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Lessons from South Africa
Indeed, the South African apartheid system does exhibit a number of similarities to the system installed by the Israeli government to rule Palestinians under occupation. To give but one, perhaps the most obvious example, Palestinians in the occupied territories live under one law, military law, while Israeli settlers in the same occupied territories live under another, civil Israeli law.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10849/
UN human rights expert: 'Israel has killed the road map'
"The road map is dead. Israel has killed it," South African law professor John Dugard told a General Assembly committee. "The world is looking to the United States for leadership in this region, and the world is simply not getting it," said Dugard, who monitors the Palestinian territories for the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Commission.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494927.html
The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza
You've heard us say for months that The Rebuilding Alliance is working to build the home that Rachel Corrie stood to safeguard. In the spirit of Ramadan and its call to empathy, we want to let you inside our strategy to build the Nasrallah family home and help end home demolitions in Gaza.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3270.shtml
Two detainees severely tortured and abused
Zaghari said that since he was arrested on June 2004, he was interrogated and tortured while soldiers used several illegal methods against him such as shooting near his head, using dogs, in addition to clubbing him and hitting his face against the wall or against metal.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102904/detainees.htm
Refugee Camp, a Vilage Raided, Two youths arrested near Bethlehem
a huge military force broke into and searched few homes, and arrested Raed Mohammad Salah, who suffers from paralysis in his right leg as a result of a gunshot injury. It is worth mentioning that soldiers raided the village of Al-Khader two days ago, and broke into tens of homes before arresting the brothers of Raed, Suleiman, 16, and Mahmoud, 13 years old
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102904/Two%20youths.htm
Three youths shot wounded in Jenin refugee camp
A medical source in Jenin said that soldiers shot wounded three residents in Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, in the north of the West Bank, on Friday afternoon. Tens of homes were used as military posts and monitoring towers, especially in the southern side of the camp.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102904/Three%20youths.htm
Occupation forces demolish 7 Palestinian homes in Rafah, bulldoze farmlands
Eyewitnesses confirmed that the Zionist forces fired randomly towards Palestinian homes, assaulted the residents and prevented them from taking their belongings out before demolishing their homes. Furthermore, the occupation forces bulldozed large areas of farmland, destroyed two water wells and a number of greenhouses.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_8703.shtml
Hamas urges for casting differences aside
A Hamas statement was quoted as saying that the movement urged the formation of a unified national leadership to be the highest political echelon for the Palestinian people while wishing a speedy recovery for Arafat.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/29/content_2154432.htm
UN eyeing developments as Arafat reported ill - spokesman
Fred Eckhard told a press briefing in New York that the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Terje Roed-Larsen, spent the day in Ramallah meeting with top Palestinian officials.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12374&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
How could it have been different?
Sixty-eight years ago, however, claimed an Israeli newspaper article two days later, Ghoul's grandfather had saved a neighboring Jewish village from any harm during the Palestinian revolt of 1936. The fates of the two Ghouls is an interesting illustration of the understandings of the two peoples about their histories.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3264.shtml
EU Takes Initiative to Guarantee Arafat's Return Home
In a news articles printed in the Al Hayat newspaper, it is noted that EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana briefed Palestinian delegate in Brussels, Sevki Al-Armali, about the content of his talks with Israeli officials regarding the guarantee of Arafat's return.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20041029&hn=13428
Committee to succeed Arafat denied
Farouk Kaddoumi was quoted by Tunisia's daily al-Sabah as saying reports about the formation of a three-man committee to take over rule from Arafat are simply rumors aimed at distressing and confusing the Palestinian people.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=0c7e80a11154987c
Jerusalem Municipality exempts a Kach affiliated organization from Taxes
The Kach movement thus ran for election in 1984, winning 26,000 votes, and Kahane became a member of Knesset. He announced that Kach would not support any government that did not advocate the expulsion of the Palestinians.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102904/kach-taxes.htm
Current and Former PMs Stand in for Arafat
Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's powers have been temporarily passed to two men -- both who have served under him as prime minister -- until he recovers or dies, officials said on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6659516
Palestinians gripped by fear and uncertainty as prospect of power vacuum increases
So who, if the worst happened, would Mr Naswari like to see as the new president? "Anyone clean," came the reply. Was there such a person? "No", shot back Mr Naswari, before correcting himself to mention the name of a popular Fatah leader on many lips. "Marwan Barghouti is the only one I can use the word about, but he is in [an Israeli] prison and I can't help him."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=577142
Palestinian stocks weighed down by Arafat's health
Only six of the bourse's 26-listed companies traded yesterday, with Palestine Telecommunications leading the market's decline with a 4.9 percent drop in the day's largest turnover of 65,000 dinars. Palestine Development & Investment shed 4.65 percent while Palestine Electric Co. ended down 4.6 percent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=495186&contrassID=1&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Powell calls again for Palestinian leader to cede authority over security
Secretary of State Colin Powell refused to speculate on Yasser Arafat's health Friday but urged the Palestinian leader to yield control of security in Palestinian-run areas to a prime minister as a way of furthering peace.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/10/29/news/latest_news/fd19e36ee8e398ec86256f3c00695413.txt
Real battle of succession to be fought among younger, homegrown generation
Marwan Barghouti: The 45-year-old is the best known of the new generation of homegrown Palestinian leaders. he was brought up and spent most of his life in the West Bank. He demonstrated his leadership qualities during the first Palestinian uprising of 1987-1993 and is one of the main leaders of the second intifada... The Israeli government will determine his fate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1338741,00.html
Few prepared to write off the resilient Arafat just yet
As a Jordanian helicopter lifted him out of his Ramallah compound on Friday on the first stage of a journey to Paris for medical treatment, Palestinians faced the prospect that this time nature might overcome their president's legendary capacity for survival.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d0dbd832-29d0-11d9-b3d1-00000e2511c8.html
End of an era? End of an aura?
