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Hebron: The Street
All access to the Old City was left to two checkpoints, creating a barrier from East to West. There are now plans to seize Palestinian rooftops and set up a new regulatory and permitting regime for residents of the Old City. The planned Wall through Hebron will connect with the Eastern Wall and will begin contruction in 2005.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/11469/
Reaping a dangerous harvest in the West Bank's olive groves
"The settlers threaten us with weapons. The year before last one came and told me: 'If you don't leave I'll bring bulldozers and destroy all your trees." He cannot, he says, risk planting 50 acres adjacent to the olive grove with wheat and barley, as he used to. "Not a human being, not a sheep can go in there," he says.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=583989
Israel Wants to Exhume Body of Palestinian
Soldiers from the unit later told Israeli media that the officer walked up to the girl after she was hit and riddled her bleeding body with a burst of automatic fire... However, the family has so far refused the request. Autopsies are forbidden under Islamic law. "Also, the family does not have much faith in the army," said Tzemel.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=1312&e=10&u=/ap/20041118/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_girl_shot_1
PM: PA must end anti-Israel propaganda immediately
The Palestinians must end anti-Israel propaganda and incitement in the media and in schools before the first phase of the road map to peace can be implemented, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Likud activists on Thursday evening. (He is not joking!??)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503506.html
Hold elections to usher in a legitimate Palestinian order
They must clearly explain this strategy and organize Palestinians and allies everywhere to struggle for its implementation, starting with an effort to push for full realization of the International Court of Justice's decision on the West Bank separation wall.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=10194
Doctrine of stages
Netanyahu, who cannot transfer the funds directly from the Finance Ministry, was forced to agree, and thus, the Knesset voted this week on the allocation of NIS 42 million: NIS 21 million to the territories and NIS 21 million to struggling local authorities inside the Green Line. (Illegal Jewish Settlements?)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503073.html
Israeli Forces Arrest Civilians as Settlers Attack Them
Security sources and eyewitnesses confirmed that armed settlers ambushed several civilians near the Wadi Al Maleh road, and hurled stones and empty bottles at them. One of the victims said he miraculously survived the rain of rocks on his cars, pointing out that he might have died if he had stopped his car.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=1037
Sell-by date of war crimes about to expire in Somerville, MA?
The Presbyterian Church and the National Lawyers Guild have already voted to divest and The Anglican Church is considering it. Companies targeted include Caterpillar, United Technologies, General Electric, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin Corporation. Caterpillar has been the target of numerous boycott campaigns since American Rachel Corrie was killed by a D-9 bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3332.shtml
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 11 - 17 Nov 2004
Human rights violations perpetrated by IOF included willful killings, incursions into Palestinian areas, indiscriminate shelling, land leveling and total closure imposed on Palestinian communities. Israeli troops also prevented hundreds of Palestinian civilian from participating in the funeral procession of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/254aa5d3fdcb212ec1256f50004c3c23?OpenDocument
International Solidarity Movement Call for Support in Difficult Times
We continue to receive activists on a weekly basis and need you help to train, provide support services, communication and transportation for our Palestinian led support system. Only with your financial contributions can we continue our work.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1089
Abbas reaches agreement with factions on ending chaos
"Abbas had a clear commitment to setting up democratic Palestinian institutions and condemning all kinds of internal fighting and the deterioration of security and the spread of guns," it said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/18/content_2234714.htm
Rice, Hadley Appointments Cheered
Israeli officials and Jewish organizations in the United States were cheering President Bush's decision to make Condoleezza Rice the next secretary of state and elevate her deputy, Stephen Hadley, to the post of national security advisor.
