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The Apartheid Wall and Ghettos in Ar Ram
The Apartheid Wall through Ar Ram runs in the middle of the main Jerusalem-Ramallah road, separating the two sides of the street. The Wall in Ar Ram will place sixty thousand people in a hanging ghetto, linked to Ramallah by either a bridge or a tunnel, separating the residents from Jerusalem.
http://stopthewall.org/photos/755.shtml
Where is the train headed?
A thorny question has been bothering Attorney General Menachem Mazuz for several weeks: Is it possible to continue planning the fast train line to Jerusalem, which crosses into the territories in two places? The question was raised following the High Court's ruling on the separation fence in the area of Route No. 443 and near Mevasseret Zion.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478063.html
NGO draft plan calls for sanctions against Israel
A draft plan presented at the United Nations Wednesday calls for pressure on Israel to end occupation of Palestinian territories. The draft - adopted by a non-governmental conference committee - threatens to seek divestment, arms embargoes and other sanctions in the event of non-compliance.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1095313090908
Palestinian prisoner dies from stroke
A prisoner told KUNA by phone that Fawaz Bolbol, 30, died tonight as a result of the stroke, adding that the demised inmate hailed from the village of Atil near Tulkram and that he was a member of Islamic Jihad. Palestinian prisoners in Israel have recently observed a hunger strike to press for improving their conditions behind the bars.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=664498
Internationals demand an investigation in the killing of Nablus five
Four of the five men were shot in the head at close range. The bullets did not pass through their skulls and instead exploded the young men's heads, indicating that they were shot at close range, Dr. Samir Abu Srour of the UPMRC said.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091604/intls-demand.htm
They say 9/11 changed the world. What about September 16?
September 16 commemorates the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, the day almost a quarter of a century ago, when up to 3,500 civilians, mainly Palestinian refugees, died in Beirut, Lebanon refugee camps. In 1982, Ariel Sharon was Defense Minister of Israel. An Israeli commission of inquiry found that he and other Israelis were responsible for the massacre. Now Ariel Sharon is Prime Minister of Israel.
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?montrealmuslimnews+2711
Israeli Soldiers Force Palestinian Worker to Drink Urine
The Israeli soldiers, stationed at military checkpoint of Abu Dees near Jerusalem, forced last Saturday a Palestinian worker to drink urine, Israeli newspaper "Maariv" revealed Wednesday.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1687
Weekly report on human rights violations
This week was the bloodiest week in the last two months, as 24 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 6 children, were killed and dozens of other civilians were injured by Israeli troops. Human rights violations perpetrated by IOF included willful and extra-judicial executions, incursions into Palestinian areas, indiscriminate shelling, house demolitions and land raising.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3099.shtml
Palestinians accuse Israel of bugging security HQ
"The machine had been planted inside the walls of Saraya in 1994 by the Israeli army before the pullout from Gaza," the statement said, adding it was "for the use of the (Israeli) army". The Saraya complex houses the offices of intelligence services and also the main prison.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L163866.htm
Israeli Troops wound 3 Palestinian children in southern Gaza
They said Israeli soldiers stationed around the settlement of Neveh Dekalim opened intensive gunfire at the Palestinian houses in western Khan Younis, and moderately wounded the three children.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/16/content_1988066.htm
Siege tightened in Hebron, homes topped tens withheld
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers withheld tens of residents, searched them and clubbed several youths on checkpoint erected in the city, in addition to assaulting tens of school students and children on their way to school.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091604/Siege_Hebron.htm
Egypt nabs 7 Palestinians at illegal Gaza crossing
The men had been trying to breach a border fence on Wednesday when Egyptian security spotted them and exchanged fire. They fled to a nearby farm and threatened to use explosives if approached, but later gave themselves up.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478518.html
Captured Palestinian official freed
Just over three hours after al-Batrawi was seized, he was freed through intervention of Fatah leaders and security commanders and was driven to his home in the nearby town of Dair al-Balah, witnesses said. It was not immediately known what, if anything, the fighters had demanded or exactly who was behind the kidnapping.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4F27675A-B4FF-45B1-870F-9A19895791DA.htm
PNA official slams Israel for not responding to Egypt's efforts
Meanwhile, al Khatib accused the United States of encouraging Israel to continue its practices against Palestinians by stating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is still clinging to the roadmap peace plan while he stated clearly he disavows it.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/16/content_1991551.htm
Former Palestinian PM calls for unifying security apparatuses
"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon doesn't have the right to oppose any of the roadmap chapters or provisions that were documented officially by the Security Council resolution 1515," he said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/16/content_1988047.htm
Army chief says planning advanced for Gaza pullout
"Forces are at an advanced stage of planning for the disengagement and are just waiting for the order," Moshe Yaalon said in a pre-recorded interview on Israel Radio.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16165762.htm
Only 5 Palestinian factions to participate in Cairo dialogue
The five factions are Fatah movement, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democrat Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Resistance Movements (Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War), said the sources.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/16/content_1991558.htm
Settlers or Sharon - By: Dr. Azmi Bishara
In Israel it seems that those championing a disengagement from the largest possible number of Palestinians while giving up the least amount of land have won their two-pronged battle against those clamoring for continued direct control over the territories... What Sharon and Bush are offering is a Palestinian state on condition the Palestinians concede everything else.
