Palestinian nonviolent resistance campaign reaches afflicted communities during olive harvest
Amin Abu Wardeh, Palestine News Network 10/15/2008
Nablus -- Palestinian olive harvest hits its peak on 15 October with all governorates normally harvesting at this time. This year Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi of the Palestinian National Initiative and Legislative Council has joined efforts in western Ramallah’s Na... more..e-mail
Jewish group: Porush at peace with Arab sovereignty over Temple Mount
Kobi Nahshoni, YNetNews 10/15/2008
Movement for Establishment of the Temple calls on supporters not to back Jerusalem mayoral candidate after he said he would uphold rabbinical decree prohibiting Jews from entering Temple Mount area -The Movement for the Establishment of the Temple has called... more..e-mail
12 injured in olive harvest clashes
Tovah Lazaroff And Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post 10/11/2008
Two border policemen and 10 olive harvesters, some Israeli and some Palestinian, were injured Friday morning during clashes between the two groups in the area of the Palestinian village of Nil’in.
Border Police said approximately 100 Palestinians and... more..e-mail
Ni’lin: An Olive Harvest with Tears and Blood
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 10/10/2008
On Friday 10th of October, residents of Nilin started harvesting their olives trees that are located on confiscated lands and had to face the usual violence of the Occupation.
In the early hours of the morning, international activists arrived to... more..e-mail
IDF foils alleged settlement breach
Tovah Lazaroff And Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post 10/11/2008
The IDF stopped three Palestinians on Saturday afternoon who were suspected of trying to infiltrate the Har Bracha settlement in Samaria.
According to the military, the three came very close to the settlement’s security fence when they were... more..e-mail
Big losses expected on TASE after Wall Street drops 18%
Rotem Sella and Tal Levy, TheMarker Correspondents and Reuters, Ha’aretz 10/12/2008
There has never been a day like this in the history of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. It will open trading this morning after being closed since last Monday - having taken five days off due to the Yom Kippur holiday... more..e-mail
Crisis squeezes NY property market
Allison Hoffman, Jpost Correspondent In New York, Jerusalem Post 10/12/2008
Property developers and financiers - including Israeli companies that have invested heavily in everything from trophy office buildings to Brooklyn residential renovations - are being whiplashed by the spreading credit crisis, which has brought New York’s real estate market to... more..e-mail
Society in Action
Ruth Tenne, Middle East Online 10/10/2008
Will the international community continue to look in silence on the walled in and trampled upon Palestinian people who have been subjected to the longest and most repressive occupation in modern history? BOYCOTTING ISRAELI GOODSIn spring 2003 the ex-Prime Minister... more..e-mail
14 wounded in Bil’in’s Weekly nonviolent Protest
George Rishmawi, International Middle East Media Center News 10/10/2008
At least fourteen protestors were wounded in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah Friday afternoon. The residents of Bil’in accompanied by international and Israeli human rights activists marched following the Friday... more..e-mail
Palestine ignored
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst, in Washington, Al Jazeera 10/10/2008
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories, recently delivered his report to the General Assembly. He cited continued "abuse of international humanitarian law" associated with the "separation wall", "children fatalities due to... more..e-mail
Israeli forces repress demonstration against the wall in Al-Ma’sara
Ma’an News Agency 10/10/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Israeli army dispersed international, Israeli and Palestinian activists during a protest against the separation wall in the village of Al-Ma’sara near Bethlehem on Friday afternoon. The demonstration was in protest of the construction of the wall on...
IDF may amend indictment against Naalin commander
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 10/10/2008
Military Judge Advocate General considers filing new charges against regiment commander involved in June shooting of bound Palestinian detainee in Naalin. New charges to carry criminal liability - The Military Judge Advocate General, Brigadier-General Avi Mandelblit, is considering amending the charges... more..e-mail
Israeli troops suppress a nonviolent demonstration near Bethlehem
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/10/2008
Israeli soldiers dispersed international, Israeli and Palestinian activists who assembled in a protest against the wall in the village of Al-Ma’sara near Bethlehem on Friday afternoon. The protest started after the Friday noon prayer in the village and... more..e-mail
Dozens choke in Bil’in as Israeli soldiers fire teargas at demonstrators
Ma’an News Agency 10/10/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Dozens choked on teargas at a Bil’in demonstration against the Israeli separation wall on Friday, participants said. Israeli activists joined the Palestinian protesters “in solidarity with the villagers,” especially farmers during their harvest season. Demonstrators toured the streets...
