Arafat
tells envoy: Abbas is a traitor
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday accused Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) of "betraying the interests of the Palestinian people."
The outburst, whose ferocity surprised even Arafat's long-time associates, occurred
during the chairman's meeting with UN envoy Terje Larsen, according to a Palestinian
source who was present.
Palestinians
On Security Talks, Insist On Prisoner Releases
Palestine Chronicle, July 11, 2003
"The security chiefs discussed Israeli withdrawals from Palestinian villages,
but Mofaz said no further pull backs would take place until the PA cracked down
on resistance groups .." -- OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israelis and Palestinians continued
Friday, July 11, to advance haltingly along the so-called roadmap to peace, but
the latest high-level security talks failed to yield any breakthroughs on the
key issues.
A
Jewish Settler Kills a Palestinian Child
International Press Center, July 11, 2003
NABLUS, Palestine, July 11, 2003, (IPC+Agencies)-- A -13-year-old Palestinian
child, Yazan Al-Tal, was killed Friday as Jewish settler ran his car over him
south of Nablus, Palestinian security sources said.
Dahlan's
bodyguards injure Qassam Brigades fighter
Palestinian Information Center, July 11, 2003
Gaza – Muhammad al-Samri (35), a member of Qassam Brigades (the military
wing of Hamas), was wounded yesterday evening when the bodyguards of Palestinian
security chief Mohammad Dahlan opened fire towards him. His wounds were said to
be medium.
Israeli
Settlements ‘Still Expanding’ Unchecked
Arab News/The Observer, July 11, 2003
WEST BANK, 11 July 2003 — Israeli settlements are still being established
in Palestinian territory according to Israeli peace activists; and dismantling
operations are, say the activists, a charade, even though an end to their expansion
is a key feature of the US-backed road map to Middle East peace.
US
urges Israel to lift some West Bank checkpoints
Jordan Times, July 11, 2003
TEL AVIV (AFP) — US envoy John Wolf urged Israeli Defence Minister Shaul
Mofaz to dismantle some checkpoints in the West Bank, military radio reported
Thursday. During the meeting late Wednesday which was also attended by US Ambassador
to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, Wolf presented the defence chief with a list of seven
checkpoints to be removed, the radio said.
Israel’s
Treatment Of Female Detainees Criticized
Islam Online, July 11, 2003
Etaf Elian was forced by Israeli soldiers to open her mouth for them to spray
gas in -- GAZA, July 11 (IslamOnline.net) - An Israeli Knesset member Friday,
July 11, called for setting up a fact-finding mission to investigate into acts
of torture against Palestinian women detainees protesting squalid cells and tough
treatment two days before. Eight female detainees were critically injured when
the prison authorities tried to disperse striking prisoners Wednesday, July 9,
Mohamed Baraka told Islamonline.net.
Palestinian
prisoners on hunger strike
Middle East Online, July 11, 2003
200 of 1,200 inmates of Meggido centre protest against discrimination shown to
detainees of radical groups. -- BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Palestinians held in an
Israeli detention centre went on hunger strike Friday in support of a demand for
Israel to release prisoners belonging to the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad
groups, a Palestinian organisation said.
Israeli
chief of staff: Syria has ''terrorist'' government, Arafat ''deserves death''
Al-Bawaba, July 11, 2003
Israel accused Syria Friday of possessing an assortment of lethal gases along
with a missile arsenal that put the existence of the Jewish state in peril and
pose a grave to the security of the entire Middle East. The charge was made by
Israel's Chief-of-Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon in remarks given to a French magazine.
Sharon:
I want to help Abbas, will release more prisoners
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying on Friday that he wanted to help
his Palestinian counterpart and would continue to release prisoners, but not those
with "blood on their hands." "I, Ariel Sharon, want to help Prime Minister
Abu Mazen," he told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, referring to Palestinian
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas who is also called Abu Mazen.
`You'll
see a shift in U.S. policy in a month'
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Gary Bauer wants to stop the custom of officials "sitting in their comfortable
offices in Washington [who] think they have a right to tell Israel what it should
do." He will not tolerate even a hint of coercion or American pressure on Israel.
