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State refuses to release list of Waqf-owned properties in T.A.
Jaffa: The state is refusing to hand over the list of properties belonging to the Waqf in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, claiming that revealing such information could possibly damage Israel's foreign relations. The statement was in response to a suit filed in Tel Aviv District Court demanding the list of assets belonging to the Muslim religious trust. "In diplomatic talks held in the past with the Palestinians, the issue of refugees and their assets was raised, among other matters. It is almost certain that revealing the requested information would seriously harm Israel's foreign relations," said the state's representatives.
Uprooted and displaced
Standing on a hill at the edge of Idhna with the displaced farmers Muhammad Talab and Muhammad Ibrahim Natah, the only visible remnants of their destroyed village is a patch of white dust just on the other side of Israel's wall. Despite being part of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military destroyed the 267-person farming village of tents and tin houses west of Hebron on 29 October and allegedly ordered villagers to relocate to Idhna. EI contributor Jesse Rosenfeld reports from the occupied West Bank.
Stranded Palestinians to commence hunger-strike
A group of Palestinian stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday stated that they would soon commence a hunger strike in protest against their continued predicament.
Israeli military establishes three flying checkpoints near Jenin
Israeli military forces on Wednesday established three flying checkpoints in several parts of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Israeli military storms northern West Bank cities of Tulkarem and Nablus
Israeli military forces on Wednesday morning invaded the northern west Bank cities of Tulkarem and Nablus, harassing residents, searching homes and establishing checkpoints.
Tough homecoming for Lebanon's refugees
Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon - Abu Tawfiq stands in the soot-encrusted ruin of his home as cold rain blows in where an outside wall once stood. "This room is Hiroshima and the other one is Nagasaki," says the former school teacher who, agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.
The 'Brazilian Palestine'
Rio Grande do Sul is the Brazilian state that harbours the largest community of Palestinians and descendents. Not by chance, it is there that 52 of the 108 Palestinians who have been in Brazil since last September are living, after they were received by the Brazilian government and the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees. Life in the 'Brazilian Palestine' and the support of the state community are the subjects of the third story in the ANBA series about the Palestinians.
Hamas Arrests Fatah Supporters
Hamas police officers rounded up scores of supporters of the rival Fatah movement in Gaza on Teusday, a day after a mass rally in honor of Yasir Arafat ended in violence.
Hamas cracks down on Fatah after Gaza rally bloodshed
Hamas rounded up dozens of Fatah activists in the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip after its secular rival drew more than 200,000 supporters to a rally that ended in gunfire that killed seven people, officials said on Tuesday.
Israels Abuse of Bedouin Rights
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes on their website that the Bedouin enjoy a higher standard of living than elsewhere in the Middle East. But countless Bedouin homes and villagers have been destroyed by Israel. The government's 'township' policy, displacing Bedouin into townships so they can be easily managed, luring them with electricity and water and cheap housing so they can be put in one place, kept under control, is what the government refers to as integration. The Bedouin are forced to choose between constant demolition of their houses and harassment by settlers and army, or being moved from the land they live upon to townships to cease practicing their culture and to conform to Israeli society.
Wire cage installed to further obstruct passage at Huwwara checkpoint"
Israeli forces have installed wire caging material at the notorious Huwwara checkpoint in the northern West Bank, creating a 'checkpoint within a checkpoint' that has doubled the waiting time for Palestinians trying to pass through.
Settler leaders fear 'tsunami' if PM decides to withdraw from West Bank
Settler leaders said they feel as if a "tsunami" were approaching after meeting with Prime Minster Ehud Olmert yesterday. Danny Dayan, chairman of the Yesha Council of settlements, said that while he had previously understood the existing freeze on settlement construction to be aimed at forcing settlers to evacuate unauthorized outposts, he now realizes that Olmert favors the freeze for its own sake.
INTERVIEW-Israeli-Palestinian deal 'doable' in 9 months - EU
The EU's top diplomat said on Tuesday an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was "doable" within nine months and that the issue of the Golan Heights should be addressed by a planned peace conference this month.
Rice: Israelis are prepared to give up West Bank for peace
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she believes that the majority of Israelis are prepared to give up the West Bank in exchange for peace.
Annapolis to address core issues, reference past decisions
Israel and the Palestinian Authority's joint declaration at the Annapolis summit will focus on the format and goals of negotiations on a permanent settlement. The declaration will reference previous decisions, such as Security Council rulings and the road map.
Abbas bamboozled again
While Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is acting tough toward Hamas, probably in order to impress Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States , the way he has been running the "peace show" with the Zionists.
Israel to hold major war games in West Bank
The Israeli army said on Tuesday it is to launch a major military exercise across the occupied West Bank simulating its response to an outbreak of Palestinian violence. "The army will undertake a current exercise on November 18 to prepare it to better face all eventualities," an army spokesman told AFP.
Palestinian President: An end to occupation will bring peace to Israel
In a press conference in Turkey on Tuesday, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that Israel will have peace if the state signs a peace agreement with the Palestinian people, and ends the occupation of Palestinian land.
Hamas government in Gaza 'dismisses' Palestinian UN Representative
The democratically-elected Hamas government, currently in power in the Gaza Strip, has 'dismissed' the United Nations representative for the Palestinian people, Riyadh Mansour, after he pushed forward a resolution declaring Hamas to be an illegal militia.