Yasser Arafat stole the show again. This was supposed to be Ariel Sharon's week, after the disengagement plan was passed in the Knesset on Tuesday. But on Wednesday evening, the prime minister discovered that his veteran adversary, a man whom he occasionally considered assassinating for more than 20 years, was one step ahead of him again.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494947.html
Analysis: Good and bad scenarios
Sharon has gone through a series of extreme turnarounds in relation to Arafat. First, as defense minister during the Lebanon war, he tried in every possible way to hurt Arafat while the siege of Beirut was on, including a plan to down a plane carrying Arafat. As prime minister, he supported former then chief of staff Shaul Mofaz' plan to expel Arafat from the territories.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/495193.html
Beilin: Gaza pullout should be coordinated with Palestinians
Beilin's Yahad party supported the disengagement plan in the Knesset vote on Tuesday, in spite of the fact that as an initiator of the Geneva Accord, Beilin found it difficult to support a unilateral move.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/495304.html
EDITORIAL: Palestine needs international attention more than Iraq does
It took the Bush administration more than two years to get round to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Even as the US was preparing to go to war with Iraq, most discerning experts were trying to tell the Bush administration that it would do much better if it invested in a viable peace process.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-10-2004_pg3_1
Israel's Settlers Cut Down to Size
Since 1967, Israel, under both Labor (the first settlements in the Gaza strip were established by Labor in 1971) and Likud governments, has gone to great pains to populate the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with illegal settlements, investing roughly $100 billion dollars in this illegal enterprise over the course of 38 years
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/dahan.php?articleid=3870
Abbas, Arafat's Ticket to International Diplomacy
Together with Farouq Qaddomi, the PLO foreign minister, Abbas is a different caliper of a leader than all public figures surrounding Arafat, including current Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei. His integrity together with his pressure to act as a real partner frightened the besieged Palestinian President, who is surrounded with powerful enemies eager to remove him physically and politically.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102704/abbas%20arafts%20ticket.htm
On This Day 1998: Apartheid report accuses SA leaders
Accepting the report, President Nelson Mandela declared: "The wounds of the period of repression and resistance are too deep to have been healed by the TRC alone." "We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another by race".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/29/newsid_2468000/2468007.stm
Report puts Falluja civilian toll at 600
"There are clear reports of 600 people killed in total up until April 12th, most of them killed before US forces began to permit women and children to be evacuated from the town," it added. The IBC went on to say that its report, which is based on multiply cited accounts from doctors and eyewitnesses, confirms that no less than 308 of those killed were women and children.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/11CE896E-46C4-4327-A525-41008BED9D7A.htm
War costs 100,000 Iraqi lives
Around 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in violence since the US-led coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003, said a report published Friday in British medicine journal The Lancet. More than half of those who died were women and children killedin air strikes, American public health experts said in the latest issue of the magazine.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/29/content_2154439.htm
US troops refused requests to protect explosives store
Al-Qaqa'a, the Iraqi military complex from which 350 tons of explosives disappeared, was looted after US troops left the area refusing requests to protect the site, Iraqi witnesses say. They say unguarded buildings were stripped of their contents after the arrival and departure of American troops in the last few days of the war.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=577148
British troops arrive at new operational base in Iraq
A battalion of around 500 soldiers from the BlackWatch regiment, along with 300 support troops, began the move earlier this week from their previous base around the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=15&u=/afp/20041029/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_britain_troops_041029144900
Sadr-backed cleric tells Iraqi Shia to vote
"I call on you all to participate in the elections," Sheikh Abdul Zahra al- Suweidi, a Sadr representative, told a crowd of about 50,000 yesterday. The Friday sermon in Sadr City is a political statement carefully vetted by Mr Sadr's group.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bc11ff42-29c8-11d9-b3d1-00000e2511c8.html
Japan says body resembling hostage found in Iraq
"The American military in Iraq told the Japanese embassy on Friday afternoon there and early Saturday Japan time that a body that looks like a Japanese had been found," spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=2&u=/afp/20041029/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hostage_japan_reax_041029193823 |
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