Al-Aqsa leader denounces East Jerusalem settlement plans
An Al-Aqsa Mosque leader on Monday condemned a city municipal candidate who had called for enlarging settlements in East Jerusalem. Sheikh Aqrama Sa'id Sabri, who heads the Islamic Supreme Committee at Al-Aqsa, told Ma'an that candidate and Member of Knesset Muthir Yorsh recommended building a new Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32990
Jerusalem researcher uncovers Israeli plans to build temple over Al-Aqsa
Disturbing long range plans from the Israeli Antiquities Authority outline strategies for the construction of a Jewish Temple on the site where the Al-Aqsa Mosque now stands, a Jerusalem researcher says. The plans were obtained by Palestinian archaeologist and researcher Dr Ibrahim Al-Fanni, who revealed the drafts and drawings to Ma'an's Jerusalem correspondent.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32989
Yesh Din report: Only 8% of Palestinian complaints against settlers result in indictment
The human rights group Yesh Din on Monday slammed the government for its "faulty" methods of dealing with settlers violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Only 8 percent of Palestinian complaints of settler violence results in indictment, according to the report, which was released on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033864.html
Bulldozers precede court ruling
An Israeli court had not yet issued its ruling on whether to destroy more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem when the bulldozers began demolitions. Police had issued land confiscation orders for Israeli projects and the Palestinian land owners went to court. But residents of Deir Dibwan lost 25 structures and 15 sheep pens in a single day, Thursday, as Israeli bulldozers anticipated the court's decision today.
http://english.pnn.ps/index. php?option=com_content&task= view&id=3884&Itemid=1
Campaign releases report on attacks against the Palestinian the olive harvest during October
This report, detailing 33 attacks on farmers in October, shows that farmers have faced an average of more than one attack per day from either settlers or soldiers. The Occupation forces were directly involved in 52% of the incidents while in the remaining cases their absence at the scene ensured that settlers could continue their violence.
http://stopthewall.org/ latestnews/1769.shtml
Occupation forces stop the farmers at this Friday's olive harvest
While settlers this Friday were apparently taking a break from their continuous attacks, Occupation forces stepped into fill the gap. In Ni'lin and al-Ma'sra people were prevented from reaching the lands affected by the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/ latestnews/1767.shtml
Death of sick child brings the number of siege victims in Gaza to 255
The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Sunday announced that a one and a half year old Palestinian child died due to brain atrophy and inability to travel abroad for treatment.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Five Palestinians, including two children, wounded in an IOF incursion
Five Palestinian citizens were wounded two of them in very serious conditions when Israeli occupation forces stormed the Fare'a refugee camp north of Nablus at an early hour on Monday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Fire in Hebron: Rightists burn Palestinian flag
Tensions high in Hebron: Right-wing activist Baruch Marzel and several associates burn, trample on Palestinian flag in West Bank town of Hebron, proceed to threaten Palestinian residents.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616782,00. html
Settlers attack Palestinian home in Hebron
Arab family reports settlers hurling rocks and bottles at home near illegal 'Federman Farm' outpost; settlers say they were provoked by left-wing activists.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616757,00. html
Diskin hints settlers could resort to assassination to thwart withdrawals
A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033626.html
Southeastern Gaza farmers targeted
Israeli forces opened fire on farmers in the southern Gaza Strip again Monday. The practice of targeting Khan Younis residents became routine for the past month. Farmers are unable to reach their agricultural lands to the east of the city near the boundary lines. Israeli forces keep several military posts along the eastern edge of the Strip from which soldiers open fire. Much of the land has already been razed by the army.
http://english.pnn.ps/index. php?option=com_content&task= view&id=3893&Itemid=30
Israeli military invades Alfar'a refugee camp, detains several residents
The Israeli military invaded early on Monday the West Bank refugee camp of Alfar'a, an outskirt of Tubas city, and detained several residents in other areas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/ 57537
PA seizes senior Hamas leader in Nablus after year's pursuit
Fatah-allied Palestinian security forces seized a senior Hamas leader in the West Bank on Sunday night after pursuing him for over a year, security sources told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32975
PNA forces arrest Islamic Jihad members in West Bank
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) forces launched a limited crackdown against Islamic Jihad supporters in northern West Bank, arresting its four activists, sources from the movement said.
http://english.people.com.cn/ 90001/90777/90854/6525662.html
Hamas to boycott unity talks if arrests continue
Hamas will boycott Egyptian sponsored reconciliation talks unless its rival, Fatah, halts a campaign of "arrests and repression" against the Islamist group in the West Bank, a top Hamas official said on Sunday.
http://africa.reuters.com/ wire/news/usnOWE274690.html
Three prisoners injured in electrical fire in Negev prison camp
Three Palestinian prisoners were slightly injured when an electrical fire broke out in one of the tents in an Israeli prison camp in the Negev desert on Sunday night, prisoners told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32974
PA ministry holds Israel responsible for Negev prisoners' lives after fire
The ministry of prisoners held the IOA and the prison authority fully responsible for the lives of prisoners in the Negev prison after an electrical short sparked a fire in prisoners' tents.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Egypt uncovers 13 Gaza smuggling tunnels
Egyptian security forces have uncovered 13 tunnels used by smugglers to slip contraband into the Gaza Strip, a security official said on Monday. Three of the tunnels collapsed after heavy rain along Egypt's border with the Palestinian territory, the official said, adding that the remaining tunnels would also be destroyed. There were no reports of casualties after the tunnels collapsed. At least 40 Egyptian and Palestinian smugglers have died in tunnel accidents and demolitions by Egyptian security forces this year.