In strategic support of olive harvest
Palestine News Network 10/10/2008
Kristen Ess -- Director of the Committee against the Wall in Na’lin Village, Salah Al Khawaja says that settler attacks are expected throughout the olive harvest season. He told PNN today, "We have a campaign bringing together the committees... more..e-mail
Olive harvest demonstration in Bil’in, 14 injured
PNN, Palestine News Network 10/10/2008
Bil’in -- Palestinian farmers in Bil’in Village are again engaged in the nonviolent ritual of harvesting their olives. A delegation from the Federation of French Farmers joined the western Ramallah resistance today where Israeli forces injured 14... more..e-mail
IOF troops wound 14 Palestinians, arrest foreign sympathizers in Bilin protest
Palestinian Information Center 10/10/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- At least 14 Palestinian citizens were wounded when the IOF troops forcibly dispersed the protest rally they held against the apartheid-separation wall in the West Bank town of Bilin, west of Ramallah city Friday. According to local Palestinian... more..e-mail
VIDEO - The sarcophagus fragment that had archaeologists giddy on Yom Kippur
Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 10/10/2008
Just in time for Yom Kippur, archaeologists made a discovery they say strengthens Judaism’s claim of a historical and political presence in Jerusalem. The excavation was conducted by the Civil Administration to prepare for the constructions of the...
Nobel Prize goes to Finnish diplomat who led fact-finding mission in Jenin
Ma’an News Agency 10/10/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize for his many contributions to long-term conflict resolution on 5 continentsAhtisaari was also the head of a UN fact-finding mission in 2002, charged with investigating the actions of... more..e-mail
Israeli military prevents farmers from harvesting olives
International Middle East Media Center News 10/8/2008
The Israeli military prevented on Wednesday several Palestinian farmers in the West Bank villages of Masha and Azzawiya from reaching their farm lands. Hani Amer, one of the prevented farmers, told Wafa News Agency that the Israeli troops erected a... more..e-mail
IDF finalizes new PA troop deployment in Hebron
Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post 10/7/2008
Brig. -Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the head of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, will meet next week with his Palestinian counterpart to discuss a request to move up the planned deployment of a company of PA soldiers in Hebron... more..e-mail
Settlements in South Hebron Hills to be blocked during Yom Kippur
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 10/8/2008
The authorities are implementing a closure on settlements in the South Hebron Hills east of the separation fence for Yom Kippur, citing a lack of manpower to keep the road open. At the beginning of the week, the residents of... more..e-mail
Israel closes West Bank during Yom Kippur
Ma’an News Agency 10/8/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel sealed the West Bank on Tuesday night for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which begins at sunset on Wednesday. The closure means that even Palestinians who have a permit to enter Jerusalem or Israel will...
Two cases of West Nile Virus diagnosed in West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 10/8/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – Two cases of West Nile Virus were diagnosed in the West Bank city of Qalqilia, two days after the virus was discovered in Israel, the undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Anan Al-Masri told Ma’an on Wednesday... more..e-mail
Rate cut lifts real estate stocks 20%
Tal Levy, Ha’aretz 10/8/2008
Banks, blue chips jump but ICL falls
Tel Aviv stocks were spurred north yesterday by the Bank of Israel’s surprise interest rate cut, a good three weeks before its next scheduled monetary announcement. Tel Aviv’s investors... more..e-mail
Image Makers
Larry Derfner, MIFTAH 10/7/2008
The settlers from Yitzhar had left their mark on the "Suleiman" house: Stars of David spray-painted in black on the walls. They’d come down the hill into the Suleimans’ village, Asira al-Kibliyeh, on Saturday morning, September 13... more..e-mail
Nilin village resists Israel’s land confiscation
Report, Electronic Intifada 10/7/2008
NILIN, WEST BANK (IRIN) - As the olive harvest gets under way in the West Bank, residents of the Palestinian town of Nilin say much of their land, where their trees are, is off limits because of Israel’s wall... more..e-mail
Israel ’impedes’ firefighters, rescue workers as land burns
Ma’an News Agency 10/7/2008
Tulkarem – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers allowed vast areas of agricultural land to burn near the village of Qaffin in northern Tulkarem, the city’s mayor told Ma’an on Tuesday. A 30-year-old pregnant woman reportedly sustained burns, while... more..e-mail
Palestine, Israel Fairy Tale
Uri Avnery, Palestine Chronicle 10/7/2008
8217;Peace is not made between governments but between peoples.’It has happened.In a solemn ceremony, on a stage bedecked with Israeli and Palestinian flags, the peace treaty between Israel and Palestine has been signed.Negotiations did not take long... more..e-mail
Qurei: no peace deal without Jerusalem; Israeli policies undermine two-state solution
