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Of Schools and "Jewish-Only" Roads in Jerusalem: "They Are Building Walls Around Us"
The school year of these 6,000 children who returned to classes on September 1 will soon come to an abrupt end. Moreover, 95 percent of the teachers in Ar-Ram live outside the neighborhood; so once the wall is completed, they to will not have access to the schools. It is not so hard to understand what will be the future of the remaining schools in Ar-Ram: Chaos.
http://www.counterpunch.com/bronner09152004.html
Ireland PSC Calls for a Boycott of Israeli Potatoes, Fruit, and Herbs Sold in Ireland
The IPSC writes: "In South Africa, an international boycott was key in ending apartheid. You can help defeat the brutal apartheid system that Israel is imposing on the Palestinians. Our governments have failed to act, so it's critical for individual people to take action in solidarity with Palestinians."
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/720.shtml
Health of Four Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 26 Days Deteriorating
Palestinian rights groups expressed grave concern for the deterioration of the health of four Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 26 days, protesting their inhuman treatment at the Kfar Yona jail, among dozens of Israeli criminal prisoners.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/084.html
AG puts brakes on Jerusalem train for crossing Green Line
Mazuz issued this order several weeks ago, following a Supreme Court decision that the route of the separation fence should be altered in segments where it blatantly violates the rights of Palestinian villagers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=478371&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
New IFJ Demand for Inquiry As Deadly Missile Strike Highlights US Role in Iraq Media Killings
The International Federation of Journalists today backed protests by journalists in the Palestinian territories over the killing yesterday of Mazen Al-Tomaizi, a television journalist, when a United States helicopter fired on a crowd in Baghdad after insurgents attacked a military vehicle.
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2691&Language=EN
Britons held after raid blunder by Israeli police
The three - a Cambridge student, a teacher and a lawyer - were arrested at gunpoint on Friday and yesterday were told to leave Israel, even though the accusations have been dropped. Three British Muslim women yesterday told of their anger after Israeli police burst into their room in the middle of the night, strip-searched them and arrested them under terrorism laws.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1304820,00.html
Demand investigation into alleged execution of five Palestinians
At 1:00am the Israeli Army attacked homes on Old Najav Street in Nablus, West of the old city. Five young men were killed and one eleven year-old girl. Medical examination evidence suggests the five men were executed. These are war crimes.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3092.shtml
Nablus, Jenin raids kill Palestinians
Ten Palestinians, among them five resistance fighters and an 11-year-old girl, have been killed in Israeli attacks in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin. Clashes with Israeli troops raiding the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Wednesday, also left up to 30 people injured. A 14-year old Palestinian boy is in a serious condition after being shot in the head.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D448E5A4-428A-44FB-AE2D-0202D70CA383.htm
32 Palestinian Houses Demolished by Israeli Troops in Rafah, Qulqelia and Jenin
The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) knocked down completely three Palestinain-owned houses in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah amidst heavy shooting, as 27 other houses were partially damaged, while two others were demolished in Qulqelia and Tulkarem.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/081.html
USAID Renovates Rafah Sewage Treatment Plant
"More than 50,000 people, whose health and welfare had been seriously endangered by the regular flooding of raw sewage, benefited from the project," it added. Through the repeated attacks on Rafah, Israeli troops used to destroy the sewage, water and electric networks, as well as demolish houses.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1686
The Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron closed; several areas raided, 16 residents apprehended
Mr. HIjazi Abu Sneineh, responsible of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Islamic Waqf department said that soldiers informed him that the mosque is completely closed in front of Moslems in order to enable settlers pray in the mosque.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091504/Hebron_raid.htm
An Open Letter to Madonna:
Please Say No to Apartheid
In Bethlehem, the Wall annexes Rachel's Tomb (a Muslim Mosque, too, with a Muslim cemetery nearby and a Christian site), in yet another Israeli land grab. Where you will be, at Rachel's Tomb, is Occupied Palestinian Territory. Three million Palestinians are under full closure for the entire month of Jewish High Holidays.
