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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. Of course, the State Department does urge "restraint" on both sides. Whatever that means.
http://www.wesh.com/helenthomas/3796634/detail.html
Gaza children lose in games against real bullets
"Sulaiman was cut to pieces," says Karam, his classmate. "His belly was blown away. His head was blown away. There was no ambulance here, just regular cars. I carried his hand and put it in a car." Raed Abuzaid was also blown to shreds. The boys' deaths brought to at least 24 the number of Palestinian children killed since the launch of Israel's "Operation...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/08/1097089567513.html?oneclick=true
Gaza families live in the shadow of death
The last thing that young Suha Ayub Ibayd remembers before a barrage of tank fire ripped through her home is huddling together with her parents and eight brothers and sisters. Now she lies listlessly in her hospital bed, trying to absorb as well as any nine-year-old could the events of that morning.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CB8868A4-078C-4BDC-B562-9F5ACBB2C54C.htm
Eleventh Day of Israeli Campaign: 9 Killed, 2 Died of Wounds, Scores Wounded
As the Israeli military campaign against northern Gaza Strip enters its eleventh day, nine citizens were killed, and two died of their wounds in less than 24 hours in three points, Khanyounis, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1773
Israeli Troops Wound Children, Raze Lands in Khan Younis
Hassan Alqamhawi, 12, and Jehad Barbakh have been shot and wounded with shrapnel, after an Israeli tank, stationed at the illegal Israeli settlement 'Neveh Dkalim' fired shells at the nearby Khan Younis refugee camp, west of Khan Younis, local medical sources said.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=394
Peace activists remain undaunted
Mr Hurndall had been working closely with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) - a Palestinian-led group which campaigns against the Israeli occupation using non-violence. The play reveals an idealistic young man, determined to help others despite the risk to his own safety.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3724424.stm
Gaza Daily Update, 7.00 PM
At 11:20 yesterday, Thursday 7 October 2004, 13-year-old Jum'a Al Sharatha, from Jabalia, passed away at hospital. He was injured on 1 October 2004 from IOF bullet towards his neighborhood of Izat Abed Rabu. At 3am today, IOF demolished the house of Mousa Abu Jarad east to Erez crossing. North of Beit Hanoun...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3197.shtml
Several Hurt in Israeli Missile Strike
An Israeli aircraft fired missiles Saturday night toward a group of Palestinians near a market in the Jebaliya refugee camp, witnesses said. Several people were injured but could not be evacuated because of Israeli machine-gun fire, they said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20041009/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gaza_missile
Palestinians destroy Israeli tank in Beit Lahya
A joint press release issued by al-Quds Brigades, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the National Resistance Brigades said that a joint group detonated a 90 kg bomb underneath an Israeli tank that was attacking Palestinians nearby a government educational authority.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=671022
Israel To Benefit From Sinai Bombings: Experts
A cohort of Egyptian security, political and diplomatic experts have concluded that Israel is the only party to benefit from the blasts that rocked tourist resorts in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula on Thursday, October 7, ruling out any possible Egyptian involvement.
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-10/09/article02.shtml
Aid agency calls for effective international intervention in Gaza
In a situation of ongoing violence and the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation, civilians are now paying the highest price in growing numbers because of the escalating violence in Gaza, according to aid agency Oxfam International.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3196.shtml
Arafat aide: Israeli occupation motivated Sinai bombers
Arafat said in the letter "On my behalf and on behalf of the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, we express our true feelings of solidarity with the families of the victims and send our condolences to them."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486374.html
Qureia tells Haaretz: U.S. may be guilty of collusion
Abu Ala, said yesterday that Weisglass' remarks oblige Israel to reconsider its policies in the territories, and the U.S. 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/spages/485999.html
AFC Urges the Creation of Regional Soccer Leagues in Palestinian Territories
"It is important that football activities go on in Palestine. It is a major problem for Palestinian players to travel, not only outside the country but inside as well. This is a political situation in which there is no easy answer."