http://afp.google.com/article/ ALeqM5jQIyhoxoNJaW47qgrCkZcHC3 tLJg
Arab student chair apprehended for refusing to shake Peres' hand
The chairman of Hebrew University's Arab student body was apprehended by university security personnel on Sunday after he refused to shake the hand of visiting President Shimon Peres' hand. Ali Baher was detained for three hours after calling Peres' hand a "murderer of children."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033605.html
Rabbis face down settlers in Palestinian olive harvest clashes
Israeli rabbis have come to the defence of Palestinian farmers who are being attacked in the West Bank by Jewish hardliners while harvesting their olive trees.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3369505/Rabbis-face-down-settlers-in-Palestinian
-olive-harvest-clashes.html
Olive groves on frontlines of West Bank conflict
AFP - For a number of years, volunteers have joined Palestinian farmers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to help pick olives and provide some form of protection against increasingly violent attacks by settlers.
http:// news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/wl_mideast_afp/mideastwestbankconflictpolitic solives
Another Bloody Weekend
Settlers often carry out violent attacks against Palestinians and their property with complete legal immunity, and often more than implicit support from the military itself. In fact, Israeli soldiers often protect settlers, and legal proceedings are rarely brought against them. According to OCHA, 80-90% of the files opened against Israeli settlers following attacks on Palestinians and their property are regularly closed by the Israeli police without prosecution.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article677
Guns and Olives
As Palestinians massively go to their lands to harvest their olive trees, time and again they return home with empty hands. Humiliated, shot at by Israeli soldiers and beaten by settlers, Palestinians keep trying to save their harvest and secure their primary source of income.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article678
Bahr deplores Egypt for barring PLC delegation from traveling through Rafah
Dr. Ahmed Bahr, the acting speaker of the PLC denounced Egypt for preventing the council delegation from traveling through the Rafah border crossing to make a tour to Arab and foreign countries.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Palestinian unity talks at crossroad - diplomat
Efforts by the Arab world to reconcile the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions could be put back for years if unity talks in Cairo next week end without agreement, a diplomat involved in the process said on Monday.
http://africa.reuters.com/ wire/news/usnL3711255.html
Poll: Most Palestinians support dissolving Hamas-controlled parliament
Majority of Palestinians supported the dissolving of the Hamas-dominated parliament and holding early elections in the beginning of next year, according to a new poll released Monday. Up to 73.3 percent of the surveyed said they agree the dissolving of the parliament and holding the elections in January 2009 while 20.9 percent rejected.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english/2008-11/03/content_ 10300973.htm
Abbas: No chance for peace in 2008
Palestinian president meets with Jordan's King Abdullah, says absolutely no hope for agreement by Annapolis deadline. Jordan vows to support Abbas in bid to 'regain Palestinian rights'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616689,00.html
Hamas: Next U.S. President should lift Gaza embargo
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday that the next United States president should reverse current policy toward the Palestinians by lifting the embargo on the Gaza Strip and cutting back support for Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033314.html
Hamas: Int'l community responsible for all tragedies befalling Palestinians
Hamas stated on the 91st anniversary of the Balfour declaration that the international community bears responsibility for all tragedies that befell the Palestinians as a result.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Land and Housing Rights in al-Issawiya, Israeli Occupied East Jerusalem
The East Jerusalem village of al-Issawiya from the campus of Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. The Jerusalem Municipality and Israeli government have recently stepped up efforts to further illegally evict Palestinians in Jerusalem from their land and homes and terminate their already severely limited social benefits.
http://www.alternativenews. org/content/view/1392/494/
Hezbollah slams Israeli plans for Tolerance Museum
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group slammed Israel for allowing the construction of a Museum of Tolerance on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, in a statement received by AFP on Sunday. Hezbollah issues "its strongest condemnation for the desecration of a historic Islamic cemetery in occupied Jerusalem permitted by the (Israeli) enemy by allowing an American company to build a museum on the site," the statement said.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWXdcL0vC644PKsedJ83z6us 8XpQ
Shalit negotiator meets with jailed Hamas figures
The chief negotiator for Gilad Shalit met recently with senior Hamas figures incarcerated at the Hadarim Prison, the East Jerusalem daily Al-Quds reported on Sunday. Ofer Dekel briefed the Hamas leaders on the indirect Egyptian-mediated talks over the kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier, the paper reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033613.html
Hamas Warns Israel Not to Conduct Rescue Op for Shalit
Hamas warned Israel on Saturday against conducting any military operation in order to try and release captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit, saying that such a move would only endanger the captive's life.
http://almanar.com.lb/ NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id= 62164&language=en
Warning as Israel settler funds cut
Government cuts funds to "illegal" outposts as intelligence chief warns on extremist groups.
http://english.aljazeera.net/ news/middleeast/2008/11/ 2008112234243328169.html
Gaza: Rafah crossing to open for three days starting Tuesday
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt will be open for three days starting Tuesday, allowing hundreds of patients and stranded civilians with foreign passports and Gazans in Egypt to pass through the closed border. Director General of the media office in the de facto interior ministry Ihab Al-Ghussein confirmed reports that at least 460 patients are currently waiting for the crossing to be opened in addition to 4,628 civilians who have applied for exit permits.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32988
European lawmakers visit Gaza
Eight European lawmakers managed on Monday to visit the Gaza Strip after they were denied access into Gaza via the Rafah crossing terminal on the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/ 57540
Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements
Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/britain-to-crack-down-on-exports-from-israeli
-settlements-986854.html
Evacuate Jewish Hebron
Yigal Amir claims that the opponents of the Oslo Accords - Ariel Sharon, Rehavam Ze'evi, and Rafael Eitan - provided him with the motive to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The inspiration for the criminal act, a sort of suicide bombing, was drawn from Baruch Goldstein, as well as the Jewish terrorist's friends in the Hebron-Kiryat Arba communities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033638.html
Settlers preparing for war, says Shin Bet chief
A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033535.html
Why Not Add Violent Jewish Settler Extremists to Terror Watch List?
