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Valley of Fire
I immediately begin to think of the wounds left by attacking dogs on the body of a boy who was shot by Israelis. I think those Israelis, emotionally and mentally twisted by the torture they apply and enjoy, who set their dogs to attack the boy they wounded. I remember the boy's father telling us his story at Aida refugee camp and the boy showing his many scars -- the boy refusing to be interviewed because the bullet they shot in his brain left damage.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3326.shtml
B'Tselem: High Court 'rubber stamp' for IDF house demolitions
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem slammed the High Court of Justice on Monday, accusing it of acting as a "rubber stamp" for government policy regarding demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501940.html
Ariel Sharon Short Story Contest: Announcing the Winner!
The first prize winner in the first annual Ariel Sharon Short Story contest is Katherine Ludwig. The story is based on what happened to Rachel Corrie, although the story does not require the reader to know this for it to "work." The story moves at a clipped pace yet flows remarkably well, as it opens up space and time for a reader to reflect on "the event" at hand.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3323.shtml
Hussam: Israel uses hundred torture methods
The Palestinian Political Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Association (Hussam) accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting Palestinian prisoners to more than hundred torture methods. Recently, the Hussam organization reported that at least 900 Palestinian prisoners are suffering various chronic illnesses inside the Isralei jails.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=11/16/2004&Cat=4&Num=003
Barghouthi
In the past few days, media sources reported a possible prisoners' exchange deal that might include Bargouthi and the jailed in Egypty Israeli spy Azam Azam. Few media sources even mentioned that Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard could be included in the reported deal.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week3/111504/barghouthi.htm
Hamas, Jihad tell Abbas they won't participate in elections
The radio quoted a Hamas spokesman who attended the talks as saying that the group would not participate in the election set for January, as the election had been announced without consulting Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501784.html
Palestinians request French medical report on Arafat's death
Palestinian leaders said Monday they had asked for a full report on Yasser Arafat's death in a Paris hospital last week, challenging French laws under which his widow has maintained a veil of secrecy.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501973.html
France says Arafat medical file can be released to family
The medical files of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat can be released upon demand to eligible parties, such as his family, a French defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041115/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_france_041115195155
Palestinians demand Israel's ease-up on election
In Paris, the Palestinian delegate Leila Chahid says the Israeli troops must withdraw from the occupied regions, to ensure the Palestinians' voting. She also indicates the Palestinians are seeking supports from the European Union and US for a fair and transparent election.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/15/content_2220866.htm
Israel reimposes ban on Palestinian troops bearing arms
Palestinian police are no longer allowed to bear arms as of Monday morning after the three-day mourning period for late leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Monday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/15/content_2221945.htm
Powell expected to visit Palestine
There was no immediate US confirmation of the talks, which would be Powell's first in Palestinian territories since May 2003, when he laid the groundwork for a US-backed peace "road map" that has since been shredded by Israeli-Palestinian violence.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B5DEC90C-4530-4B18-927C-546BC8877E91.htm
Powell to visit after Arafat death - Palestinians
U.S. President George W. Bush favours the creation of a Palestinian state on Israeli-occupied land through a peace "road map" he launched in mid-2003. The plan was derailed by further bloodshed Bush has blamed mainly on Palestinian suicide bombers. (Not mainly, but Only)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14513193.htm
Wave of arson attacks in Sderot; official's office destroyed
Last weekend, Peretz' car was torched outside his home. Arsonists also set fire to the car of Sderot Treasurer Nati Moshe. Sderot, close to Israel's border with the northern Gaza Strip, has borne the brunt of Hamas Qassam rocket and mortar fire directed at the Jewish state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=501894&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Panel okays NIS 35 million for disengagement
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan cleared a hurdle Monday as the Knesset Finance Committee approved the transfer of NIS 35 million for the implementation of the withdrawal, and early compensation payments for settlers who vacate their homes voluntarily.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501878.html
Israel holds out prospect of Gaza coordination
"We'll continue with disengagement but if we see a responsible government capable of getting gunmen off the streets we will reciprocate by renewing security coordination on disengagement steps we are preparing to take unilaterally," a senior Israeli official said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15692860.htm
EU presidency 'very satisfied' with Arafat succession process
The EU presidency is "very satisfied with the tranquil and peaceful temporary transfer of power," Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot told reporters in The Hague.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041115/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_eu_041115151352
U.S. Presbyterians warned to change 'anti-Israel' stance
Special safety precautions were taken in Presbyterian churches throughout the United States on Sunday after leaders received threats that churches would be burned by Monday if they did not demand a reversal of what a letter writer called their "anti-Israel" policy.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=501561&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Shaima' Waiting the Return of her Father
In Israeli detention camps there are more than 800 administrative detainees, among them 200 who have been in detention for more than two years. Sheikh Khaled, along with the other Palestinian detainees, live a life of suffering. It is also a life of steadfastness and hope; hope for a day of freedom, not personal freedom, but the freedom of an “imprisoned nation”.
