http://www.alternativenews.
october-2008-20081109.html
Israelis throw disabled man, wife out of home
Israeli police evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from their Occupied East Jerusalem home at dawn on Sunday in the wake of a prolonged court battle with Jewish colonists and just two days before municipal elections. Armed security forces surrounded the Kurd family's house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of mostly Arab Occupied East Jerusalem during.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Palestinians forced from 'UN home'
Police officers have evicted a Palestinian family from their east Jerusalem home of 52 years, after Israel's high court ruled in favour of Jewish settlers already occupying part of the building. The al-Kurd family finally lost their protracted legal battle on July 16 this year, after judges backed the settlers' claim to the land and ruled that the family be removed from the property.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Jayyous villagers beaten and denied return to home
Today Occupation forces prevented farmers from the village of Jayyous from reaching their olive groves. Two youths, Fadi Abdul-Karim and Mohammed Maaz, were beaten and arrested when they tried to harvest their families' olives.
http://stopthewall.org/
Israeli soldier beats Palestinian laborers with rock; three in hospital with multiple fractures
Three workers from the southern Nablus governorate were beaten with stones by Israeli soldiers on Monday. The men were taken to hospital where medical staff confirmed that several bones had been snapped.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Series of clashes as PA police confront Hebron family
Several Palestinian citizens and police officers were injured as confrontations erupted between Palestinian Authority police and a clan in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Medical sources at Al-Mizan Hospital said five civilians were hospitalized after sustaining gunfire injuries. Their injuries were described as light. A woman was also treated for shock.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Three students detained while supporting anti-closure events in Hebron
Israeli forces detained three Al-Quds Open University students while they participated in a solidarity march in Hebron as part of a campaign to end the closure of Hebron's old city. Palestinian security sources identified the students as Abdallah Salem Thawabtah and Ad Zeidan Thawabtah residents of Beit Fajjar as well as Mohammad Tayseer Shakarnah of Nahalin village. The national campaign against the closure of Hebron condemned the action.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Anti-closure events continue in Hebron's Old City; Israeli forces harass officials
Palestinian dignitaries were harassed on Sunday as they made their way towards Hebron's city center to participate in the week-long National Campaign to Life the Siege imposed by Israel on the area. Delegations were halted at the Ras-Al-Jura checkpoint and detained while identity cards and passports were checked by soldiers. After arriving in the old city of Hebron delegates were told that the area around the Ibrahimi mosque had been declared a closed military zone and no one would be allowed in.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli forces detain Jenin man after opening fire on his home
Israeli forces detained a civilian during their pre-dawn raid of the northern West Bank city of Jenin Monday. The young man was taken and transferred to an unknown location. Palestinian security sources said 29-year-old Ismail Ahmad Abed was detained after his family home was surrounded in the Al-Marah neighborhood in the center of the city. The family was forced to evacuate the home after Israeli forces opened fire and threw sound bombs at the building damaging the furniture.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel arrests 24 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli forces arrested 24 Palestinians in a massive crackdown against wanted activists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli sources said Monday. Among the detainees, 12 were seized in the holy city of Bethlehem and 11 in Ramallah, with another Palestinian arrested in northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
IOF Arrests 5 Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Sunday, five citizens from the West Bank cities of Tulkarem and Bethlehem.
http://english.wafa.ps/?
IOF Arrests 11 citizens in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, Monday, 11 citizens from the West Bank cities of Hebron, Bethlehem and Jenin. IOF arrested eight citizens of Hebron Governorate, after attacking vandalizing their houses in the towns of Doura, Yatta, Terqomya and Beit Ommar. In the meantime, IOF attacked Al-Khader and Ashawara villages in Bethlehem, arresting 2 citizen. In Jenin, IOF arrested another citizen after damaging his house, while other Israeli troops chased shepherds in Tubas area preventing sheep from grazing.
http://english.wafa.ps/?
