Sharon tries to neutralise Netanyahu with job offer
The Guardian, November 2, 2002
Former Israeli prime minister unlikely to accept cabinet post in collapsing government: Ariel Sharon sought to neutralise the single greatest threat to his chances of remaining Israel's prime minister yesterday by inviting his arch-rival and former premier, Binyamin Netanyahu, to join the cabinet as foreign minister.

Palestinian Elder Shot in Khan Yunis, Beit Reema Invaded
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip (PC) - A Palestinian man is in critical condition in a Gaza hospital after being shot in the head by Israeli troops. Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided more West Bank villages today.

PA rejects rights group report about suicide bombers
Al-Bawaba, November 1, 2002
The Palestinian leadership lashed out at a report by a prominent international rights group that denounced suicide bombers as "war criminals" and said the Palestinian Authority (PA) bore heavy responbility for not stopping them.

PLO contemplates abandoning two-state solution
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
The Palestine Liberation Organization may be forced to reconsider its support for the two-state solution, Diana Buttu, its legal adviser, said Thursday.

Settlers target the olive pickers in the battle for land
The Independent, November 2, 2002
The village of Yanun is an unlikely front line. But the violence here almost daily is just as vital to the future of Israelis and Palestinians as the suicide bombings and battles between tanks and gunmen. It is violence that goes to the heart of the issues over which the Israeli government collapsed this week.

US Jerusalem consul out; Aaron Miller leaving State
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
"Both Miller and Schlicher had for a long time been proponents of continuing dialogue with Arafat." : WASHINGTON The Bush administration is transferring its consul-general in Jerusalem, Ronald Schlicher, to another Middle East posting, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Hamas Members Beat Journalists, Accusing them of Treason
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
GAZA CITY (PC) - An incident yesterday where Hamas supporters in Gaza beat several Palestinian journalists is still engulfed in uncertainty. The Journalists’ Union in Gaza however, condemned the attack, and called on all of its members to boycott Hamas.

Israel Limits Actions of PNA-Israel Coordination Offices
Palestine Media Center, November 1, 2002
Israeli security sources said Saturday that the Jewish state has decided to reduce its operations in the Israeli-Palestinian District Coordination Offices (DCO), in yet another attempt to force Palestinian citizens to deal with the so-called ‘civilian administration’ offices, reopened following Israel’s occupation of most West Bank cities and towns.

Consular officials visit Canadian prisoner in Israel; Arab group fears torture
Canoe, November 1, 2002
OTTAWA (CP) -- Consular officials met Friday with a Canadian being held in Israel accused of being a Hezbollah militant sent to organize Palestinian attacks against Israel, while the Canadian Arab Federation expressed fear the man has been tortured.

IDF arrests suicide bomber and his handler
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002 
IDF engineering soldiers captured a suicide bomber and his handler Saturday at a checkpoint near Beit Furik, in the West Bank.

Netanyahu Unlikely to Serve in Sharon Gov't-Sources
Miami Herald, November 2, 2002
JERUSALEM - Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to turn down the post of Israeli foreign minister, in what would be a blow to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to put together a narrow right-wing coalition.

Sculptors protest U.S. with mock 'Liberty'
Dominion Post, Saturday, November 2, 2002
RAMALLAH (AP) -- Palestinian artists built a mock Statue of Liberty atop the rubble in Yasser Arafat's ruined headquarters Thursday to protest U.S. support of Israel. [includes photo]

Sharon asks Netanyahu to join his new right-wing cabinet; Islamic Jihad leader arrested in Jenin area
Al-Bawaba, November 2, 2002
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held talks Friday with his rival Benjamin Netanyahu and offered him to become his foreign minister, as he seeks to form a new right-wing cabinet following the collapse of the coalition government.

Arafat: Mofaz appointment will increase bloodshed
Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2002
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat warned yesterday that the appointment of former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Shaul Mofaz will make it more difficult to end the bloodshed of the current conflict.