http://www.imemc.org/features/2004/november/shaima-father.htm
Long walk to freedom
For more than 11 years he was kept in solitary confinement, initially in a two-metre by three-metre cell. "There was a lot of pressure, a lot of attempts at brainwashing," he says. "They would talk to me about the Holocaust and say that the Palestinians are terrorists or the Arabs want to destroy the Jewish state so they need an atomic bomb.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1351324,00.html
Support for Middle East elections
Bush said he would wait till after the elections in Palestine to see what help that the US will give. Does that mean that if the Palestinian people pick the wrong candidate, they will be in the same position that they are now? What if the Iraqis choose an Iranian-style government? Will the Bush regime accept it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1351477,00.html
Inflammatory legends
Many among the Palestinian public, and perhaps among its leadership as well, believe that the reason for Arafat's death was poisoning by Israeli secret agents. We apparently will never know the facts of the matter, because no autopsy was performed on Arafat, and it is doubtful whether the French hospital will give precise information on the subject.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501543.html
Time to implement Bush's vision
Yesterday's headlines would lead one to believe that President George W. Bush was about to stop playing golf and watching westerns, and was going to let the Iraq crisis ride in order to throw himself energetically into dealing with the Israeli occupation of the territories.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501542.html
'Israeli' jazz star praises Yasir Arafat
"It is clear that this man, this brave man, this hero, the biggest 20th century freedom fighter, went through a hell of a time," said Atzmon in a telephone interview from his North London home. But Atzmon is not your average Israeli. In fact he takes offence at even being called Israeli.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EAEEE2FC-12E1-4A42-B32E-67B55CD2B1F9.htm
Foreign sub in Israeli waters thought gathering intelligence
It was discovered only after penetrating three miles into Israeli waters. Navy patrol and missile boats detected the submarine, and were ordered to close on and follow it. But the submarine slipped out of the area before they arrived.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/501816.html
Arafat ‘guilty' of skimming $2m from gasoline trade
Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was guilty of ‘skimming' $2 million per month from the gasoline trade in the territories, a US media report said on Sunday, quoting people ‘familiar' with his financial dealings.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=74231
A War Crime in Real Time - By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
The obliteration of Fallujah continues apace. Article 6(b) of the 1945 Nuremberg Charter defines a Nuremberg War Crime in relevant part as the ". . . wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages. . ." According to this definitive definition, the Bush Jr. administration's destruction of Fallujah constitutes a war crime for which Nazis were tried and executed.
http://www.counterpunch.com/boyle11152004.html
Hungarian MPs vote to withdraw troops from Iraq by year-end
The Hungarian parliament voted to withdraw the country's 300 troops from Iraq by the end of the year, rejecting a government initiative that would have prolonged the deployment until March 2005.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20041115/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hungary_troops_041115192002
US has lost control of much of Mosul, say officials
American Marines from Falluja and Iraqi National Guard (ING) battalions from Kurdish autonomous region have deployed to Mosul to reinforce American and ING units based in the city, Kurdish and American military officials said. They said the local security forces had lost control of much of Mosul, Iraq's third largest city
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582912
US Says Civilians in Fallujah Need No Aid
"There is no need to bring (Red Crescent) supplies in because we have supplies of our own for the people," said US Marine Colonel Mike Shupp. "Now that the bridge (into Fallujah) is open, I will bring out casualties and all aid work can be done here (at Fallujah's hospital)."
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7204&s2=15
Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities
Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7199&s2=15
Abizaid Warns Against 'Temporary Alliances of Convenience'
"The coalition and the Iraqi government will not tolerate temporary alliances of convenience," he said. "Once you align yourself with the insurgents, you've crossed the line and you go on the list. And the only way off the list is to be killed or captured."(Under Democracy we give you two choices)
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7216&s2=15
Saboteurs Attack Oil Pipeline in Iraq
Oil exports to Turkey, the outlet for Iraq's northern fields, was halted due to the blast, he said. It will take at least a week to repair the damage, he said. Later in the day, gunmen attacked a storage and pumping station in Ein al-Jahish area, about 60 miles south of Mosul.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20041115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_oil_attacks
Doctor is haunted by siege of Fallujah
Iraqi national guardsmen and U.S. Marines, the manager said, had entered the hospital, handcuffed the doctors and were forcing the patients out to the parking lot. The guardsmen "stole the mobile phones, the hospital safe where the money is kept and damaged the ambulances and cars," said Ghanim, an orthopedic surgeon who works at the hospital.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7221&s2=15 |
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