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9th-16th November 2004 - 2nd International Week against the Apartheid Wall: Massive Mobilization in over 20 Countries Worldwide!
The 9th – 16th of November 2004 marks the 2 nd International Week against the Apartheid Wall called for by the Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and since then endorsed by various movements, groups, networks, and international civil society conferences , following last year's Palestinian and worldwide mobilization during the 1 st International Week against the Apartheid Wall (November 9-16, 2003)
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/800.shtml
Palestinian youngsters face daily 'Via Dolorosa' on way to school
Safiyya's 10-year-old brother, Tareq, started to cry. "What are you talking about - school, school, school?" a settler shouted mockingly. "Stop talking this rubbish about school!" Several Israeli soldiers including a representative of the DCO soon arrived at the scene and suddenly decided the previously authorized crossing should not go ahead.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9962
Photostory: Olive harvest in Lower Yanoun
However, I will worry about Yanoun, upon realizing that the settlements, populated by religious extremists who openly espouse their platform of ethnic cleansing, form a ring around Yanoun. If the international house in Yanoun were not there, who knows what would happen to this beautiful little village and its inhabitants.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3301.shtml
PCBS: Cultivated Land Decreases in OPT
The reduce of the agricultural land comes as a result of Israeli Apartheid Wall which confiscates thousands of agricultural dunums in the West Bank. Thousand other dunums were razed by Israeli bulldozers since the beginning of al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1847
6 Wounded, Scores Arrested, House Demolished in WB, Military Escalation in GS
Elsewhere in the city, IOF soldiers stormed Khellet al-Eman neighbourhood, and broke into a number of houses, arresting around 50 citizens amid intensive interrogation procedures.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1846
2 unarmed Palestinians killed in northern Gaza
The Israeli side transferred bodies of two Gazans to the Palestinian side after shooting them dead in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The identities of the killed were still unknown, Palestinian security sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/09/content_2195133.htm
Criminalization of Human Rights Activists Continues
Human rights activist from the United Kingdom , Hannah, was arrested in Kufr Thulth on Sunday, November 7 while participating in a peaceful march organized by the village residents. Hannah remains in Hadera Detention Center as of Tuesday afternoon, November 9.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=606&mid=10400
Hamas claims shelling Jewish settlements
Israel Radio reported that two mortar shells slammed into the Gush Katif settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, adding that one of the shells landed next to a school and the other hit a house.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/09/content_2195090.htm
Palestinian unrest about Arafat puts Lebanon on alert
The overflights, which consisted of 11 aircraft and three reconnaissance drones, illustrate Israel's unease at the prospect of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon launching revenge attacks across the border should the ailing Palestinian leader die.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1109/p04s01-wome.htm
Arafat suffers brain haemorrhage
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still alive and efforts are being made by his French doctors to stop the haemorrhaging of his brain, negotiations minister Saeb Erakat told reporters Tuesday.
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/389308.htm
FOURTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT ON ISRAELI PRACTICES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
The freedom of movement continued to be gravely impacted by Israel's continued and unlawful construction of the wall, through which it expanded its network of illegal colonial settlements, she said, recalling that the International Court of Justice had concluded that the construction of the wall
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265/b8bd5f360df26a9185256f460075b3b8!OpenDocument
Palestinian officials: Arafat to be buried in Ramallah
Palestinian officials Taib Abdel Rahim and Saeb Erekat, speaking in a press conference Tuesday evening in Ramallah, announced that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat will be buried in his Muqata headquarters in the West Bank city.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499525.html
Bush calls Chirac to inquire about Arafat's health
"President Bush inquired about the president of Palestinian Authority's health condition," Chirac's spokesman Jerome Bonnafontsaid, adding that his phone call to Chirac lasted some 20 minutes.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/09/content_2195322.htm
Netanyahu to stay, NRP set to quit
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he would remain in government, rescinding an earlier threat to quit. Orlev said he believes the NRP ministers' resignation from the coalition will lead to early elections.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=499146&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
U.K. stresses need to bolster PA security apparatus
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the government had been in close touch with Palestinian officials both in Paris - where Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was receiving medical treatment - and in the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499516.html
Israeli, Jordanian tourism ministers meet after four year break
With the outbreak of intifada violence in September 2000, relations chilled between the two states and Jordan has not had an ambassador stationed in Israel since that time. However, about a week ago Jordan replaced its acting ambassador in Israel with Ali Al-Ayid
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=499449&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
ElBaradei: Israel's nuclear arms blocking Mideast peace
"This is not really sustainable that you have Israel sitting with nuclear weapons capability there while everyone else is part of the non-proliferation regime," ElBaradei told The Sydney Morning Herald. ElBaradei said Muslims in the surrounding region resented Israel's nuclear arsenal and wanted it to be part of the non-proliferation program.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=499424&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Harping on lethal myths at the New York Times
As usual, almost everything that has gone wrong and is going wrong for the last four years in the Occupied Territories and Israel, according to The New York Times, boils down to one thing and one action: Yasir Arafat and his "no" to Ehud Barak's "generous offers".
