Israel says it captured Palestinians responsible for Jerusalem University bombing; One Palestinian killed in Gaza Strip
Al-Bawaba, August 21, 2002
Israeli forces raided Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, and demolished two abandoned structures believed to have served as Palestinian firing positions. According to Palestinian sources, one Palestinian was killed in the area and at least six injured when the Israeli army blew up a building.

Occupation Troops Maintain Chokehold of Bethlehem After Withdrawal
Palestine Chronicle, August 20, 2002 
RAMALLAH (PMC): After a security deal was struck between Palestinians and Israelis Sunday, Israel's occupation soldiers withdrew Monday night from the heart of the occupied West Bank City of Bethlehem, redeploying on its outskirts instead and in effect choking the birth city of Christ.

Israelis raid Gaza refugee camp
BBC, August 21, 2002
Israeli troops are due to leave Palestinian areas: Israeli troops supported by tanks and helicopters have raided a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing one person and wounding four others.

Trying to placate right, PM says Bethlehem pullback is insignificant
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002 
In a bid to mollify the right-wing flank of his government, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon minimized the significance of the IDF's withdrawal from Bethlehem at a security cabinet meeting Wednesday, telling senior ministers that, "Basically we moved two tanks from Bethlehem."

Outspoken Democrat McKinney outsted after 10 years in Congress
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 21, 2002
Rep. Cynthia McKinney prepares to make her concession speech early Wednesday. A swarm of Republicans from north DeKalb County and indifference from Democrats in south DeKalb put an end Tuesday to the 10-year congressional career of Cynthia McKinney.

Occupation Army Withdraws from Bethlehem, Invades Tulkarm
Palestine Chronicle, August 20, 2002
BETHLEHEM: Palestinian police are again patrolling the streets of Bethlehem, in the West Bank, after Israeli occupation forces pulled out late Monday. It is the first step in what is to be a staged withdrawal of Israeli troops from other Palestinian areas.

IAF chief strongly defends Shehadeh bombing mission
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002 
Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz yesterday said he was satisfied the operation to drop a one-ton bomb on a crowded Gaza neighborhood to kill Hamas military leader Salah Shehadeh was proper - "militarily and morally."

Israel Presses On With Killings Despite Accord
Palestine Chronicle, August 21, 2002
BETHLEHEM: The Israeli Army handed control of Bethlehem back to the Palestinian security forces early yesterday but pressed on with killings elsewhere. Three Palestinians were shot dead and an Israeli soldier was killed as the violence dragged on.

Israel blows up two Gaza high-rises, kills wanted Palestinian despite shaky steps to truce
New Jersey.com, August 21, 2002
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli troops blew up two apartment buildings in a Gaza Strip refugee camp Wednesday, just hours after undercover forces killed the brother of a radical Palestinian leader during an arrest raid in the West Bank.

Israel Arrests Univ. Attack Suspects
Guardian, August 21, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli security forces have arrested several Palestinian suspects in the July 31 bombing at Jerusalem's Hebrew University in which nine people, including five Americans, were killed, Israel Radio said Wednesday.

LAW files petition against construction of Israel's apartheid wall 
Alternative Information Center, August 21, 2002
On Monday, August 19, 2002, LAW's lawyer Aazem Bishara filed a petition at the office of the Attorney General of the Israeli army, demanding an
interim injunction against three Israeli military orders which allow actual land and property confiscation for the purpose of constructing Israel's apartheid wall.

Israel Oks Smallpox Vaccination
Guardian, August 21, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet decided Wednesday to inoculate 15,000 security and rescue officials against smallpox to prepare for what officials said was a very remote possibility of an Iraqi attack with non-conventional weapons.

Report: U.S. to present new plan to promote democracy in Arab states
Al-Bawaba, August 21, 2002
The Bush administration plans to launch an effort this fall to promote democracy in the Middle East "in order to improve political institutions and public debate in often repressive societies," The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

PFLP vows revenge following killing of chief brother
Al-Bawaba, August 21, 2002 
Israeli forces were operating in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, demolishing two abandoned structures believed to have served as Palestinian firing positions. According to Palestinian sources, one Palestinian was killed in the area and at least four injured when the Israeli army blew up a building.

Peres repudiates Norwegian boycott 
Alternative Information Center, August 21, 2002
On an official visit to Oslo yesterday, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sparred with Norway's chief advocate of a boycott of Israeli goods, Norwegian labor union leader Gerd Liv Valla.

Palestinian Professor, Al-Najjar, To Be Deported From U.S.
Islam Online, August 21, 2002
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Palestinian man and former university professor in Florida, who had been imprisoned twice under secret evidence charges that brought no criminal charges, is to be deported from the U.S., his attorneys said Monday.

The occupation withdraws from Bethlehem but keeps the city under siege
Alternative Information Center, August 21, 2002
The occupation troops announced that they ended their military operation inside Bethlehem according to a security agreement reached with the Palestinians but their troops are still besieging the city. The army said in its statement that the troops withdrew from Bethlehem and redeployed around the city. The statement added that the redeployment aims to enable the Palestinians to fight terrorism and restore normal life.

