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From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, by Edward W. Said
Said rebukes Yasser Arafat and other Arab leaders for driving the Palestinian people into a violent dead end through "corruption and rank incompetence". He also condemns American politicians like Bill Clinton and the "intellectually disadvantaged" George W. Bush for playing peacemaker while supplying Israel with vast stockpiles of high-tech weaponry, much of it for use in what he calls a "disproportionate military response to...an anticolonial civilian uprising".
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=5408
Sheffield calling: Palestine activists take a page from concert against apartheid
For many of us, the Nelson Mandela Freedom concert at London's Wembley stadium in June 1988 was the "beginning of the end" for apartheid in South Africa. Sixteen years later, could music help to overcome an even greater challenge - to end the Israeli military occupation of Palestine and allow its people to live, at last, in peace and freedom?
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3184.shtml
International Strategy Meeting in Beirut calls for “International Movement against Israeli Apartheid”
In Beirut, between September 17-19, over 260 delegates from 43 different countries, representing social movements, organizations, political parties, networks, and coalitions struggling against war and occupation, met to discuss the principles and strategies of their struggle.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/765.shtml
Palestinian girl killed by Israeli fire in Gaza: medics
A nine-year-old Palestinian girl was killed Friday by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, medics told AFP. Samah Nassar was fatally hit in the chest, they said. Ninety-five Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the army launched 10 days ago a major offensive in the Gaza Strip...
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30135
Resident dies of wounds sustained in Khan Younis, death toll rises to 103
A local source in Khan Younis said that soldiers centered east of Khan Younis fired at tens of homes in the south of Khan Younis causing several injuries including Abu Teimah, who was found dead in the shelled area, on Friday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/100804/Gaza_op.htm
Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian in Gaza - medics
An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian in northern Gaza on Friday, witnesses said, as the military continued one of its biggest and bloodiest assaults on the area in four years of conflict.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08138350.htm
Occupation troops prevent ambulance from reaching a wounded girl
Nuha Odeh, the child's sister, said that Samah was standing at the window when she suddenly fell covered with blood. Ambulances were not allowed to reach the injured child, so her family had to take her in a neighbor's car to the nearby Biet Hanoun clinic, her sister added.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_8396.shtml
Israeli fire kills 2 Palestinian children in Gaza
Palestinian doctors identified the two slain children as Sliman Abu Foul and Raed Abu Zeid, both 14, and said their bodies had been ripped apart by what appeared to be a tank shell. The Israeli Army insisted the two people fired on had been "preparing to fire an improvised rocket."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9092
Palestinians Will Find No Friends In White House
Neither President George W. Bush nor Sen. John Kerry has any intention of saving the Palestinian refugees living in misery in the Gaza Strip from the current Israeli military assault, which appears to have the silent blessing of the United States.
http://www.wesh.com/helenthomas/3796634/detail.html
Peace activists remain undaunted
A play based on the diaries of British peace activist Tom Hurndall is to be broadcast by the BBC. Mr Hurndall was shot in April 2003 while working with children in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, and died after spending 10 months in a coma.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3724424.stm
?Al-Kidwa condemns Taba terrorist acts
Palestinian envoy Nasser Al-Kidwa on Friday condemned the bomb attacks in Taba, Egypt, late Thursday and stressed that the Palestinian Authority ordered Al-Qaida head Osama Bin Laden years ago not to meddle with the Palestinian question.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=670635
Qureia tells Haaretz: U.S. may be guilty of collusion
Abu Ala said Thursday that Weisglass' remarks oblige Israel to reconsider its policies in the territories, and the United States and international community to redefine their demands of Israel if they would like to see a genuine peace process in the Middle East.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=486308&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Arafat aide: Israeli occupation motivated Sinai bombers
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's top adviser, Nabil Abu Rudeinah, also drew a direct link with the heavy death toll in Israel's current massive operation in the Gaza Strip, which borders on the Sinai. "The continuation of Israel's occupation and aggressions fuel the world's anger," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486374.html
Syria, Iran condemn Israeli practices against Palestinians
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his visiting Iranian counterpart Sayed Muhammad Khatami made the condemnation duringtheir meeting. They also stressed the importance of preserving Iraq's territorial integrity and independence...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/08/content_2061731.htm
Violence must stop in Gaza
The World Confederation of Labour reiterates its position that only talks between both parties and respect for the United Nations resolutions can bring fair and lasting peace in the region. Respect for these resolutions implies the effective recognition of the Palestinian State and therefore also the right to economic development.