In a candid statement meant to be heard only by those attending a weekly meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Shin Bet spy chief Yuval Diskin has acknowledged serious concern about violent Jewish settler extremists trying to assassinate Israeli political leaders and willing "to use firearms in order to halt diplomatic processes." The assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Yigal Amir, has acquired star status among many extremist settlers and security authorities in Israel are worried about attempts to generate violence linked to the November 4th anniversary of Rabin's murder.
http://www.thewashingtonnote. com/archives/2008/11/why_not_ add_vio/
Israel far-right parties unite ahead of election
Two of Israel's main far-right parties on Monday announced they had decided to forces under a new list promoting settlements in the occupied West Bank ahead of a February general election. The still unnamed party unites The National Union and National Religious Party, which together have nine MPs in the current parliament. The new party seeks "to lead a new national agenda, led by education for the Jewish character of Israel, social welfare... Jewish values, settlement and security and political issues," it said in a statement.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPSaLLx8OQAU9sRRRifNdgJi BT-Q
Israeli blunder may cost med students their Jordanian degree
Jordanian universities suspend studies of Israeli-Arab medical students after Education Ministry fails to issue their matriculation certificates on time.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616649,00.html
Questions persist about Palestinian's encounter at border crossing
The Gaza-based journalist walked into the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and the Israeli-controlled West Bank one day early this summer. There, the 24-year-old says, he was sexually humiliated and physically assaulted by Israeli security -- while an escort from the Dutch Embassy waited for him outside.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-journalist3-2008nov03,0,3457568.story
Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy organized by the Occupied Palestine and Golan
On 30 October, OPGAI held its first Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy The Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy organized by the Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI), under the theme United in Struggle against Israeli colonialism and racism. The Seminar took place at the Shepherds Hotel in Bethlehem, and started with registration, then welcoming by OPGAI coordinator, Adnan Ateyah, who talked about the critical time where Palestinians are face a situation where the racism of the Israeli state is increasingly being exposed.
http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1390/104/
Bilbao, the Basque Country and Spain Join the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Targeting Veolia
On 1 November a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, in response to the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, joined international efforts to boycott Veolia in Europe. This decision, made public in front of the city hall in Bilbao, was taken as the Bilbao city council has awarded (but not yet ratified) the concession contract for bus transportation in the city to Veolia.
http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/boycott-veolia-action-in-bilbao-palestinian-boycott-divestment-and-
sanctions-campaign-20081102.html
Embassy SOS for children
THE British Embassy is supporting an initiative to help Palestinian children complete their education and prevent them from falling into a life of despair and destructiveness. It has backed the UK-based Dominic Simpson Memorial Trust, which works in the war-torn country to assist marginalised youngsters who may otherwise be ignored. The charitable organisation was set up in memory of British Ambassador Jamie Bowden's friend and former UK Foreign Office colleague Dominic Simpson, who died at the age of 40, in July 2004.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=233510& Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31228
Palestinians toil for Barack Obama win
For months, Ibrahim Abu Jayyab and his friends have been working through the night, calling Americans at random to plead for support for their favourite candidate. Except that most of the people Mr Abu Jayyab calls don't even know where the Gaza Strip is, much less understand why this man with heavily accented English crackling down the phone line should care about the American presidential race at all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3330446/Palestinians-toil
-for-Barack-Obama-win.html
Strangers in their own land
Part 1: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= 2UsOdPXovps
Part 2: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= FyJzNhbHWPs
Part3: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= bs8grE8EdW4&feature=related
Palestinians mark 91st anniversary of Balfour Declaration
November 2nd marks the 91st anniversary of the British Balfour Declaration, the first declaration that Palestine should be used as a "national home for the Jewish people". The Balfour Declaration did say that the Jewish home should not displace the existing Palestinian population of Palestine, a stipulation that the later 1947 United Nations Recommendation that actually called for a Jewish state did not include.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57536
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance pitches tent in E Jerusalem against demolitions
The Israeli administration says it will destroy another group of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem's Beit Hanina. The Alnevi Yaakov Settlement will then expand further into the occupied city in direct contravention to international law. In protest of the demolitions slated for the sixth of the month, the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement placed a tent in the neighborhood which will remain throughout the week.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3887&Itemid=49
Dignity in a sea of despair
One thing that definitely won't change whether McCain, Obama or Sandra Oh is the next American President is the US policy towards the Palestinians. Yesterday, the USS Dignity left the shores of Gaza en route to Cyprus, the third vessel to break the intolerable siege imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and Egypt with the overt approval of the United States and its allies.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/11/dignity-in-sea-of-despair.html
They are safe
The SS DIGNITY arrived at 6:30 this morning in Larnaca, Cyprus, as the sun was just splitting the waters of the Mediterranean. I watched the boat come around the corner of the quay, its Palestinian flag flying from one of the masts. Waiting up most of the night worrying about whether they were OK and answering worried callers had made the night long and tiring.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?module=latest_news&id=67d73ac247c34f37d1c217872cb038d1&offset=
"Things Only Got Worse": An Interview with Israeli Journalist Amira Hass
Amira Hass is an Israeli author and journalist. The following interview with Amira Hass was conducted in May, 2008 during the first Israeli-Palestinian Film Festival" in Berlin. Amira is an author and journalist and has written extensively on the Israeli occupation and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Ms. Hass, you came to Berlin in order give some speeches but primarily to attend the first "Israeli-Palestinian Film Festival in Berlin," during which parts of a theatre play was performed. The play revolves around your very intimate correspondence with the Palestinian prisoner Mahmud al-Safadi. Ariel Cypel and Gael Chaillat processed your diary into a theatre play and called it "MurMure" (a word game in French, meaning "Wall Whispers").