Israeli military invades a West Bank village, detains residents
Israeli military invaded early on Sunday the West Bank village of Eidieya near the Bethlehem city , as the Israeli soldiers rounded up several Palestinian residents in other parts of the occupied West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Hamas arrests Fatah members in Gaza Strip
Hamas forces arrested groups of "Fatah-aligned cells," saying they were planning to carry out "operations aimed at restoring anarchy and disorder" in the Gaza Strip, said Ihab al-Ghussein, spokesman of Hamas interior ministry, on Monday. "The three groups were receiving orders from a minister in the illegal government of Ramallah to assassinate Hamas members and blow up some of their cars," he said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Lies abound: Presence of political prisoners affirmed in West Bank and Gaza
Human Rights organizations confirmed on Sunday the existence of political prisoners in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Fatah categorically insists they do not have political prisoners and Hamas, though also guilty of the phenomena, said on Saturday that conciliation talks cannot go forward until its West Bank affiliates are released.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
No reprieve from settler violence in sight
I was part of a group of journalists and peace activists recently attacked by stone-throwing Israeli youths in an olive grove near the West Bank city of Hebron. Fortunately, I was not hit. Hazem Bader, a Palestinian photographer working for Agence France-Presse, was not so lucky and ended up needing eight stitches on his scalp and a night in hospital. Paul Adrian Raymond writes from the occupied West Bank.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Lockheed confident on key Pentagon cash for F-22
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp anticipates the Pentagon will release $140 million to let the next U.S. administration more easily extend production of the firm's F-22 Raptor warplane, CEO Robert Stevens said on Sunday.
http://feeds.reuters.com/%7Er/
Barak seeks OK to hit residential areas
Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on the government on Sunday to examine ways of approving IDF action against residential areas in Gaza from which rockets are fired at Israel.
Kassam launchers found by IDF.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
Amira Hass /Powerless in Gaza, residents rely on the tunnels
Since Sunday morning, Gaza City has gone back to readying for long blackouts. In the Tel el Hawa neighborhood in the southern part of the city, the electricity went out at 8 a.m. When children came home from school, the lights had still not come back on. When their parents returned from work, the electricity was still out.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Major power cuts hit Gaza
AFP - The Gaza Strip was hit by major power cuts late on Sunday, threatening a blackout throughout the territory within 24 hours, Palestinian officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Israel may allow fuel into Gaza after power cuts
Israel will keep its crossings with the Gaza Strip closed Monday following rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled territory but may allow some fuel supplies in to ease major power cuts, an official said.
http://afp.google.com/article/
Gaza in the dark: Barghouthi urges the international community to lift the siege and bring the fuel back to Gaza
Ramallah, 10-11-08: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative strongly condemns the latest Israel closure on Gaza, leading to a severe shortage of fuel, and electricity shutdown. Earlier this week Israel, as a result of the ongoing occupation initiated by them, closed all the crossings into Gaza and stopped the fuel supply, including industrial fuel. The power cut occurred as the Nahl Oz checkpoint -the entry point for any liquid fuel in Gaza- has been running at only 40% of its regular capacity for almost a week.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Short: Israeli blockade on Gaza massive punishment for electing Hamas
Former British minister Clare Short said on Saturday that the unjust Israeli economic siege on Gaza Strip was flagrant violation of international laws.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Scene set for Fatah conference in Amman; first since 1989
The preparatory committee for the sixth Fatah conference in Amman is scheduled to meet for a planning session between 15-18 November, at which time the Fatah extended committee will also meet. Fatah's last general conference was held in 1989 in Tunis, and the coming meetings have been in the preparatory stages for almost a year.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Palestinian unity talks to resume 'within two weeks': Fatah
AFP - Egyptian-sponsored talks to reconcile rival Palestinian factions that were cancelled this week are expected to resume in less than a fortnight, a senior Fatah official said on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
President Abbas hopeful about negotiations and dialogue
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said on Sunday that he is still optimistic about peace negotiations with Israel and that he is hopeful that Cairo succeeds in reactivating the national Palestinian dialogue.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Hamas, Fatah reconciliation becomes impossible mission
Frustration and despair have mounted among the Palestinians after Egypt announced that it decided to postpone the inter-dialogue of reconciliation, which was due to take place in Cairo on Monday, to end the current political split between Gaza and the West Bank.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Listen to Hamas
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the ousted prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, described "the territories of 1967" as the territory of the Palestinian state "at this time." He told Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass that the Hamas government had previously made it clear that it was willing to accept a Palestinian state that followed the 1967 borders and to offer Israel a long-term hudna, or truce, if Israel recognized the Palestinians' national rights, as Haaretz reported Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Blair urges Obama to make Mideast peace a priority
AFP - The international community's envoy on the Middle East peace process Tony Blair on Sunday urged US president-elect Barack Obama to make peace between Jews and Palestinians a priority.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Israel poisoned Arafat, nephew claims
A relative of Yasser Arafat insisted on Monday that the Palestinian leader who died four years ago this week was poisoned by Israel.
