Palestinians Mourn Yesterday’s Victim, Two More Shot Dead in Rafah
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002
GAZA STRIP/WEST BANK (PC) - As thousands of Palestinian mourners buried four victims in a Gaza graveyard in Rafah, two more victims were gunned down in the border town. Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided several towns in the Occupied Territories.

Netanyahu: U.S. Strike On Iraq Ideal Chance to Expel Arafat
Islam Online, November 6, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, November 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has fired the first shots in the race to lead Israel's next government after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called early elections following the collapse of his uneasy coalition.

One Palestinian killed, 16 injured in southern Gaza Strip
Al-Bawaba, November 5, 2002
Israeli troops killed one Palestinian and injured 16 in an operation Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the army and Palestinian officials.

The Times interview with Ariel Sharon
Times of London, November 5, 2002
In a revealing interview, Ariel Sharon explains why, after Saddam Hussein has been dealt with, the Iranian regime must be toppled next - and why, even with Israel's government in crisis, he believes he is the only man who can secure peace with the Arabs.

British Foreign Secretary Opposes Sharon’s War Cry Against Iran
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002 
LONDON (PC) - In an interview with the London Times review, Sharon stated his case for targeting Iran after a war with Iraq, branding the country a “center of world terror’.”

3 Palestinians nabbed after terror warning; two killed in Rafah
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Police arrested at least three Palestinians near Ben-Gurion International Airport early Wednesday at the height of an intense dragnet for terrorists planning to carry out an attack in the Coastal Plain region.

Poll: Sharon to lead Likud, Mitzna to be Labor chairman
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
A public opinion poll released Wednesday showed that if primary elections were held this week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would defeat party rival and Foreign Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the Likud Party in upcoming early elections, while Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna would win the nomination of Labor against former defense minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and MK Haim Ramon.

Britain criticises Israel over settlements, fence
Jordan Times, November 6, 2002   
LONDON (R) — Britain criticised Israel on Tuesday for expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and for routing a planned security fence so as to annex land on which Palestinians want to set up a state.

Hear Palestine, Wednesday, November 6, 2002
NEWS: Israeli Army Imposes Curfew on Mawasi, Random Arrests and Tightened Military Closure in Ramallah. FEATURES: The Israeli Political Earthquake does not Shake Palestinian Waters / Dream to return to my home and for the settlers to leave our land / Jenin: Even Popular Education is No Longer Possible

Palestinian, Two Jewish Settlers Shot Dead In Gaza Strip
Islam Online, November 6, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, November 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A Palestinian fighter killed two Jewish settlers before being gunned down near the settlement of Rafah Yam in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, November 6, Israeli military sources said.

Two Israelis killed in shooting attack in Gaza settlement
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Two Israelis were killed and at least one was wounded Wednesday when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on agriculture workers in a hothouse area of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hamas claims Gaza Strip settlement attack; Israel arrests Palestinians in Jenin, Nablus
Al-Bawaba, November 6, 2002
A Palestinian fighter penetrated the security fence of the Gaza Strip settlement of Shalev Wednesday, firing a pistol and killing at least two settlers before Israeli troops shot him dead, Israel's Army Radio reported.

US Threatens its Firms Against Joining Arab Ban of Israel
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002
WASHINGTON - In response to an 18-Arab-state pledge to reactivate a ban on trading with Israel, the US on Monday warned its firms not to take part in the commercial boycott, warning that joining the campaign would be punishable by heavy sanctions, including fines.

Washington warns US companies which boycott Israel
Arabic News, November 6, 2002
The American authorities have threatened to impose sanctions on American companies which will honor the call addressed by the" Israel's boycott office" of the Arab League to boycotting Israel economically.

Background: Effects of the Arab League Boycott of Israel on U.S. BUsinesses: Executive Summary
U.S. International Trade Commission
The purpose of this investigation is to estimate the costs to U.S. businesses that occur in association with the Arab League boycott of Israel. There are three implementation levels to the boycott: the primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Background: 1996 National Trade Estimate: Arab League Boycott of Israel
Office of the United States Trade Representative
The Arab League boycott of the State of Israel is an impediment to U.S. trade and investment in the region.