-- The coalition that brought U.S. President George W. Bush to power consists
mostly of devout white Protestants, Christian evangelicals and slightly less devout
white Protestants...One of their prominent representatives, Gary Bauer, attended
an intelligence briefing yesterday on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Defense
Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Palestinians
demonstrate demanding the release of POWs
Palestinian Information Center, July 11, 2003
Gaza – Hamas has organized a demonstration today after the Friday prayers
to demand the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and detention
camps. Around 3,000 people participated in the demonstration that took place in
the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Terror
victims ask court to delay prisoner release
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
The Terror Victims Association yesterday asked the High Court of Justice to postpone
the government's planned release of Palestinian prisoners until the state has
given the victims detailed information on the identity of those being freed.
Palestinian
MP suffering cruel investigation
Palestinian Information Center, July 10, 2003
Nablus - Husam Khader, member of the Palestinian legislative council, is suffering
from acute pains in the back after being subjected to continuous rounds of interrogation
at the hands of Zionist investigators....Buthaina Dakmak, lawyer of the [Mandela
] Institution, quoted Khader as saying that interrogation rounds sometimes surpassed
60 nonstop hours, which led to the severe backaches.
In
Jenin, 'People Are Very Tired': Special Report
Palestine Chronicle, July 11, 2003
JENIN, West Bank (PC) - Ahmed was sitting outside his shop in the early morning
sunshine, watching Jenin’s bruised and battered residents pass by. He said:
“On the TV they say we kill the Israelis. But they kill our mothers, our
brothers and the smiles on our faces. Do you see anyone smiling here?”
Ya'alon
to visit U.S. next week
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon is due to visit the United States next week and meet
with senior U.S. officials, both in the military and in the Bush administration.
Ya'alon will discuss with his hosts the lessons of the recent war in Iraq and
developments in the Middle East, particularly the role of Syria and Iran in terrorism.
IDF
post in Gaza comes under grenade attack
Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2003
An Israel Defense Forces post in Gaza was attacked just minutes ago by Palestinian
terrorists throwing grenades, a military source told The Jerusalem Post. "Palestinian
terrorists, hiding behind a densely populated civilian area on the Israel Egyptian
border in Rafah, threw nine grenades at one of our outposts," the source said.
Sharon
Mum As Minister Slams 'Map' In N.Y. Talk
Forward, July 11, 2003
'Perle Backs Me'; Perle: No, I Don't -- WASHINGTON — Prime Minister
Sharon has no plans to rebuke a senior minister in his Cabinet who publicly lambasted
President Bush's Middle East policy in a New York briefing this week and stated
— incorrectly, it appears — that he had the support of a ranking presidential
adviser....Moreover, attendees said, [Effi Eitam of the National Religious Party]
declared that he had been encouraged to fight the road map by no less a figure
than Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon
advisory panel. Perle, in an interview, denied having sent such a message to Eitam.
Despite
Palestinian denials, Larsen reaffirms Arafat slandered Abbas
Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2003
UN envoy Terje Larsen has stood by his account earlier Friday that Yasser Arafat
told him Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas is "betraying the interests
of the Palestinian people." Palestinian officials both denied that Arafat said
such a thing, and accused Larsen of not being a fair mediator by running to the
Israelis and telling them what the Palestinians are saying.
Israel:
Arbitrary arrest and risk to the personal integrity of Mr. Abd al-Nasser Quzmar
World Organisation Against Torture, July 10, 2003
Sources believe that the arrest may have to do with Qumzer's peaceful resistance
to the building of separation wall - he has reportedly been taking journalists
and international delegations to see the [separation] wall building and to raise
awareness about the issue. -- The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed
by Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCI-Pal), a member of
the OMCT network, of the arrest and interrogation of Abd al-Nasser Quzmar, the
brother of DCI-Pal lawyer Khaled Quzmar in Qalqalyia in the Nothern West Bank.