Nasrallah calls for more attacks on Israel
Al-Bawaba, November 2, 2002
The head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, called for armed operations against Israel to continue, during a rally at the Yarmuk refugee camp in Damascus.

Sharon woos rival for cabinet post
BBC, November 1, 2002
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is apparently ready to appoint his predecessor Binyamin Netanyahu to the cabinet as he struggles to put together a governing coalition after the Labor Party's withdrawal.

Peres, Dahlan clash at Madrid conference on Mideast peace
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002  
MADRID - Outgoing Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and senior PA official Mohammed Dahlan clashed Saturday at a Spanish seminar on Middle East peace, each accusing the other side for the violence that has consumed the region for the past two years, derailing prospects for peace.

Sharon confident narrow government will survive for now
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon does not intend to bend over backward to bring the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu faction into his government to guarantee a 61-vote blocking majority in the Knesset, officials close to him said.

Sharon offers Netanyahu foreign minister post in new gov't
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu met Friday to discuss the former prime minister taking the position of foreign minister in the next goverment. Army Radio reported Saturday morning that Netanyahu tended to reject the offer, and urged Sharon to hold early elections.

Hard-line Politicians Line Up for Sharon’s Government
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
TEL AVIV (PC) - A surprising move was made by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, who is scrambling to form a new government after the collapse of his National Unity government earlier in the week.

Outgoing FM Peres meets PA's Saeb Erekat in Spain
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002
FORMENTOR, Spain - Outgoing foreign minister Shimon Peres met Palestinian officials in Spain on Friday and pledged he would not stop working for peace in the Middle East.

New assignments for 2 U.S. envoys to Palestinians
News & Observer, November 2, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two of the Bush administration's principal contact officials with the Palestinians are leaving their posts.

Sanctions to end Monday after deal with Histadrut reached
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002 
Employees of local authorities will stop sanctions on Monday after Histadrut labor federation chairman Amir Peretz accepted Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert's request to mediate between the Union of Local Authorities and the employees.

Preoccupied youth
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002
Sexual problems, teen-parent conflicts, bed-wetting, martyrdom - all of these are topics of conversation at the Pyalara hot line for Palestinian youth. Everything, it seems, can be attributed to the Israeli occupation.

Analysis: No Labor, no checks and balances
Ha'aretz, November 1, 2002
If a narrow right-wing government is formed, the most important change will apparently be the absence of the internal checks and balances that existed in the unity government's inner security cabinet, where the major security decisions were made with the participation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

Gov't collapse puts foreign diplomats in wait-and-see mode
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
Foreign diplomatic officials here expressed more uncertainty than concern Thursday over Labor's decision to bolt from the government.

Settlers hopeful Labor's resignation ends outpost battle
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
Settlers are hopeful that the Labor Party's resignation from the government and the struggle to build a new coalition herald an end to the battle over the illegal outposts, which came to head in October with the attempted evacuation of Gilad Farm.

Leaving coalition transforms Labor primary campaigns
Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2002
Campaign agendas in the Labor leadership primary were transformed overnight with the resignation of the party from the national unity government.

'Jenin, Jenin' screenings spark protest
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
Tempers flared on Thursday night at the Cinematheque in Tel Aviv, where hundreds including the families of the 23 soldiers killed in Operation Defensive Field gathered to protest the screening of Muhammad Bakri's controversial documentary Jenin, Jenin.

PA's new minister for Jerusalem, Samir Ghosheh, to work out of Ramallah
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
Samir Ghosheh, the Palestinian Authority's new minister for Jerusalem affairs, Thursday held a series of meetings in Ramallah with representatives of various groups, institutions, and families from east Jerusalem to discuss the situation in the city.

Foreign Ministry blasts UN report as distortion of international law
Jerusalem Post, November 1, 2002
NEW YORK An upcoming United Nations report on Palestinian human rights that blames continued suicide attacks on Israel's response to terrorism is coming under fire by the Israeli foreign ministry for its "misrepresentation of international law."