http://www.cmt-wcl.org/cmt/ewcm.nsf/_/F3094B34C45724C8C1256F27004991EA?OpenDocument
Occupation as withdrawal - By: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
The evidence is piled high, yet some remain in denial, still believing Sharon plans to "withdraw" from Gaza. Sharon himself never used the word "withdrawal", yet the word has spread like wildfire. The international media invented it, the Arab media picked it up and Palestinian officials seem to have believed it. Arab officialdom now acts as if "withdrawal" is just around the corner.
http://www.amin.org/eng/mustafa_barghouthi/2004/oct7.html
The Big Freeze
Sharon is the son of a Russian agronomist, Weisglass the son of a Polish fur merchant. Sharon is flesh of the flesh of the fighting rooted land-settlement movement, Weisglass is the embodiment of the speculator immigrant bourgeoisie. Sharon is brutal frontier Zionism, Weisglass is urban real estate Zionism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485929.html
Save the collapsing Palestinian system
Besieged from without and divided from within, the Palestinian political system is coming apart. It is hard pressed to deliver vital services or ensure law and order and is virtually incapable of producing basic decisions, let alone generating a coherent political program.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9074
Going quietly
Operation Days of Penitence, which this morning entered its 10th day, has played itself out. The decision rests with the political-diplomatic level. True, last Wednesday Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared, following consultations with the top levels of the defense establishment, that the operation would go on indefinitely, until no more Qassam rockets...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485964.html
Sharon 'creating a lose-lose situation' with Gaza invasion
Mr Dahlan said that, by destroying the peace process and trying to liquidate the PA, Mr Sharon was playing for time. "He may gain time - one or two years - but the Israelis will lose a lot and we will lose a lot. It's a lose-lose situation," he said. The Israeli offensive was driving people into the arms of Hamas, its ostensible target, he added.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bf409b14-18a8-11d9-8963-00000e2511c8.html
Analysis: Target was Israelis as well as Israel-Egypt ties
They noted, however, that there was much support for the Palestinians on Egyptian campuses and that scores of Egyptian youngsters who wished to take action against Israel had been apprehended in the past two years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485955&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Making Arab media really independent - By Daoud Kuttab
A woman journalist from Oman spoke about the impossibility of talking about human rights in her country, let alone expecting a free press or thinking of creating a journalists' syndicate or a human rights NGO. A Saudi editor who was forced to resign from a leading newspaper explained how the minister of information in his country must approve the choice of editor of any Saudi newspaper. A journalist from Syria...
http://www.amin.org/eng/daoud_kuttab/2004/oct8.html
Harmony Over Israel / Palestine
S tatements by presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry and his running mate Sen. John Edwards on issues concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict indicate that if elected this coming November 2nd, they would follow the same policies as the Bush-Cheney administration concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
http://www.counterpunch.org/assad10082004.html
When Victory Is No Victory at All
To some strategists, the important issue is who appears to be winning. "Let us project victory," was the sound advice given once by Brigadier General Eival Gilady, former head of the strategic planning department of the Israeli army. But even this has turned out to be difficult.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=shelah200410061038
The Israeli "Disengagement" Plan: Gaza Still Occupied
Notwithstanding the terms of the Plan, Israel will remain an occupying power under international law after disengagement from Gaza and is therefore bound by the obligations of an Occupying Power under international customary law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3189.shtml
Cold peace over Sinai's borders
What Egypt has never done is repudiate the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty which was meant to define relations between the two countries. These included the de-militarisation of the Sinai peninsula, normal diplomatic, economic and cultural relations, the free movement of goods and people and mutual protection under the law.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3726502.stm
US air strike kills 11 and wounds 17 in Falluja
Rescuers dug bodies from rubble with their hands after the raid on the house where residents said a wedding party had just taken place. They said the groom died and the bride was wounded. “Credible intelligence sources confirmed Zarqawi leaders were meeting at the safe-house at the time of the strike,” a U.S. military statement said.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/22c4a64c-18f6-11d9-80e1-00000e2511c8.html
British hostage Ken Bigley 'dead'
Hostage Ken Bigley was feared dead today after a Middle East TV station reported it had video footage said to show his execution. Abu Dhabi TV said the tape appeared to prove Mr Bigley had been killed. The video showed six militants standing behind a hostage as he was beheaded, according to reports.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=570143
Pentagon Sets Steps to Retake Iraq Rebel Sites
Pentagon planners and military commanders have identified 20 to 30 towns and cities in Iraq that must be brought under control before nationwide elections can be held in January, and have devised detailed ways of deciding which ones should be early priorities
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/politics/08strategy.html?ex=1098249362&ei=1&en=3dd1e89bf90fe5a1 |
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