Jewish
settlers release the three Palestinian kids
Palestinian Information Center, July 10, 2003
Nablus - Jewish settlers last night released three Palestinian children who were
abducted earlier in the day from the village of Oreef to the south of Nablus,
citizens reported today. The citizens said that the children spent nine hours
in the nearby settlement of Yitshar. The three boys were playing east of their
village when armed settlers escorted by occupation soldiers surprised them and
savagely assaulted them.
Israel
Arrests 5 Peace Activists In Nablus
Palestine Chronicle, July 11, 2003
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Five Western peace activists were arrested Thursday, July
10, after attempting to remove Israeli army roadblocks in the West Bank city of
Nablus, their group said in a statement. An American, two Britons, a Canadian
and a Frenchman, who were all members of the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM), were arrested along with an Israeli while trying to demolish an earth roadblock
with a bulldozer after already demolishing two others, said a statement according
to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Mofaz
postpones all issues to Sharon-Abbas meeting
Palestinian Information Center, July 11, 2003
Gaza - Israeli and Palestinian officials met late Thursday to discuss an impasse
over the release of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli War Minister Shaul Mofaz and
Palestinian Security Chief Mohammad Dahlan held talks for two hours at Erez crossing.
Dahalan-Mofaz
Meeting Ends Without Results
International Press Center, July 11, 2003
BEIT HANOON, Palestine, July 11, 2003, (IPC+Agencies)-- Palestinian Minister of
Internal Affairs, Mohammed Dahalan, and Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz,
held Thursday night talks near the Beit Hanoon crossing, north of the Gaza Strip,
and held intensive talks over the security issues and the release of Palestinian
prisoners in the Israeli prisons.
Anger
at ambassador in London over criticism of BBC ban
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Israel's ambassador to London, Zvi Shtauber, has angered his bosses in Jerusalem
by criticizing the government's unofficial policy of boycotting the BBC, over
the British broadcaster's "anti-Israel coverage."....Israel Radio reported diplomatic
sources in Jerusalem as saying that Shtauber was stirring up the local Jewish
community by refusing to defend the policy.
Sharon
shuns BBC over documentary
The Guardian, July 11, 2003
Ariel Sharon has barred the BBC from his meeting with the British press during
a visit to London next week amid accusations that the corporation made false allegations
against Israel in a report on weapons of mass destruction.
Shimon
Peres cooperates with BBC and says government should too
Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2003
Even as the Prime Minister's Office continues to reassess its relations with the
BBC, as Government Press Office director Danny Seaman put it on Israel Radio,
Labor Party leader Shimon Peres gave an interview with the state British broadcaster
and said that Israel should restore full cooperation with it.
Blair-Sharon
dinner aimed at improving ties
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will host Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a private
dinner at 10 Downing Street Monday. The rare gesture is meant to highlight Blair's
wish to remove their past differences of opinion and rehabilitate their tattered
relationship. "It is very rare for Blair to invite foreign guests to have dinner
in his residence, among his children's toys," a British source said yesterday.
PM
to meet Bush in U.S. in a few weeks for talks on road map
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will visit Washington in about two-and-a-half weeks
at the invitation of United States President George W. Bush, a senior diplomatic
source in Jerusalem said Friday. "The prime minister will be going to the United
States at the end of July. I don't have an exact date. This meets a U.S. request
to move up the trip from September," said the source.
Sharon
to Meet Bush in Washington
The Guardian, July 11, 2003
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will travel to Washington
at the end of this month for talks with President Bush, Israeli officials
said Friday, as the United States tries to build momentum behind a fragile cease-fire
and a plan for Mideast peace.
Blair
to hold talks with Israeli PM
The Guardian, July 10, 2003
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is travelling to London next week for
talks with Tony Blair on the Middle East peace process, Downing Street confirmed
today. The discussions over dinner on Monday will be the first time the two leaders
have met face to face for over year.
Analysis
/ How many threats will it take?
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Efforts at reconciliation between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu
Mazen) and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat are at their zenith, following
insults directed by Arafat against the premier, which led him to offer his resignation.
