Israel
faces swing to
right as coalition
falls
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
Sharon woos minor
parties after
Labour walks out:
Ariel Sharon was
seeking the backing
of the far right
to keep him in
power last night
after the Labour
party walked out
of his national
unity government
and lifted the
constraints on
one of the most
hardline prime
ministers in Israel's
history.
Sharon
Tries to Rebuild
Government
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP)
- Ariel Sharon
tried Thursday
to rebuild a government
left in shambles
by the departure
of the center-left
Labor Party, and
the Israeli leader
was expected to
court ultranationalists
opposed to a peace
deal with the
Palestinians.
Mofaz
Accepts Nomination
of New Post, Government
Crisis in Israel
Palestine Chronicle,
October 31, 2002
TEL AVIV (PC)
- Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel
Sharon moved quickly
to patch up the
governmental crisis
in Israel following
the withdrawal
of the Labor Party.
Arrest
Call For Israeli
Ex-Army Chief
Islam Online,
October 31, 2002
Mofaz gave "instructions
to assassinate,
torture and demolish
their houses":
LONDON, October
29 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies)
- A British lawyer
working on behalf
of Palestinian
families has begun
on Tuesday, October
29, proceedings
for the arrest
of the former
head of the Israeli
army, currently
touring the UK.
In
tense vote, 2003
budget passes
first reading
67-45
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
At the end of
a nerve-racking
day in the Knesset,
the 2003 budget
passed its first
reading despite
Labor's resignation
from the national
unity government.
Israel
Wounds 3 Palestinian
Children, Demolishes
4 Homes
Islam Online,
October 31, 2002
NABLUS, West Bank,
October 31 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies)
- Three Palestinian
children were
wounded in a village
near the West
Bank town of Nablus
Thursday, October
31, when Israeli
troops fired at
stone throwers,
whereas the Israeli
army destroyed
four homes belonging
to the families
of Palestinian
activists in the
Jenin refugee
camp.
Raid
on Qabatia, Home
Demolishing in
Jenin
Palestine Chronicle,
October 31, 2002
NABLUS, West Bank
(PC) - Large Israeli
forces have reportedly
raided the town
of Qabatia, in
the West Bank,
as Israeli soldiers
conducted house
to house searches
there. Meanwhile
in Jenin, also
in the West Bank,
Palestinian homes
were demolished.
Protesting
Settlers’
Violence, Israeli
Intellectuals
Pick Olives With
Palestinians
Islam Online,
October 31, 2002
AQRABA, West Bank,
October 30 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies)
- About 40 Israeli
writers, artists
and businessmen
on Wednesday,
October 30, went
to pick olives
with Palestinians
south of Nablus
in the West Bank
in protest at
rising violence
from Jewish settlers.
Israeli
Troops Destroy
Jenin Homes
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
NABLUS, West Bank
(AP) - Israeli
troops Thursday
demolished four
houses belonging
to suspected Palestinian
militants, bringing
to nine the number
of houses destroyed
in the Jenin refugee
camp this past
week.
Labor
quits, coalition
collapses
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
The national unity
government headed
by Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon collapsed
in ruins yesterday
evening when the
Labor party leader
stood by his threat
to vote against
the 2003 budget,
and then led his
coalition team
into opposition.
New
PA interior minister
promises sweeping
reforms
Jerusalem Post,
October 31, 2002
The new Palestinian
Authority interior
minister said
Wednesday that
he could reform
security services
quickly, but Israel
would have to
help by withdrawing
forces from West
Bank cities.
New
Interior Minister
Says Palestinians
Entitled to Self-Defense
Palestine Chronicle,
October 31, 2002
RAMALLAH, West
Bank (PC) - One
day after the
first meeting
of the new Palestinian
cabinet, Hani
al-Hassan, the
new Minister of
Interior, defended
the Palestinian
peoples’
right to defend
themselves.
Arafat
Initiates New
Government by
Denouncing Violence
- Palestinian
Killed in the
West Bank
Palestine Chronicle,
October 30, 2002
RAMALLAH, West
Bank (PINA) -
The new Palestinian
government held
its first meeting
Wednesday, one
day after winning
a Parliamentary
approval in Ramallah.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian
was shot dead
in the West Bank.
Two
Palestinians wounded
by IDF in Tulkarm
Jerusalem Post,
October 31, 2002
Two Palestinians
were wounded in
exchanges of fire
with the IDF Thursday
evening in the
West Bank town
of Tulkarm, Israel
Radio reports.
