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Apartheid Israel: An Interview with Uri Davis
When there isn't universal citizenship that is equitable to all, democratic values are compromised in a serious way. A quintessential illustration of this is Apartheid South Africa, where 87% of the territory of South Africa was reserved under law for white citizens only, and denied from non-white citizens.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=2004102109320353
Inside Track / A disaster waiting to happen
The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgment on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed ... The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492053.html
PCHR Concerns over Israeli Prevention of Palestinian Students to Travel
"PCHR remains gravely concerned that hundreds of students from the Gaza Strip have not been able to travel to attend their universities abroad, due to the prohibition on travel of Palestinians who are aged between 18 and 35 by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF)," PCHR said in a press release
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1804
Detainees subjected to inhuman treatment in Qadumim detention
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, Samer Al-Nammari, who met with a number of detainees in Betah Tikva and Qadumimdetention, said that the detainees informed him of inhuman treatment and harassments conducted against them.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102304/Detainees.htm
Fallujans and Palestinians bombed day and night but what does the world care?
As Palestinians and Iraqis are slaughtered, the events hardly register in the world's press and fall below the radar or world public opinion. Non Arabic countries then wonder why the Isalmic world feels the way it does. Is it that people just don't care because of the terrible media silence?
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=6520&s2=23
Israeli forces assault Palestinian woman
Israeli soldiers stationed near Beit Eiba west of Nablus attacked and beat up a Palestinian young woman who was waiting to be allowed through, witnesses said on Friday.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/24/2004&Cat=4&Num=003
Israel army builds lookout tower near Netsarim
Witnesses said that Israeli troops stationing around the settlement opened intensive fire and fired tank shells at Palestinian houses, but no injuries were reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/23/content_2131090.htm
RAFAH TODAY
One casualty, a young woman, was walking outside fher house to her cousin's house. Another woman was on her way to the hospital in North Gaza. One schoolboy was on his way to elementary school when an Israeli bullet penetrated his head...
http://rafahtoday.org/news/todaymain.htm
?Two Palestinian children injured by Israeli fire
Sources at the hospital said the Israeli soldiers stationed in the Sources at the hospital said the Israeli soldiers stationed in the
outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim opened fire against houses
at Khan Yunis to wound Yusef Barbakh, 13, and Abdul-Malik Abu-Shemaleh, 15.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=674599
Palestinian 'collaborator' killed in Gaza
Hasan Muhammad Musallam, in his 20s, had been missing from his home for several days. He was shot dead two days after Israel assassinated the deputy chief of Hamas' military wing, Adnan al-Ghul, in an air strike. Al-Ghul had been on Israel's most-wanted list since 1990.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5525AAA4-2A1E-4FD9-AAA1-354BF644018C.htm
Hamas threatens collaborators with Israel with death
The Islamic Resistance Movement(Hamas) Saturday called upon those Palestinians collaborating withIsrael to repent or face death. The call came after Ezel Dein al Qassam brigades, the armed wingof Hamas, executed Hassan Musallam who was accused of collaboratingwith Israel.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2131536.htm
UN official reports on 206 Palestinian, 13 Israeli deaths in month of violence
Prendergast said that 206 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the month since his previous report to the Security Council. He said the latest deaths raised the toll since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000 to 3,839 Palestinians and 979 Israelis.