http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1393/104/
Avraham Burg: Israel's new prophet
Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an "abused child" which has become a "violent parent". And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/avraham-burg-israels-new-prophet-979732.html
How Israel helps eavesdrop on US citizens
After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the United States government launched a massive program to spy on millions of its own citizens. Through the top secret National Security Agency (NSA), it has pursued "access to billions of private hard-line, cell, and wireless telephone conversations; text, e-mail and instant Internet messages; Web-page histories, faxes, and computer hard drives." In his new book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America author James Bamford casts light on this effort, including a detailed account of how spying on American citizens has been outsourced to several companies closely linked to Israel's intelligence services. Ali Abunimah comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9930.shtml
Mass Layoffs Friday at ADC
Since the brilliant leadership of Hala Maksoud, the grassroots, advocacy nature of the organization deteriorated. This began with the failed presidency of Ziad Asali, which I witnessed firsthand as an intern in 2002. Asali's legacy as President is undoubtedly defined by his divisive, incompetent leadership that ruptured a once united institution built by Maksoud. He contested the grassroots quality of ADC, favoring a top-down organization that resulted in an abundance of internal conflict. His departure led to the arrival of former Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. Like Asali, Oakar has been a liability, her command characterized by distant mismanagement and a refusal to rebuild the grassroots.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/10/mass-layoffs-friday-at-adc.html
Report: Alleged Lebanon spy was tracking Hezbollah for Israel
The Lebanese citizen who was recently arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel has been identified as Ali Jarrah, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday. Jarrah is suspected of monitoring the movements of senior Hezbollah officials, according to the report.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033846.html
Iraq: At least 8 killed in another bloody day of US occupation
In Mosul, gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint. A roadside bomb wounded a policeman.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13704
Minister escapes bombing as Iraq attacks claim seven
AFP - Iraq's deputy oil minister survived an assassination attempt on Monday as the Iraqi captial was hit by four bomb attacks that killed seven people and wounded at least 30 more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/ts_afp/iraqunrest
Iraq in the News: Bombings, budget cuts, and an occupation in search of a mandate
http://electroniciraq.net/ news/war-every-day-blog/Iraq_ in_the_News_Bombings_budget_ cuts_and_an
_occupation_in_ search_of_a_mandate-3435.shtml
3 children killed in Kirkuk blast
Three children were killed on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in southwestern Kirkuk city on Sunday, an Iraqi police source said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p= 102336
2 civilians killed by U.S. warplane fire west of Mosul
"The U.S. aircraft targeted a civilian vehicle in northern Zammar district, (60 km) west of Mosul, killing two civilians on board," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p= 102274
Iraqis call for referendum over SOFA
Iraqis have staged a large rally in the holy city of Najaf, urging the government to hold a referendum over the US-proposed security pact.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73951§ionid=351020201
Iraq plans to cut Sunni fighters' salaries
The Iraqi government plans to cut salaries for the estimated 100,000 members of the Awakening movement whose revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq played a key role in bringing about the sharp fall in violence in Iraq.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraq-sons_slynov03,0,827146.story
Descendants of Iraq's black rebels back Obama
Descendants of black rebels in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra are unconditionally supporting Barack Obama in Tuesday's US election though some fear racism may prevent him from winning. "I don't think he'll win because he is black and America is racist. But if he wins, his success will benefit black people throughout the world and I hope Europe will follow the same route," said Sami Nassir Khami, a port worker in the city.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/wl_mideast_afp/usvoteiraqbasra
With an eye on security pact, Iraqis watch US vote
AP - Iraqis are following this week's U.S. election, but the big news here is the effort to forge a new security agreement that would keep American troops here for most of the new president's first term.
http:// news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081102/ ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_ watching_the_race
Al-Jazeera Video: People and Power - Iraqi Prisons - Nov 1 2008
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UuX_iN8PLIw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=mudcXz1BFMs
Warnings against a large-scale refugee return in Iraq
The Iraqi government should review its policy of encouraging Iraqi refugees to return home by offering them free plane or bus tickets, until it is able to ensure security, local and international NGOs said. "For the time being, the government should take care of the refugees and meet their daily needs in their host countries until it can secure suitable life conditions to allow them to go back to their homes," said Basil al-Azawi, head of the Baghdad-based Commission for Civil Society Enterprises, an umbrella group of over 1,000 NGOs operating inside and outside Iraq.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/aiddevelopment/Warnings_ against_a_large-scale_refugee_ return_in_Iraq-3437.shtml
A snapshot of Fallujah: Still wrecked, still angry
Not surprisingly, there are still hard feelings towards the United States in Fallujah. Jay Deshmukh, a reporter for AFP, visited the town and writes of a shop owner named Abdullah...
