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Israel intensifies land seizures
on Tuesday Israeli soldiers guarding the bulldozers used to level Palestinian fields west of Hebron, fired teargas canisters at Palestinian and international protesters, injuring a number of youths. Hundreds of farmers and their children from the nearby villages of Dir Samet and Beit Awwa tried unsuccessfully to protect their olive groves from the onslaught of the bulldozers.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7A1982B9-EF9F-463E-BEE5-88209C2078FA.htm
People and Politics / When you need a permit to sleep in your own home
He spent the night at the Border Police base together with Marwan, and another 80 men and teens from the neighborhood. In the morning, to be allowed to go home, he signed a document affirming he knows that he lives in his home illegally, and that he knows he is forbidden to sleep there without getting an overnight pass from the Israeli authorities...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477600.html
Weisglass presents new 'fence' route to Rice, Powell
Prime Minister Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weisglass held preparatory talks with US officials on Monday in Washington ahead of his scheduled meetings Tuesday with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1095052276839&p=1006688055060
PNA condemns German minister's statement on security wall
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said, "It's a strange attitude of the German minister" especially given that Germany disagrees with Israel on the construction of the wall. The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled in July that the Israeli barrier is illegal and should be torn down.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/14/content_1982231.htm
Israeli troops destroy two houses in Rafah
Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and bulldozers stormed a neighborhood in Rafah early Tuesday and demolished two houses close to the borderline between Rafah and Egypt, residents and Palestinian security sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/14/content_1981456.htm
RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS IN GAZA
During the Second Intifada alone, Israel has demolished more than 4,500 Palestinian homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Most of these homes were not demolished during combat but rather as part of Israel's pro-active policy of asserting its control over the Territories.
http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=198
Qurie condemns closure of Jerusalem voter centres
Qurie said the Palestinian Authority was determined to carry out plans to register voters in "all Palestinian territories that Israel occupied in 1967 starting with holy Jerusalem". Israel annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it, a move not recognised internationally.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14631818.htm
In pictures: Clowns Without Borders
"We performed in Hebron, Abu Dis, Kalandia, Nablus, Qalqilya, Beit Jala, Salfit and the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. "In the refugee camps, especially in Gaza, life is dominated by religion. This type of entertainment does not exist."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/middle_east_clowns_without_borders/html/3.stm
Palestinian accused rapist shot dead in custody
The shooting marked the second fatal attack in less than two months on detainees in the custody of Palestinian security forces. Security forces, banned by Israel from carrying guns as part of restrictions imposed during the past four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, were unable to stop them.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478027.html
Suicide bomber injures 3 IDF soldiers in West Bank blast
A suicide bomber blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep early Tuesday outside the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, wounding three Israel Defense Forces soldiers, one seriously, rescue workers said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477853.html
Israeli Troops Comb And Arrest Several In Hebron And Tulkarem
The Israeli occupation forces launched today a wide scale of arrest in Hebron city of the West Bank, in which at least 10 residents were arrested during a scouring search in the old town of the city and Doura town.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/075.html
Media spotlight on Baghdad deaths
In the foreground, Mazen Tumeisi, a Palestinian working for two Saudi-owned TV networks, al-Arabiya and al-Ikhbariya, is preparing to be recorded on camera as he describes the scene. Suddenly a big explosion engulfs the street in smoke. Tumeisi collapses. The lens is spattered with his blood.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3652174.stm
Sharon insists Arafat will be expelled
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisted Yasser Arafat would be expelled from the West Bank, adding that the Palestinian leader would be dealt with in the same way as two assassinated heads of Hamas.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=1512&e=10&u=/afp/20040914/wl_afp/mideast_israel_arafat_040914123757
MK Omri Sharon: Killing Arafat is not an option
But Omri Sharon, long a senior advisor and confidante of the prime minister, took what appeared to be an opposite stance as he participated Monday in a meeting of the Eden Circle of Likud Central Committee members.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=477863&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
EU opposed to more talks on 'fence' at UN
The diplomats have made it clear to PLO representative Nasser Al Kidwa that they oppose his plans to raise the issue as a major subject for discussion in the General Assembly. Reliable sources in New York said yesterday that Arab diplomats at the UN also expressed in private conversations their opposition to the resumption of the discussion on the separation fence
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478049.html
Tel Aviv court approves administrative detention for Fahima
Judge Goren said he reached the conclusion that "Fahima is determined to execute a terror attack against Israeli targets and that there was no other choice but to place her under administrative detention."(She voted for Ariel Sharon)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477955.html
