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Elie Wiesel for President?
By Daniel McGowan, International Middle East Media Center 10/25/2006
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has suggested Elie Wiesel to replace Moshe Katzav as President of Israel. Katzav is being forced to resign amid charges of rape.Wiesel’s qualifications for the job are unimpeachable. He is the......more..
Who’s Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?
By Uri Avnery, CounterPunch 10/31/2006
strong>A New Situation is Arising and We Must Live With ItAt the height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate ("never was so much owed......more..
On 89th anniversary of the Balfour declaration, Fatah states: "They have failed to uproot us"
Ma’an News 10/31/2006
Bethlehem - The popular committee of Fatah has called on all Fatah members to support the Palestinians who own land close to the Israeli settlements and to organize voluntary work days to help collect the olives during the olive season.In a......more..
Media Distortion of Palestinian Non-Violent Protest
International Solidarity Movement 10/30/2006
Every Friday for the past year and a half villagers from Bil’in, a small West Bank village near Ramallah, march with supporters toward the triple-layer fence separating them from their olive trees. They are always blocked by Israeli soldiers and......more..
Join the 4th National & International Week Against The Apartheid Wall!
Stop The Wall 10/29/2006
9th - 16th of November 2006: Join the 4th National & International Week Against The Apartheid Wall! -- “We Shall Stay Generation after Generation Defiant and Steadfast until Liberation” -- As the ghetto walls close around our people, the voice of the Palestinian and......more..
Refusenik Omri Evron: "Why I can’t become a soldier in the IDF"
Electronic Intifada 10/28/2006
Omri Evron, a 19-year-old from Tel-Aviv, is weeks away from earning his B.A. in ethical philosophy from the Tel-Aviv University (TAU). He started studying for this degree when he was still a high-school student. Omri is known around the......more..
Peaceful Bil’in Protestors Attacked by IOF
International Solidarity Movement 10/27/2006
Twelve-year old Ibrahim Ghazi Beit-Ilo was hit in the neck by shrapnel from a live bullet following a peaceful protest march against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in today. He underwent surgery at the Ramallah goverment hospital and the shrapnel was......more..
Two Roadblocks Removed in One Day
International Solidarity Movement 10/27/2006
October 23, 2006, members of the Palestine Solidarity Project joined with Israeli peace groups Ta’ayush and Anarchists Againt The Wall to challenge the validity of the illegally created road blocks that have been forced upon many Palestinian villages, severely limiting......more..
Israeli army injures 16 protesters demanding to be able to harvest their olives in Bil’in
International Middle East Media Center 10/27/2006
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil’in Friday, pleading with the assembled Israeli military force... Ha''aretz: Two activists, Border Policemen hurt in Bil''in anti-fence protest...more..
UN Secretary-General’s Report: Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory
ReliefWeb/United Nations General Assembly 10/27/2006
17 Oct 2006 - Summary: In paragraph 4 of the resolution ES-10/15 of 2 August 2004 adopted at the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly, I have been requested to establish a register of damage caused to... UN lays out function of office for Palestinians to claim damages from Israeli barrier...more..
Bush gives go-ahead for Mexico fence
AlJazeera 10/27/2006
George Bush, the US president, has signed into law a bill authorising the construction of a fence along a third of the US-Mexico border.At a White House bill-signing ceremony on Thursday Bush said that the law allowing the construction of......more..
High Court approves fence extension
Jerusalem Post 10/26/2006
The High Court of Justice rejected the petition of Palestinian villagers on Thursday and approved the construction of a sector of the security fence around the settlements of Emanuel, Ma’aleh Shomron and Karnei Shomron.The length of the fence......more..
So much for another kind of olive harvest
Ha’aretz 10/27/2006
Who remembers nowadays that Amir Peretz made dismantling illegal outposts a condition for Yisrael Beiteinu joining the government - with the agreement of the knight of law and order, Avigdor Lieberman? What became of Peretz’s vows to reexamine the......more..
Military factions detonate a roadside bomb next to an Israeli patrol in Rafah
Ma’an News 10/26/2006
Gaza - The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the main military wing of Fatah, have announced their joint responsibility for detonating an explosive device next to......
Mass demo planned in Bil’in tomorrow Friday
Ma’an News 10/26/2006
Palestinian and Israeli peace groups have called for an extra-large demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in on Friday.Bil’in has become the focal point of demonstrations against Israel’s illegal construction of the separation... Back to Bilin - Mass Demo, Friday, October 27th...more..
Palestine food distribution - Phase 3 update
ReliefWeb/Life for Relief and Development 10/26/2006
13 Oct 2006 - LIFE’s four month long family sponsorship program has recently completed its third phase of development. 1000 Food baskets have been delivered to 1000 Palestinian families in the cities of Hebron, Salfit, and Old Nablus.We are......more..
Not only the right to worship is sacred
By Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 10/26/2006
On Fridays of the month of Ramadan, the Palestinians once again proved the extent to which they are prepared to endanger themselves, collectively, for the sake of a shared aim they consider sublime: worship at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem......more..
Israel, Palestine and Canada
By John Chuckman, Palestine Chronicle 10/24/2006
strong>Harper’s definition of democracy appears to be the American one: those governments are democratic who agree with American policy.Canada’s Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B......more..
West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting their olives
Ma’an News 10/25/2006
Nablus - Salfit - The Israeli authorities prevented Palestinian farmers from Salfit from accessing their fields – which are located behind the Wall – on Tuesday.When the residents and farmers of this West Bank agricultural region arrived at the gates that give access to......
Bil’in Cameraman Finally to be Released Tomorrow
International Solidarity Movement 10/25/2006
A judge at Ofer military court ordered Bil’in cameraman Emad Bornat to be released tomorrow after almost 3 weeks in detention. Emad was seized in the village after a demonstration against the annexation wall on October 6th as he was......more..
Israeli forces raid West Bank village of Kafr ad-Dik
Ma’an News 10/25/2006
Nablus - Salfit - The Israeli forces broke into the village of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit in the north west of the occupied West Bank, at dawn on Wednesday, leaving destroyed cars and personal property in their wake.During this incursion, the......more..
Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign to Organise Week for Action
WAFA - Palestine News Agency 10/25/2006
RAMALLAH, October 25, 2006 (WAFA)-The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign has announced to organise, in Palestine and all over the world , a week in solidarity with Palestinian communities in struggle against the land grab and expulsion by Israeli authorities. . In a......more..
Twilight Zone / Loss upon loss
By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 10/22/2006
We drank tea with the head of the household. That was in May. Mohammed Abu-Ouda showed us the ruins of his house, which had been damaged by Israel Defense Forces fire. Boom after boom, shell after shell; the guns roared......more..
Solidarity delegation denied entry while attempting to join farmers for olive harvest
Palestine News Network 10/20/2006
Olive harvest season is just underway and the situation for Palestinian farmers is difficult. Israeli forces prevented a delegation of foreign supporters from reaching the northern West Bank’s Jenin District. Today’s intention was for the foreign......more..
New study indicates Wall destroying northwestern West Bank economy
Palestine News Network 10/21/2006
The results of an extensive economic study on the negative affects of a portion of the Wall are in. Prepared by the Palestinian Modern Economic Policy Research Institute [Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute?] in collaboration with an Italian organization, the......more..
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