http://electroniciraq.net/news/war-every-day-blog/A_ snapshot_of_Fallujah_Still_ wrecked_still_angry-3436.shtml
Iraq parliament grants minorities six council seats
Iraq's parliament voted on Monday to guarantee religious minorities seats on provincial councils to be selected next year, but drew ire from some politicians who said greater safeguards for fragile groups were needed.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10256667.html
Young U.S. Jews more likely than their elders to vote GOP
Washington - Comedian Sarah Silverman has gotten a lot of mileage out of the notion that older Jewish voters, especially those in Florida, need to be persuaded to support Senator Barack Obama. Yet as it turns out, those bubbes and zaydes may be the ones prodding their grandchildren to support the Democratic nominee for president.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033577.html
America's outcast Muslims
Once Bush backers, Muslims today are staunch Democrats. But both Obama and McCain shun them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/uselectionroadtrip/2008/nov/03/uselections2008-pennsylvania
The Racism of McCain… and Obama… and the Media
The underlying assumption in the argument that association with Rashid Khalidi or his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is worthy of criticism is itself, by its own standard, inherently racist. Earlier this week, John McCain once again attacked his presidential campaign opponent Barack Obama on the basis of his association with another individual. In this case the individual was Rashid Khalidi. Mr. Khalidi's sin? He's a Palestinian who has been critical of Israel. Obama's sin? Speaking at a dinner five years ago held in honor of Mr. Khalidi.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/ 2008/11/the-racism-of-mccain-and-obama-and-the-media/
Top Obama Adviser Has Long Ties to Neocons
Excerpt: With the 2008 presidential campaign at its end, pundits have begun to discuss in earnest what expected winner Barack Obama's administration might look like. An important piece of evidence is Obama's campaign team, which largely escaped the harsh scrutiny that his opponent's lobbyist-laden team received.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ flynn.php?articleid=13710
An Al-Aqsa Mosque leader on Monday condemned a city municipal candidate who had called for enlarging settlements in East Jerusalem. Sheikh Aqrama Sa'id Sabri, who heads the Islamic Supreme Committee at Al-Aqsa, told Ma'an that candidate and Member of Knesset Muthir Yorsh recommended building a new Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32990
Jerusalem researcher uncovers Israeli plans to build temple over Al-Aqsa
Disturbing long range plans from the Israeli Antiquities Authority outline strategies for the construction of a Jewish Temple on the site where the Al-Aqsa Mosque now stands, a Jerusalem researcher says. The plans were obtained by Palestinian archaeologist and researcher Dr Ibrahim Al-Fanni, who revealed the drafts and drawings to Ma'an's Jerusalem correspondent.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32989
Yesh Din report: Only 8% of Palestinian complaints against settlers result in indictment
The human rights group Yesh Din on Monday slammed the government for its "faulty" methods of dealing with settlers violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Only 8 percent of Palestinian complaints of settler violence results in indictment, according to the report, which was released on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033864.html
Bulldozers precede court ruling
An Israeli court had not yet issued its ruling on whether to destroy more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem when the bulldozers began demolitions. Police had issued land confiscation orders for Israeli projects and the Palestinian land owners went to court. But residents of Deir Dibwan lost 25 structures and 15 sheep pens in a single day, Thursday, as Israeli bulldozers anticipated the court's decision today.
http://english.pnn.ps/index. php?option=com_content&task= view&id=3884&Itemid=1
Campaign releases report on attacks against the Palestinian the olive harvest during October
This report, detailing 33 attacks on farmers in October, shows that farmers have faced an average of more than one attack per day from either settlers or soldiers. The Occupation forces were directly involved in 52% of the incidents while in the remaining cases their absence at the scene ensured that settlers could continue their violence.
http://stopthewall.org/ latestnews/1769.shtml
Occupation forces stop the farmers at this Friday's olive harvest
While settlers this Friday were apparently taking a break from their continuous attacks, Occupation forces stepped into fill the gap. In Ni'lin and al-Ma'sra people were prevented from reaching the lands affected by the Apartheid Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/ latestnews/1767.shtml
Death of sick child brings the number of siege victims in Gaza to 255
The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Sunday announced that a one and a half year old Palestinian child died due to brain atrophy and inability to travel abroad for treatment.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Five Palestinians, including two children, wounded in an IOF incursion
Five Palestinian citizens were wounded two of them in very serious conditions when Israeli occupation forces stormed the Fare'a refugee camp north of Nablus at an early hour on Monday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Fire in Hebron: Rightists burn Palestinian flag
Tensions high in Hebron: Right-wing activist Baruch Marzel and several associates burn, trample on Palestinian flag in West Bank town of Hebron, proceed to threaten Palestinian residents.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616782,00. html
Settlers attack Palestinian home in Hebron
Arab family reports settlers hurling rocks and bottles at home near illegal 'Federman Farm' outpost; settlers say they were provoked by left-wing activists.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616757,00. html
Diskin hints settlers could resort to assassination to thwart withdrawals
A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033626.html
Southeastern Gaza farmers targeted
Israeli forces opened fire on farmers in the southern Gaza Strip again Monday. The practice of targeting Khan Younis residents became routine for the past month. Farmers are unable to reach their agricultural lands to the east of the city near the boundary lines. Israeli forces keep several military posts along the eastern edge of the Strip from which soldiers open fire. Much of the land has already been razed by the army.
http://english.pnn.ps/index. php?option=com_content&task= view&id=3893&Itemid=30
Israeli military invades Alfar'a refugee camp, detains several residents
The Israeli military invaded early on Monday the West Bank refugee camp of Alfar'a, an outskirt of Tubas city, and detained several residents in other areas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/ 57537
PA seizes senior Hamas leader in Nablus after year's pursuit
Fatah-allied Palestinian security forces seized a senior Hamas leader in the West Bank on Sunday night after pursuing him for over a year, security sources told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32975
PNA forces arrest Islamic Jihad members in West Bank
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) forces launched a limited crackdown against Islamic Jihad supporters in northern West Bank, arresting its four activists, sources from the movement said.
http://english.people.com.cn/ 90001/90777/90854/6525662.html
Hamas to boycott unity talks if arrests continue
Hamas will boycott Egyptian sponsored reconciliation talks unless its rival, Fatah, halts a campaign of "arrests and repression" against the Islamist group in the West Bank, a top Hamas official said on Sunday.
http://africa.reuters.com/ wire/news/usnOWE274690.html
Three prisoners injured in electrical fire in Negev prison camp
Three Palestinian prisoners were slightly injured when an electrical fire broke out in one of the tents in an Israeli prison camp in the Negev desert on Sunday night, prisoners told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32974
PA ministry holds Israel responsible for Negev prisoners' lives after fire
The ministry of prisoners held the IOA and the prison authority fully responsible for the lives of prisoners in the Negev prison after an electrical short sparked a fire in prisoners' tents.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Egypt uncovers 13 Gaza smuggling tunnels
Egyptian security forces have uncovered 13 tunnels used by smugglers to slip contraband into the Gaza Strip, a security official said on Monday. Three of the tunnels collapsed after heavy rain along Egypt's border with the Palestinian territory, the official said, adding that the remaining tunnels would also be destroyed. There were no reports of casualties after the tunnels collapsed. At least 40 Egyptian and Palestinian smugglers have died in tunnel accidents and demolitions by Egyptian security forces this year.
