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Darkness at the end of the tunnel
The voices of the Jewish children playing on the seesaw and the carousel on other side of the wall attracted them. With the inventiveness of children, perhaps on the basis of knowledge that was acquired from similar adult scenes on television, they set out on their mission: Quietly and patiently, they dug small tunnels in the ground under the wall.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476510.html
Occupation Forces Erecting the Apartheid Wall in Ram, Jerusalem-Ramallah Road
The Wall through Ar Ram passes along the middle of the main road, separating the two sides of the street and cutting Palestinians off from each other, including those on the “Jerusalem side” from the rest of the West Bank, and vice versa. The Wall in Ar Ram therefore destroys a road which has historically been the main artery linking Jerusalem to northern Palestine...
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/752.shtml
Fence near Taibeh to be rebuilt
So far, the Israel Defense Forces has not received any new instructions regarding the barrier near Ariel and Ma'aleh Adumim, and the directive to suspend construction of a 118-kilometer stretch of fence around Ariel, Karnei Shomron and Kedumim is still in effect.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/476199.html
Hebron Raided, five residents apprehended, one home leveled
A local source in Hebron , in the south of the West Bank, said that soldiers raided the city, conducted vast searches in Issa neighborhood, and several areas near Keryat Arba settlement in the center of Hebron , and apprehended five residents, including two brothers., and leveled one home.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week2/091104/Hebron.htm
Israeli forces storm northern West Bank
Asa'ad Sawalma, the chief of Aseera Al Shamaleya municipality, said that the Israeli forces imposed a curfew in the town, adding that they forced the students and the teachers to leave their schools.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/11/content_1969692.htm
Israeli Army left Gaza Strip, 8 dead, goals not achieved
Israeli army left Gaza Strip after a four-day wide scale operation in which 8 Palestinians were killed and over 100 injured... Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses said, the operation left at least 10 demolished homes and 20 damaged ones to various degrees, additionally, five factories were also damaged and thousands of dunams of agricultural land were bulldozed.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week2/091104/gaza-raid-ended.htm
Palestinians hit back after Israeli raid
Palestinians lobbed several mortar shells at an Israeli settlement in the northern Gaza Strip today hours after Israeli troops ended a raid of the area which was meant to stop such attacks.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/09/11/story166128.html
Israel locks down Palestinians
The ban went into effect at 6 a.m. (local time) yesterday and Defense Ministry officials said it was expected to last through the Jewish New Year, which starts Wednesday, and continue to Yom Kippur 10 days later and the weeklong Sukkot festival, which begins on September 29.
http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2004/09/11/1094872368.htm
Waiting at the checkpoints
As I stood there bearing witness to so much suffering and humiliation, I was also happy to witness the moment in which each Palestinian is let through, and for an instant the tension is released, for an instant they are free... until the next check point.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/sep/sep11.html
“Quiet Agreement” With the Americans on Israeli Settlement Expansion, Sharon discloses
Sharon told the Jerusalem post that the US statements against construction in these areas comes about because of provocative Israeli actions, such as holding large cornerstone laying ceremonies in the settlements, or holding a press conference announcing the issuing of new tenders. This, he said "makes it difficult for them [the US]."
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/060.html
Erekat heads for Cairo to attend Quartet meeting
Erekat is scheduled to attend a meeting of the representatives of the Quartet Committee, which groups the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia, in Cairo, the sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/11/content_1969677.htm
US opposes expulsion of Arafat: Armitage
"We don't think that's a good idea, and we have made it very clear," the State Department's number-two said in an interview with Egyptian television, according to a transcript distributed in Washington.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040910/pl_afp/us_israel_palestinians_040910223852
Lapid: Call for forceful opposition to pullout is incitement
Justice Minister Yosef Lapid on Friday slammed a call for forceful opposition to the evacuation of settlements under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan as "incitement to civil war," saying it posed a threat to the rule of law and the wellbeing of the state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=476393&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Religious leaders to lead 9/11 memorial in J'lem
A rabbi, a priest and an imam will lead the interdenominational memorial ceremony in Jerusalem marking the third anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476525.html
Palestinian PM back at work after threat to resign
The latest threat came on Wednesday, after Qurie had a row with Arafat over whether Palestinians would participate in a meeting with foreign donors and Israelis in New York this month, which has since been delayed, officials said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11132626.htm
U.S.: Syria partly responsible for Be'er Sheva bombing
The United States turned its attention to Syrian policy over the weekend, with senior administration officials partly blaming Damascus for last week's double suicide bombing in Be'er Sheva, as well as issuing a call for Syria to withdraw its troops from its western neighbor, Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476492.html
U.S. official to visit Israel for talks on Iran's nuclear program
