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Election Irregularities: Palestinian civilians still being denied access to al-Mawasi 
Press Release, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 8 January 2005...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 3:53pm PST
Exit poll: Abbas headed for big victory Fatah candidate Mahmud Abbas is heading for a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election, according to an exit poll....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:58pm PST
Slave Sovereignty : Palestinian Presidential Elections Under Occupation Many Palestinians are boasting that they will soon enjoy, again, the most free and democratic elections in the entire Arab World. The only problem is that electing a Palestinian president while still under the boot of the occupier is an oxymoron. Sovereignty and occupation are mutually exclusive. The world, including many well-informed readers, seem to think that the Palestinian people is actually practicing the ultimate form of sovereignty by freely choosing its own president. This is easily...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:46am PST
French Officer Killed by Israeli Shelling A French officer serving with U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon was killed by Israeli shelling Sunday, shortly after a Hezbollah bomb attack killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others near the southern border, Lebanese and U.N officials said....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:43am PST
The Palestinian Elections: Turnout high in rural areas Thousands of Palestinians, defying the grim reality of Israeli occupation, have been converging on polling stations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to elect a new president....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:40am PST
Palestinians extend voting hours The Palestinian election to choose a successor to the late leader Yasser Arafat has been extended by two hours....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:38am PST
The Distortions of NPR on Palestine Tom Ashbrooke's program on the Palestinian elections this week failed to mention the West Bank detention and beating of Dr. Mustapha Barghouti while he was campaigning (he is running second to Mahmoud Abbas in Palestinian public opinion) and, in a separate and more recent incident, the IOF's refusal to let him return to the West Bank from Gaza, where he was continuing to campaign. (See the press release by Dr. Barghouti below.) These constitute both assault and batter and election tampering. ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 3:17pm PST
Uraiqat: Israel not easing grip for poll Palestinians have accused Israel of not carrying out a promised easing of its military grip on the West Bank and Gaza for a presidential election to pick Yasir Arafat's successor....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:22pm PST
Mahmoud Abbas campaigns in Nablus 
Genevieve Cora Fraser writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 7 January 2005...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:18pm PST
Palestinian elections: A democratic exercise in futility At first glance, the beginning of 2005 seems like a fresh breath in Israel-Palestine -- the U.S. and Israel have just seen the death of the "non-partner" Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pushing his Gaza disengagement plan, and this weekend the Palestinians will be having their first presidential elections in nearly ten years. But time will likely prove that these are false prospects for hope, and that the region, and the Palestinians in particular, will continu...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:16pm PST
Palestinians recruit Gere for elections On January9 , Palestinians living in the occupied territories will elect a president of the Palestinian Authority in the second general elections in nearly eight years....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 9:36am PST
Palestine: Elections under fire A week ago Ariel Sharon promised the world that Israel will "make possible a free, fair and effective Palestinian election". So much for that, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 9:21pm PST
Abbas Calls for Peace Talks After Poll ERUSALEM, 7 January 2005 — PLO leader and top contender Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called for peace talks with Israel after the Jan.9 Palestinian presidential election, a sharp contrast to days of hard-line campaign pronouncements that included his labeling Israel the “Zionist enemy.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 9:13pm PST
Seven Palestinian Children Killed in Strawberry Fields by Israeli Anti-Personnel Shells Israeli anti-personnel shells, which throw out thousands of metal darts in a deadly cloud that rips apart everything it encounters, killed seven children between the ages of ten and 17 in a strawberry field in northern Gaza yesterday. Dr. Mohamed Sultan of the Beit Lahiya hospital said eleven were also wounded, four critically. Two of the survivors had double leg amputations, another a single leg amputation....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 5:39pm PST
Israeli bar on voting slammed A Palestinian government official has criticised as illegal an Israeli supreme court decision to bar Palestinian prisoners from voting in Sunday's presidential elections....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:14am PST
Palestine: The election buzz Arjan El Fassed writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:12am PST
On the Narrow Shoulders of Abu Mazen Roni Ben Efrat, Challenge magazine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:11am PST
34 IDF officers sign refusal petition Thirty-four reserve officers served a petition to their company commander Wednesday informing him that they would not obey orders to evacuate settlements as part of the disengagement plan....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 1:25am PST
Palestinian elections / PA candidate demands campaign funding investigation Bassam al-Salhi, the nominee of the Palestinian People's Party (formerly the Communist party) for chairman of the Palestinian Authority, held a press conference Monday where he attacked Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, an independent candidate in this Sunday's vote, who until two years ago was a member of the same party. Al-Salhi demanded that the PA Central Election Committee investigate Barghouti's funding sources....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:26am PST
Hamas hits Israeli military base Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades have claimed responsibility for firing two mortar shells at an Israeli military base, according to a statement....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:08am PST
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