"Every day there are statements and clues about the elimination of Arafat and every day we draw closer to the poisoning theory," Nasser al-Qidwa, a nephew of the late Palestinian leader, told AFP.
http://afp.google.com/article/
Possible Impact of Obama's Presidency
SCOWCROFT:Right now, I believe that the most troublesome area in the world is the Middle East, from the Balkans on through Central Asia. And I think that is what has to be tackled first. And I would start that process with the Palestinian peace process as a way to psychologically change the mood of the region, and get the region to start working together rather than at cross purposes, because the Palestinian issue, while it's not important to many states in the region, it's nonetheless -- it gives the members of the region a deep sense of injustice. And we have removed in this country, with this election, a lot of that sense of injustice in this country. We ought to try to do it in the Middle East.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/
Living the Vision /'I knew my life's goal was to try and make Israel find peace'
"I knew my job in life was to try and make Israel find peace," says Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Palestine's greatest asset: its people
In January US president elect Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the new American head of state. The term of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will end a few days before that, and in February, Israeli elections will be held. In 2010 the term of the Palestinian Legislative Council is also set to expire. The Electronic Intifada co-founder Arjan El Fassed suggests how the Palestinian national movement should move forward, inclusive of Palestinians around the world.
http://electronicintifada.net/
I HOPE THE PALESTINIANS WILL USE NONVIOLENCE IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM
On 28th October, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement set sail in SS Dignity from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Gaza. On board were 27 Internationals from 13 countries, Including Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, five physicians, human rights lawyers, etc., I felt deeply privileged to be part of this group going to Gaza. On this the second boat journey into Gaza the siege-breakers brought with them 6 cubic meters of medicine, and their hope that by going to Gaza across the sea (only the second boat to do so in over 41 years) they would give hope to the people of Gaza and that the outside world would break its silence to the tragedy of Gaza's suffering and act to get the siege lifted.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article691
European campaign: We hope more ships will arrive at Gaza
The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza has said that the successive successes of the sea voyages to the besieged Gaza Strip called for an Arab and international effort to send more ships.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
oPt: Refugee Stories - Flooding adds to Gaza misery
Rain is traditionally a good omen in Palestinian culture. However, for Palestinians in the Gaza strip, the heavy rains and storms that began on the 27th October spelt disaster. After a summer drought heavy rains began on the evening of the 27th. Gaza's poor drainage networks, which are in urgent need of repair, were swiftly overwhelmed and streets and houses in Northern and Southern Gaza were soon underwater. Beach camp and Jabalia camp were particularly badly affected. By the morning of the 28th the streets of Jabalia were filled with water and sewage, trapping many residents inside their homes.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
Muslim states to remember Kristallnacht
Dramatic Muslim representation is expected at Monday's "Special Event Promoting Tolerance Throughout the European Continent" at the European Parliament in Brussels. Representatives of Libya, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco, Turkey and Malaysia, among others, are to attend an event publicized as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The event is organized jointly by the European Jewish Congress and the presidency of the European Parliament. It is the first event of this scope in Europe to include such significant Muslim participation.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
List of national and global activities during the Week against the Apartheid Wall
The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees have prepared in cooperation with Palestinian grassroots organizations and NGOs once again an impressive programme of resistance, featuring almost daily protests and the Third National Olive Festival, held this year in Asira al-Qibliya, Nablus district.
http://stopthewall.org/
Belgian far right leader: I am one of Israel's staunchest defenders
At Belgium's request, the European Parliament is expected next month to lift the immunity of one of its members, a former leader of the rightist Vlaams Belang party, exposing him to racism charges. Describing himself as a victim of blatant persecution, Frank Vanhecke told Haaretz the decision could spell his "political death."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Kawther Salam - A Word to the Israeli "Intelligence" System
The IDF criminal soldiers harassing me on my way to the old city near the entrance of my house in Hebron H2... Without further introduction, for what do you send me your death squads, you criminal morons? Exactly for what did you send me your fumbling, wannabe "agents" to follow me for hours like thieves, trying to provoke me, calling my friends? What do you want from a Journalist you have already kicked out of her country, you criminal terrorists? Are all the journalists you murdered in Palestine not enough, so that you now expand your terrorism into Europe? It would be easier if you kept these criminals at home instead of sending them to this quiet country, where decency exists and the law is respected.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Youngsters
On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the Gaza Strip. At around 3.20pm, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the boys, killing four of them instantly and seriously injuring another three. The four dead boys were Omar Hussein Dardouna, aged 14, Dardouna Deib Dardouna, aged 12, Mohammed Na'im Hammouda, aged 9, and Ali Munir Dardouna who was just 8.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
Israel's IDF Plays the Ignorance Card Once Again
While researching the structure of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), I was taken aback when I came upon an article referring to them as 'the most moral army in the world'. Apparently, they follow a code of conduct much admired and respected globally, which manifests the IDF 'spirit'. In addition to the general code, a further 11 rules were added, developed to guide behavior in low intensity warfare amongst civilian populations; i.e. in Palestine. Needless to say, upon reading the rules, I realized that all 11 of them are flouted on a daily basis.