The conscientious objectors go free
Haggai Matar, Adam Maor, Shimri Tsameret, Matan Kaminer and Noam Bahat - the five conscientious objectors to military service - are getting out of prison tomorrow, after serving a year's sentence, and another year in repeated remands. It is not clear what the army is planning for the day after their release.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477575.html
Israeli Ministers Approve Compensation for Settlers
Under the compensation plans, uprooted families could receive between £110,000 and £195,000 for their losses. While the compensation law still needs parliamentary approval, officials said cash advances – totalling up to one-third of the final compensation package – could be made in the meantime from reserve funds.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3496043
Rajoub: Palestinians recognize Israel in '67 borders
The statement by Jibril Rajoub, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's national security adviser, appears to be the first reference by a senior Palestinian official to Israel as a Jewish state and to its demographic issue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=477811&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Vatican: Poraz to resolve visa problem for Catholic clergy
Church officials in Jerusalem have been complaining for months that delays in approving visas - many of them sought by Arab clergymen - have undermined Church operations in the Holy Land.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478031.html
Police probing death threats to PM, disengagement officials
Rabbi Yosef Dayan, from the West Bank settlement of Psagot, told Channel Two news on Tuesday that if asked to hold a Pulsa Denura, a Kabbalah ceremony aimed at leading to the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he would do so.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477956.html
Palestinian security chiefs begin series of meetings in Egypt
Egypt has offered to train Palestinian security, and has urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to overhaul and streamline his security branches in the Palestinian territories ahead of Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=477539&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Ashrawe Calls on Upcoming American Administration to Seriously Involve In Mideast Peace process
Dr. Hanan Ashrawe, the secretary general of The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy “MIFTAH” and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Called on Monday the upcoming elected American administration to assume all its responsibilities for the Middle East peace process.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/073.html
U.N.: Palestinians biggest refugee group
The more than 5 million Palestinian refugees are 18 percent of all refugees, according to the report, released Tuesday by the U.N. Habitat Globalization and Urban Culture agency. Thirty-six percent of these refugees are less than 16 years old.
http://www.jta.org/brknews.asp?id=119579
Palestinians fear Israeli "hunter-killer" drones
The web site of Northrop Grumman, an American avionics firm, says it has rigged its Israeli-designed Hunter drone with missiles that are completely silent, coasting out of the sky on to their targets by using glider fins rather than a propulsion system.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1413571.htm
Sharon Says Rejected U.S. Bid for Talks with Syria
He said it would be "very dangerous" for Israel to resume talks at the point where they broke off in 2000, before he took office. Israel at that time had agreed to cede parts of the Golan Heights seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=19&u=/nm/20040914/wl_nm/mideast_sharon_syria_dc_1
U.S. agrees to help Israel relocate military bases
DSCA said Israel requested services from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction of two infantry training bases and a storage and logistics base for an armored division, which are being moved. to help Israel relocate two infantry bases and move a third military base to Israel from the Palestinian territories.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=477603&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
A PALESTINIAN VIEW - Lessons from the past
January 15 (1948), the British Mandate Authorities shut down Al Ihtihad newspaper, the paper of the ALL. Al Ihtihad was the only newspaper that had foreseen the likely outcome of the violent confrontations. In its articles and editorials, the paper worked to prevent the Palestinian people from taking part in the confrontations, and advocated acceptance of the partition plan.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal2.php
AN ISRAELI VIEW -
181 means no right of return
And not just any Jewish state. For while at the outset Israel would have roughly equal Arab and Jewish populations, UNGAR 181 clearly demands that the British hasten to evacuate a "seaport and hinterland" to facilitate "substantial [Jewish] immigration", thereby making clear its intention that the Jewish state indeed be Jewish in nature.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php
Car bomb explodes in Baghdad
A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early today as dozens of Iraqis were applying to join the force, killing at least 47 people and wounding 114, officials said. Elsewhere, a hospital official said at least 12 people were killed in a drive-by shooting in Baqubah, northeast of the capital. The vehicle was carrying Iraqi policemen home from work.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=561557
Ambulance torn apart in Fallujah as US launches 'precision' strikes
"The conditions here are miserable - an ambulance was bombed, three houses destroyed and men and women killed," said Rafayi Hayad al-Esawi, the director of the hospital. "The American army has no morals."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=561410
Engineers Battle Insurgents in Oil Blasts
The 3 a.m. attack blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River at the northern city of Beiji. The burning oil melted power cables, causing a short that knocked power plants off line and cut off electricity across Iraq until late afternoon, officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20040914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_oil |
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