http://www.counterpunch.com/goldstein09152004.html
Five jailed IDF refusniks released from prison
The five have served some two years in military and civilian prisons, including 10 months "open detention" in an army camp. Only family and close friends are expected to be waiting outside the prison, with no political demonstrations planned.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=478403&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
IDB Governors Commit Another US$55 Mln For Al Aqsa And Al Quds Funds
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) concluded their 29th annual conference Wednesday, declaring an injection of US$55 million (RM209 million) for the Al Aqsa and Al Quds Funds, which have greatly helped, among others, the Palestinians.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_business.php?id=92858
Swedish FM urges Arafat to play part in forging Palestinian society
"Sweden will continue to support the creation of an independent and peaceful Palestinian state besides the state of Israel and we will continue helping you, Mr President, but you have to help also," she told reporters Wednesday after lunch with Arafat in his besieged West Bank headquarters. "You have a responsibility for creating a Palestinian society."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20040915/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_sweden_040915144538
Survey: 40 percent will attend synagogue on holidays
Some 10,000 immigrants were celebrating Rosh Hashanah at absorption centers in Israel on Wednesday, according to Israel Radio. For many, it is their first celebration of the Jewish New Year in the country.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478377.html
Israel will ditch road map, says Sharon
"Mitzna suggested something different, to start the Netzarim evacuation and to continue dismantling settlements, based on the road map," Mr Sharon said. "This would have brought Israel to a most difficult situation. I didn't agree to this. Today, we are also not following the road map. I am not ready for this."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1305037,00.html
U.S. says Israel still following peace 'road map'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said he did not think that accounts of Sharon's comments to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth accurately reflected the prime minister's views.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15448973.htm
EU's Patten in parting shot at Washington
"Above all, peace in Jerusalem and Palestine was not accomplished by victory in Baghdad," he said, in a reference to US President George W. Bush's forecast that a stable Iraq would help resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040915154440.vp2pqxw4
Civil society meeting at UN seeks to end Israeli occupation of Palestine
A new draft plan in support of Palestinian rights adopted by a non-governmental conference committee meeting at the United Nations calls for escalating pressure on Israel to end its occupation and threatens to seek divestment, arms embargoes and other sanctions in the event of non-compliance.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11928&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Sharon hints that Arafat may be killed
In ambiguous comments to Israeli newspapers to mark the Jewish new year, the prime minister said he intends to force the Palestinian leader into exile. But he also hinted that Mr Arafat might be killed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1304871,00.html
Syria, Egypt call for talks on creation of Palestinian state
Assad and Mubarak also said Palestinian factions should work "to achieve their commitments toward the establishment of an independent state."
The two leaders "emphasized their support for dialogue between Palestinian factions under Egyptian patronage to achieve unity in Palestinian ranks", the agencies said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478380.html
Bassi: 100 families have applied for pullout compensation
About 100 families have already applied to Sela, the government agency that will pay compensation to settlers evacuated under the disengagement plan, for information on the possibility of early evacuation in exchange for an advance on their compensation...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=477861&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Madonna Heading To Israel With Her 'Cult' For Jewish New Year
Madonna, who was born Catholic, plans to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Kabbalah Center in the northern city of Safed and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. ...has adopted the Hebrew name Esther and has been photographed wearing T-shirts that read "Kabbalists Do It Better" and "Cult Member"...
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1490970/20040915/madonna.jhtml?headlines=true
'We prove that Jews and Arabs can live together'
But the club is used to such reactions. At home, says Gnaiem, "We are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. The Israeli establishment refuses to acknowledge us as equal citizens of Israel, and many Arabs tell us that we are 'Zionists' because we play under the Israeli flag.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1304686,00.html
ACT Appeal: Assistance to Civilian Victims of Conflict, REVISION 2, Palestinian Territories
Already existing problem of freedom of movement in the Occupied Palestinian territories has been severely exacerbated by the on-going mounting of the Separation Wall. The Separation Wall has also had a negative impact on the delivery of humanitarian assistance and access to beneficiaries for the most of the aid agencies in the Territories.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/109525824954.htm
When will Britain and Europe act?
By doing nothing to end "the apartheid regime" in the Palestinian Territories, which "is worse than the one that existed in South Africa" - as described by John Dugard, South African law professor and special rapporteur for the UN on human rights in the Palestinian territories - the EU erodes its international credibility as a non-biased facilitator of peace...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1304801,00.html
Second Annual Palestinian Film Festival Dallas, Texas
On Thursday, September 16h, the second annual Dallas Palestinian Film Festival will open with the documentary, “Selves and Others” at the MAC Theater. The film depicts the life and work of the late Palestinian American intellectual, Edward Said.
http://press.xtvworld.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1966
Israelis arrested on 9/11 sue U.S.
Four Israelis arrested in New York on September 11, 2001, a short while after the attacks on the World Trade Center, filed a multi-million-dollar suit in the United States on Monday against the American Department of Justice.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478089.html
Washington's secret nuclear war
"They're using it now, they're using it in Falluja, Baghdad is chock-a-block with DU - it's all over the place," says Major Doug Rokke, director of the US army's DU project in 1994-95. "Many children are born with no eyes, no limbs, or tumours protruding from their mouths and eyes," Miraki told Aljazeera.net. Some newborns are barely recognisable as human, he says.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=5596&s2=15
219 US Troops Wounded In Iraq In Past Week -Pentagon
The number of Americans killed and wounded has grown rapidly amid an intensifying and increasingly effective insurgency. There were more wounded over the past five months - about 4,000 - than in the first 13 months of the war, when there were about 3,300, according to Pentagon reports.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=5597&s2=15
The Holes in a 'Shia Strategy'
The Shia are easier to handle. They have also disciplined their own, curbing al-Sadr's violent challenges to the government. Allawi and Washington handled this well, careful not to blast their way through Najaf's Imam Ali shrine. But the key was that Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the towering Shia figure, does want al-Sadr to disrupt the path to elections (and thus, Shia majority rule).
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=5609&s2=15 |
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