Ma’an News Agency 10/7/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmad Qurei reiterated on Tuesday that the Palestinian leadership will not under any conditions sign a peace agreement with Israel that does not settle the question of Jerusalem. Qurei said in a statement sent to... more..e-mail
Burial artifact inscribed ’Son of High Priest’ found near West Bank fence route
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 10/8/2008
Israeli archaeologists working along the proposed route of the West Bank fence north of Jerusalem have unearthed part of a sarcophagus cover with the inscription "son of the High Priest" and dating to the time of Jesus and the Second... more..e-mail
The Olive Harvest: a symbol of steadfastness and solidarity
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 10/5/2008
As part of the activities marking the sixth week against the Apartheid Wall (November 9 – 16 2009), the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its Popular Committees are coordinating collective efforts to safeguard the olive harvest and are calling on volunteers to... more..e-mail
Continued clashes mark the beginning of the olive harvest
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 10/5/2008
In Ni’lin and al-Ma’sra the Friday prayers and protests against the Wall have marked the beginning of the olive harvest. Although there are a few days remaining until the official start of the harvest season, farmers have begun picking olives... more..e-mail
Israeli forces attack fire brigade and ambulance crew during demonstration in Ni’lin
International Solidarity Movement 10/5/2008
Ramallah Region - The non-violent resistance continues in Ni’lin, as the demonstrations are consistently taking place against the apartheid wall. On Friday, October 3rd, around 200 people participated in the weekly prayer demonstration that followed the Friday prayer in... more..e-mail
Three injured in Bilin weekly protest
International Solidarity Movement 10/5/2008
Reports - Bil’in Village - Report by Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin - The residents of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli activists, gathered to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall and settlement building on the 3rd October... more..e-mail
Israeli Supreme Court orders temporary halt on Mughrabi Gate construction
Ma’an News Agency 10/5/2008
Jerusalem - Ma’an - The Israeli Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt to the construction of an iron bridge at the Mughrabi Gate area of the Al-Aqsa mosque/Western Wall complex. The court ordered the halt until several legal objections...
Olive harvesters attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers near Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 10/5/2008
Qalqiliya – Ma’an – Palestinians preparing lands for the olive harvest were attacked by a group of Israeli settlers and army soldiers just outside the village of Kafr Qaddum south of Tulkarem. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli soldiers beat civilians, driving them out...
Steep falls on TASE
Globes' correspondent, Globes Online 10/5/2008
Israeli markets followed Wall Street down, despite passage in the US of the $700 billion bailout package on Friday. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) was down sharply today. In the wake of the US stock markets, which fell on... more..e-mail
Top IDF general: Don’t be fooled by the quiet in the North
Amir Oren, Ha’aretz 10/2/2008
The Israel Defense Forces GOC Northern Command has warned against believing that Israel’s peaceful northern border means the country is no longer under threat from Lebanon and Syria. "The two years that have passed since the end of... more..e-mail
TASE reopens on sharp falls
Yael Gruntman, Globes Online 10/2/2008
The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 2. 66% by late afternoon: Israel Chemicals is down 14. 7%, Israel Corp. 16. 1%, and Africa-Israel 9. 4%. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) reopened today after the Rosh Hashana holiday to the... more..e-mail
ADL sees surge of anti-Semitism following market crisis
Yitzhak Benhorin, YNetNews 10/2/2008
Internet forum, blogs rife with newfound wave of ’virulent’ anti-Jewish rhetoric tied to ongoing financial calamity. ’Whenever there is trouble or uncertainty in the economy or world events, Jews become the scapegoats,’ says ADL director - WASHINGTON... more..e-mail
Asad: 'Peace with Israel will not affect relations with Iran'¯
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 10/1/2008
Syrian President Bashar Asad stated on Tuesday that an Israeli-Syrian peace deal will not have any impact on the relations between Syria and Tehran and will not affect the relations between Syria and any other Arab country. Asad added that... more..e-mail
Netanyahu vows to expand settlements if elected PM
Jonny Hadi And Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post 10/1/2008
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will increase construction in existing West Bank settlements to keep pace with the population’s natural growth if he is elected prime minister, the Likud leader told the Walla Web site in a pre-Rosh Hashana... more..e-mail
US Congress quiet on Jewish New Year
Associated Press, YNetNews 10/1/2008
Capitol building largely deserted as national lawmaking body marks Rosh Hashana; House to be on recess on Yom Kippur as well - A day after the House of Representatives defeat of a financial bailout plan that sent Wall Street into a... more..e-mail
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