Both the Fatah Revolutionary Council and the Central Committee of the Movement
rejected the resignation.
FM
Shalom: Tehran will have nuclear capability by 2006
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom warned on Friday that Israel sees Iran having a
nuclear weapon capability by 2006 that could threaten the stability of the entire
world....Friday's print edition of Haaretz reported that Israel has hardened its
position on Iran's nuclear program and is now demanding that the international
community bring the enriched uranium production in Iran to a complete halt.
Iran
steps up challenge to Israeli might
Daily Star, July 11, 2003
US silent despite impending missile deployment heralding new balance of power
-- BEIRUT: Iran’s recent successful test of its Shahab-3 ballistic missile
has drawn the usual dire warnings from Israel. But given the current barrage of
US denunciations of Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons program and so-called
alliance with Al-Qaeda, the Bush administration has been surprisingly quiescent
to what, if Iranian accounts are true, is a seminal event.
Palestinians
Present United Front Over Prisoners Issue
Arab News, July 11, 2003
GAZA CITY, 11 July 2003 — The Palestinian Authority leadership sought yesterday
to present a united front by insisting the Israelis release more prisoners and
by pledging support for Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinian security chief
Mohammed Dahlan said he would call for the freedom of all the estimated 6,000
detainees in Israeli prisons at an upcoming meeting with Defense Minister Shaul
Mofaz. Israel has so far considered the release of just 350 detainees.
Palestinians
present united front, insist all prisoners must go free
Jordan Times, July 11, 2003
GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Palestinian leadership sought Thursday to present
a united front by insisting the Israelis release more prisoners and by pledging
support for embattled Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinian security chief
Mohammad Dahlan said he would call for the freedom of all the estimated 6,000
detainees in Israeli prisons at a meeting with Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz that
started late Thursday.
Abbas-Arafat
Struggle Could Derail Peace Plan
Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2003
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Yasser Arafat didn't do much talking, but then he
didn't have to. The Palestinian Authority leader sat silent, letting loyal associates
heap insults on Mahmoud Abbas, the man he was forced to install nearly four months
ago as prime minister — the first time in decades that Arafat has engaged
in anything remotely resembling power-sharing.
Two-way
street
Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 10 - 16 July 2003
Egypt moves to bolster the increasingly fragile cease-fire between Israel and
the Palestinians -- In an attempt to avert the collapse of the fragile truce between
Israel and the Palestinians Egypt has resumed its mediation efforts in Gaza. The
three-week truce is increasingly threatened by sporadic acts of violence. On Wednesday
Colonel Mustafa El-Beheiri, deputy-chief of Egyptian Intelligence, arrived in
Gaza to urge the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to uphold the truce.
Abbas
and peace 'roadmap'
Middle East Online, July 11, 2003
Analysts say Abbas caught between Israeli PM and Palestinian militant groups and
Palestinian leader. -- Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas, who threatened
to quit earlier this week, is caught between a rock, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, and two hard places, Palestinian militant groups and Yasser Arafat, analysts
said here.
Palestinians
debate their goal: compromise or victory
Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 2003
JERUSALEM – Mahmoud Abbas, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority,
found his toughest battles this week weren't with Israelis, but with fellow Palestinians.
Tuesday, Mr. Abbas came under heavy fire from members of his Fatah party who mocked
and denigrated his performance to date. On Wednesday, Fatah officials proposed
curbing the power of Abbas's security minister, Mohammed Dahlan.
Palestinian
rifts 'not yet crisis'
BBC, July 11, 2003
Disputes that have emerged within the Palestinian leadership reflect both discontent
with the performance of the Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, and a power struggle
inside Yasser Arafat's nationalist Fatah movement. Mr Abbas - also known as Abu
Mazen - heads the Palestinian Authority cabinet, a nominally independent body
but actually dominated by Fatah.
States
hosting Palestinian refugees conclude meeting
Jordan Times, July 11, 2003
CAIRO (Petra) — States hosting Palestinian refugees concluded a meeting
here with an appeal to the world community to provide protection for Palestinians
living under Israeli occupation and to ensure Israel's full compliance with the
Geneva Convention and other UN resolutions relevant to the Palestinian issue.
