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Occupation Forces Issue House Demolition Orders to Residents of Anata for the Building of the Apartheid Wall
This is not the first time houses have been demolished in Anata for the Apartheid Wall. Last June, Occupation Forces demolished three homes in Anata on the eastern portion of the village near an Occupation detention center. Included in the demolitions were a Mosque and a house near Pisgat Ze'ev settlement, all of which are on the Wall's path.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/750.shtml
Sharon: Key settlement blocs to stay inside fence
The government source predicted that the Ariel fence will pass the High Court, since there are few Palestinians in that area. Nevertheless, Sharon decided to continue postoning the hook-up between the Ariel fence and the main fence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475585.html
UK's Straw 'concerned' by Israel's settlement expansion plan
"The latest announcement about settlements, in my judgement, is very serious because it could lead to the encirclement of East Jerusalem and the detachment of East Jerusalem from the West Bank," Straw said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475711&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israel to take more land for settlers
Israel's agriculture minister, Israel Katz, has announced plans for further expansion of Jewish settlements in the Jordan valley by expropriating 8,000 acres of land. Mr Katz's proposal, which he said would be implemented "without unnecessary delays", follows revelations that the government plans to build homes for thousands more settlers on the West Bank...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1300044,00.html
Right-wing petition calls for refusal to evacuate settlements
The petition urges troops to "listen to the voice of their personal and national conscience," and refuse to take part in the removal of settlements, an act they define as a crime against humanity, a national crime and an explicitly illegal act.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475966.html
IDF kills 6 Palestinians, including boy, 9, in territories
Troops from the Golani and Givati infantry brigades entering the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza in the early hours of Thursday morning were met by heavy resistance from Palestinians who opened fire and threw stones.
Three of the Palestinians, including the nine-year-old, were killed by tank fire in the town of Beit Lahiya, close to the camp.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475034.html
Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant in Jericho
Witnesses confirmed that the soldiers opened intensive gunfire directly on Abedeia who tried to pull out from the cafe. Three of the cafe visitors were wounded by Israeli soldiers who opened fire haphazardly in the cafe, added the witnesses.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/09/content_1962652.htm
Mortar bomb hits Gush Katif home – woman lightly injured
A woman was lightly injured this evening after a mortar shell directly hit her home at the Gaza settlement of Neve Dkalim. Her house sustained damage.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10999
Israel explodes bomb hidden in tomb, Muslims angry
But the explosion also destroyed the nearby grave of a 60-year-old Palestinian and rankled the nerves of local people who said the soldiers had violated the sanctity of Bethlehem's only Muslim cemetery.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09334607.htm
Medical Sources: Israel Used Flechettes Warhead in Gaza Massacre
The doctors affirmed that this type of rocket was used before by Israeli warplanes during extrajudicial executions, with the rockets exploding near the ground and the flechettes dispersing over a wide radius, tearing through flesh and metal alike and causing many casualties.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/050.html
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations
Human rights violations perpetrated by Israeli troops included willful and extra-judicial killing, incursions into Palestinian areas, indiscriminate shelling, house demolitions and land leveling. Israeli troops have also continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.
http://www.world-crisis.com/news/736_0_1_0_M/
UN replaces Palestinian refugee homes demolished by Israel
In total, in the Gaza Strip, 477 new homes have now been built by UNRWA. A further 300 are currently being built. However, UNRWA still needs more than $42 million in donations to meet the needs of the homeless in Gaza. At least a further 1,777 new homes are needed and every day brings fresh demolitions.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3080.shtml
The defendant was an `impressive officer'
The investigation revealed that on 10 occasions the defendant used his gun to break the windshields of cabs driven by Palestinians. Their only violation was that they crossed the marked line where vehicles are supposed to stop at the checkpoint. Another Palestinian, flanked by his wife and children, was punched in the face and even kicked in the lower part of his body.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475619.html
UN envoy condemns Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza
Sending his sincere condolences to the families of the victims, the envoy called on Israel "to abide by its obligation under international humanitarian law to avoid the use of disproportionate force in densely populated areas and to protect the civilian population." (does not call it 'heinous crimes' or terror?)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11874&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Shalom: Expulsion of Arafat is closer than ever
Shalom's was the second remark made in the past week by a senior government official regarding the expulsion of Arafat. On Monday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz referred to the possibility of Arafat's expulsion, saying that, "Israel will find the time and method to expel Arafat."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475564&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
PA donor states delay meeting; Burns cancels Israel trip
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom failed to persuade his European counterparts to hold the meeting on schedule.