British publisher refuses to sell book to Israeli university
Jordan Times, November 2, 2002   
LONDON (AP) — The British publishers who fired two Israeli professors from the boards of academic journals have refused to sell a book to an Israeli university, saying Thursday they were protesting Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories.

Human Rights Watch Criticized for Report Deemed as Biased
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
RAMALLAH, West Bank (PC) - The Palestinian Leadership criticized a report issued by a US based human rights group, in which it accused suicide bombers of committing crimes against humanity. At the same time, the leadership criticized suicide bombing as immoral.

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 24- 30 October, 2002
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

India Deporting Palestinian Students
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
NEW DELHI - The Jammu and Kashmir Panthers Party yesterday alleged that India was "arbitrarily" deporting and harassing Palestinian and Arab students.

Norwich professors speak out against attack on Iraq
Times Argus, October 31, 2002
[Norwich University, in Northfield, VT, is the oldest private military college in the US.]
NORTHFIELD – Five Norwich University professors shared their views on why military action against Iraq might not be in the best interest of the United States, the region, and the Iraqi people.

Turkish election frontrunner faces ban
The Guardian, November 2, 2002
Turkey edged towards constitutional crisis yesterday as its highest court ruled that it may yet outlaw the moderate Islamic party which has led the opinion polls in the run-up to tomorrow's general election.

Former Iranian president slams Rumsfeld
Al-Bawaba, November 1, 2002
Donald Rumsfeld will take to hell his idea of regime change in Iran, former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani said after the US defense secretary predicted an early overthrow of the cleric regime by its own people.

Qathafi: Arab League is useless; Arab leaders just talk to appease citizens about Arab unity
Arabic News, November 1, 2002
Following his meeting yesterday with the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tripoli, Libya's Leader of the Revolution Colonel Muammar al Qathafi adhered to the decision of Libya's pullout from the Arab League, considering that this decision is grave, but we are obliged to do so."

Any action on Iraq will conducted be in conjunction with Arab friends, French FM
Arabic News, November 1, 2002
French Foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, who started on Wednesday a two-day visit to Morocco, said that any action concerning Iraq will be undertaken in "conjunction with our Arab friends."

Kuwait seals off Iraq border
BBC, November 2, 2002
In the event of a war with Iraq, Kuwait would become the main staging post: Kuwait has cordoned off a large area of the country near the Iraqi border for the duration of joint US-Kuwait military exercises.

Cheney delivers new Iraq warning
BBC, November 2, 2002
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has issued a new warning to Saddam Hussein, insisting that either he will give up his weapons of mass destruction or, as Mr Cheney put it, for the sake of peace, the US will disarm him.

Israel, India sign space program co-operation agreement
Ha'aretz, November 2, 2002 
Israel and India signed an agreement last week according to which they agreed to co-operate on their space research programs.

U.S. Continues Military Buildup As U.N. Edges Closer to Iraq Resolution
Islam Online, November 2, 2002
WASHINGTON, November 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The United States pursued its military buildup in the Gulf region Saturday, November 2, as the United Nations edged towards agreement on an Iraq resolution.

UN rings alarm bells on struggling Iraq humanitarian programme
Jordan Times, November 2, 2002       
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's revenue from oil exports is dwindling fast, curtailing the ability of a UN-supervised programme to improve the life of its sanctions-hit population, according to a United Nations official here.

Egypt Criticized for Controversial Television Series
Palestine Chronicle, November 1, 2002
WASHINGTON (PC) - A campaign led by American Jewish groups is echoing in the US State Department, and is accusing Egypt of anti-Semitism over a television series.

BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches
The Guardian, October 30, 2002
Lord Browne, chief executive of BP and one of New Labour's favourite industrialists, has warned Washington not to carve up Iraq for its own oil companies in the aftermath of any future war.