Arab
League blasts Israeli minister for statement on drowning prisoners
Jordan Times, July 11, 2003
CAIRO (AFP) — The Arab League on Thursday condemned remarks by extreme right-wing
Israeli Minister Avigdor Lieberman who said Palestinian prisoners should be drowned
in the Dead Sea rather than released. “These statements full of hatred are
clear evidence of the aggressive practices that hamper the Middle East peace process,”
the spokesman for Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said.
Protest
planned at Sharon's ranch
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
More than 100 single-parent families from Ofakim, Dimona and the neighboring communities
will demonstrate outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Negev ranch today, in protest
of his government's cut in the welfare budget.
`Bibi
should give in now; Vicki will never give in'
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
"Bibi is wasting his time," says mother-of-five Dalia Gustman, who has been Vicki
Knafo's neighbor for the past seven years. And Gustman also has a piece of advice
for the finance minister. "I know Vicki. She won't let him go. He should give
in to her demands now, because she won't cave in," she says.
Single-mother
crusader makes some headway
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
For over an hour yesterday, Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Welfare Minister
Zevulun Orlev sat and listened to Vicki Knafo. The single mother, who embarked
on a one-woman protest march against the treasury's cut in welfare payments, sat
opposite the two politicians and tried to explain the significance of these cuts
to single-parent families.
Poraz
to recommend authority regulate commercial TV again
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz plans to recommend that the cabinet return commercial
broadcasting regulations to the Second Television and Radio Authority, ending
the relief granted the commercial television channels. Justice Minister Yosef
Lapid may support the motion, thereby bringing to an end the relief granted the
commercial television channels.....Lapid called the meeting after potential Channel
10 investor Moshe Saba gave Hebrew-language mass circulation daily Ma'ariv an
interview pledging to curb the freedom of expression the channel grants homosexuals.
The
hudna began in the prisons
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
The leaders of the Fatah prisoners in Israel sent dozens of terrorists on suicide
missions and shooting attacks on both sides of the Green Line. But in talks with
Haaretz this week, the leaders all proclaimed unwavering support for the cease-fire
agreement known as the hudna.
Another
single mother sets out on Jerusalem protest march
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
In an interview with Israel Radio on Friday, Azouali said that she is forced to
live on NIS 371 a month, following a NIS 800 cut in her welfare allowance. Ilana
Azoulai, a single mother from Arad, set out Friday morning on a protest march
to Jerusalem, pushing her disabled son, Yossi, in his wheelchair. Azoulai is following
in the footsteps of Vicki Knafo, a single mother from Arad whose march, in protest
at the cut in welfare payments, propelled her to the center of the nation's attention,
forcing Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with her at his Jerusalem
office Thursday.
Israel
to purchase more Apache Longbows
Middle East Newsline, July 11, 2003
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's air force plans to upgrade the first of its Apache
attack helicopter fleet. Air force commanders said the service intends to modernize
three AH-64A helicopters from the U.S. firm Boeing. They said the Apache helicopters
would be upgraded to D Longbow configuration.
Damascus
Says It Has No Need for Peace ‘Road Map’
Arab News, July 11, 2003
DAMASCUS, 11 July 2003 — Syria and Lebanon do not need a “road map”
to reach a peace agreement with Israel, state-run Damascus Radio said yesterday.
“The Syrian and Lebanese tracks (of Middle East negotiations) do not need
a ‘road map’ as that would signify that a new start was necessary...when
in fact the negotiations on these two areas have already made progress,”
it said.
Palestinian
Refugees in Iraq on Hunger Strike
Palestine Chronicle, July 11, 2003
"The toppling of the Iraqi government led to a backlash, after which thousands
of landless Palestinians found themselves on the street .." -- BAGHDAD (PC) -
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Baghdad began a hunger strike with the hope
that the international community would pay attention to their deteriorating conditions
following the toppling of the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein.
