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What Does The Wall Mean?
Everything after one year of building the Wall becomes a routine, but nothing is normal. More than 15,000 trees died behind the Wall in this area. More than 200 farmers lost their land and work. The amount of production reduced to the half in the past year. The time to reach land increased at least three times, and similarly for the distances.
http://stopthewall.org/communityvoices/797.shtml
Palestinian youngsters face daily 'Via Dolorosa' on way to school
For five Palestinian children living in the southern Hebron hills, the daily school run has become a nightmare because of the ritual harassment of Jewish settlers. Just over a month ago, Safiyya's cousin, 7-year-old Miriam Jundiyya was admitted to hospital after an adult settler hit her round the head with a stick, her family said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9962
First hearing Supreme Court in political speech case, Azmi Bishara
The two legal questions now before the Supreme Court are whether or not the Magistrate Court can legitimately proceed with the trial of MK Bishara without first deciding on the status of his parliamentary immunity; and what is the scope of an MK's parliamentary immunity regarding political speech.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3298.shtml
Israeli army arrests 10 Palestinians, wounds child in Gaza
They said more than 50 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles rolled into the area near the Jewish settlement of Morag before dawn. Several residential houses were demolished and two others were searched into, with 10 Palestinians arrested.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/08/content_2192137.htm
Four Civilians Killed in Jenin
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli special force backed by more than 20 armored vehicles opened fire on a car driving down a street in the city, killing the four passengers inside. They were identified as Mohammed Masharqa, Ameen Abul Kamel, Fadi Eghbareyyeh and Mohammed Salah.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=926
The Guardian of Zionism: The "Liberal" Press and its Missing Contexts
Baram correctly states that "after the 1967 war it seemed consensual that almost any questioning of Israel's existence as a Jewish state was illegitimate. Israel's insistence that any discussion of the right of return for the Palestinian refugees was a threat to the state's existence had prevented such a discussion in the international media for many years to come."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3299.shtml
PPS: 6 Palestinians Died in Prisons During Intifada
The report described the death as a war crime committed against Palestinian prisoners, adding that there are many prisoners who suffer from diseases such as chronic diseases, cancer, cardiology problems, and respiratory difficulties as well as spinal cord and back diseases.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1843
Settlers increase attacks against the residents in Hebron
A local source in Hebron said that settlers increased their attacks against the residents in Tal Al-Rmeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron, south of the West Bank. The source added that settlers from Keryat Arba settlers, “Ramat Yeshai” and “Abraham Abino” settlement outpost, hurled stone at tens of homes and cars causing several damages.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week2/110804/Settler-H.htm
Hamas denies Qurei's request to stop armed attacks
Qurei also refused a call by Hamas and other Palestinian factions for a united leadership in the absence of the ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a critical condition in a military hospital outside Paris.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/08/content_2192280.htm
Arafat's condition stable - French doctor
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's condition is stable, the doctor treating him in a French military hospital said on Monday. Arafat's condition limited the number of visitors he was allowed to receive, Estripeau said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAB001321.htm
Arafat's wife says deputies plotting
Israeli media said Israeli security officials assumed Arafat, 75, would be taken off life-support equipment after the three leaders, all seen as potential successors, had visited him in the hospital's intensive care unit.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5325046
Palestinian leaders to visit Arafat despite wife's bedside coup claim
But they later decided that they would go ahead with the visit, and would be joined by the speaker of parliament Rawhi Fattuh. It will mean that the five most senior members of the leadership will be out of the country at arguably the most delicate moment in Palestinian politics for half a century
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/116038/1/.html
Spanish FM makes lightning visit to Syria over Arafat successor: official
The newspapers ABC and El Mundo reported earlier he had flown secretly and stayed for only a few hours in the Syrian capital on Sunday to discuss a possible successor for Arafat, struggling for his life in a French hospital.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041108/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_spain_041108191646
Poll: 60% Palestinians believe PM Qureia can't run PA
A total of 59.8 percent of Palestinians do not think Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia is capable of managing the day-to-day affairs of the Palestinian Authority, according to a survey conducted last week by the An-Najah University Survey Institute in Nablus.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=498956&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
U.S. won't press Israel to remove outposts
The United States will continue to remind Israel of its commitments to evacuate illegal outposts and freeze settlement construction, and has no intention to give up on their implementation. However, government sources believe the administration will refrain from exerting heavy pressure in the near future as long as the disengagement plan is proceeding.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498614.html
What will happen to Arafat's millions?