Following the cancellation, the American adminstration decided to cancel a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by Undersecretary of State William Burns, who is currently visiting the region.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=476146&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Neocons Blast Bush's Inaction On 'Spy' Affair
In an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration, neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what they describe as an antisemitic campaign to marginalize them being conducted by the CIA and the State Department.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20040909327
UN calls on Israel to stop flying over Lebanon
The United Nations on Thursday renewed a call on Israel to stop flying its military aircraft over Lebanon, saying the actions are disturbing a "calm" that has prevailed in the area in recent weeks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476125.html
Toward a True Democratic State in the Middle East
Tony Judt, for example, argues in The New York Review of Books that the integration of the West Bank may already be irreversible, and suggests that a single binational state may be the only alternative to ethnic cleansing. This is not simply a moral matter. Nor is it simply a historical one. It is both. And that is the problem that we who have endorsed a two-state solution have neglected.
http://www.counterpunch.org/may09092004.html
Look again, Gandhi
After four years of armed Intifada, the US- based group that organised his visit -- Palestinians for Peace and Democracy -- believes that the philosophy of non-violent struggle can be exported to the West Bank and Gaza where it will mobilise the Palestinian masses to find new ways to oppose the occupation.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=6196
Reign of evil - By Azmi Bishara
Certainly it did not meet to discuss the collapse of state and society in Iraq and Palestine, where, only last week, I was unable to get to the West Bank town of Hebron, what with the road having been blocked for nearly two years with barricades of rubble set up by the occupation army. The Security Council did meet, however, to discuss constitutional amendments in Lebanon...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/707/op2.htm
Elections under siege
no fixed date for the elections has been designated, ostensibly for fear that the Israeli occupation army, which maintains a conspicuous presence in most Palestinian population centres, will not allow the elections to take place. Palestinian Authority is expected to announce a final date of the elections later this year, awaiting "guarantees" from the international community.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/707/re3.htm
The Likudization of the world - 9/11's real legacy is that Bush has adopted Sharon's rigid views
On Sept. 12, 2001, Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked how the previous day's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington would affect relations between Israel and the United States. "It's very good," he said. "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040909/COKLEIN09/TPComment/TopStories
The Warlords of America
On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which, in effect, authorised a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran. The vote was 376-3. Undeterred by the accelerating disaster in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats, wrote one commentator, "once again joined hands to assert the responsibilities of American power".
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=87&ItemID=6185
Madonna due to join Israel trip
Madonna is due to celebrate the Jewish New Year in Israel with 2,000 fellow students of Kabbalah, prompting an extensive police operation. The singer will visit the graves of rabbinical sages in northern Israel on next week's trip, organised by the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3641256.stm
Egyptian activists call for open presidential elections
The group, which includes the banned Muslim Brotherhood, said in a statement that it wanted a "change of constitution that permits the election of the president of the republic from among more than one candidate." Currently, parliament nominates a candidate for the presidency and refers its choice to the people for approval in a national referendum.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20040909/wl_mideast_afp/egypt_politics_040909175303
US bombing kills more Falluja civilians
US air strikes have killed at least 12 Iraqi civilians in the town of Falluja in a third successive night of bombing. Speaking from the town's main hospital on Thursday, Dr Mushtaq Talib said three women and five children were killed and another 15 were injured.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=5462&s2=09
100 Children Die Daily in Iraq
In one month, 3000 children died in Iraq; on average, that is 100 per day. Though many are innocent victims of incessant clashes, most succumb to malnourishment and unsanitary living conditions. The shortage of drugs and modern equipment is worse than when Saddam Hussein was in power - when international embargoes isolated the country.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=5459&s2=09
Despair in Iraq over the forgotten victims of US invasion
"When I heard on television that the Americans had lost 1,000 military killed in Iraq, I asked myself, what about our side? What is the number of Iraqis who have died?" said Dr Amer al-Khuzaie, an Iraqi deputy health minister. "Sometimes there are as many as 200 Iraqis killed in a single day,"
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=559662
Pentagon looking into illegal "ghost detainees" in Iraq: Army general
The Pentagon is investigating the imprisonment of as many as 100 "ghost detainees" who were held in secret custody by US forces in Iraq, the army general leading the Abu Ghraib prison abuse probe told a congressional committee.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20040909/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_prisons_politics_040909194104
Of homeland, identity and occupation
The political process is still operated by the US occupation. Paul Bremer (former US administrator of Iraq) created the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), and most of its members were brought to Iraq with the occupation forces. The IGC gave birth to a government similar to it in nature. Even the Iraqi National Council was created the same way...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/239DF360-3640-457C-BA99-5FD497547598.htm |
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