http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=staff200411171118
Israeli Prime Minister Sharon seeks re-election
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has announced that he would run again in Israel's next parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2006, despite strife within his right-wing Likud party over his Gaza pullout plan.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=623655§ion=news
Senior Hamas political figure freed from Israeli prison
Sheikh Hassan Yussef immediately headed to the West Bank town of Ramallah to pay his respects at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after being freed from the nearby Ofer military prison.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=1&u=/afp/20041118/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_hamas_prisoner_041118140235
Palestinians Ask for Election Monitors
Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20041118/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
Palestinians hold contacts with US, EU on election: Erekat
"The Palestinians asked the EU and the US to make sure that Israel would not obstruct the election," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told the Cairo-based voice of the Arabs radio.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/18/content_2234333.htm
Fourth committee accepts request to postpone action on draft resolutions relating to Palestine refugee agency, Israeli Practices in occupied Arab territories
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) decided this afternoon to defer action on nine draft resolutions -- four relating to the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and five on Israeli practices in Arab territories occupied since 1967.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/gaspd306.doc.htm
Palestinians to witness active diplomatic moves: Shaath
In addition, foreign ministers from Russia, Britain and Norway will visit the territories following Powell, he said. "The aim of their visits is to develop relationships with the new Palestinian leadership and urge Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip as part of the implementation of the roadmap peace plan," said Shaath.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/18/content_2234663.htm
PM apologizes after IDF mistakenly kills 3 Egyptian troops
Mubarak told Sharon that Egypt accepts the apology and understands that the incident was a mistake, but the Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned what it called irresponsible Israeli conduct and demanded an immediate investigation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503304.html
Soldiers sign petition against evacuating settlements
A group known as Defensive Shield has collected the signatures of 3,000 soldiers, mostly reservists, who have declared they will not evacuate settlements under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=503078&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Al-Kidwa to get Arafat's medical records from Paris
Yasser Arafat's nephew, Nasser al-Kidwa, will head to Paris on Friday to obtain the medical records related to the Palestinian Authority chairman's death, a Palestinian official said Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503466.html
Connecting Refugees: An interview with Karma Nabulsi
"It had been the accepted understanding up until now in the international community that you don't want to talk to the refugees; you don't want to hear what they have to say, because they are in the way; they are the obstacle to 'The Deal'".
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3339.shtml
Israel/Palestine Future Leaders Past Leaders
Yitzhak Rabin -was, under the British Mandate, the leader of the prisoners in Rafah prison camp. Yitzhak Shamir -was arrested as a terrorist and exiled to a prison camp in Erithrea. Menahem Begin -was branded as a terrorist with a big prize on his head... All three became later Prime Ministers of Israel and were ceremoniously received by Britain...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00203.htm
Palestinian elections unsettle Israel
"Now Arafat is dead, Israel should move forward toward the path of peace. "But this is unlikely to happen. Sharon and his government will fetch another red herring. The real issue is not this or that leader, but Israel's adamant refusal to come to terms with Palestinian rights.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A1BEB6E4-E7FF-40F8-9C18-B875574A6786.htm
Meet the artist and have a chef guide
"The beachfront promenade has been extended to Jaffa, the refurbishing of the market is soon to be completed, and people feel there's a reason to come." Tourism had dropped in Jaffa, where tensions had run high; one-third of the city is Arab, two-thirds are Jewish.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503050.html
The death of Arafat and the end of national liberation
Between the 1940s and the 1970s a great wave of anti-colonial liberation movements swept the world. European colonial rule almost vanished from the globe. Over a hundred new states were created. This was one of the most profound transformations the world political system ever experienced.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-97-2234.jsp
Analysis: Israel hand seen in Ivorian clash
"Israeli mercenaries assisting the Ivory Coast army operated unmanned aircraft that aided the aerial bombing of a French base in the country on Nov.9," France's TF-1 television station reported Wednesday.
http://www.wpherald.com/Africa/storyview.php?StoryID=20041117-021251-9832r
Image-wary Israel seeks "ambassador" on reality TV
A new TV series called "The Ambassador" features 14 Israelis trying to outdo each other battling Israel's global image problem in the face of a 4-year-old Palestinian uprising. The prize: an all-expenses-paid year working as an Israeli public relations liaison in New York.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18451721.htm
Forty-Seven Bodies Boycott Iraq Elections
They further said that the outcome of the election is settled in advance for the “collaborators” with the US occupation troops. The conference is organized by the Iraqi National Founding Conference, a coalition of Sunni, Shiite and independent Iraqi figures.
http://www.world-crisis.com/news/1089_0_1_0_M/
U.S. forces carry on with deadly airstrikes on Fallujah
U.S. forces launched a series of air strikes against Iraqi fighters still resisting in the war-torn western Iraqi city of Falluja. Sporadic gun fire and blasts were heard in south-central parts of Fallujah as U.S. soldiers were hunting fighters in the shattered city.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7301&s2=17
Fallujah fighting takes more lives as wave of violence engulfs Iraq
A US marine and an Iraqi soldier were killed in Fallujah, as 17 other people died in attacks elsewhere in Iraq and marine intelligence warned that the insurgency would grow despite massive offensives to crush the rebels.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041118/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_041118185142 |
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