Arafat has long resisted proper accounting for the funds, which include Arab payments to the PLO in the 1970s and 1980s, and Western aid to his self-rule government, the Palestinian Authority, after interim peace deals with Israel in the 1990s.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/10129646.htm
Hezbollah drone over Israel leaves air force red-faced
"The resistance (Hezbollah's armed branch) turned to this method because international protests have not succeeded in putting an end to Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace," Information Minister Elie Ferzli said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041108/wl_mideast_afp/israel_lebanon_hezbollah_041108195539
Netanyahu lifts resignation threat-Israel Radio
Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on Monday to lift his threat to resign over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's refusal to put a Gaza pullout plan to a national referendum, Israel Radio said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08688784.htm
NRP quits gov't to protest pullout plan
The National Religious Party governing body voted Monday night to quit the coalition in protest of the disengagement plan. Zevulun Orlev will resign from his position as labor and social affairs minister on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498899.html
After Arafat, an off-balance Gaza
The distress there is well known. It is much greater than that in the West Bank: In the Strip there is terrible unemployment, egregious poverty and widespread destruction of neighborhoods and agricultural lands in the northern part, in the area of the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, Khan Yunis and, above all, in Rafah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498645.html
Palestinian dividends
His death was not declared by his physicians in Paris but by his successors in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, who convened on Thursday evening to start preparations for the funeral and to forge the new Palestinian leadership.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498285.html
A Note from Palestine -
This Not the Time for Despair
Hope does not come easily here. With Ariel Sharon building the Separation Wall on confiscated land throughout the West Bank, more than 7,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, bombings, assassinations, and home demolitions, most days it is easier to succumb to feelings of powerlessness and despair.
http://www.counterpunch.com/peltz11082004.html
A chance for conciliation
Sharon also rejected the suggestion to allow Arafat's burial in Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Burying Arafat in the West Bank is also not practical, it is said, because of the absence of local security to safeguard the dozens of dignitaries expected to arrive from all over the world.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498294.html
A critical November
Sharon will be left without a parliamentary majority and with a coalition of only 55 MKs. He is still not in danger of falling - the Labor Party has undertaken to keep him in place as long as he advances the disengagement - but he is rapidly approaching a stage at which he will have to decide where he is heading.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/498656.html
MEDIA LENS: THE BBC - LEGITIMISING MASS SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH
In the case of Iraq, it is of course vital that domestic audiences in the US and UK be persuaded that their governments are killing Iraqis with the support of, even on behalf of, Iraqis themselves. The possibility that Iraqis might be dying in their tens of thousands for Western power and profit must, of course, be kept so far out of sight that it is barely even thinkable.
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2000&blz=1
15 Iraqis killed, 25 injured in US bombardment on Fallujah
Us warplanes and artillery pounded the rebel-held city of Fallujah as battles continued on Monday between US-Iraqi forces and fighters who defend the city, killing 15 civilians and wounding 25 others, witnesses said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/08/content_2192525.htm
US marines launch full-scale offensive in Falluja
Intense air strikes and artillery fire rained down on the city as the Marines advanced at least four blocks into the Sunni Muslim city, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad. Helicopters flew overhead. A little earlier the Marines unleashed a barrage of tank and machinegun fire on a nearby railway station, clearing the way for the ground assault.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c555feac-315a-11d9-97c0-00000e2511c8.html
British Soldier Killed South of Baghdad
A British soldier was killed and two others were wounded Monday, apparently by a roadside bomb near the troops' new base in a violent region south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defense said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20041108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_iraq
Allawi declares state of emergency ahead of Fallujah offensive
Under a state of emergency, Iraqi authorities have powers allowing them to impose curfews, ban meetings and tap communications, in moves which echo the authoritarian rule of toppled President Saddam Hussein's regime.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9977
Men vs. "Civilians"
"U.S. Urges Civilians to Flee Targeted Falluja," reads a headline (Reuters dispatch, November 5). Not true, as the article subsequently indicates: "U.S. troops sealed all roads to Falluja and urged women, children and non-fighting age men to flee, but said they would arrest any man under 45 trying to enter or leave the city."
http://www.counterpunch.com/jones11082004.html |
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