Britain
to push for 'final' Middle
East talks this year
The Guardian, October 2,
2002
Britain is to press for
"final status" negotiations
on Israel and the Palestinian
territories to be revived
by the end of the year in
an attempt to resolve the
54-year-old dispute, Tony
Blair said yesterday.
Israel
dismisses Blair comments
on peace process, PA welcomes
Al-Bawaba, October 2, 2002
The Palestinians have welcomed
British Prime Minister Tony
Blair's statement Tuesday
afternoon that Israel and
the Palestinians must resume
full peace talks by the
end of this year, but Israeli
diplomatic sources were
quoted as dismissing the
speech, saying they were
sticking with the roadmap
outlined by U.S. President
George Bush.
Palestinian
Reformers Nix PM Idea
The Guardian, October 2,
2002
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)
- Bringing reform efforts
to a temporary halt, Yasser
Arafat's Fatah faction abandoned
the idea of prodding the
Palestinian leader to relinquish
some power by appointing
a prime minister, officials
said Wednesday.
US
rejects Iraq inspections
deal
Al-Bawaba, October 2, 2002
The US yesterday rejected
an agreement between Iraq
and the United Nations on
arms inspections, vowing
to block the inspectors'
return unless the security
council agrees to back them
with the threat of military
force.
Arabs
lambaste US over Jerusalem
Arab News, October 2, 2002
GAZA CITY/LONDON, 2 October
— Arabs yesterday
bitterly denounced US legislation
requiring President George
W. Bush’s administration
to identify Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital.
Some of Washington’s
Arab allies acknowledged
that Bush had stated that
US policy on Jerusalem was
unchanged despite the provisions
inserted by Congress into
the act that provides over
$4 billion to run the State
Department in 2003.
Sari
Nusseibeh opens drive to
waive the right of return
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Sari Nusseibeh, the PLO
official responsible for
Jerusalem affairs, yesterday
began sending letters to
all Palestinian residents
of the territories and East
Jerusalem in which he urged
that the Palestinians waive
their demand for a "right
of return" in exchange for
an Israeli withdrawal to
the 1967 border, evacuation
of settlements and Palestinian
sovereignty over East Jerusalem,
including the Temple Mount.
Blair:
Israel, Iraq must both obey
UN
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
BLACKPOOL, England - British
Prime Minister Tony Blair
said yesterday that Israel
and Iraq must both obey
UN Security Council resolutions,
and called for final status
negotiation between Israel
and the Palestinians to
begin before the end of
the year.
Blair's
Iraq-Israel parallel on
UN worries cabinet
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Israeli leaders responded
with concern Wednesday to
remarks by British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, who
declared support Tuesday
for a Palestinian state
based on the 1967 borders
and stressed that UN resolutions
were binding on all Middle
East nations, not only Iraq.
Israel
Destroys Palestinian Home,
Barghuti to Sue for Genocide
Islam Online, October 2,
2002
OCCUPIED JENIN, West Bank,
October 2 (IslamOnline &
News Agencies) - The Israeli
occupation army destroyed
Wednesday, October 2, the
West Bank home of a Palestinian
resistance fighter abducted
six months ago, Palestinian
security sources said.
Islamic,
Arabic Worlds Furious over
U.S. Move on Jerusalem
Islam Online, October 2,
2002
CAIRO, October 1 (IslamOnline)
- The U.S. Congress bill
demanding the American Embassy
in Israel be moved to Occupied
Jerusalem, and signed by
U.S. President George W.
Bush Monday, September 30,
raised the anti-U.S. sentiments
in the Arab and Islamic
worlds to a dangerous level,
with observers lashing out
at what they termed the
"Bush-Blair hypocritical
games".
Arab-Americans
fear registration system
BBC, October 2, 2002
The US says up to 200,000
visitors will have to register:
Gus Shihab emigrated to
the United States from Syria
in 1979. Now an immigration
attorney in Washington DC,
he says his Middle Eastern
clients are concerned by
a new atmosphere of intimidation
and mistreatment.
