remain extremely reluctant to allow Palestinian refugees to enter their territory, and there is now a pressing need for other countries to resettle those most at risk."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/newsanalysis/Palestinian_refugees_in_Iraq_caught_in_the_crossfire-3202.shtml

Poll: Most Israelis support using nukes

Approximately 72 percent of Israelis support the use of nuclear weapons in certain circumstances, according to a Canadian survey released recently. The survey - conducted jointly at the end of July by the Simons Foundation and Angus Reid Strategies - was answered by adults in six countries and showed that 37% of Israelis believed the use of nuclear weapons to prevent a war would be justified, while 35% believed the weapons could be justifiably used during a war.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411522274&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

DOZENS OF PALESTINIANS SIFT THROUGH RUBBISH TIPS TO SURVIVE

PSAGOT, WEST BANK, 30 September (IRIN) - For some West Bank Palestinians rubbish has become not only a livelihood but the only method of survival they know. Many dozens of Palestinians across the territory, including children, work at landfill sites, trying to earn a meager living. "This is very hard work here. My hands are all cut up, it smells. But what can I do? There's no work in Ramallah," said Muhammad, from al-Bireh, a nearby town. Aged 43, he has worked for the last 30 years -- apart from a stint in jail -- in the Psagot landfill site, sifting through the rubbish in search of scrap metal.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9018.shtml

 

Islamic bank caught between Israel and Hamas

Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip has thrust the largest Islamic bank in the territory to the centre of the financial war between Israel and the ruling group.   The Palestine Islamic Bank recently received warnings from Israel over its dealings with Hamas, raising the prospect of a crackdown, Israeli and Palestinian officials told Reuters this week.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30214571.htm

Hamas: reasons behind setting up Hamas EF are over

A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Monday that the reasons behind setting up the controversial Executive Force (EF) in Gaza are over, and the force doesn't exist anymore.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/01/content_6821184.htm

Labor MK says airport security 'humiliated' her children

Israeli Arabs are subjected to humiliating treatment at Ben-Gurion International Airport just because of their ethnicity, MK Nadia Hilou said Sunday. Hilou added that she intended to write a letter of complaint on the matter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908664&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Israeli Arabs demonstrate in Umm al-Fahm to mark October 2000 riots

At the junction near the entrance to Umm al-Fahm, several dozen political activists demonstrated on Saturday with family members of those killed during the October 2000 clashes. They carried huge Palestinian flags and posters with the photographs of the 13 dead, the fourth such demonstration in the past two weeks.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908462&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

PA to seek int'l body to oversee deals with Israel

The Palestinian Authority will publicly call for the involvement of an international body to oversee the implementation of agreements with Israel on economic and political reforms in the PA, according to a senior Palestinian source. The PA is expected to ask for such involvement during the peace summit scheduled in the United States in November.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908634&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Palestinian refugees capture Islamic militants in northern Lebanon

Beirut- Palestinian refugees living in the Beddawi Camp in northern Lebanon managed Monday to capture two Islamic militants and turn them over to the Lebanese authorities, a Lebanese security source said.  One of the militants is Nasser Ismail, a senior commander of Fatah al-Islam, who was engaged in three months of fighting with the Lebanese military in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon.

http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Palestinian_refugees_capture_Islami_10012007.html

IDF program quietly carries out nearly half Israel's conversions

The Israel Defense Forces, with the help of the Jewish Agency and Absorption Ministry, has been carrying out a quiet revolution in conversion over the last few years. Sunday a reception held in the prime minister's sukkah honored the 2,000th convert participating in the Nativ program.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908677&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Lecturers' plans to boycott Israeli universities 'illegal'

Controversial plans for a boycott of Israeli universities by UK lecturers were dealt a potentially crippling blow yesterday.

http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3010207.ece

Israel urges Myanmar gov't to refrain from harming protesters

Israel is concerned by the situation in Myanmar, and urges the government to demonstrate restraint and refrain from harming demonstrators, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday in its first official statement on the unfolding crisis in the South East Asian country.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908066&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Israel sold weapons to Myanmar Junta, then lies about the sales

Now hold on to your seats as this may come as a shock, but Israel has been lying thru its teeth about weapon sales to the Burma/Myanmar junta that is violently opposing a peaceful uprising, by shooting Buddhist monks.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/1983merman/2007/sep/30/israel_sold_weapons_to_myanmar_junta_then_lies_about_the_sales

Statement calling for Palestinian national unity to counter Israel

The head of the dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister's Diwan, Dr. Mohammad Almadhoon, on Sunday urged all Palestinian factions to form a national unity cabinet or advisory council for the sake of facing up to challenges coming from occupation forces.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1845051&Language=en

Amira Hass: Disrupting the separation policy

Since the 1990s, Israel has endeavored to separate the two peoples. It has restricted opportunities to meet and get to know one another outside the master-serf framework, VIP meetings or luxurious overseas peace showcases from which the term "occupation" is completely absent.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906923.html

On the way to a pariah state

Given that every Israeli politician is supposed to care for Israel's long-term survival, it is stunning to see that an important event in the U.S. with enormous implications for Israel has gone all but unnoticed here.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906924.html

Gideon Levy : No one is guilty in Israel

Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest can't claim he didn't mean to set it on fire, and anyone who bombards residential neighborhoods with artillery can't claim he didn't mean to kill innocent inhabitants.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/786549.html

Life behind the wire

Imagine if, after an IRA bombing, a British prime minister declared Catholic areas in Northern Ireland to be hostile territory, and threatened to reduce or cut off goods, water, fuel and electricity supplies.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/chris_doyle/2007/09/life_behind_the_wire.html

Who really rules Israel?

Jewish state controlled by four informal networks, not by government.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3452359,00.html

A CRACK IN THE WALL

"Getting inside the official Israeli mind is a worthwhile, if lurid, experience," the late Edward Said wrote in his article "Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony." This is what it feels like when one is trying to understand the Middle East peace process that never seems to lead to anything. Observing this never ending saga, one can hardly help reaching the realization that peace is not a priority for Israel, and indeed Israeli governments have made no secret of the fact that a peace that precludes Israel's complete control over historic Palestine is of no interest to them. Miko Peled comments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9017.shtml

Palestinians liven up checkpoints with a good book

  A new charity is easing Palestinians' frustration with their regular long waits at Israeli army checkpoints by stocking taxis with books for them to read.   The checkpoints, which Israel says are needed to stop suicide bombers, dot the occupied West Bank, hampering travel between Palestinian towns and villages. "People spend many hours at checkpoints," said Nafiz Asilah, head of the Palestinian Library on Wheels for Non-Violence and Peace, an independent organisation funded by European NGOs.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TAM750783.htm

INTERVIEW: ARAB HIP-HOP FORCES UNITE FOR JUSTICE

The Arab Summit is a musical project on the cultural front lines, uniting the most innovative hip-hop artists within the growing Arab rap movement of North America. The Arab Summit delivers inspirational beats that drive a musical project highlighting a progressive Arab voice in North America, advocating for the self-determination of people in the Middle East through hip-hop. EI contributor Stefan Christoff interviews the minds behind Arab Summit.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9016.shtml