Israeli
Move To The Right
Is Likely
CBS News, October
31, 2002
"Sharon ... will
now learn what
coalition hell
looks like, with
all the demands,
the blackmail
and the threats.":
(CBS) Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon on
Thursday tried
to rebuild a government
left in shambles
by the departure
of the center-left
Labor Party, and
was expected to
court ultra-nationalists
opposed to any
peace deal with
the Palestinians.
Mofaz
Appointed Israel's
Defense Minister
Voice of America,
October 31, 2002
Former Israel
army chief Shaul
Mofaz, who led
major offensives
against Palestinian
militants and
has called for
the ouster of
Yasser Arafat,
is reported to
have accepted
Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's
offer to serve
as his new defense
minister.
Labour
walkout shatters
Israeli coalition
The Independent,
October 31, 2002
Israel's coalition
government collapsed
yesterday when
Ariel Sharon's
main Labour party
partners resigned,
leaving the country
in political confusion
even as an American
war on Iraq loomed
and amid the Palestinian
intifada.
Israel's
Sharon Courts
Far-Right
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP)
- Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon on
Thursday began
courting ultranationalist
legislators to
try to rebuild
his coalition,
left in a shambles
by the departure
of the center-left
Labor Party.
Sharon
rebuilds new coalition,
appoints Mofaz
as defense minister;
Houses destroyed
in Jenin
Al-Bawaba, October
31, 2002
A Palestinian
Authority intelligence
officer was killed
Thursday morning
by Israeli fire
in the West Bank,
Palestinian sources
said. The officer,
identified as
37-year-old Iyad
Mansur, was killed
in the village
of Qalil, near
Nablus, the sources
said.
Soldier
lightly hurt in
W. Bank; PA officer
killed near Nablus
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
The driver of
an IDF jeep was
lightly injured
Thursday afternoon
when a Palestinian
gunman opened
fire on his vehicle
as he was travelling
between the West
Bank settlements
of Ofra and Beit
El. He was hit
in the arm.
Nahal
expels three soldiers
for refusing to
evacuate outposts
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Three Nahal Brigade
commanders were
expelled from
the brigade for
refusing to evacuate
an illegal outpost
in the territories.
The three live
in religious settlements.
Palestinian
'forced to help
Shin Bet' gets
death sentence
The Independent,
October 30, 2002
A Palestinian
who worked for
Israel's leading
human rights group
was sentenced
to death yesterday
on charges of
collaborating
with the Shin
Bet intelligence
service.
Palestinian
detainees at Ofer
undergo severe
conditions; Jordanian
detainees go on
hunger strike
Alternative Information
Center, October
31, 2002
LAW is deeply
concerned about
the deteriorating
conditions especially
those of health,
maltreatment,
and lack of bare
necessities of
Palestinian detainees
at Ofer detention
center in Betunia,
Ramallah.
Rights
of conscientious
objector Yigal
Bronner violated
Alternative Information
Center, October
31, 2002
Since his imprisonment
on October 28,
Tel-Aviv University
lecturer, Dr.
Yigal Bronner’s
rights have been
violated by the
Israeli military.
Israel
blows up two Palestinian
homes
Arabic News, October
31, 2002
The Israeli forces
yesterday broke
to the northern
and southern parts
of Gaza and the
breaking in operations
resulted in wounding
a Palestinian
youth and destruction
of more than 10
houses.
Sharon
seeks new coalition
backing
BBC, October 31,
2002
Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel
Sharon is holding
talks with extreme
right-wing and
religious parties
in an effort to
prop up his teetering
government.
PM
meeting Mofaz
to offer ex-IDF
chief defense
post
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon will
meet with former
IDF chief of staff
Shaul Mofaz on
Thursday evening,
as the opening
move in his attempt
to establish a
narrow, right-leaning
government that
could also include
the National Union
and Yisrael Beiteinu.
Bio:
Shaul Mofaz
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Lieutenant-General
(res.) Shaul Mofaz,
born in Iran in
1948, is married
with four children.
He immigrated
to Israel in 1957.
Witnesses:
Blasts at militant's
Gaza home kills
three
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Three Palestinians,
members of the
militant Hamas
group, were killed
Thursday in a
blast that appeared
to have been caused
by a bomb that
went off prematurely.
S&P
cuts Israel's
local credit rating
to A+
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
LONDON - Standard
and Poor's Ratings
Services said
on Thursday it
had cut its long-term
local currency
ratings for the
State of Israel
to A+ from AA-,
saying it doubted
Israel could implement
much-needed policies.
Israel’s
political crisis
may affect economic
ratings
Al-Bawaba, October
31, 2002
Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel
Sharon’s
national unity
government collapsed
on Wednesday when
the State’s
Labor Party withdrew
from the coalition
in a dispute over
spending on Jewish
settlements in
the West Bank
and Gaza. New
elections are
expected in the
near future.