http://afp.google.com/article/ ALeqM5jQIyhoxoNJaW47qgrCkZcHC3 tLJg
Arab student chair apprehended for refusing to shake Peres' hand
The chairman of Hebrew University's Arab student body was apprehended by university security personnel on Sunday after he refused to shake the hand of visiting President Shimon Peres' hand. Ali Baher was detained for three hours after calling Peres' hand a "murderer of children."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033605.html
Rabbis face down settlers in Palestinian olive harvest clashes
Israeli rabbis have come to the defence of Palestinian farmers who are being attacked in the West Bank by Jewish hardliners while harvesting their olive trees.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
-olive-harvest-clashes.html
Olive groves on frontlines of West Bank conflict
AFP - For a number of years, volunteers have joined Palestinian farmers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to help pick olives and provide some form of protection against increasingly violent attacks by settlers.
http:// news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/
Another Bloody Weekend
Settlers often carry out violent attacks against Palestinians and their property with complete legal immunity, and often more than implicit support from the military itself. In fact, Israeli soldiers often protect settlers, and legal proceedings are rarely brought against them. According to OCHA, 80-90% of the files opened against Israeli settlers following attacks on Palestinians and their property are regularly closed by the Israeli police without prosecution.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article677
Guns and Olives
As Palestinians massively go to their lands to harvest their olive trees, time and again they return home with empty hands. Humiliated, shot at by Israeli soldiers and beaten by settlers, Palestinians keep trying to save their harvest and secure their primary source of income.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article678
Bahr deplores Egypt for barring PLC delegation from traveling through Rafah
Dr. Ahmed Bahr, the acting speaker of the PLC denounced Egypt for preventing the council delegation from traveling through the Rafah border crossing to make a tour to Arab and foreign countries.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Palestinian unity talks at crossroad - diplomat
Efforts by the Arab world to reconcile the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions could be put back for years if unity talks in Cairo next week end without agreement, a diplomat involved in the process said on Monday.
http://africa.reuters.com/ wire/news/usnL3711255.html
Poll: Most Palestinians support dissolving Hamas-controlled parliament
Majority of Palestinians supported the dissolving of the Hamas-dominated parliament and holding early elections in the beginning of next year, according to a new poll released Monday. Up to 73.3 percent of the surveyed said they agree the dissolving of the parliament and holding the elections in January 2009 while 20.9 percent rejected.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english/2008-11/03/content_ 10300973.htm
Abbas: No chance for peace in 2008
Palestinian president meets with Jordan's King Abdullah, says absolutely no hope for agreement by Annapolis deadline. Jordan vows to support Abbas in bid to 'regain Palestinian rights'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616689,00.
Hamas: Next U.S. President should lift Gaza embargo
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday that the next United States president should reverse current policy toward the Palestinians by lifting the embargo on the Gaza Strip and cutting back support for Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033314.html
Hamas: Int'l community responsible for all tragedies befalling Palestinians
Hamas stated on the 91st anniversary of the Balfour declaration that the international community bears responsibility for all tragedies that befell the Palestinians as a result.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Land and Housing Rights in al-Issawiya, Israeli Occupied East Jerusalem
The East Jerusalem village of al-Issawiya from the campus of Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. The Jerusalem Municipality and Israeli government have recently stepped up efforts to further illegally evict Palestinians in Jerusalem from their land and homes and terminate their already severely limited social benefits.
http://www.alternativenews. org/content/view/1392/494/
Hezbollah slams Israeli plans for Tolerance Museum
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group slammed Israel for allowing the construction of a Museum of Tolerance on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, in a statement received by AFP on Sunday. Hezbollah issues "its strongest condemnation for the desecration of a historic Islamic cemetery in occupied Jerusalem permitted by the (Israeli) enemy by allowing an American company to build a museum on the site," the statement said.
http://afp.google.com/article/
Shalit negotiator meets with jailed Hamas figures
The chief negotiator for Gilad Shalit met recently with senior Hamas figures incarcerated at the Hadarim Prison, the East Jerusalem daily Al-Quds reported on Sunday. Ofer Dekel briefed the Hamas leaders on the indirect Egyptian-mediated talks over the kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier, the paper reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/ spages/1033613.html
Hamas Warns Israel Not to Conduct Rescue Op for Shalit
Hamas warned Israel on Saturday against conducting any military operation in order to try and release captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit, saying that such a move would only endanger the captive's life.
http://almanar.com.lb/ NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id= 62164&language=en
Warning as Israel settler funds cut
Government cuts funds to "illegal" outposts as intelligence chief warns on extremist groups.
http://english.aljazeera.net/ news/middleeast/2008/11/ 2008112234243328169.html
Gaza: Rafah crossing to open for three days starting Tuesday
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt will be open for three days starting Tuesday, allowing hundreds of patients and stranded civilians with foreign passports and Gazans in Egypt to pass through the closed border. Director General of the media office in the de facto interior ministry Ihab Al-Ghussein confirmed reports that at least 460 patients are currently waiting for the crossing to be opened in addition to 4,628 civilians who have applied for exit permits.
http://www.maannews.net/en/ index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID= 32988
European lawmakers visit Gaza
Eight European lawmakers managed on Monday to visit the Gaza Strip after they were denied access into Gaza via the Rafah crossing terminal on the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/ 57540
Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements
Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
-settlements-986854.html
Evacuate Jewish Hebron
Yigal Amir claims that the opponents of the Oslo Accords - Ariel Sharon, Rehavam Ze'evi, and Rafael Eitan - provided him with the motive to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The inspiration for the criminal act, a sort of suicide bombing, was drawn from Baruch Goldstein, as well as the Jewish terrorist's friends in the Hebron-Kiryat Arba communities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Settlers preparing for war, says Shin Bet chief
A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Why Not Add Violent Jewish Settler Extremists to Terror Watch List?