Background: Arab League Revives Boycott Against Israel
Shearman and Sterling, April 2001
On March 28, 2001, at a two-day summit in Amman, Jordan, Arab heads of state adopted a resolution calling for the reactivation of the Arab boycott against Israel. In response, U.S. antiboycott laws are expected to be more vigorously enforced in order to counteract any enhancement of the Arab boycott that may result from this resolution.

Netanyahu again calls for expulsion of Arafat
Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2002
Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated his view that Arafat should be expelled. He also gave an official voice to recent Israeli media speculation that such a time could come during a US strike against Iraq.

Netanyahu OK'd for Israel's Cabinet
The Guardian, November 6, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Benjamin Netanyahu was approved as Israel's foreign minister Wednesday, bringing him into the Cabinet of the man he seeks to succeed as prime minister, Ariel Sharon. Opinion polls gave Sharon the edge in their rivalry.

Ramadan In Palestine: Tragedies, Suffering and Poverty
Islam Online, November 6, 2002
More than two thirds of the population living under the poverty line: NABLUS & GAZA, November 5 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Palestinian people will greet the month of Ramadan this year amidst deteriorating economic conditions, with more than two thirds of the population living under the poverty line.

2 officers sentenced for using Palestinians as human shields
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Two junior IDF commanders were sentenced to 28 days in jail for authorizing the use of Palestinians as human shields, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.

Officer dismissed over killing Palestinian teenager
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Chief of Staff Major General Moshe Yaalon has decided this week to relieve of duty an officer who shot and killed a Palestinian teenager last month. Yaalon said the officer grossly violated the army's rules of engagement.

LAW Weekly Roundup 24 October - 30 October 2002
LAW Society

Likud heavyweights square off for battle
The Guardian, November 6, 2002
Sharon faces a potentially bruising fight to lead his party in elections: The race to decide who will be Israel's next prime minister will be decided long before the average voter gets near a ballot box next February.

Ben Eliezer: peace with Palestinians is not possible without dismantling settlements
Arabic News, November 6, 2002
The chairman of the Israeli Labor party Benyamin Ben Eliezer has admitted that a settlement with the Palestinians can not be materialized without eliminating the Israeli settlements erected in the occupied Palestinian areas.

PA Envoys Consult Arab States on Roadmap
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002
RAMALLAH - After finishing extensive consultations with Arab leaders, the Palestinian leadership will officially respond in writing to the ‘roadmap’ to peace proposed by the Quartet of peace mediators, comprising of the UN, the EU, the US and Russia, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said.

Kingdom, Palestinians voice reservations on ‘road map’
Arab News, November 6, 2002
RIYADH, 6 November — Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority yesterday agreed on “identical reservations” toward a US-backed “road map” for peace in the Middle East, a Palestinian minister said after talks with Saudi officials.

Vatican, urging Christians to stay in Holy Land, donates $400K
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is giving $400,000 to Roman Catholic causes in Israel and the West Bank to try to improve life for Christians there and persuade them not to flee the ongoing fighting.

Background/Israel's Caesar reigns as left fiddles, right burns
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in the past called Israel's Caesar both for his imposing physical presence and his predilection for independent, at times ruthless military and political initiatives, is riding out the collapse of his government by keeping friends close and enemies closer, as, all about him, the left fiddles and the right burns.

Analysis: Sharon's gov't goes, Arafat stays
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
U.S. to keep close eye on Sharon: Yasser Arafat now leads in the race between him and Ariel Sharon to survive politically. Isolated and scarred, Arafat's in his chair at the Muqata, without reforms, waiting for after the Israeli elections and the war in Iraq.

Settlers enjoyed NIS 130M in income tax benefits last year
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
[Note: At current exchange rates, approximately 4.72 shekels (NIS) = 1 US dollar]
Israelis living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip enjoyed tax benefits amounting to NIS 130 million last year, according to a report released by the State Revenues Division of the Finance Ministry yesterday.