http://cbsnewyork.com/international/UN-Mideast-ai/resources_news_html
EU to introduce initiative to jumpstart peace process
"Probably together with Egypt, we will send well-prepared people so that the Palestinians can enact a sensible command structure and also have the ability to fulfill their duty," Javier Solana was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492321.html
Top UN official: Int'l community must intervene in Mideast
"Even to speak in terms of a peace process seems to put one at a distance from the present reality," he said. "The international community's more vigorous engagement is therefore an indispensable ingredient."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/492357.html
France and China Reiterate Backing to the Palestinian People's Rights
Both France and China, the two United Nations Security Council's permanent member states, reiterated yesterday backing to the establishment of a viable independent Palestinian state living side by side in peaceful coexistence with Israel.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=639
Jordanians, Israelis meet to discuss joint academic center
A delegation of 20 Israeli and Jordanian officials will meet on Sunday in Tel Aviv to discuss a change in the countries' southern border to facilitate a joint project, under which a revolutionary academic center would be constructed on ex-territorial land.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492387&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Rabbi Yosef expected to announce decision on pullout
Likud rebel leader MK Uzi Landau met with Yosef on Thursday in an attempt to persuade him to oppose disengagement. Landau discussed the security and political drawbacks to the plan, which he said is dangerous and harmful to unity.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492413.html
Sharon gears up for decisive vote on Israel's Gaza pullout
The climax of campaign will occur on Tuesday during a parliamentary vote on Sharon's plan which involves Israeli evacuating the Gaza Strip, moving out the 8,000 settlers living there and closing down four small settlements in the north of the West Bank.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=2&u=/afp/20041023/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_041023125946
Hamas admits to having weapons factories in Gaza
"Thank God, the weapons of the Hamas fighters are manufactured locally," Rayyan said. "For several years now we have had our own weapons factories and we are working round the clock to improve the fighting capabilities of our fighters. We first made hand grenades and rocket-propelled RPGs, mortar rockets and their launchers, and then Kassam and Yassin rockets."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1098520961838
Egypt offers elite military force to ease Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
An Egyptian government delegation will fly to Tel Aviv next month with proposals to help Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip next year, including the deployment of two Egyptian battalions along the border.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1334272,00.html
European Trade Agreements, Human Rights, and Palestine
The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement with Israel grants it preferential trading terms conditional on observance of Article 2 which states that "Relations between the Parties... shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles..."
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10751/
U.S. awards $18.5 million to Middle East reform projects
The awards bring to $129 million the total money obligated so far under the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 to support democratic reforms in the region.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492386&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Tunisian Doctors Examine Arafat, Aides Blame Flu
Six Tunisian doctors arrived in the West Bank on Saturday to examine Yasser Arafat, but aides dismissed Israeli media reports that the Palestinian president's health had deteriorated and said he had flu.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6588871
Israel May Have Iran in Its Sights
Increasingly concerned about Iran's nuclear program, Israel is weighing its options and has not ruled out a military strike to prevent the Islamic Republic from gaining the capability to build atomic weapons, according to policymakers, military officials, analysts and diplomats.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20041022/ts_latimes/israelmayhaveiraninitssights
Romanian police confiscate diamonds belonging to Israeli man
An Israeli had less than a glittering start to his trip on Saturday after police confiscated 230 diamonds sewn into the pockets of his pants, police said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492414.html
Weeping hostage begs Blair not to move troops
Margaret Hassan, director of CARE International in Iraq, sobbed as she said she did not want to die like beheaded engineer Ken Bigley and urged the Government not to move Black Watch soldiers to the country's capital.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=575128
Religious leaders to dominate Iraq's election
Mainstream Shia religious leaders, led by the highest ranking cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have been pushing hard for an election since the end of the war 18 months ago. They say an election would offer the best opportunity for the Shia to take advantage of their numerical supremacy, estimated at 60 per cent of Iraq's population.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d310fae6-244f-11d9-a110-00000e2511c8.html
Saboteurs Bomb Iraqi Pipelines to Baghdad
An oil official said saboteurs on Friday blew up a section of another oil pipeline in Mashahdeh area, around 31 miles north of Baghdad. The pipeline feeds the same refinery which processes 110,000 barrels per day (bpd).
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/breaking/breakingnewsarticle.asp?feed=OBR&Date=20041023&ID=4047884
Shia leader cuts ties with Sadr
A senior religious leader in Iran has severed ties with radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr for encouraging his followers to fight US troops. Grand Ayatollah Kazem Haeri, one of the top authorities in Shia Islam, said Mr Sadr was no longer his representative in the holy city of Najaf.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3758872.stm
Further abuse at Abu Ghraib detailed
Government documents made public Thursday provide fresh details about allegations of abuse by guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other detention facilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They include incidents in which a female prisoner was sexually humiliated by US military intelligence officers and a male inmate was shot at to force cooperation.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/10/23/further_abuse_at_abu_ghraib_detailed/ |
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