US
criticised over Muslim checks
BBC, October 1, 2002
Malaysia and Pakistan have
reacted angrily to new American
regulations to register
people from selected Arab
and Muslim countries on
arrival in the US.
Three
suspected members of al-Qaeda
arrested in Lebanon
Al-Bawaba, October 1, 2002
The Lebanese police have
arrested three suspected
members of Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaeda network who allegedly
planned to set up a training
camp in Lebanon, an official
said Tuesday.
Palestinian
killed in Gaza Strip; Israel
boosts military presence
in Nablus
Al-Bawaba, October 1, 2002
A 50-year-old Palestinian
civilian was killed early
Tuesday by Israeli tank
shrapnel in the Shajaia
neighborhood east of Gaza
City after Israeli tanks
backed by a helicopter chased
Islamic Jihad activists,
who had ambushed an army
patrol with grenades, Palestinian
witnesses and hospital sources
said.
Israeli
army returns to Arafat compound
BBC, October 1, 2002
Israeli soldiers have resumed
positions outside Yasser
Arafat's compound in Ramallah,
amid reports that suspected
militants have escaped after
a siege was lifted on Sunday.
Peaceful
opponents greet Netanyahu
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
October 2, 2002
Former Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's visit
Tuesday to Pittsburgh drew
several hundred friends
and foes who taunted each
other at times but who refrained,
in the midst of a heavy
police presence, from any
of the violence that marked
the Likud Party leader's
visits to Montreal and Dallas
earlier this year.
Jewish
musician, Palestinian scholar
pursue Middle East harmony
New Jersey.com, October
2, 2002
NEW YORK (AP) -- For Daniel
Barenboim, playing Beethoven
was a 21st century act of
rebellion -- at least, when
the Israeli musician visited
the off-limits West Bank
so he could teach Palestinian
youths.
Israeli
activists fly kites over
military prison in support
of Israeli conscientious
objectors
Electronic Intifada, October
1, 2002
On Saturday September 28
at 16:00, on the slope overlooking
Military Prison #6, Israeli
activists demonstrated in
solidarity with Israeli
conscientious objectors
inside.
Pro-Iraq
leader arrested in Ramallah
by undercover IDF troops
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Israeli security sources
said Wednesday that undercover
soldiers arrested the Palestinian
leader of a pro-Iraqi faction
in the West Bank responsible
for giving financial support
to families of suicide bombers.
Aziz:
Iraq won't retaliate against
neighbors, only U.S.
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Tariq Aziz said in Ankara
on Wednesday Baghdad had
no plans to retaliate against
neighbours, including Turkey,
if the United States attacked.
Peres:
Siege helped Arafat defeat
PA reforms
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Responding to Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat's 11th-hour success
in turning aside power-sharing
reforms, Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres said Wednesday
that forestalling reform
of the Palestinian Authority
was a principal result of
Israel's aborted siege of
Arafat's Muqata headquarters
compound.
Trial
of Jewish terror cell begins
in Jerusalem
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
The trial of the Jewish
terror cell accused of planting
a bomb in an East Jerusalem
girls school opened Wednesday
morning at the Jerusalem
District Court. The prosecution
charges the leaders of the
group, Yarden Morag, Shlomo
Dvir and Ofer Gamliel, all
residents of the settlement
of Bat Ein, with attempted
murder and various weapons-related
charges.
Background:
The Iraq-Israel Equation
and The Day After
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
A key ally has rattled Israeli
officialdom by drawing a
parallel between defiance
of UN resolutions by Baghdad
and Jerusalem, leading Israelis
to wonder: After Saddam
is brought to heel, is the
Jewish state next?
East
Jerusalem cell opens window
on Hamas terror dynamics
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Shin Bet and police have
compiled testimony from
the East Jerusalem group
responsible the Hebrew University
and other bomb attacks that
is shedding new light on
the internal dynamics of
a terrorist organization.
U.S.
Jews open TV ad campaign
to burnish Israel's eroded
image
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
WASHINGTON - One hundred
leading cable TV stations
in the U.S. this week began
broadcasting paid advertising
by two U.S. Jewish groups
trying to get Israel's message
across to the American public.