British
Lawyer Files War
Crimes Suit Against
Israel’s
New Defense Minister
Islam Online,
October 31, 2002
Mofaz is accused
of violations
of the Geneva
Conventions: LONDON,
October 31 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies)
- A prominent
British human
rights lawyer
has urged his
country to press
war crimes charges
against Israel's
hardline ex-army
chief, General
Shaul Mofaz, officials
said, as Mofaz
accepted the post
of Defense Minister
in hardline Prime
Minister Ariel
Sharon's new government
Thursday, October
31.
Police
to study Israeli
war crime allegations
The Independent,
October 31, 2002
Scotland Yard
is investigating
a former Israeli
army chief over
alleged war crimes
committed by Israeli
soldiers against
Palestinians in
the Occupied Territories
this year.
Canada
Issues U.S. Travel
Warning
CBS News, October
30, 2002
(AP) The Canadian
government has
issued a travel
advisory with
a twist: It suggests
citizens born
in Iraq, Syria
and other countries
targeted by U.S.
anti-terrorism
policies consider
avoiding travel
to the United
States.
Canada
warns its citizens
of ME origin from
visiting the USA
Arabic News, October
31, 2002
The Canadian foreign
ministry yesterday
issued a statement
which is considered
very rare, warning
its citizens,
who are of Middle
East origin of
the risks of traveling
to the USA.
Iraq-Iran
to discuss expanding
cooperation
Arabic News, October
31, 2002
In a step that
indicates the
development of
political relations
between Iraq and
Iran, the joint
ministerial committee
between the two
countries will
start its meetings
in Baghdad next
week.
Iran
blames Iraq for
border fires
BBC, October 30,
2002
Iran has complained
to Iraq about
huge fires which
are reported to
be burning large
areas of the former
marshland on the
border between
the two countries.
Endless
suffering of chemical
gas victims
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
Tehran hospital
bears witness
to Iraqi tactics:
Mohammed Nejad
will always remember
the day Iraqi
planes dropped
their chemical
weapons and ruined
his life. He was
a soldier in the
Iranian army during
the bitter eight-year
war with Iraq.
Costly
frontier posts
that broke the
coalition's back
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
Contentious settlements
and the price
of their survival
pushed Labour
to the brink:
The Israeli Labour
party chose well
the issues that
broke apart Ariel
Sharon's coalition
government yesterday:
the ever expanding
Jewish settlements
in the occupied
Palestinian territories
and money.
Shrewd
move forms part
of Ben Eliezer's
waiting game
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer,
the Israeli Labour
leader, who finally
took his party
out of the national
coalition government
yesterday, is
a superb machine
politician. His
battered face
is matched by
an equally bruising
approach to politics.
Security
Council blasts
U.S. for threatening
Iraq
Toronto Star,
October 31, 2002
Russia, France
and China want
to give Iraq a
chance to co-operate:
UNITED NATIONS
(AP) - The United
States was taken
to task today
for its draft
United Nations
resolution on
Iraq with a majority
of UN Security
Council members
opposing language
which could authorize
Washington to
launch a war against
Baghdad.
U.N.
Still Can't Agree
on Iraq
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
UNITED NATIONS
(AP) - The U.S.
demand for speedy
U.N. action on
Iraq has run into
strong opposition
from Russia, France
and China, who
want Washington
to change a draft
resolution and
eliminate any
license for the
United States
to attack Baghdad
on its own.
Powell:
U.S. not to be
'\'handcuffed'\'
by U.N.; Pentagon
deploys B-2 Stealth
bombers near Gulf
region
Al-Bawaba, October
31, 2002
Secretary of State
Colin Powell declared
Wednesday the
United States
would not permit
itself to be "handcuffed"
by the world organization
as the United
States reported
progress in UN
Security Council
talks on a new
tough weapons
control regime
for Iraq.
Rumsfeld
expects Iranian
people to topple
'\'cleric government'\'
Al-Bawaba, October
31, 2002
US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld
has predicted
an early violent
overthrow of the
Iranian government,
or its collapse
amid mounting
problems and domestic
strife.
US
will deploy Stealth
bombers closer
to Iraq
Arab News, October
31, 2002
WASHINGTON, 31
October —
Amid reports of
UN Security Council
members narrowing
their differences
over the wording
of a resolution
to disarm Iraq,
the United States
said yesterday
it will deploy
B-2 Stealth bombers
closer to the
Gulf region to
increase the US
firepower there
amid mounting
pressure on Iraq.