Letter From Jenin: The 'Wacky Races' and the Tanks
Village Voice, November 6 - 12, 2002
JENIN, WEST BANK—And they're off! The action-packed "wacky races" are under way across the fields surrounding this embattled town.
A distinctively yellow Palestinian taxi is in the lead. Struggling to keep up, a line of cars and battered pickup trucks gun their motors. Bumping along a barely discernible dirt path, the racers clamber up the crest of a hill. Their spinning tires churning dust, they disappear over the other side. They made it! Commuting to and from work in Jenin can be a bone-rattling experience.

Falling behind
Globes, November 6, 2002
The numbers explode some myths about work and education in Israel: The findings of Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago researcher Dan Ben-David that per capita GDP rose 50% in Israel in 1973-1999, compared with 60% in France, 76% in the US, and 92% in recession-hit Japan, have already been widely discussed.

Hugging the big bad bear
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
The crises bring the state and artists too close together: "Artists these days prefer not to attack the establishment," he says. "The are not angry at anything and are not rebelling. They all want only to be professional at their work. You cooperate with anyone who is willing to help you, and where there is money there is no room for protest. I actually view this as a positive process."

Knesset factions want January 21 as date for elections
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
A Knesset panel made up of the heads of the largest parliamentary factions recommended Wednesday that the general elections called this week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should take place Tuesday, January 21, 2003.

Millions stolen in Israeli-Palestinian social security card scam
Jordan Times, November 6, 2002       
TEL AVIV (AFP) — Police have arrested 10 people, including workers for the social security department, on suspicion of involvement in a scheme to provide Jerusalem residency cards to Palestinians in exchange for bribes, an Israeli police spokesman said Tuesday.

Analysis: Look who's talking about `responsibility'
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
On Monday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sounded serious when he read out to the Likud faction in the Knesset that "taking the nation to early elections now would be irresponsible." A day later, Sharon went to the president and advanced the elections. So what happened to responsibility?

AKP official vows to maintain ties with Israel
Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2002
There will be no change in Turkish-Israeli ties, a senior member of Turkey's pro-Islamic AKP party, which swept into power this week, told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday, while harshly criticizing the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Labor is worried about a second round
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
The Labor Party is entering the newly declared election campaign in the midst of a three-way leadership race that, if it is not decided on November 19 with one of the candidates winning at least 40 percent of the vote, will require a second round. This will mean postponing Labor's real race, against the Likud, until late December, barely a month before the Knesset vote.

US Still Committed to ‘Roadmap’ Despite Israeli Internal Crisis
Palestine Media Center, November 6, 2002
The Bush administration said it was still committed to making every effort to securing peace in the Middle East, embodied mainly in its ‘roadmap’ to peace, despite Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision to call for early elections and the internal Isareli crisis, US officials said on Tuesday.

Jordan, Palestinians call for peace guarantees
Jordan Times, November 6, 2002       
AMMAN (AFP) — Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb and Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo called here Tuesday for “international guarantees” for implementation of a Palestinian-Israeli peace plan.

PM Sharon to retain Mofaz if victorious
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to keep Shaul Mofaz as his defense minister if he wins reelection this February, the premier's associates said last night.

Meretz boss praises God for ending Sharon's regime
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
"Thank God the punishment visited on the nation by this government is over." Yossi Sarid, chairman of the left-wing opposition Meretz Party, cited a traditional blessing yesterday to express his delight at the news of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to dissolve the Knesset and declare early elections.

PNA Hopes Israelis Elect Leadership Capable of Building Peace, Netanyahu Vindicates Fears
Palestine Media Center, November 6, 2002
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) has expressed hope “the Israeli people will choose a leadership capable of building peace,” amid Israeli right-wing and hysteric political rhetoric calling for the ouster of President Yasser Arafat and blocking the creation of an independent Palestinian state, contrary to the Quartet and US “roadmap” towards a peaceful solution to the Middle east conflict.

New Iraq Resolution being Drafted in United Nations
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002
NEW YORK (PC) - A new compromised resolution regarding the returning of weapons inspectors to Iraq is in the process of being drafted, and should be complete by Friday.

US 'breaks Iraq deadlock'
BBC, November 6, 2002
The Council will meet on Wednesday to begin debate: US officials are signalling that a deal has been reached with France to break an impasse on Iraq as the US prepares to table a new UN resolution.

