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Open letter to PM Siniora Tamara Keblaoui writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, Oct 30, Electronic Intifada 10/30/2007
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora (left) meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in France, October 2005. ( MaanImages Dear Mr. Siniora, I write to you as a Lebanese citizen with pressing concerns. Today, on the 27th of October 2007, I, along... more..
Report: Sixty-eight Palestinians imprisoned in their village
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 10/24/2007
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, B'tselem, issued a report Tuesday documenting the case of sixty-eight Palestinians, including twenty-six children, who are imprisoned in Tel 'Adasa village in East Jerusalem. According... more..
IDF kills 2 Palestinians following rocket barrage
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 10/24/2007
Five Qassams fired at western Negev on Wednesday evening, one landing inside southern town of Sderot; two people suffer from shock. Shortly afterwards, IAF aircraft fires missile at cell launching rockets - - Two Palestinians were killed Wednesday evening and another three... more..
Saree Makdisi: Academic freedom at risk on campus
Palestine Chronicle 10/19/2007
Our campuses are being poisoned by an atmosphere of surveillance and harassment. However, the disruption of academic freedom has grave implications beyond campus walls. Subscribe NowBy Saree Makdisi "Academic colleagues, get used to it," warned the pro-Israel activist... more..
Two Palestinians injured, peace activist held in Wall protest
Najeeb Farraj - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 10/19/2007
Two Palestinians were injured and an international peace activist was abducted on Friday, during the weekly non-violent demonstration against the illegal Wall in the village of al Ma’sarah, south of the West bank city of Bethlehem Israeli soldiers... more..
Three injured in Bil’in weekly anti-Wall protest
Manar Jibrin - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 10/19/2007
The residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in, west of the city of Ramallah, joined by international and Israeli peace activists, took to the streets on Friday carrying Palestinian flags, anti-Israel banners and chanting slogans. The march... more..
Market report / Blue chips forge ahead to record high
Tal Levy, Ha’aretz 10/18/2007
Tel Aviv stocks made history today - not that their feat will go down in the annals of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. At mid-day the TA-25 index of blue chips passed the psychologically significant, but not otherwise meaningful, level... more..
Dr Mustafa Al Barghuthi: ’No peace partner in Israel’
Manar Jibrin - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 10/18/2007
The Palestinian legislator and the Secretary General of the National Palestinian Initiative said on Wednesday that no one should dilute Palestinian issues or remove any of them from the final status list, whether it is the position of Jerusalem, the... more..
Environment Ministry data / It pays to keep the noise down
Zafrir Rinat, Ha’aretz 10/18/2007
Israel spends some NIS 1 billion a year to prevent or reduce noise, according to Environment Ministry data. Prof. Satilian Gelberg, who presented the data yesterday at a conference on health and the environment at Tel Aviv University, also revealed... more..
Egypt police shoot, critically hurt Turkish migrant at Israel border
Reuters, Ha’aretz 10/18/2007
Egyptian police shot and critically wounded a Turkish man on Thursday as he tried to cross a barbed wire fence into Israel, Egyptian security sources said.They said police shot the 35-year-old man in the head. At least six other... more..
A Moment of Opportunity
George Rishmawi, International Middle East Media Center 10/18/2007
I was struck this morning with a headline saying “Rice sees moment of opportunity” to forge peace.
Such headline makes me wonder, whether the US Secretary of State is shortsighted, or she intentionally wants people to be shortsighted. What... more..
Golani suffers second casualty this year
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 10/18/2007
An Israel Defense Forces soldier, Staff Sergeant Ben Kobani, 20, from Hadera, was killed during an operation in the Gaza Strip yesterday. The incident is not expected to affect the type of operations being conducted by the army in the... more..
Peres: No intention to divide Jerusalem
Aviram Zino, YNetNews 10/17/2007
8217;Only thing the State of Israel must ensure is a Jewish majority in Jerusalem,’ President says during visit to Safed. ’In any case it is clear that the holy sites must remain under our control’ - - Israel... more..
OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 03 Oct - 09 Oct 2007
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - OCHA, ReliefWeb 10/9/2007
Of note this week Gaza Strip: - The IDF killed three Palestinians and injured 12 others including, two Palestinian children (aged 14 and 15 years) who were shot and injured while approaching the Gaza border fence. They were shot at by... more..
Israel Has Turned The Gaza Strip Into A Zoo
Amira Hass, ZNet 10/16/2007
A zoo. This is one of the ways that Palestinians describe the conditions under which nearly 1.5 million of them have been living: in an area of some 360 square kilometers, closed in on three sides by sophisticated barbed-wire fences... more..
