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NOV9 :The wall must fall protests in UK
Seven activists were arrested and charged... They plan to use the court case to challenge the legality of trade with a company that deals in settlement goods, especially in light of the International Court of Justice Ruling which ruled that countries have an obligation not to not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the construction of the wall.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/803.shtml
A cultural protest against the wall
The wall is not only violating Palestinians' right to freedom of movement and obstructing them from their source of income, but it is also blocking their view of natural sunrise and sunset. It is blocking the hope of a bright future and a just peace. History shows that building walls rarely solves conflicts or guarantees security.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3346.shtml
Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Fact Sheet: Apartheid in Palestine—Definition, History up to the Wall, and Tool for Mobilization
This fact sheet focuses as well on the ties between the South African Apartheid Regime and the Israeli Apartheid Regime, and emphasizes the lessons to be learned from the successful solidarity movement that supported the South African struggle against Apartheid.
http://stopthewall.org/factsheets/805.shtml
Iman al-Hams' Family Agrees To Exhumation
Israeli military prosecutors have been given permission to exhume the body of a 13-year-old girl who witnesses say was repeatedly shot by an Israeli army commander as she lay wounded on the ground in the southern Gaza Strip. The family of the girl, Iman al-Hams, agreed to the request after some consideration.
http://www.world-crisis.com/news/1098_0_1_0_M/
British Cameraman's Family killed in Gaza to Sue Israeli Government
"Death in Gaza" was completed after Miller's death and features footage showing how he was killed by an Israeli soldier. Miller was earlier this month posthumously awarded a Rory Peck award for "Death in Gaza." "We will be issuing a civil action not only for my brother's murder but also for contributory negligence to our compounded grief,"...
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week3/111904/james-miller.htm
Ya'alon orders probe of claims soldiers abused bodies
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon ordered Military Police on Friday to investigate claims that soldiers abused the bodies of dead Palestinians and took photographs with them. (No mentioning of DATE abuse took place)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=503849&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Gaza's blocked arteries
It is a public holiday in Gaza - with Eid and the period of official mourning for Yasser Arafat - so there is no better time to sample what it is like for Palestinians travelling through the Israeli-occupied strip. After a certain point, every feature of landscape has been erased - bulldozed out of existence by the Israeli army.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4021095.stm
British-Palestinian artist wins prestigious Swiss prize
In Hatoum's work, everyday items - a bed, a chair, cooking utensils - turn from innocuous objects into threatening, often razor-sharp weapons which induce in the viewer an acute sense of being under threat, both physically and mentally. The dangers of life are all around us - as she demonstrates - and useful, perfectly harmless objects can be turned into threatening instruments.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=10253
Palestinians: Officer killed by IDF tank fire in Gaza
A Palestinian officer was killed by Israel Defense Forces fire east of the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday evening, Palestinian sources reported. According to the sources, the officer was killed by tank fire. The army denied the claim
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=503376&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Known by their Tattoos, Fast Shooting, Russian Snipers in Israel's Army
These recruits, according to the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv, have been working in the Russian army and participated in attacks against the Chechnya. The snipers, known as "Foreign Birds" have been recruited to assassinate Palestinian resistance men, Ma'ariv said.
http://www.imemc.org/features/2004/november/russian-snipers.htm
From prison, a Palestinian eyes the presidency
Barghouti is the most prominent member of the rising generation of Palestinian leaders, fortysomething men who, unlike Arafat and his fellow exiles, grew up under Israeli occupation, learned Hebrew in Israeli prisons and came to admire aspects of Israeli democracy even as they resented their occupiers. Barghouti was a frequent critic of governance under Arafat.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/19/news/barghouti.html
Palestinian prime minister urges United States to stick to its original deadline on Palestinian statehood
The Palestinian prime minister urged the United States on Friday to stick to its original 2005 deadline for Palestinian statehood, arguing that President Bush's recent proposal to extend it by as much as four years will give Israel time to grab more land in the disputed West Bank.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/19/international1543EST0588.DTL
Uraiqat: Peace only if both sides cooperate
Israel must stop building settlements; free prisoners and detainees; return the situation as existed on 28 September 2000; facilitate elections in line with the 1995 accord, that is, allow participation of all Palestinians from Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; solve the refugee issue; and finally end the occupation, Uraiqat said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8095DEDC-CFEB-4CB3-A4C6-84C894AA9BBB.htm
Palestinian leaders call for unity to end chaos
"This cooperation would achieve security for residents and help enforce law, justice and discipline," the statement said. It said the factional leaders, including those from the radical movement Hamas and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War), had positively responded to the call for cooperation.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/19/content_2236878.htm
Progress Sited in PA, Factions Talks
PLO new leader Mahmoud Abbas told Palestinian TV on Thursday, signaling a breakthrough in PA dialogue with opposition groups. Abbas also said that a committee composed of representatives of all Palestinian factions is looking into a compromise that would be accepted by all.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week3/111904/progress%20in%20pa%20factions.htm
Fatah suggests to merge president posts of PLO, PNA
Tayeb Abdel Rahim, member of the committee, read a statement after the meeting of the Fatah central committee held in Gaza that it was decided that the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO could also be the president of the PNA.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/18/content_2235377.htm
Qureia: We will inform Palestinians of cause of Arafat's death
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia told the Associated Press on Friday that there was no doubt that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's medical records - which French officials have refused to release publicly - would come to light.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503466.html
'Road map' sponsors will send foreign ministers to West Bank next week
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would come to the West Bank next week, after a visit Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The Spanish and German foreign ministers are also expected in the coming weeks, Shaath said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=10231
Letter: What is the money doing there, anyway?
