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Yasser Arafat, 1929-2004
Today, Yasser Arafat, Chairman of al-Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization and elected President of the Palestinian Authority, died in Paris from complications stemming from a blood disorder at the age of 75. Born Muhammad Abd al-Ra'uf al-Arafat al-Qudwa, Yasser Arafat was related to the Husayni family and had strong family ties to Gaza and Jerusalem.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3288.shtml
Shimon Peres: Palestinians lose a father
Arafat is a difficult figure with whom to come to terms. He did more than any other leader to forge a unique and separate Palestinian identity. He was the voice and symbol of the Palestinian cause. His tireless efforts brought the Palestinian cause to the forefront of the international agenda and kept it there for four decades. (Peres: PM at time of Qana Massacre in South Lebanon)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/11/opinion/edperes.html
Turner nominee takes on Israel's Wall
Turner prize-nominated artist Catherine Yass is tackling the Israeli/Palestinian conflict with her new film Wall. Yass has spent the past year filming sections of the wall that divides Jewish and Arab territories in Baqa, Qalqilya and Jerusalem. It is, she says, a physical symbol of the conflict - "a manifestation for all those jammed-up negotiations".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1348209,00.html
Arafat's body flown to Cairo for funeral
Late on Thursday, a uniformed French honor guard carried Arafat's coffin, draped with the Palestinian flag, to a ceremony at a French military base. Marching slowly to the stains of a funeral march, the honor guard passed a weeping Sufa Arafat. A military band then played the Palestinian and French anthems, before the coffin was loaded onto a plane for the flight to Cairo.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/499629.html
Prisoners say only heir is Barghouti
Palestinian security detainees are waiting to hear what prisoner Marwan Barghouti has to say: What is his position on the emerging leadership? Does he intend to contend in the planned elections? According to a lawyer who met with prisoners at Nafha prison this week, the security detainees, particularly those belonging to Fatah, speak of Barghouti as the Palestinian people's new leader.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500058.html
Fatah leader: Keep up intifada
"We must retain our national unity, our commitment to the intifada and our commitment to real democracy and the establishment of law and order." Barghuti, the man regarded as the inspiration behind the Palestinian uprising, or intifada, was handed five life terms for murder by an Israeli court on June 6.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1619655,00.html
Militants vow post-Arafat attacks amid Israeli security clampdown
"I accuse Israel of having poisoned the blood of Abu Ammar (Arafat)," he told Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera. "By killing Arafat today, Israel has killed the peace process. It has killed he who created with it this process," added Meshaal, himself the target of an assassination bid by Israeli agents in 1997.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=7&u=/afp/20041111/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_security_041111175330
3 Citizens Killed in GS and WB
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed Thursday three citizens, wounded three and arrested six others in different events in the West Bank (WB) and Gaza Strip (GS), Palestinian medical and security sources said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1867
Israel plans posthumous anti-Arafat campaign
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that after the funeral of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israel will launch a propaganda campaign against him. The political-security cabinet yesterday approved the proposed plans to bury Arafat in Ramallah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500075.html
Palestinians 'facing humanitarian crisis'
"The Palestinians are not forgotten in terms of political interest but are largely forgotten as a deep humanitarian crisis," Jan Egeland, UN humanitarian aid chief, told the Financial Times. Unemployment has soared, health standards have fallen, malnutrition has increased, and 64 per cent are below the poverty threshold...
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0e1106ec-338a-11d9-b07e-00000e2511c8.html
Humanitarian agencies appeal for $302 million to maintain their assistance to Palestinians
Closure has led to one of the worst recessions in modern history. Unemployment has increased to 34.3%, and poverty now affects 47% of the Palestinian population. 64% of Gazans are poor and around a quarter live in deep poverty, unable to meet adequately their food needs even with aid.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3309.shtml
Arafat and His Three Revolutions - By Uri Avnery
Arafat's (and Israeli) tragedy was that whenever he came closer to a peaceful solution, the Israeli governments withdrew from it. His minimum terms were clear and remained unchanged from 1974 on: A Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=54342&d=11&m=11&y=2004
Army imposes tight closure over the Palestinian areas
According to the Israeli Newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Police said that it is studying procedures to limit the number of Palestinians who will be allowed to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to conduct Friday prayers, which is also the last Friday in the Holy Moslem month of Ramadan.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week2/111104/tight-closure.htm
Palestinians pour out grief over Arafat's death
Palestinians streamed into the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday in an outpouring of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the enduring symbol of their nationalist cause. "Arafat will never die, he is the leader, he is the father," proclaimed a taxi driver in the West Bank city of Ramallah
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=World&OID=63234
Foreign dignitaries expected to attend Arafat's funeral
Egypt will host a military funeral for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday before he is buried in Ramallah, officials said. The following is a list of world leaders and dignitaries who are expected to attend the funeral:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500542.html
Israel 'dismayed' at Spanish reaction
"Arafat's charismatic personality, the international status that he gave to the Palestinian nation and his unrelenting fight for recognition for his people makes him one of the most relevant leaders of our time," the statement read.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1100147301827