http://www.amin.org/eng/azmi_bishara/2004/sep16.html
Heightened security for Madonna's Tel Aviv spiritual retreat
"This visit takes you to the heart of occupied territory in Bethlehem: a closed-off prison, a ghetto, whose civilians now have no work, no freedom, no life," said a statement by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. "Are you being used to legitimize the occupation of Palestine? Are you being exploited, without your full awareness?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=20&u=/afp/20040916/wl_mideast_afp/afplifestyle_israel_040916144300
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis
Not surprisingly, the book received little coverage in the American media. Now, in 51 Documents , Brenner has compiled a wide variety of letters, statements, articles, and judgements—some of which appeared in his earlier book—by a broad array of activists and authors, that documents Zionist cooperration with the Nazis.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Sept_2004/0409086.html
Israeli Arab team enter big league
As Or Raklevski of the Israeli newspaper Maariv explains: "When Sakhnin arrives to most of their away games they hear chants like 'death to Arabs' and so on. Not in all of them, but in some. "It's very, very far-fetched to say that it will make a real difference in the lives of Arab people in Israel."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3663386.stm
Israelis, Palestinians Must Learn To Keep Church And State Separate
Polls and other studies show that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians favor an end to the fighting. However, they don't seem to realize the marriage of religion and state legally empowers religious imposters to mistreat their own peoples even while feeding the 56 year war they suffer.
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=0FA5FDD3-5A7F-448D-B499-A1647EFD41E3
Another non-year?
Sharon began the countdown and his climb to power back in the days of Ehud Barak. It was four years ago yesterday, a day before Rosh Hashanah eve, that he visited the Temple Mount and helped ignite the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Two years ago, after the holidays, he resigned and dispersed the Knesset.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478098.html
Checkpoint Hebrew Finds Way Into Palestinian Lexicon
Israeli Arabs, descended from families that stayed while hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or were forced out during the 1948 war that led to Israel's creation, were among the first to use Hebrew. Its sway later spread to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, where Israel built settlements and long pursued a policy of economic integration.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&ncid=572&e=6&u=/nm/20040915/lf_nm/mideast_language_dc_1
SUPREME COURT OPENS DOOR FOR LAWSUITS AGAINST ISRAEL
It is estimated that the United States is home to over a quarter million people of Palestinian descent. Those within the Palestinian-American community who had their property illegally expropriated by Israel from 1948 to the present day now have a clear avenue to pursue justice, either through individual lawsuits, or collectively with other Palestinians in class-action lawsuits.
http://www.amjerusalem.org/press/pr-2004-6-08.htm
Israel pursues family of 'suicide' bombers
The problem for Israel is that despite the best efforts of its security service, it's been unable to crack the Hebron cell. And that's because the Hamas operatives led by Imad Qawasme are extremely disciplined and loyal.
Hamad Qawasmeh is a family spokesman.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1200255.htm
UNRWA Opens Nimreen Children's Music Centre in Yarmouk
The facility was made possible with donations totalling just over US$ 42,000 from Music in Me, Rotary International and UNESCO. Here, Palestinian children will absorb the rich tradition of Arabic music and extend their knowledge to wider musical traditions.
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265/b66cb5e87a73d76085256f1100606a90!OpenDocument
US gives conflicting accounts of rocket attack that killed 13 dead
The US account of the incident in which Mazen al-Tomeizi, a Palestinian television producer working for al-Arabiya satellite channel was killed, was contradicted by the film taken by his cameraman at the moment the rocket struck. There is no sound of firing from the crowd in the moments before the helicopters attacked.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=562235
Briton, two Americans, Syrian kidnapped as Iraq hostage crisis escalates
The new abductions -- compounded by the kidnapping of a Syrian driver and suspicions in Stockholm that three Swedish citizens are hostages -- came as UN chief Kofi Annan denounced the 2003 US-led war as "illegal" for the first time.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20040916/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_040916200918
Annan: US invasion of Iraq was illegal
"I am one of those who believe that there should have been a second resolution from the UN Security Council to green-light the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime," Annan said. "I have indicated that it was not in conformity with the UN charter from our point of view, and from the charter point of view it was illegal," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2AA1310F-798C-4666-AE76-DCB6370C75CC.htm
Green Zone is ‘no longer totally secure'
US military officers in Baghdad have warned they cannot guarantee the security of the perimeter around the Green Zone, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and home to the US and British embassies, according to security company employees.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e0214956-074f-11d9-9672-00000e2511c8.html
Far graver than Vietnam
according to the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost. Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse, he's lost on that front. That he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It's lost."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1305360,00.html |
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