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Photostory: Hebrew University to displace Palestinian families
On Sunday, November 21 at 7:15AM, bulldozers and armed security guards hired by Hebrew University Properties, Ltd. arrived at the home of Al-Helou family in Jerusalem to announce that their land will be confiscated for the expansion of the university dormitories. (Nobody to condemn it, everyone is fine with such action!)
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3361.shtml
Documentary film review: "Mur" (Wall)
The documentary starts with the slow installation of concrete slabs, one by one, obliterating the view of landscapes and Palestinian villages, until there is not a chink of light remaining. The camera follows the gradual motion and stays fixed on the shot. We see Palestinians cut off from their land, and their olive groves, olives left to rot on the branch.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3357.shtml
Officer charged over 'confirmed killing' of Gaza girl, 13
"The accused stood in a similar way to before, when he shot her twice, pointed his weapon downward and shot, this time on automatic, approximately 10 bullets until he emptied his magazine," the indictment says. The officer, who has been suspended, was not identified. (not a life term, not even five life terms!)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504759.html
Arab lawmakers group calls for steps to protect Arab children
"Children are exposed to brutal bombardment in Iraq and to catastrophes in Palestine," said Nouridine Bouchkouj, the APU's secretary-general, at the opening of the first Arab lawmakers' meeting to discuss ways to protect the region's children.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504823&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Fire and Rain in Nablus: Three Reports on a Solidarity Action for Fallujah
For 10 to 15 minutes, Jabl-an-Naar (Mountain of Fire) was alight with the Arabic word "Falluja". The same message was displayed two days earlier, and repeated because of Nablus's appreciation of its success.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1090
Palestinian militants attack Israeli targets in Gaza
In a leaflet, the group said six mortar shells were fired at theGenital settlement near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan YounisMonday morning. It also claimed responsibility for firing five mortar shells at Tal al-Zu'rub Israeli outpost located on the borderline with Gaza and Egypt.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/22/content_2247778.htm
It can happen here
Anyone who was taken by surprise by the appalling testimonies published in Yedioth Ahronoth last Friday about the mutilation of bodies of Palestinian militants and of innocent victims, probably assumed that the Israel Defense Forces is the world's most ethical army. But the IDF is, in fact, like every other occupying force
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504403.html
Talks with UN, U.S. aim to define status of evacuated areas
Israel is seeking a "creative" formula that will diminish its responsibility vis-a-vis the Gaza Strip following its withdrawal from the area. Israeli officials have proposed creating interim stages, such as "a step toward ending the occupation," or the definition of "effective control of the area."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504407&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
EU to send election observation mission to Palestine
The decision is a concrete expression of the EU's effort to support the development of democratic institutions and stability in the Palestinian Territories. The presence of the EOM and the reporting of its observers will help to increase transparency and build confidence in the election process.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3362.shtml
PLO to press Powell on road map
Palestinian leaders will tell Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, who is visiting the occupied territories today, that they want the Bush administration to commit itself to the creation of a Palestinian state by the end of next year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1356608,00.html
Moderate Abbas adopted as mainstream candidate to replace Arafat: minister
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat`s moderate number two Mahmud Abbas was adopted by the mainstream Fatah movement Monday as its candidate to succeed him in January polls, social affairs minister Intissar al-Wazir said.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=34314
PNA to invite Arab League to observe presidential elections: sources
"We need all these delegations, so Israel would not interfere inthe elections," the sources said. According to the sources, the Palestinian side is seeking to guarantee international attendance at the elections as the preceding elections were participated by 60 delegations headed by former US President Jimmy Carter.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/22/content_2248301.htm
Powell hails peace opportunity ahead of Palestinian vote
"This is a moment of opportunity as we look forward to the Palestinian election," said Powell, shoulder-to-shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Terror must be ended, violence must be ended."