In a candid statement meant to be heard only by those attending a weekly meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Shin Bet spy chief Yuval Diskin has acknowledged serious concern about violent Jewish settler extremists trying to assassinate Israeli political leaders and willing "to use firearms in order to halt diplomatic processes." The assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Yigal Amir, has acquired star status among many extremist settlers and security authorities in Israel are worried about attempts to generate violence linked to the November 4th anniversary of Rabin's murder.
http://www.thewashingtonnote. com/archives/2008/11/why_not_ add_vio/
Israel far-right parties unite ahead of election
Two of Israel's main far-right parties on Monday announced they had decided to forces under a new list promoting settlements in the occupied West Bank ahead of a February general election. The still unnamed party unites The National Union and National Religious Party, which together have nine MPs in the current parliament. The new party seeks "to lead a new national agenda, led by education for the Jewish character of Israel, social welfare... Jewish values, settlement and security and political issues," it said in a statement.
http://afp.google.com/article/
Israeli blunder may cost med students their Jordanian degree
Jordanian universities suspend studies of Israeli-Arab medical students after Education Ministry fails to issue their matriculation certificates on time.
http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-3616649,00.
Questions persist about Palestinian's encounter at border crossing
The Gaza-based journalist walked into the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and the Israeli-controlled West Bank one day early this summer. There, the 24-year-old says, he was sexually humiliated and physically assaulted by Israeli security -- while an escort from the Dutch Embassy waited for him outside.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy organized by the Occupied Palestine and Golan
On 30 October, OPGAI held its first Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy The Palestinian International Seminar on Advocacy organized by the Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI), under the theme United in Struggle against Israeli colonialism and racism. The Seminar took place at the Shepherds Hotel in Bethlehem, and started with registration, then welcoming by OPGAI coordinator, Adnan Ateyah, who talked about the critical time where Palestinians are face a situation where the racism of the Israeli state is increasingly being exposed.
http://www.alternativenews.
Bilbao, the Basque Country and Spain Join the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Targeting Veolia
On 1 November a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, in response to the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, joined international efforts to boycott Veolia in Europe. This decision, made public in front of the city hall in Bilbao, was taken as the Bilbao city council has awarded (but not yet ratified) the concession contract for bus transportation in the city to Veolia.
http://www.alternativenews.
sanctions-campaign-20081102.
Embassy SOS for children
THE British Embassy is supporting an initiative to help Palestinian children complete their education and prevent them from falling into a life of despair and destructiveness. It has backed the UK-based Dominic Simpson Memorial Trust, which works in the war-torn country to assist marginalised youngsters who may otherwise be ignored. The charitable organisation was set up in memory of British Ambassador Jamie Bowden's friend and former UK Foreign Office colleague Dominic Simpson, who died at the age of 40, in July 2004.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.
Palestinians toil for Barack Obama win
For months, Ibrahim Abu Jayyab and his friends have been working through the night, calling Americans at random to plead for support for their favourite candidate. Except that most of the people Mr Abu Jayyab calls don't even know where the Gaza Strip is, much less understand why this man with heavily accented English crackling down the phone line should care about the American presidential race at all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
-for-Barack-Obama-win.html
Strangers in their own land
Part 1: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= 2UsOdPXovps
Part 2: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= FyJzNhbHWPs
Part3: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v= bs8grE8EdW4&feature=related
Palestinians mark 91st anniversary of Balfour Declaration
November 2nd marks the 91st anniversary of the British Balfour Declaration, the first declaration that Palestine should be used as a "national home for the Jewish people". The Balfour Declaration did say that the Jewish home should not displace the existing Palestinian population of Palestine, a stipulation that the later 1947 United Nations Recommendation that actually called for a Jewish state did not include.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance pitches tent in E Jerusalem against demolitions
The Israeli administration says it will destroy another group of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem's Beit Hanina. The Alnevi Yaakov Settlement will then expand further into the occupied city in direct contravention to international law. In protest of the demolitions slated for the sixth of the month, the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement placed a tent in the neighborhood which will remain throughout the week.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Dignity in a sea of despair
One thing that definitely won't change whether McCain, Obama or Sandra Oh is the next American President is the US policy towards the Palestinians. Yesterday, the USS Dignity left the shores of Gaza en route to Cyprus, the third vessel to break the intolerable siege imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and Egypt with the overt approval of the United States and its allies.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
They are safe
The SS DIGNITY arrived at 6:30 this morning in Larnaca, Cyprus, as the sun was just splitting the waters of the Mediterranean. I watched the boat come around the corner of the quay, its Palestinian flag flying from one of the masts. Waiting up most of the night worrying about whether they were OK and answering worried callers had made the night long and tiring.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.
"Things Only Got Worse": An Interview with Israeli Journalist Amira Hass
Amira Hass is an Israeli author and journalist. The following interview with Amira Hass was conducted in May, 2008 during the first Israeli-Palestinian Film Festival" in Berlin. Amira is an author and journalist and has written extensively on the Israeli occupation and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Ms. Hass, you came to Berlin in order give some speeches but primarily to attend the first "Israeli-Palestinian Film Festival in Berlin," during which parts of a theatre play was performed. The play revolves around your very intimate correspondence with the Palestinian prisoner Mahmud al-Safadi. Ariel Cypel and Gael Chaillat processed your diary into a theatre play and called it "MurMure" (a word game in French, meaning "Wall Whispers").
http://www.alternativenews.