http://english.daralhayat.com/sports/10-2004/Article-20041009-7d7e8b09-c0a8-01ed-004f-353962e3d2ce/story.html
Sharon tells cabinet ministers to halt criticism of Egypt
Mossad chief Meir Dagan said at the meeting that, "Egyptians are operating in a sincere manner to provide assistance. But we must remember that in regards to timetables and bureaucracy, it is a different world."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486429.html
Bush: Arafat will not lead Palestinians to statehood
In a heated debate rematch, President George W. Bush said Friday night that he did not believe Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat could lead the Palestinian people to statehood, Israel Radio reported. Bush stressed that the Palestinians were in need of new leadership that could attain democracy and freedom.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=486408&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Syrian president denies secret peace talks with Israel
President Bashar Assad denied what he said were media reports that Syria has held secret peace talks with Israel, saying Saturday that his country wants to negotiate publicly with the Jewish state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486434.html
British MP tours South, backs resistance to occupation
"I was able to see the Shebaa Farms and hills, as well as parts of the Golan Heights ... and I remembered that in these areas there is occupation too, and not only in the West Bank," he said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=9121
Breaking the impasse
In the land of home demolitions, military assassinations, movement restrictions, settlement construction, religious and secular strife, collective punishment, military incursions and legal and socio-economic discrimination, and all thepsychological and physical damage associated with the Occupation there is a growing chorus of those who believe that the situation will deteriorate...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3194.shtml
Presbyterians Stand By Divestment Vote
Not long ago, the Presbyterian Church USA managed to do something most Jewish organizations can only dream of: It generated Jewish unity. Jewish groups were outraged when the organization passed a resolution over the summer calling for divesting from companies that do business in or with Israel.
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/4233.stm
No Palestinian State, No Peace for America
Now we know the truth. Neither the Bush administration nor the Israeli government has any intention whatsoever of allowing the Palestinians to establish their own state. That means, of course, that both have been lying, not only to the Palestinians but to the American people.
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=3751
Israel's Attack On Gaza Aims To Stop Peace Process
This is part of Sharon's larger plan to show Palestinians and the world that Israel alone calls the shots. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot noted that Sharon is “marketing the Gaza Disengagement as something which ‘the Palestinians will pay for heavily.'
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1008-21.htm
The ICG report on Hamas: a shallow approach to a complex issue
Yet when Israel strikes at the heart of Palestinian cities killing innocents, it can easily be portrayed in the international media as "self-defence," while any Palestinian response, which produces identical results on an Israeli street is termed "terror."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3199.shtml
Not 'another UN conference on Palestine'?
In numerous seminars and conferences around the world. The issue has been addressed in all of its complexities and developments. Resolutions to the conflict have been adopted and schemes for the alleviation of the suffering of the Palestinian people under occupation have been identified. But so far a just and comprehensive solution has been elusive.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=9103
Sharon's hot winter
Things will only get harder as his timetable progresses. Two weeks will be devoted to recruiting supporters and softening the opposition. On October 24, the cabinet will approve the implementation bill, and the next day Sharon will bring the declaration of principles to the Knesset.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485963.html
The Abu Ghraib Supplementary Documents
An investigation by Major General Geoffrey Miller reveals the interest of high-level officials in obtaining valuable intelligence from the prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities in Iraq. Miller, the head of intelligence and interrogation operations at Guantanamo Bay, arrived in late August with interrogation experts from Guantanamo, military intelligence and the CIA.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=396&sid=100
Iraqis may sue US over invasion
Iyad al-Samarrai of the Iraqi Islamic Party said on Thursday that the report, drafted by the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq Charles Duelfer, proves the war was "not legitimate". "These weapons were used as a pretext by the US and British governments to invade Iraq."He added: "We have the right to demand compensation and the withdrawal of the occupation forces."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2E5CE52A-F5CE-433A-9F9F-3AA603B6F0DF.htm
Captors refused to back down despite message exchange
Frantic diplomacy was going on behind the scenes right up until the moment Ken Bigley was beheaded by his captors, the Foreign Secretary revealed for the first time last night. Jack Straw also revealed that the Government knew about Mr Bigley's death 24 hours before the news emerged via Abu Dhabi television.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=570396
US may send more troops to Iraq for elections: Rumsfeld
On the flight from Washington on Saturday, Rumsfeld said the United States was trying to find countries to provide troops to protect the UN mission that is supposed to organize the elections in Iraq.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=8&u=/afp/20041009/wl_mideast_afp/bahrain_us_iraq_rumsfeld_041009064828
Pentagon meddling crippled post-war humanitarian aid for Iraq: US experts
"The situation was further complicated by the fact that the [Pentagon] humanitarian planning team, citing secrecy, refused to disclose crucial information needed for planning not only to international relief organisations but also to other US military, government and civilian agencies working on humanitarian relief," they add.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6203&s2=09 |
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