Rice’s Visit / In the Shadow of Mlk
Aluf Benn, MIFTAH 10/17/2007
When Condoleezza Rice talks about the establishment of a Palestinian state next to Israel, she sees in her mind’s eye the struggle of African Americans for equal rights, which culminated in the period of her Alabama childhood. Rice... more..
Envisioning a divided Jerusalem
Nadav Shragai, Ha’aretz 10/17/2007
It is hard to decide which is more embarrassing: The inconceivable quiescence with which the division of Jerusalem is being discussed, or the unforgivable impotence and weak arguments evinced by the right and the religious in this debate. Forget about... more..
Rice: It’s time for a Palestinian state
Ali Waked and AP, YNetNews 10/16/2007
US secretary of state, Palestinian President Abbas meet in Ramallah to discuss core issues ahead of Annapolis peace conference. Abbas says Israel, PA working on principles document for final status agreement - - Israel and the Palestinians are drafting a principles document... more..
POLITICS: Another Mideast Envoy Fed Up With Quartet
Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service 10/15/2007
Credit:Amerune The West Bank security wall at Kalandia. UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15(IPS) - The United Nations has come under strong criticism from one of its own top human rights officials for failing to take effective action to check the... more..
Blair Admits he is Shocked by Discrimination on the West Bank
Donald Macintyre, MIFTAH 10/16/2007
While his aides munched tuna bagels thoughtfully provided by the Israeli military, a shirt-sleeved Tony Blair peered intently at a map showing the two main cargo crossing-points that will function between the West Bank and Israel once the 450-mile... more..
Over the Line
Adam Lebor, MIFTAH 10/16/2007
There are two Israels: one inside the Green Line, the 1967 border, the other an occupying power extending beyond it. The first is a vibrant democracy, with Arab members of Parliament, university professors and lawyers, beauty queens and soldiers, and... more..
Market Report / Real estate drops 3 percent
Nathan Sheva, Ha’aretz 10/15/2007
Gains on Wall Street on Friday did not manage to push the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange up yesterday as it opened its trading week, in spite of the record highs in the market last Thursday. After small losses at the... more..
Israel to resume excavations near Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ma’an News Agency 10/14/2007
Bethlehem Ma’an The Israeli Antiquities Authority intends to resume excavations at Jerusalem’s Mughrabi Gate as a part of a controversial plan to build a bridge from the gate to Dung Gate, near the Western Wall.The proposed... more..
Ministers renew contested digging at Mugrabi gate
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 10/15/2007
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is set to renew its excavations in the coming days at the Mugrabi Gate near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which may exacerbate tensions with neighboring countries ahead of next month’s planned Annapolis... more..
Colonization and a mediator’s bias remain the death knells of peace
The Daily Star, Daily Star 10/15/2007
Editorial US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Middle East over the weekend to try and prod the parties into attending the planned Arab-Israeli gathering in Annapolis next month. Her arrival coincided with the 13th anniversary of the... more..
Unmanned, armed vehicles to secure Ben Gurion Airport fence
Zohar Blumenkrantz Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 10/14/2007
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) equipped with weapons and cameras will soon be involved in perimeter security at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Haaretz has learned. Such vehicles would help prevent terrorist infiltrations similar to the incident Saturday morning in which a disturbed... more..
Unmanned, armed vehicles to secure B-G Airport fence
Zohar Blumenkrantz, Ha’aretz 10/15/2007
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) equipped with weapons and cameras will soon be involved in perimeter security at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Haaretz has learned. Such vehicles would help prevent terrorist infiltrations similar to the incident yesterday morning in which a disturbed... more..
The 41st kilometer
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 10/15/2007
A zoo. This is one of the ways that Palestinians describe the conditions under which nearly 1.5 million of them have been living: in an area of some 360 square kilometers, closed in on three sides by sophisticated barbed-wire fences... more..
Market Report / Bezeq rallies from Yes fiasco
Sharon Shpurer, Ha’aretz 10/11/2007
Tel Aviv stocks gained ground on the last trading day of the week, closing almost 1 percent higher on heavy total turnover of NIS 2. 2 billion. This month so far, Israeli blue chips have soared by a steep 14... more..
Top Haredi rabbi calls for mass protest against division of J’lem
Nadav Shragai Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 10/13/2007
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, called for mass protest against a possible division of Jerusalem as a result of the government’s negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.Elyashiv, a powerful political figure in... more..