US
to put Saddam
and his 'dirty
dozen' on trial
for war crimes
The Independent,
October 31, 2002
The American government
is preparing war
crimes charges
to bring against
Saddam Hussein
and most of his
inner circle if
the Baghdad leadership
is ousted. The
Iraqi President's
two sons and the
Deputy Prime Minister,
Tariq Aziz, are
among those who
could be charged.
India
‘deporting’
Palestinian students
Arab News, October
31, 2002
NEW DELHI, 31
October —
The Jammu and
Kashmir Panthers
Party yesterday
alleged that India
was "arbitrarily"
deporting and
harassing Palestinian
and Arab students.
Mubarak:
Changing Iraqi
regime is a domestic
affair
Arabic News, October
31, 2002
Whether in Arab
states or everywhere
in the world,
changing regimes
is a domestic
affair that regards
only the peoples
concerned, Egypt's
President Hosni
Mubarak said.
Association
for the Defense
of the Rights
of the Internally
Displaced in Israel
Receives International
Human Rights Award
BADIL, October
30, 2002
The Association
for the Defense
of the Rights
of the Internally
Displaced in Israel
(ADRID) was selected
as one of four
winners of The
Body Shop Human
Rights Award 2002.
RESPONSES
to the Nusseibeh-Ayalon
Campaign against
the Palestinian
Right of Return
BADIL, October
11, 2002
In light of the
controversy over
statements by
Dr. Sari Nusseibeh
about his position
on the final status
issues, including
the refugee issue,
under the title
of the Nuseibeh-Ayalon
position, the
Department of
Refugee Affairs
of the Palestine
Liberation Organization
would like to
clarify to the
public and the
refugee community
in the homeland
and in exile the
following:
Jordan:
arresting extremists
of Palestinian
origin
Arabic News, October
31, 2002
Three days following
the assassination
of the American
diplomat Laurence
Folley, no arrest
has yet been made
in Jordan, and
the Jordanian
investigators,
who are cooperating
with the Americans,
have not yet found
any serious evidence
leading them to
the doer.
Slain
immigrant sought
peace
Louisville Courier-Journal,
October 31, 2002
Abdel-Razzaq Allan,
a Palestinian
immigrant fatally
shot in his store
yesterday, had
sought to leave
behind the violence
of his native
Hebron and fulfill
his dream of owning
a business in
America, friends
say.
Mixed
Reaction in Arab
World Following
Sharon Government
Collapse
Voice of America,
October 31, 2002
The Arab world
has offered mixed
reactions to the
collapse of Israeli
Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's
unity government.
.A.
Court postpones
discussion on
arrested Hezbollah
man
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Tel Aviv District
Court ordered
Thursday a one-week
postponement in
the remand hearing
of Fawzi Ayoub,
a senior Hezbollah
operative suspected
of planning terror
attacks in Israel.
45%
of those called,
don't serve, IDF
says
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
Forty five percent
of those youngsters
fit to serve in
the Israel Defense
Forces do not
do so, according
to the statistics
in the hands of
army's Manpower
Division and which
were publicized
Thursday at a
press conference
organized by the
Movement for Quality
Government in
Israel.
And
then they all
fell down
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
The ups and downs,
the pendulum swinging,
the seeing-and-sawing
- all the vicissitudes
of the coalition
crisis could be
seen crossing
the face of a
man not young,
but still full
of energy and
ideas.
3
Nations Oppose
U.S. Demand on
Iraq
The Guardian,
October 31, 2002
UNITED NATIONS
(AP) - The U.S.
demand for speedy
U.N. action on
Iraq has run into
strong opposition
from Russia, France
and China, who
want Washington
to change a draft
resolution and
eliminate any
license for the
United States
to attack Baghdad
on its own.
Gritting
Gretta
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
She hung a Palestinian
flag outside her
home, started
an organization
that calls for
economic sanctions
on Israel, and
is the target
of sharp criticism
from the Dutch
Jewish community.
Next week, Gretta
Duisenberg will
visit [the Occupied
Territories].
PA
textbooks malign
Israel, report
claims
Ha'aretz, October
31, 2002
A report released
yesterday by the
Center for Monitoring
the Impact of
Peace establishes
that Palestinian
Authority schoolchildren
are shown maps
which do not refer
to Tel Aviv and
the state of Israel.
US
envoy to push
peace road map
on upcoming visit
Jerusalem Post,
October 31, 2002
US envoy to the
Middle East David
Satterfield will
visit the region
before November
15 with a revised
US road map for
peace based on
input from Israel
and the Palestinian
Authority, according
to a senior Palestinian
source.
video
Sharon
five seats short
of a parliamentary
majority
BBC, October 31,
2002
audio
Ehud
Barak: "This should
not be taken out
of proportion"
BBC, October 31,
2002