ICRC activities in Israel, the occupied and administered Palestinian territories, 12-18 August 
Alternative Information Center, August 21, 2002
In Israel, the Occupied and the Autonomous Territories (IL/OT/AT), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works towards ensuring the faithful application of International humanitarian law (IHL), and above all the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilians in times of war and occupation. Please find below an update of the major activities carried out during the week:

Summary of Or commission hearings of last week 
Alternative Information Center, August 21, 2002
The Or Commission is investigating the death of 13 Arab citizens on October 2000 in demonstrations that were held in opposition to the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount on September 29, 2000.

Polls: Support for Israel falling
Cleveland Jewish News, August 19, 2002
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (JTA) -- Americans tired of Mideast violence increasingly blame Israel and the Palestinians equally and dismiss each side's cause as ``hopeless," according to a series of new polls of American views of the conflict. Overall, 42 percent of Americans support Israel, while only 10 percent support the Palestinians.

Security forces snatch Hamas cell that carried out major attacks
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002
The police and Shin Bet captured an East Jerusalem-based Hamas cell on Saturday night which is suspected of having carried out eight terror attacks in Israel in recent months, in which 35 people were killed and dozens injured.

Barghouthi denies he ordered attacks on Israelis, says he is just a politician
Jordan Times, August 21, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi denied ordering attacks on Israelis, but wrote from his Israeli jail cell Tuesday, in response to questions submitted by the Associated Press, that resistance groups have “contributed” to the struggle against occupation.

Palestinian civilian crushed to death as IDF raids Khan Yunis
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002
A Palestinian civilian was crushed to death early Wednesday by the collapse of a building as IDF tanks raided the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Little hope in Bethlehem as Israel quits town
Jordan Times, August 21, 2002    
BETHLEHEM — “The soldiers left Bethlehem but they can come back. The months of curfews have worn us down. Some of us have been killed, the future looks bleak,” says Palestinian Abed Rahuf, after Israeli occupation forces ended their two-month occupation of his West Bank town Tuesday.

Background: Now you cease it, now you don't
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002 
Israel's latest bid to quell violence in the territories, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer's pilot "Gaza First" plan for a phased IDF withdrawal from Palestinian cities, may suffer the fate of its predecessors: stillborn, at least in part as a result of Israel's own war on terror.

US Universities Campaign for Boycotting Israel
Palestine Chronicle, August 20, 2002
WASHINGTON: Academics, students and professors at American universities are conducting a widespread campaign calling for the solidarity of the Palestinian cause by boycotting American institutions and firms that engage in business in Israel.

PFLP vows to avenge leader's dead brother
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002 
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) last night vowed to avenge the killing of Mohammed Sa'adat, the brother of Ahmed Sa'adat, the movement's leader, in Ramallah by an elite Israel Defence Forces unit.

Israel Made to Stop Searches
Palestine Chronicle, August 21, 2002
PARIS: Israel has given in to European pressure and has decided to no longer systematically subject Western diplomats to illegal searches of their vehicles. The practice, which goes back to the start of Operation Rampart in late March, was condemned by French diplomats who repeatedly pointed out to the representatives of Tsahal who man the checkpoints leading into the Palestinian territories that the searches were illegal according to the Vienna Convention.

IAF chief urges trials for leftist Gush Shalom activists
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002
Attacking leftist Gush Shalom activists for threatening to extradite Israeli air force pilots to the international court at the Hague for alleged war crimes, IAF Commander Major General Dan Halutz has urged bringing the activists to trial.

Barak: Nobody anticipated such an earthquake in the Arab sector
Ha'aretz, August 21, 2002 
Former prime minister Ehud Barak repeated the same argument several times yesterday as he appeared before the Or Commission, which has warned him he could be damaged by their conclusions. "Nobody expected such an outbreak of the type I call an earthquake," he said.

The Worst Is Yet To Come For The Palestinians
Palestine Chronicle, August 20, 2002
Israel's sweeping foray into Hebron, imposing yet another curfew which has already kept hundreds of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in their own homes for days on end, will only perpetuate conflict; never will it resolve it.

Egypt, Jordan to Train Palestinian Security Forces
Palestine Chronicle, August 20, 2002 
CAIRO-RAMALLAH: Palestinian security forces are soon to receive training and equipment from two Arab countries in a step toward eventual peace with Israel, news sources reported.

Weekly Review of the Arab Press in Israel
No. 88 / 13 - 19 August, 2002
Arab Association for Human Rights

Queer “Settlers” Land on Berkeley Starbucks, Analogy to Israeli Colonists
IndyMedia, August 18, 2002
About 25 queer settlers descended on a downtown Berkeley Starbucks on Saturday, August 17, claiming Berkeley as “a city without people for people without a city.” The street theatre called attention to Israeli colonies in Palestine.