A
confrontation for coexistence
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
This summer, while Israelis
and Palestinians were killing
one another in the streets
of Ramallah, Jerusalem,
and Gaza, Israeli and Arab
teenagers were confronting
each other on the sports
field and across the dinner
table, not with weapons,
but with mutual suspicions
and stereotypes.
Soldiers
prevent gas station bomb
attack
Jeruslaem Post, October
2, 2002
The alertness of two soldiers
who spotted a suspicious
object at a gas station
on the outskirts of Afula
early yesterday morning
prevented what could have
been a serious terror attack.
Ben-Eliezer:
Iraq has limited nonconventional
capabilities
Jeruslaem Post, October
1, 2002
Iraq has "some strategic
capabilities" to launch
a nonconventional chemical
or biological weapons attack
via ground-to-ground missiles
against Israel, but they
should "not be exaggerated,"
Defense Minister Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer told the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee Tuesday.
Hizbullah
fires over North
Jeruslaem Post, October
2, 2002
Hizbullah on Tuesday fired
at least four salvos of
anti-aircraft fire over
Western and Upper Galilee.
Burning shrapnel caused
brush fires near Kibbutz
Matzuva in Western Galilee
and in the Galilee Panhandle
which were extinguished
by firemen.
Europeans
asked to probe Mount stability
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
The European Federation
for Non-Destructive Testing,
(EFNDT) which specializes
in examing buildings with
lasers, radar, x-rays, and
ultra-sound, has been asked
for a second time to examine
the condition of the Temple
Mount (Haram a-Sharif).
A bulge in the southern
wall and some tenuous underground
supports beneath the plaza
on the surface, have experts
worried about a potential
collapse that could cost
lives.
Speakers
slam government in October
memorial rallies
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
In events yesterday commemorating
the October 2000 Arab riots
in the north, in which 12
Israeli Arabs and a Palestinian
died, speakers angrily denounced
the government, and there
were a few scattered words
of praise for Saddam Hussein,
but no violence. The events
were however plagued by
divisions between bereaved
families and the Israeli
Arab representative organization.
IDF
cites poor plans in Jenin
battle where 13 reservists
died
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
The results of an IDF inquiry
into the deaths of 13 reserve
soldiers during the battle
of Jenin in Operation Defensive
Shield will be announced
to bereaved families today...The
main points are:
Uneasy
quiet returns to Nablus
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Relative quiet returned
to Nablus yesterday, after
an Israeli soldier and two
Palestinian children were
killed on Monday. The city
remained under curfew, but
it was not strictly enforced.
Rights
group reports 10 Arabs killed
by cops since October riots
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
Musawa, an Israeli Arab
human rights organization,
yesterday released a report
on the deaths of 10 Israeli
Arab citizens allegedly
killed by police and security
forces since the riots of
October 2000 in which 13
Israeli Arabs were killed
by police.
IDF
takes up positions near
Muqata, arrests 39 Palestinians
Ha'aretz, October 2, 2002
The Israel Defense Forces
yesterday took up positions
in two buildings close to
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat's headquarters
in Ramallah, Palestinian
sources said, while elsewhere
in the West Bank, the IDF
arrested 39 Palestinians
suspected of terrorist activity.
Solidarity
Campaign With Palestinian
Detainees Launched
Palestine Media Center,
October 2, 2002
A solidarity campaign with
the Palestinian detainees
was launched Wednesday,
a day before the holding
of the third trial session
of detained Palestinian
Legislative Council (PLC)'s
member, Marwan Al-Barghouthi.
Call
to help solve Palestine
problem
Gulf News, October 2, 2002
A senior Palestinian official
yesterday urged Arab countries
to take concrete steps to
resolve the Palestinian
problem and to take an effective
political role in dealing
with the U.S. and Israel.
Iaq
urges Turkey not to offer
military assistance to U.S.
Al-Bawaba, October 1, 2002
Iraq warned Turkey that
it would no longer consider
it a friendly nation if
US warplanes used Turkish
bases for a military strike
against Baghdad.
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