3 Beit El teens rescued after taken to refugee camp, robbed
Jonathan Lis Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 10/13/2007
Three teenagers from the West Bank settlement of Beit El were kidnapped and robbed on Friday when they were picked up by an apparently Palestinian driver while hitchhiking near the Shoafat refugee camp close to Jerusalem. The driver picked the... more..
DFLP slams Israel’s decision to annex 1200 Dunams of Palestinian lands in Jerusalem
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 10/11/2007
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) issued a statement on Thursday slamming the Israeli decision to annex 1200 Dunams of Palestinian lands in the Jerusalem area, and considered this decision as a direct violation to the international... more..
Croatian team confident but wary with Israel’s back against the wall
Uzi Dann, Ha’aretz 10/11/2007
Croatia national team coach Slaven Bilic said yesterday he expects a difficult match against Israel. "It’s Israel’s last opportunity, and with its back against the wall, it’s always a dangerous opponent."He said he... more..
Joharah Baker: What Israel Wants, Israel Gets
Palestine Chronicle 10/11/2007
This is all part of the so-called E1 plan for Jerusalem, which is designed to expand this settlement bloc and cut off Jerusalem completely from the northern West Bank.Subscribe Now By Joharah BakerThere is a consistent thread, a pattern, which... more..
What Israel Wants, Israel Gets
Joharah Baker, MIFTAH 10/10/2007
There is a consistent thread, a pattern, which designs Israels policies in the Palestinian territories. Any scrutinizing observer will notice how Israel first pitches an idea to the public however preposterous then allows the Palestinians and the international community to... more..
Letter: Land grabs make Palestinians’ lives a misery
Nandita Dowson, The Guardian 10/11/2007
What double-speak it is to say the road envisaged by the Israelis is to "improve the quality of life" of Palestinians, when it is choking them (Israeli army orders confiscation of Palestinian land, October 10). In the distant past, people... more..
Israeli bulldozers attempt to annex land near Palestinian kindergarten
Maisa Abu Ghazala, International Middle East Media Center 10/10/2007
Israeli bulldozers on Wednesday attempted to annex an area of land adjacent to a Kindergarten in the Shu’afat refugee camp.Local sources reported that the bulldozers attempted to move the route of the wall 2.5. Meters closer to the... more..
Palestinian takes on UK in court
BBC Online 10/10/2007
A 60-year-old Palestinian will begin a case against the UK government in the High Court later when he will say that sales of arms to Israel are illegal. Saleh Hassan, who lives on the West Bank, says his land... more..
Army to annex 1130 Dunams of Palestinian land near Jerusalem for Wall construction
Najeeb Farraj, International Middle East Media Center 10/8/2007
Head of the Israeli Army Forces in the occupied West Bank, Gadi Sheemny, issued on Monday a military order annexing 1130 Dunams of Palestinian lands in Al Sawahra Al Sharqiyya and Abu Dees towns, near Jerusalem, for the construction of... more..
Officer who commanded Gilad Shalit’s brigade to be promoted
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 10/8/2007
The brigade commander under whose watch Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped will be promoted to senior commander of the Golani Brigade. The decision to promote Colonel Avi Peled was made by IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi... more..
Court orders Border Police to pay NIS 30,000 to right-wing activists
Roni Singer-Heruti, Ha’aretz 10/8/2007
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday ordered Border Police to pay NIS 30 thousand to three of the daughters of extreme right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and Noam Federman. The three sued the Border Police after they were assaulted... more..
Black Holes
Gideon Levy, MIFTAH 10/8/2007
A visit to Ein Beit-Ilma refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus. We proceed from house to house through the holes made by soldiers in the walls of the rooms. From the home of the Yunes family, our hosts, we... more..
Ramon hints division of Jerusalem to be discussed in Annapolis
Atilla Somfalvi, YNetNews 10/7/2007
Vice premier hints in cabinet meeting that fate of Israel’s capital will be discussed in international peace conference in the US; says anyone thinking conference will address structure of PA institutes "is fooling himself"-The division of Jerusalem... more..
Papua New Guinea delegation donates gold for rebuilding Temple
Kobi Nahshoni, YNetNews 10/7/2007
Visitors give 20 gold bullions and jewelries to Temple Institute in order to help finance construction of new Temple in Jerusalem -A delegation of 34 people from Papua New Guinea visited the Western Wall last week and donated a kilo... more..
Sidon schoolchildren turn wall into vibrant ’Childhood and Peace’ mural
Mohammed Zaatari, Daily Star 10/8/2007
SIDON: Sidon children painted a "Childhood and Peace" mural on Saturday to mark Arab Child Day, which is celebrated on October 1 of every year. The Arab League officially designated October 1 Arab Child Day to commemorate the death of... more..
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