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textIntimidation by Israeli-Linked Organization MEMRI Aimed at US Academic Juan Cole by Informed Comment (reposted)
This was on Juan Cole's site today:...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 11:59pm PST
textPalestinians Harvest Olives Despite Wall, Bullets by IOL (reposted)
NABLUS, November 23 (IslamOnline.net) - Despite the increasing Israeli aggressions and a separation wall that runs deep into their fertile lands, Palestinian farmers are keen on harvesting olive grooves, which they see as a living symbol of their uphill struggle against the occupation....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 3:56pm PST
textHebrew University to displace Palestinian families by Electronic Intifada (repost)
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. The buildings in the back are existing dorm buildings....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 3:49pm PST
textWorld Bank calls on Israel to rescue Palestinian economy by Daily Star, Lebanon
JERUSALEM: The World Bank called on Israel to sharply reduce army closures which have decimated trade and employment in the Palestinian Authority during the last four years. The latest report on the PA economy by the World Bank, "Four years - Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis" reveals average incomes have dropped by more than a third and a quarter of the workforce is unemployed....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 3:47pm PST
textQuartet insists Israel must ease restrictions for elections by Daily Star, Lebanon
Members of the "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators urged Israel on Tuesday to ease restrictions on Palestinians before January elections to choose a successor to late President Yasser Arafat....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 3:45pm PST
textIDF Shootings: Absolutely illegal by Haaretz
There have been dozens of cases during the past four years in which IDF soldiers killed unarmed Palestinian civilians. The circumstances are different from case to case, and in many cases the army provided detailed explanations for the shootings, even if in retrospect the judgment was wrong. Only rarely is the curtain completely lifted on what really took place so that someone who was not there can understand what happened. The leak last night to Channel Two's Fact program, of the tape from t...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 11:16am PST
textAbbas says will follow in Arafat footsteps as several Fatah members vow to challenge him by Albawaba
Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told parliament on Tuesday that he would follow in Yasser Arafat's footsteps and demand that Israel recognize the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 10:24am PST
textEx-Israeli army chief Rafael Eitan drowns by sources
Former Israeli army chief of staff Rafael Eitan has died after drowning at Ashdod Port, south of Tel Aviv. He was 75....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 10:20am PST
text''Kill Pavlov'' by Øyvind Strømmen
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Posted: Mon, Nov 22, 2004 4:03pm PST
textPalestinian election: Fatah names Abbas as candidate to replace Yasser Arafat by Albawaba
The ruling Fatah party named Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to replace Yasser Arafat as chairman of the Palestinian Authority in Jan.9 elections, a Palestinian official said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Nov 22, 2004 1:29pm PST
textNephew: ''No known poisons'' found in Arafat body by sources
Yasser Arafat's medical files indicate no sign that he was poisoned but are inconclusive, his nephew said Monday....
Posted: Mon, Nov 22, 2004 1:28pm PST
textLimited number of child soldiers, all sides implicated by Electronic Intifada (repost)
After months of media reports highlighting the role of children in the Palestinian Intifada, the 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers has found that this phenomenon remains the exception rather than the rule in Palestinian areas, although one which needs to be taken seriously. The global report, issued by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers on November 20 to coincide with the UN Children's day, indicates that all groups involved in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have h...
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 8:39am PST
textCampaign to select new Palestinian president starts by Albawaba
Palestinians on Saturday formally launched the campaign to select new president as candidates for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority started seeking signatures to qualify for the Jan. 9 vote....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:42pm PST
textUK Establishes Security Center in Gaza by IOL (reposted)
CAIRO , November 20 (IslamOnline.net) – The British intelligence service (MI6) and police are setting up a high-tech control center in Gaza to help Palestinians maintain security, a leading British newspaper reported Saturday, November20 . The security nerve centre will, at first, focus on "civil policing" rather than curbing Palestinian attacks against Israeli targets, reported the Telegraph quoting British officials....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 3:25pm PST
textIsraeli soldiers accused of tampering with corpses by UK Independent
A military police investigation was ordered yesterday by the Israeli Chief of Staff into allegations that soldiers had tampered with the bodies of dead Palestinians and posed for photographs with the corpses....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:32pm PST
textUS Churches Take Stand Against Israeli Occupation by Arab News (repost)
WASHINGTON, 20 November 2004 — Appalled by squalid living conditions of Palestinians in the occupied territories, several American churches have decided to take a stand against the Israeli occupation by proposing a “divestment of holdings by multinational corporations doing business with Israel” who, they say, are profiting from the occupation. The possible divestment process could result in the sale of stock in June2006 ....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:25pm PST
textThe truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago by Robert Fisk
November 16, 2004 - He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 1:53pm PST
textWorld must take firm stand on free elections in Palestine by Electronic Intifada (repost)
Adri Nieuwhof and Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2004...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:25am PST
imageGaza's blocked arteries
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by BBC
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. Gaza is a 40km by 5km (25-mile by three-mile) ribbon of land along the south-east corner of the Mediterranean Sea, home to some 1.3 million Palestinians and 8,000 Jewish settlers....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:35pm PST
textEgypt furious after Israel kills policemen by Daily Star, Lebanon
CAIRO: Cairo lodged a formal protest Thursday after the Israeli Army killed three Egyptian border policemen by mistake, threatening to plunge their delicate diplomatic ties into crisis. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to defuse the row by personally calling President Hosni Mubarak to express "deep sorrow" over the incident on the Gaza border and promised to keep him abreast of an official investigation....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:16pm PST
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