Peace Now asks High Court to order immediate eviction of Hebron squatters
Peace Now petitioned the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, demanding the immediate evacuation of Hebron settlers who illegally seized four Palestinian shops in the city's Al Hisbeh market. The state issued eviction orders against the squatters in June, following a police complaint filed by Peace Now. The West Bank government property commissioner even ruled that "the shops are government property, in which the Palestinian renters have undeniable right of residency."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/903293.html

BADIL Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2006 – 2007

12 September 2007, Bethlehem, occupied Palestine – Twenty-five years since the massacre of Palestinian refugees committed by Lebanese Phalange militias with the complicity of Israel's army controlling the area in the camps of Sabra and Shatila, Palestinian refugees remain without protection and the search for rights-based solutions to their plight.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MKOC-76YF8H?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR

Need for Activists in Susiya

Last October, the IOF and settlers from the illegal Susiya settlement demolished 150 Dunums (1 Dunum=1/4 acre) of olive groves belonging to the Palestinians of Susiya. The timing was chosen with care: the trees were destroyed just before Susiya Palestinians could harvest their olives, following their Ramadan fasting. An economically starved area, the poverty-stricken Susiya residents depend on olives for income and consumption.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/12/need-for-activists-in-susiya/

Israeli authorities demolish tin houses, tin-houses and hothouses near Jerusalem

Bulldozers belonging to the so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office demolished on Tuesday afternoon a numbers of tin houses, agricultural hothouses and a wall in Anata Palestinian town, south of Jerusalem.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50376

Israel resists Palestinians on peace talks timetable

Israel is resisting pressure from the Palestinians to set a strict timetable for implementing any statehood principles agreed at a U.S.-sponsored conference, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N91837444.htm

The Fall Meeting & the Trend to Focus on Aid Rather than Rights

The timing and substance of the international meeting called by US President George Bush in his 16 July 2007 speech on the Middle East may end up focusing on aid at the expense of a political solution. This moves further away from the 1991 Madrid international conference and the bilateral Oslo 1993-2000 negotiations and reinforces the trend that was so visible at the 2005 London meeting. This approach has not worked before and is unlikely to work today.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=13750

Preventive Security Force breaks into a charitable society in Nablus

Local sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Tuesday that Preventive Security Forces, loyal to Fateh movement, broke into the Solidarity (Tadamon) Charitable Society, in the city, detained the employees, confiscated computers and arrested one employee.

Executive Force of Hamas denies involvement with the death of a Gaza resident: Islam Shahwan, spokesperson of the Executive Force of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, denied any involvement of the force with the death of resident Tal'at Mohammad Al Nahhal, 35, who was found dead on Tuesday.

http://cauterized.net/wp-signup.php?new=imemc

Hamas forces detain, then free a Gaza journalist

Hamas forces in Gaza held a local journalist overnight before freeing him on Tuesday, the longest detention of a journalist in the Palestinian enclave since the Islamists took control in factional fighting three months ago.  Officials accused him of conspirng with their secular rivals in the Fatah movement and seized him at home on Monday, despite efforts by other reporters to prevent the arrest.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11859759.htm?&_lite_=1

Israel Conducted Air Strike Inside Syria

Israel carried out a rare air strike inside Syria last week targeting a shipment of arms, CNN reported Tuesday quoting US government and military sources.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=88043

US says Israel jets struck Syria

Israeli jets carried out an air strike in Syria last week, a US defence official has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6989961.stm

Feature: On eve of Ramadan, Gazans feel ever so worried

On the eve of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which falls on Thursday, many Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip felt more dejected and worried owing to an unprecedented economic siege coupled with a lasting internal political crisis. Most of Gaza's population, totaling nearly 1.5 million, said that Ramadan this year would be the worst one ever.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/12/content_6713636.htm

Israel imposes complete closure during Rosh Hashanah

Bethlehem – Ma'an – The Israeli authorities have imposed a complete siege on the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Tuesday night until Sunday for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=25292

GAZA - To be young and sane here is an achievement

GAZA CITY - I don't understand how there can be any sane, civil children in Gaza. It is one of those phenomena that probably speaks to larger human truths: resilience, will to survive, adaptability.

http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6929&Itemid=85

Controversy over Barnard professor up for tenure

Just in time for a new school year, another controversy involving Mideast politics has erupted at Columbia University, this time over whether to grant tenure to an anthropology professor of Palestinian descent. Critics of Barnard College professor Nadia Abu El-Haj are trying to block Columbia from granting her tenure, while supporters worry that the controversy over her scholarship will stifle academic freedom.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--campuscontroversy0911sep11,0,2472231,print.story

Ready to return with nothing

It took over three months, but in the end the Lebanese army claimed victory over Fatah al-Islam, the previously unheard of non-Palestinian, al-Qaida-inspired group that had established itself in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. On Tuesday, 4 September 2007, outside the entrance to the destroyed camp the Lebanese army massed together to begin what would be a 10-hour-long parade from Nahr al-Bared to Beirut just over 50 miles away.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8986.shtml

Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 2/3)

The border police at Al-Ibrahimiye mosque and Cave of Machnela Synagogue checkpoint evidently need serious doses of caffeine to get into harassment mode. They knock back glass after glass of Saada (black Arabic coffee), becoming gradually more vocal towards each other and Palestinian passers-by. This ultimately reaches fever-pitch, whereby the Master and Commander of the unit and one of the female officers are shouting for no apparent reason, apart from the fact that they like to do so. Ever hear of the proverb 'empty barrels make most noise?'

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/12/reflections-from-an-irish-activist-in-palestine-part-23/

FEATURE-Palestinian bomber unlikely star of Israeli film

A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.  Scheduled to be screened in early 2008, the film stands to make cinematic history in the Jewish state, where movie-makers tend to shy away from treating the controversy of Israeli-Palestinian violence.  Its makers say that by personalising the bomber -- named Tarek and portrayed as coming from the West Bank town of Tulkarm -- they hope to show Israelis the complex motives behind many such attacks in the Jewish state.

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21826216.htm

Israel's Terrorist Educational System

These are just few facts about the terrorist Israeli educational system. I invite concerned reporters, such as Barbara Walters, to further investigate this matter, and to do a fair comparison between Arab and Israeli educational systems.

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-091107172856.htm

The Unrecognized Palestinians

Israel's population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) plus another 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank that includes Palestinian East Jerusalem. They're the chosen ones afforded full rights and privileges under the laws of the Jewish state for Jews alone.

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-09120794138.htm

Obama: Walt-Mearsheimer 'dead wrong'

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said a book arguing that the Israel lobby does not represent U.S. interests is "dead wrong." "Although Mr. Obama had not read the book , he was familiar with its arguments and disagreed with them," a statement from the campaign said, referring to the book "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104133.html