Beirut
to raise ‘road map’ with Arab League
Daily Star, July 11, 2003
Involving Lebanon and Syria in the US-backed “road map” for a negotiated
Middle East settlement is among the issues that Beirut will seek to raise at the
September Arab League ordinary session in Cairo, according to official sources
Thursday. The sources said Lebanon will include in the league’s agenda Israel’s
continued occupation of parts of the southern region, notably the Shebaa Farms,
and will seek a joint Arab action for liberating the area, as well as the Golan
Heights and Palestinian territories.
Berri,
Battle clash over water
Daily Star, July 11, 2003
During a ceremony commemorating the late engineer who founded the Litani River
Project, Ibrahim Abdel-Al, Berri said Washington “was never an honest mediator”
in water issues between Lebanon and Israel. -- Speaker Nabih Berri and American
Ambassador Vincent Battle clashed on Thursday over issues related to water
sharing in the Middle East.
Mubarak,
Abdullah inaugurate gas pipeline on July 27th
Arabic News, July 11, 2003
Jordanian minister of energy Muhammad al-Bayeynah said yesterday that the Jordanian
King Abdullah II and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate on July
27th the Jordanian- Egyptian joint gas project between the two cities in Taba
in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan.
Damascus:
Government reshuffle is by the end of year
Arabic News, July 11, 2003
Well-informed sources in Damascus said that the forthcoming reshuffle in Syria
is postponed until the end of the current year. The sources indicated that the
possibility of the government reshuffle postponed until the end of the current
year, as it has become possible to start reforms inside the Baath Party in light
of the debate on the role of the party in the authority, and the possibility of
convening a Baath Party regional congress before its set date in 2004, in a way
that coincides with the government's reshuffle.
Court
Affirms Bush's Power to Detain Citizen as Enemy
New York Times, July 11, 2003
WASHINGTON, July 9 — A sharply divided federal appeals court today upheld
President Bush's authority to detain indefinitely as an enemy combatant a United
States citizen captured on the battlefield and to deny him access to a lawyer.
The full roster of active judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., voted 8 to 4 to affirm a ruling in January that
first found such a right, the administration's most important legal victory to
date concerning expansion of its authority since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
US
plans to seize suspects at will
The Times, July 11, 2003
AMERICA appeared to be at loggerheads with Britain and other allies yesterday
after it declared that it had the authority to intercept any suspect ships and
aircraft in international waters and airspace.
Irving's
Holocaust film ditched
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
"All kinds of ugliness has happened," he told Australia's AAP news agency. "It's
far too scary ... we will never play another film by a historical revisionist
ever again." -- SYDNEY - Jewish lobby groups in Australia proclaimed victory yesterday,
when organizers of a Melbourne film festival canceled the screening of a film
by English revisionist historian and Holocaust denier David Irving, just hours
before it was to go ahead.
Newly
Found 1947 Truman Diary Unveiled
The Guardian, July 11, 2003
Truman's diary also reveals some anti-Semitism in discussing the plight of postwar
Jewish refugees and the efforts of some to get past strict British controls on
immigration into Palestine. American Jews and Israelis generally regard Truman
as a friend for lending crucial diplomatic support for the creation of the state
of Israel in 1948. "...The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any
judgement on world affairs.''
U.S.
dithers over Israeli suicide bomb treaty
Haaretz, July 11, 2003
The U.S. administration has reservations about an Israeli proposal for an international
treaty against suicide bombing. American officials believe the struggle against
suicide bombing is covered by existing international anti-terrorism treaties,
and the Israeli proposal imposes excessive restrictions on the freedom of expression.
Mandela
‘Pained' by Bush
Palestine Chronicle, July 11, 2003
LONDON - Former South African President Nelson Mandela has condemned US President
George W Bush and British Prime Minister for riding roughshod over international
law by acting alone in waging war against Iraq. "To see young political leaders
of the developed world act in ways that undermine some of the noblest attempts
of humanity to deal with historical legacies, pains me greatly and makes me worry
immensely about our future," the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said.