PM to settler council: We will have to make concessions
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told heads of the Yesha council of settlements on Tuesday that in efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, "we will be forced to make some concessions."
Knesset give preliminary okay to bill requiring 80 MKs to divide J'lem
The Knesset plenum passed in a preliminary vote Wednesday a bill that would make it far more difficult to divide Jerusalem in the context of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Senior Hamas member says Hamas has ideas to end conflict with with Israel peacefully
Ahmed Yousef, a political aide to deposed prime minister of Hamas Ismail Haneya, said Tuesday that Hamas has ideas and proposals on resolving the conflict with Israel peacefully. Yousef told the press that Hamas has attempted to present ideas for a peaceful solution to the conflict, "but unfortunately Israel and United States work on thwarting these attempts."
Hamas Debates the Future - Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement Attempts to Reconcile Ideological Purity and Political Realism, A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Khalid Amayreh
"Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a surprising electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. Almost immediately, Hamas leaders, movement activists, and Islamist academics began to debate the future course of the movement. Under what conditions would Hamas recognize Israel? What was its place as a movement in the Middle East? How should it approach the question of governance of the Palestinian territories? And finally, and most importantly, how would it balance its need to remain an Islamist party while adopting more pragmatic political programs?....."
Israel has no jurisdiction on Temple Mount, says culture minister
Raleb Majadele, Arieh Eldad polemicize over question of Israel's legal pull on Temple Mount. 'In keeping with the status-quo al-Aqsa cannot be under Israel's legal control,' says Majadele
Hamas's singing policemen boost morale in Gaza
Wearing blue camouflage fatigues and crooning about Islamic holy war, the five members of Hamas's Protectors of the Homeland police band are trying to boost morale in Gaza with an arsenal of anti-Israel numbers.
One reason for the absence of peace
TWO months ago Heftsiba, an Israeli construction firm, went bust. One reason for its woes was a court order last year to freeze work on a big housing project on an Israeli settlement just inside the West Bank. The land, it turned out, had in effect been stolen from private owners in a neighbouring Palestinian village, Bilin. Yet after the bankruptcy, the same court ruled that the apartment blocks—and their prospective buyers, who had broken in and occupied them at the news of Heftsiba's impending collapse—could stay. And thus it has always been. Never mind that Israel has flouted international law by settling its citizens in occupied foreign territory; what is remarkable is how consistently the settlers have thwarted Israel's own laws, in pursuit of what to them are biblical lands inhabited by Palestinian interlopers. The Bilin case was just a variation on a tried and tested method: seize land illegally, establish hard-to-reverse "facts on the ground" and then legalise the claim retroactively through the courts or the government. The result is a West Bank so riddled with settlement that it is hard to see how enough can be removed for a viable Palestinian state to emerge.
Economic woes behind new unrest in Gaza
The backdrop to the latest explosion of violence in the Gaza Strip: skeletons of unfinished apartment towers, shuttered factories, empty store shelves and skyrocketing prices for bread and cigarettes.
Closed factories, lost jobs, empty shelves provide backdrop for Gaza Strip's latest violence
The backdrop to the latest explosion of violence in the Gaza Strip: skeletons of unfinished apartment towers, shuttered factories, empty store shelves and skyrocketing prices for bread and cigarettes. Five months of rule by the Islamic militants of Hamas and isolation from the world have taken a heavy toll on the already impoverished territory, and frustration over the hardship helped drive this week's mass rally by the rival Fatah movement that ended in mayhem.
Gaza media battle in French court
At the start of the second intifada, pictures of Muhammad al-Durrah and his father seeking shelter from gunfire were seen everywhere as a powerful symbol of Palestinian suffering and the brutality of the Israeli occupation. Seven years on, a Paris court is set to look at the footage on Wednesday, as part of a libel case that could in turn become a cause celebre.
Visitors to West Bank Describe Palestinians As Overpowered, but not Resigned
ON A TWO-WEEK TRIP to the West Bank, Greta Berlin, Mary Hughes-Thompson, Hedy Epstein and journalist Alison Weir twice were removed from buses for taking photos, Berlin's passport was confiscated, and Epstein was barred from entering Hebron through a Palestinian-only path because she is a Jew.
The one-state reality
A few weeks ago, the Oxford University Union held a debate on the "one-state solution" in Palestine/Israel. Before the speakers had even taken to the floor, however, the event was the focus of an intense controversy, over allegations that the Union organizers had buckled under pressure to cancel Norman Finkelstein's appearance. Ghada Karmi, Ilan Pappe, and Avi Shlaim -- all scheduled to speak on the opposite side of the floor to Finkelstein -- pulled out in solidarity. [1]
Articulating the Unprintable: Ramzy Baroud Discusses Media Response to His Book
So as far as mainstream media goes, you—and your book—are either ignored or vilified. What is it that strikes a nerve? Is it the topic of Palestine, or your particular perspective?
Dichter: Syria is only neighbor that prevents smuggling
Syria is the only country among Israel's neighbors that keeps a quiet border and meets its obligations to prevent smuggling from its side, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya Tuesday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who also spoke, said Washington and Jerusalem agree Syrian participation in the peace conference in Annapolis would be "positive."
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