Inheritance of Arafat is split three ways
In accordance with Palestinian law, Rawhi Fattouh, 55, the speaker of parliament, was sworn in as interim president of the Palestinian Authority for 60 days pending elections to choose a successor. Mr Fattouh, a secondary figure in the leadership, is not likely to be a candidate.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/285f9a56-340a-11d9-a728-00000e2511c8.html
New Fatah leader open to peace talks, ready to fight
"We are not saying we are capable of defeating the Israeli army. But this policy was set out by the PLO when the martyr, our brother Abu Ammar (Arafat), stood before the United Nations in 1974 and said 'I hold a rifle in one hand and an olive branch in the other. Don't knock the olive branch from my hand'...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500342.html
Swiss FM: No evidence of Arafat's money in Switzerland
Suspicions that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stashed money in Swiss banks are apparently unfounded, Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500561.html
U.S.: Israel must complete Gaza pullout after Arafat's death
The United States maintains that Israel is obligated to implement the disengagement plan even after the death of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=499854&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
U.S. hopes Arafat death will lead to peace
The death, U.S. and Israeli officials hope, will restart the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and revive the "road map" plan put forward by the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States. ( 'Road Map' with Unilateral Gaza pullout "COOL" ! )
http://www.wpherald.com/North_America/storyview.php?StoryID=20041111-125105-2113r
Downing Street plays down hopes on Middle East as Blair meets Bush
Mr Blair, President Bush's staunchest foreign ally, will have dinner with him tonight, talks and lunch tomorrow and a joint press conference as they try to shore up support for the military occupation of Iraq. ( To Trust or Not To Trust 'White House' )
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1348313,00.html
Arab nations mourn Arafat and call for Palestinian unity
The Arab world urged the Palestinians to stand united after the loss of their historic leader Yasser Arafat and declared official periods of mourning, as praise started to flow in.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041111/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_arabs_041111184236
Should we invest in Israel?
The Board of Aldermen held a meeting at City Hall to debate a proposed resolution that calls for the retirement board to stop investing in Israel and in companies said to contribute to human rights violations by Israelis against Palestinians.
http://www2.townonline.com/somerville/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=123517
Arafat to be recalled for leading Palestinians to accept principle of coexistence with Israel – Annan
Reacting to the death of President Yasser Arafat, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said President Arafat will always be remembered for having led the Palestinians, back in 1988, to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12505&Cr=Palestin&Cr1=
History of a siege
Governments and peoples of the West, and indeed of most of the world, certainly since 11 September, believe that the use of violence against civilians as a means of pressuring a society's government falls squarely within the definition of terrorism. Not that this applies to Israel, which has long practiced collective punishment as a means to break the Palestinian will.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/716/re8.htm
Palestine Greater Than Arafat
The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied should not be underestimated. It is this symbolism that Palestinians are mourning. The substance of Arafat's symbolism has to do with how it has represented Palestinian nationalism and the five decade struggle for justice for a people that were dispossessed in 1948, militarily occupied in 1967, attacked while in exile...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3311.shtml
Newborn Twins Named Yasser and Arafat
"I looked at my husband and I said, we will call them Yasser and Arafat," she told The Associated Press. "I'm so proud that the name of Yasser Arafat will be in my house every day, just as the name of Yasser Arafat will be in every Palestinian house forever."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=20&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat_twins
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Vanunu arrested in Jerusalem
But he insists that he has no more secrets to reveal. Vanunu has said that he wants to leave Israel, where he is widely reviled as a traitor after not only lifting the lid on the country's nuclear ambitions but also converting to Christianity. "I don't like Israel. I don't want to live in Israel. I want to be free and to leave Israel," he said in July
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041111/wl_mideast_afp/israel_nuclear_vanunu_041111172412
Al Aksa now Arafat Martyrs Brigades
The armed wing of Fatah on Thursday announced its decision to change its name from the Aksa Martyrs Brigades to the Brigades of Martyr Yasser Arafat.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1100147302028
Human 'Disaster' Looms in Encircled Falluja
Fighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq said today. In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdoos al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, said.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7055&s2=11
Fighting Erupts in Northern City of Mosul
Insurgents launched attacks in Iraq's third-largest city Thursday, raiding police stations and political offices and battling U.S. and Iraqi forces for hours. An American official acknowledged it could take "some time" to secure the city.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mosul_attacks
Two U.S. Helicopters Shot Down in Iraq - Arabiya
Two U.S. Cobra helicopters have been shot down near the Iraqi city of Falluja, Al Arabiya television said on Thursday, quoting U.S. military sources. The Dubai-based Arabic satellite station gave no more details. U.S. forces are battling Iraqi insurgents in Falluja. Al Jazeera television also reported that two helicopters had been shot down.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7049&s2=11
18 Americans Killed, 178 Hurt in Fallujah
Eighteen U.S. troops have been killed and 178 wounded in action since the start of the assault on Fallujah, the U.S. command said Thursday. Five allied Iraqi troops have also been killed and 34 wounded.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=6&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_casualties |
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