US secures deal on new Iraq weapons resolution
The Guardian, November 6, 2002
The US is expected to table a tough new resolution on Iraq at the United Nations security council in the next 24 hours to bring an end to two months of protracted negotiations with France.

UN Security Council to discuss Wednesday new U.S. draft proposal on Iraq
Al-Bawaba, November 6, 2002
The UN Security Council will resume talks Wednesday on a new arms inspection regime for Iraq, as Qatar requested an Arab summit to discuss possible US miliary action against Baghdad.

Author cancels US tour over 'profiling'
BBC, November 3, 2002
Mistry complained of "unbearable" humiliation: A celebrated Canadian author, Rohinton Mistry, has cancelled the second half of his US book tour because of racial profiling at US airports.

Spy plane now CIA's deadliest weapon
Times of London, November 5, 2002
The Predator unmanned aircraft, armed with Hellfire missiles, above, is the CIA’s deadliest weapon, capable of hovering for hours over a target and firing off a weapon at the push of a button in an office thousands of miles away.

Killing probes the frontiers of robotics and legality
The Guardian, November 6, 2002
'War on terror' tag allows US to attack anywhere, lawyer argues: The US was accused last night of summarily executing the six alleged al-Qaida members killed in Yemen on Sunday by the first act of what experts say could be a new age of "robotic warfare".

Silent killer changes rules of engagement
The Independent, November 6, 2002
How American agents tracked down and killed top al-Qa'ida targets in Yemen from thousands of miles away.

Arab-Americans’ vote to favor Democrats
Arab News, November 6, 2002
WASHINGTON, 6 November — Yesterday’s midterm election was fraught with more drama than any other in the past 50 years, as Republicans struggled to regain control of the Senate and Democrats hoped to retain both their slim majority in the Senate and regain the House.

Calls for a strategy to protect Arab woman, child
Arabic News, November 6, 2002
A conference, convened in Amman on November 3-4 to assess the human development report (2002) in the Arab states, called for a strategy to protect women and children in the Arab states.

Jordanian government warns trade unions from making the Jordanian street against the judiciary
Arabic News, November 6, 2002
The Jordanian government has extended a strong warning for the vocational trade unions for the second time within ten days to that it will be obliged to resort, to issuing provisional laws for the trade unions, if the trade unions council will carry out its threats to provoke the Jordanian public because of the continued arrest of the chairman and members of the anti- normalization with Israel committee in Jordan.

Two Arrested in Jordan for Threatening to Attack US Embassy
Palestine Chronicle, November 5, 2002 
AMMAN (PC) - Jordanian sources revealed that two brothers were arrested today after threatening to attack the American Embassy in Amman.

U.S. Embassy in Yemen Closed Amid Fear of Retaliation
Islam Online, November 6, 2002
WASHINGTON, November 6  (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The United States said Tuesday, November 5, it was closing its embassy in Yemen to the public indefinitely amid fears it may become a target for an attack in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a top al-Qaeda operative.

Saudi daily slams 'Nazi-like' US policies, describes Bush as 'cowboy'
Jordan Times, November 6, 2002       
RIYADH (AFP) — A Saudi daily Tuesday denounced what it called “the Nazism of the new American era,” accusing Washington of “terrorising” the world under the guise of fighting terror and describing US President George W. Bush as a “cowboy.”

Qatar Requests Arab Summit to Discuss Israel’s Aggression, Iraq Crisis
Palestine Media Center, November 6, 2002
Arab League sources revealed Tuesday that Qatar has submitted an official request to the Cairo-based League for an Arab summit to be held on the crises facing Iraq and the Palestinian territories.

JDL chair brain dead after suicide attempt
Ha'aretz, November 6, 2002
LOS ANGELES - Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb a mosque and the offices of an Arab-American congressman, was left brain dead and on life support after slitting his throat in a suicide attempt.

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UN Security Council Considers Latest Resolution
BBC, November 6, 2002

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Israelis Don't Know Who Candidates Will Be
BBC, November 6, 2002

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Jerusalem Israeli's Talk About Elections
BBC, November 6, 2002