Bolton is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and other senior officials, as part of an effort to give priority to the Iranian nuclear issue at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476515.html
Albright calls for U.S., Israeli and Palestinian leadership
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, declaring herself a partisan Democrat, called Friday for "real leadership again" in the Middle East. Implicitly criticizing President George W. Bush's administration as not having tried hard enough, Albright said peace is possible, "but it is not easy."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=476517&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Settlers blast `Nazi' plan
Settler leaders turned up the rhetoric yesterday against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, calling his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and a small part of the West Bank a "Nazi act" that could lead to civil war.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1094855107827&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Sharp rise in voter registration among Israeli-Americans
"My original view was that I had come to `become an Israeli,' and as such, even though I remained a dual citizen, I thought my political life should be lived solely as an Israeli," he wrote recently in an e-mail to graduates of his Zionist youth movement, many of whom now live in Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476227.html
?Mubarak discusses conditions in Palestinian areas with Canterbury Archbishop
Spokesman for the Egyptian presidency Majed Abdul-Fattah said the two sides also discussed the efforts to implement the roadmap to peace, and the need to stop the construction of the Israeli separating wall and settling activities and violence against the Palestinians.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=663086
The Emerging Case for a Single-State Solution
I believe now that I was wrong. The two-state solution is neither moral nor realistic. The only politically and ethically viable approach to the problem of Israel and Palestine is to support a single democratic secular state that provides equal rights for all of its citizens.
http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/751_0_15_0_C/
Western media outraged by some terrorist acts, but ignores others
What about the mental state of thousands of Palestinian children, where 70 per cent of Palestine's male population have been arrested and jailed in Israeli prisons, who have witnessed the deaths of family members and neighbourhood friends at the hands of the Israeli military, who have watched helplessly as their families' homes were demolished by Israeli Army bulldozers...
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/today/localNews_s3.php
Dread of the postmodern twist
Sharon has no clear outline, for in the postmodern mind set, clear direction is a basic no-no. He waves about the disengagement plan, but in his special way, Sharon leaves a web of escape routes before pushing through even the first practical step. He has nothing clear to say about the goals of the nation, and says it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476210.html
We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World - By Robert Fisk
Any cop, confronted by any crime, looks for a motive. But confronted by an international crime against humanity, we were not to be allowed to seek the motive. America's relations with the Middle East, especially the nature of its relationship with Israel, was to remain an unspoken and unquestioned subject.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6892.htm
Jesse Jackson Leads the Charge Against the Corporate Lobbyists Running Kerry's Failing Campaign
Cam Kerry is an Orthodox Jew who has been responsible more than any other for his brother's slavishly pro-Sharon positions, and paid a visit to Israel in the middle of the campaign. When the World Court ruled that that the Israeli apartheid "Wall of Shame" hemming in the Palestinians was illegal and should be dismantled, candidate Kerry attacked the Court
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=87&ItemID=6201
The Zionist Silencing Machine...Seven Examples of Zionist Authoritarianism
Still, Mordechai and others claim to be truly against Sharon. Some high figures in the Jewish establishment claim to even be heavily critical of the wall. A donor rebellion to a local Jewish charity made the money that was to go to settlers go to a special foundation/NGO backed project to resettle the “Settlers” in “Israel Proper."
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/cummings09102004/
Mubarak son raises public profile
Ever since he was given a key position in the ruling National Democratic Party a few years ago, the young Mubarak has been carefully cultivating his public image. He has associated himself with sporting events and a rising young and dynamic business elite.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3646026.stm
Pipeline to northern Iraq refinery sabotaged
"The 35.5 centimetre (14-inch) pipeline was sabotaged at 3:15 pm (1115 GMT) by unknown attackers who opened fire with automatic weapons, causing an important breach," said the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=7&u=/afp/20040911/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_oil_040911152654
Rumsfeld vows to defeat Iraqi extremists
"We know what will take place in Falluja and that is that it will be restored under the control of the Iraqi government eventually," said Mr Rumsfeld. "What we don't know is whether it will be done peacefully or by force. But one way or another, it will happen."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f3bbabae-036d-11d9-aec4-00000e2511c8.html
Anybody But Bush?
Unfortunately, though, the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, is no real alternative. Many would be surprised to discover that Kerry, in fact, voted for many of Bush's policies as a Senator from Massachusetts.
Kerry voted for Bush's war on Iraq, the Patriot Act, "No Child Left Behind," and the war on Afghanistan.
http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46010&group=webcast |
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