Avraham Burg: Israel's new prophet
Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an "abused child" which has become a "violent parent". And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
How Israel helps eavesdrop on US citizens
After the 11 September 2001 attacks, the United States government launched a massive program to spy on millions of its own citizens. Through the top secret National Security Agency (NSA), it has pursued "access to billions of private hard-line, cell, and wireless telephone conversations; text, e-mail and instant Internet messages; Web-page histories, faxes, and computer hard drives." In his new book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America author James Bamford casts light on this effort, including a detailed account of how spying on American citizens has been outsourced to several companies closely linked to Israel's intelligence services. Ali Abunimah comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Mass Layoffs Friday at ADC
Since the brilliant leadership of Hala Maksoud, the grassroots, advocacy nature of the organization deteriorated. This began with the failed presidency of Ziad Asali, which I witnessed firsthand as an intern in 2002. Asali's legacy as President is undoubtedly defined by his divisive, incompetent leadership that ruptured a once united institution built by Maksoud. He contested the grassroots quality of ADC, favoring a top-down organization that resulted in an abundance of internal conflict. His departure led to the arrival of former Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. Like Asali, Oakar has been a liability, her command characterized by distant mismanagement and a refusal to rebuild the grassroots.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Report: Alleged Lebanon spy was tracking Hezbollah for Israel
The Lebanese citizen who was recently arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel has been identified as Ali Jarrah, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday. Jarrah is suspected of monitoring the movements of senior Hezbollah officials, according to the report.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Iraq: At least 8 killed in another bloody day of US occupation
In Mosul, gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint. A roadside bomb wounded a policeman.
http://www.antiwar.com/
Minister escapes bombing as Iraq attacks claim seven
AFP - Iraq's deputy oil minister survived an assassination attempt on Monday as the Iraqi captial was hit by four bomb attacks that killed seven people and wounded at least 30 more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Iraq in the News: Bombings, budget cuts, and an occupation in search of a mandate
http://electroniciraq.net/ news/war-every-day-blog/Iraq_ in_the_News_Bombings_budget_ cuts_and_an
_occupation_in_ search_of_a_mandate-3435.shtml
3 children killed in Kirkuk blast
Three children were killed on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in southwestern Kirkuk city on Sunday, an Iraqi police source said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p= 102336
2 civilians killed by U.S. warplane fire west of Mosul
"The U.S. aircraft targeted a civilian vehicle in northern Zammar district, (60 km) west of Mosul, killing two civilians on board," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p= 102274
Iraqis call for referendum over SOFA
Iraqis have staged a large rally in the holy city of Najaf, urging the government to hold a referendum over the US-proposed security pact.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.
Iraq plans to cut Sunni fighters' salaries
The Iraqi government plans to cut salaries for the estimated 100,000 members of the Awakening movement whose revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq played a key role in bringing about the sharp fall in violence in Iraq.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Descendants of Iraq's black rebels back Obama
Descendants of black rebels in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra are unconditionally supporting Barack Obama in Tuesday's US election though some fear racism may prevent him from winning. "I don't think he'll win because he is black and America is racist. But if he wins, his success will benefit black people throughout the world and I hope Europe will follow the same route," said Sami Nassir Khami, a port worker in the city.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
With an eye on security pact, Iraqis watch US vote
AP - Iraqis are following this week's U.S. election, but the big news here is the effort to forge a new security agreement that would keep American troops here for most of the new president's first term.
http:// news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081102/ ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_ watching_the_race
Al-Jazeera Video: People and Power - Iraqi Prisons - Nov 1 2008
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UuX_iN8PLIw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=mudcXz1BFMs
Warnings against a large-scale refugee return in Iraq
The Iraqi government should review its policy of encouraging Iraqi refugees to return home by offering them free plane or bus tickets, until it is able to ensure security, local and international NGOs said. "For the time being, the government should take care of the refugees and meet their daily needs in their host countries until it can secure suitable life conditions to allow them to go back to their homes," said Basil al-Azawi, head of the Baghdad-based Commission for Civil Society Enterprises, an umbrella group of over 1,000 NGOs operating inside and outside Iraq.
http://electroniciraq.net/
A snapshot of Fallujah: Still wrecked, still angry
Not surprisingly, there are still hard feelings towards the United States in Fallujah. Jay Deshmukh, a reporter for AFP, visited the town and writes of a shop owner named Abdullah...
http://electroniciraq.net/
Iraq parliament grants minorities six council seats
Iraq's parliament voted on Monday to guarantee religious minorities seats on provincial councils to be selected next year, but drew ire from some politicians who said greater safeguards for fragile groups were needed.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Young U.S. Jews more likely than their elders to vote GOP
Washington - Comedian Sarah Silverman has gotten a lot of mileage out of the notion that older Jewish voters, especially those in Florida, need to be persuaded to support Senator Barack Obama. Yet as it turns out, those bubbes and zaydes may be the ones prodding their grandchildren to support the Democratic nominee for president.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
America's outcast Muslims
Once Bush backers, Muslims today are staunch Democrats. But both Obama and McCain shun them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Racism of McCain… and Obama… and the Media
The underlying assumption in the argument that association with Rashid Khalidi or his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is worthy of criticism is itself, by its own standard, inherently racist. Earlier this week, John McCain once again attacked his presidential campaign opponent Barack Obama on the basis of his association with another individual. In this case the individual was Rashid Khalidi. Mr. Khalidi's sin? He's a Palestinian who has been critical of Israel. Obama's sin? Speaking at a dinner five years ago held in honor of Mr. Khalidi.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/ 2008/11/the-racism-of-mccain-
Top Obama Adviser Has Long Ties to Neocons
Excerpt: With the 2008 presidential campaign at its end, pundits have begun to discuss in earnest what expected winner Barack Obama's administration might look like. An important piece of evidence is Obama's campaign team, which largely escaped the harsh scrutiny that his opponent's lobbyist-laden team received.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ flynn.php?articleid=13710
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