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/mediocrity/displayCall.asp?essayID=259
Palestinians to continue struggle
Asked whether he harboured any worries about the behaviour of the Palestinian opposition, especially Hamas, after Arafat's death, al-Louh said "not at all". "I assure you that the opposition is more disciplined and more committed to national unity than many people thought."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3304.shtml
Why I engaged Arafat over the years
To Arafat, the violence he frequently authorized was never terrorism but the lawful right of a people to struggle forcibly to evict an occupying power. Was he a terrorist? If so, the colonists who rebelled against King George in 1776 deserve the same label.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9987
Ailing Arafat deserves fair judgment
Arafat was never the wisest of leaders. He was a rotten administrator, and was utterly incapable of delegation. But the man who brought his people to the very edge of statehood, deserves better than the opprobrium being heaped on him at the very edge of death.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1346300,00.html
Arafat's wife locks horns with leadership
The prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, and the acting head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Mahmoud Abbas, are seeking to discover whether the Palestinian leader is likely to recover from an as yet undiagnosed illness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1346543,00.html
Pause to learn the lessons
The Palestinians are used to an American bias toward Israel; it's neither new, nor was it expected to be any different when Bush first came to power. But Bush and his administration went beyond just the ordinary US bias toward Israel and against the Palestinians--its traditional military, political and economic support for Israel. This administration sunk to new levels
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal1.php
Iraq's universities face catastrophe
"That's proof of the fact they want to destroy Iraqi universities," said Issa, who now employs bodyguards. "The victims cover a wide spectrum of research interests, different politics and different religious convictions. The only common denominator is their excellence," said Bakaa.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=11281
Sunni Clerics Call for Elections Boycott
The group's director, Harith al-Dhari, said the election was being held "over the corpses of those killed in Fallujah and the blood of the wounded." In the past weeks, al-Dhari's Association of Muslim Scholars has been warning it would call such a boycott if a Fallujah offensive took place.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=15&u=/ap/20041109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_boycott
14 Americans die in Iraq in last two days
A total of 14 Americans have been killed in the past two days across Iraq - including five in an around Fallujah and nine others killed as guerrillas launched a wave of attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6967&s2=09
Iraqi insurgents mass in centre of Ramadi as US snipers withdraw
Rebel fighters massed in the centre of the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi after US military snipers withdrew from their positions following 24 hours of clashes, an AFP correspondent said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&u=/afp/20041109/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_ramadi_seize&printer=1
UN says too many soldiers doing humanitarian work
Bellamy cited "multiple sides" in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and the fact soldiers were performing relief work as major reasons that humanitarian workers were no longer being viewed as impartial.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=499354&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Fired Missile Closes Baghdad Airport
The C-130 plane dropped chaff defenses that diverted the shoulder-fired missile, the officials said. The airport was closed to civilian traffic Sunday under a state of emergency declared by the Iraqi government.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=9&u=/ap/20041109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_airport
U.S. Casualties Rise Quickly in Iraq
American casualties in Iraq are mounting as the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah unfolds. Monday's death toll of 11 was among the highest for a single day in Iraq since last spring, though most were killed elsewhere in the country...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=7&u=/ap/20041109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_casualties |
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