In the Somerville Journal article on Nov. 11, "Should we invest in Israel?," Erin Dower quotes me as saying, "She says her relatives are bound to violent Palestine because Israel denies them passports." Israel enforces the same Apartheid policies in Palestine against the indigenous people of Palestine and it's called a "complex situation."
http://www2.townonline.com/somerville/opinion/view.bg?articleid=128195
Bush's plan to aid Palestinians runs into opposition
Under pressure from key lawmakers, the Bush administration said on Thursday it would work with Congress on plans to resume direct U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=503633&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
U.S. Presbyterians on terror alert
The threat was apparently in response to a recent vote by the PCUSA's General Assembly to divest the church's assets from certain corporations that do business in Israel, such as Caterpillar -- whose bulldozers are used to level Palestinian settlements.(Something very new)
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041117-041436-5170r.htm
On This Day 1977: Egyptian leader's Israel trip makes history
His presence in Israel breaks an Arab policy of not dealing publicly with the Jewish state created in 1948. President Sadat's overtures to Israel made him popular in the West - he and Menachim Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/19/newsid_2520000/2520467.stm
Questions of chaos - By Azmi Bishara
In Palestine at present there is only one state: Israel. Democratising Israel can only mean one thing, which is to extend suffrage throughout the entire land of Palestine in the framework of a democratic secular state for all its inhabitants. But this is not what they intended. What they meant was democracy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and freedom of expression, no less.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/op2.htm
Reshaping history - By Noam Chomsky
Since the issue of Palestinian national rights in a Palestinian state reached the agenda of diplomacy in the mid-1970s, "the prime obstacle to its realization", unambiguously, has been the US government, with the NYT staking a claim to be second on the list. Meanwhile the NYT refused -- the word is accurate -- to publish the fact that through the 1980s, Arafat was calling for negotiations which Israel rejected.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/sc42.htm
Israel's democratic dilemma
"Israel and the US can't have their cake and eat it. Democracy is democracy and the Palestinians must be allowed to choose their representatives regardless of the political views of those representatives," says Ali Jarbawi, head of the Palestinian Election Committee and professor of political science at Bir Zeit University.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/sc5.htm
Funeral prayers for Egypt police killed by Israeli tankfire
The prayer ceremony was held at a military hospital in El Arish, near where the police were killed on the Gaza-Egypt border on Thursday, ahead of their burial in their respective villages later in the day.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=4&u=/afp/20041119/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_egypt_041119131017
ICRC slams 'utter contempt' for humanity amid fierce fighting in Iraq
The International Committee of the Red Cross sharply criticized the "utter contempt" for humanity shown by all sides in Iraq amid fierce fighting between US forces and insurgents for control of the city of Fallujah.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20041119/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_fallujah_aid_icrc_041119190947
U.S., Iraqi Troops Storm Baghdad Mosque
Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed a key Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said... The raid came a day after the Iraqi government warned that Islamic clerics who incite violence will be considered as "participating in terrorism."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Iraq War Topping $5.8 Billion A Month
The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals. That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_cost_111804,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl
A war crime in real time - By Francis Boyle
The obliteration of Falluja 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 George Bush administration's destruction of Falluja constitutes a Nazi war crime. There is nothing surprising about that.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/re4.htm
Last Australian aid agency in Iraq pulls out
The last remaining Australian aid agency in Iraq, World Vision, is pulling out of the country after the murders of its own head of operations and CARE Australia aid worker Margaret Hassan.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=17&u=/afp/20041119/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_australia_aid_041119064943
US angered by refusal of some in NATO to participate in Iraq mission: official
The United States is growing increasingly frustrated with the refusal of five NATO members, particularly Germany, to allow their military officers assigned to alliance bases to be deployed in Iraq, a senior US official said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041119/wl_mideast_afp/us_nato_iraq_041119203220 |
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