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/118504/1/.html
Powell Wins Israeli Pledge on Palestinian Election
But Israel stopped short of any commitment to pull back forces in and around West Bank cities in the run-up to the vote, as the Palestinians have demanded. "We do not trust these Israeli declarations," said senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Yasser Abed Rabbo.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6886939
PFLP condemns Israeli sentencing its leader
"Sentencing Mallouh shows how the Israeli government is using anarbitrary logic and neglecting the international law and pursuing its repressive policy and using its courts to sentence the Palestinian people," said the leaflet.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/22/content_2244368.htm
Palestinian left-wing parties chose Barghouti as candidate for presidential elections
Palestinian official sources revealed Monday that the five left-wing parties have chosen Mustafa al Barghouti as their candidate for presidential elections.Al Barghouti, who has represented the stream of reformists in Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement (Xinhuanet is mixing between Mustafa Barghuti & Marwan Barghuti)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2248609.htm
Locust swarms push Israelis and Palestinians to common battle
Swarms of locusts threatening to devastate the Palestinian West Bank region of Jericho and already destroying grass and trees at luxury hotels in southern Israel have brought the two sides into unusual cooperation against a common flying foe.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041122/sc_afp/mideast_israel_041122150755
Palestinians: Arafat poisoned
More than 80% of Palestinians believe that veteran leader Yasser Arafat died as a result of poisoning and not from natural causes, a poll published on Sunday revealed. 80.3% of respondents said "yes", with 93% saying his medical report should be made public.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1624546,00.html
Yasser Arafat's nephew refuses to rule out poisoning
"Toxicology tests were made, and no poison known to the doctors was detected," said al-Kidwa. "We don't have proof that suggests there was poisoning. We don't have proof that there wasn't, in a definitive way," al-Kidwa said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504750.html
Sharon: 40-year-old Dimona nuclear reactor is safe
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a Knesset committee Monday that Israel's 40-year-old nuclear reactor is safe, an Israeli lawmaker said, after charges that the facility could endanger its environs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504825.html
Israel to collect weapons from settlers ahead of Gaza withdrawal
Israel is planning to collect weapons from Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned withdrawal from the territory next year, a senior defence official revealed."We will try and do it through dialogue and cooperation with the community leaders."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=1&u=/afp/20041122/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_gaza_041122151523
Soccer / Racism and hooliganism tackled at TA conference
Rifat Turk, an Israeli Arab who played for the Israeli national team in the 1980s, said the problem of racism is endemic to Israeli soccer. "Today there is no game where they don't curse Arabs, even if there aren't any on the field," he said. "People yell `Death to the Arabs' like its going out of style."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504379.html
Blood from a stone? Palestinians must make the most of every drop
However, should Israel implement the wise measures mentioned above and called for by so many, the onus will be on the Palestinians to ensure such gestures do not dissipate in the wind - they must nail them down and use them to develop a stronger internal political process.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=10301&categ_id=17
For sake of democracy include diaspora in Palestinian vote
Elections are on the agenda for the Palestinians: Their interim post-Arafat leadership says it plans to hold them Jan. 9. That's good news, but as of now there are no plans to include in this important vote the millions of Palestinians living in exile outside their homeland. Shouldn't that be changed?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1122/p09s02-coop.html
We miss you, Mr. `There's-no-partner'
Where will they find a new "there's-no-partner," to whom Sharon refuses to talk? Who will rescue Bush from his road map peace plan, which promised that "a settlement negotiated between the parties" will result in a final status agreement that "will end the occupation that began in 1967"?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504388.html
The Panic
The opposition to the Presbyterian Church's decision to investigate selective divestment from companies doing business with Israel's occupation is growing. And support of them is growing. Meanwhile, Mustafa Barghouti has called for sanctions against Israel, and the Somerville, Mass. Board of Aldermen is debating divestment. It's a time that calls for clearheadedness.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3363.shtml
Anti-war group slams the BBC
"The broadcasts are simply a one dimensional justification of the assault. "There was a long cast of pro-war commentators, with no counter-balancing opinion to represent what is, according to all recent polls, the view held by 50 per cent of the British public who oppose the war in Iraq. "They did not show the results of the bombardment on the civilians living there."
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7484&s2=22
Up to 50,000 more US troops needed in Iraq: Senator McCain
When asked how many additional forces would have to be deployed, the maverick Republican senator answered "I would say at least 40,000 or 50,000 more," adding that it will likely also be necessary to increase the size of the army and the marine corps.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7473&s2=22
U.S. assault on Falluja incites new uprisings
And, as of Nov. 17, the big news out of Iraq was that the active armed resistance had spread to Mosul, Beiji, Baquba, Ramadi, Tikrit, Iskandariya, Samarra and Baghdad, with police stations overrun and arms captured by anti-occupation fighters. In Falluja itself, after nine days of battle, U.S. forces were still calling in air strikes.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7485&s2=22
Allawi's cousin freed as death toll rises
A source in Mr Allawi's office said Ghazi Allawi, 75, had been released nearly two weeks after a previously unknown Islamist group seized him, his wife and daughter-in-law in Baghdad. The women were released a week ago. The group had threatened to kill all three unless Mr Allawi's government called off the US-led assault on the rebel-held city of Fallujah.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=585381
Jackson fears Army will remain in Iraq for years
British troops will be sent to help the US in conflict zones anywhere inside Iraq, prompting fears that soldiers could be stuck in the most dangerous parts of the country fighting insurgents for years to come.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=585402 |
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