http://www.miftah.org/Display.
Fatah stages show of force in Lebanon refugee camp
AFP - The Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas staged a show of force on Sunday in the largest of Lebanon's 12 refugee camps, the scene of recent clashes with Islamists.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Sunday: 17 Iraqis Killed, 58 Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 12:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 9, 2008 The Iraqi work week began with numerous attacks across the country. Unsurprisingly, Mosul took the brunt of the violence again, but bombers also attacked in Diyala, Anbar and Baghdad. Overall, at least 17 Iraqis were killed and 58 more were wounded. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar Assad came out against a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, saying that U.S. troops destabilize the region.
http://www.antiwar.com/
Baghdad triple bombing kills 28: police
Reuters - A pair of car bombs exploded in central Baghdad Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, in a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Iraqi journalist sent to jail for critical reporting in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Iraqi Kurdistan court of appeals should act immediately to overturn a judge's ruling on Tuesday to impose a one-month prison term against a journalist who published critical reports about the Sulaymania courthouse. The journalist's lawyer said newly adopted legislation does not appear to allow such a prison sentence.
http://electroniciraq.net/
Kurdistan-3445.shtml
US 'snubs Iraq over jurisdiction clause'
Citing informed government sources, the Iraqi daily al-Sabah reported on Saturday that Washington has turned down Baghdad's request to change a SOFA provision which would grant US citizens immunity from legal prosecution in Iraq.
http://www.presstv.com/detail. aspx?id=74859§ionid= 351020201
Look What's Hiding Behind the SOFA
For the past year the Iraq and US governments (not really, but we'll get to that later) have been working on a bilateral agreement regarding the scope and working details of the future US military involvement in Iraq. It has been widely referred to as a SOFA, or a Status Of Forces Agreement.
http://justworldnews.org/
Iraq insurgents urge Obama to adopt neutrality
Iraq insurgents tell Obama that US withdrawal would be in interest of both Iraqis and Americans.
http://www.middle-east-online. com/english/?id=28696
Iraq's top planner aims to cut 75 per cent of public jobs
"We should do something to decrease the number by transferring them to the private sector gradually and giving up some of our private sector responsibilities."
http://www.business24-7.ae/
Iraq Gives Religious Minorities Fewer Seats Than the U.N. Suggested
Iraq's planning minister has ambitious plans to trim the fat from the government, reducing its workforce by 75 per cent in 10 years and rebalancing a fiscal budget almost entirely reliant on oil exports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
Egyptian analysts question Arab overtures to Iraq
More than five years after the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, Arab capitals are beginning to send ambassadors to Baghdad. But some Egyptian commentators question the timing of the moves, which they attribute to pressure from Washington. "Arab governments originally wanted.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Is the U.S. Pushing Arab capitals on ambassadors?
More than five years after the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, Arab capitals are beginning to send ambassadors to Baghdad. But some Egyptian commentators question the timing of the move, which they attribute to pressure from Washington.
http://electroniciraq.net/
In Iraq, Muqtada Sadr's followers struggle for relevance
Once the mightiest of Shiite militias, the Mahdi Army finds itself on the run as rivals benefit from government ties and U.S. backing. Efforts to reorganize into a socio-religious group may not help. The Mahdi Army fighter gets nervous every time he passes an Iraqi army checkpoint in Sadr City. He has even shaved his beard, a sign of his piety and his fealty to the Shiite Muslim militia, so the soldiers won't recognize him.
http://feeds.latimes.com/%7Er/
Reminiscences of old Baghdad by one of last Jews
Reuters - One of the last eight Jews in Baghdad, a portly retired accountant, erupts in a bellyful of laughter when asked why he never married.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Babylon 'will never recover from Iraq war'
In the Old Testament, Babylon is destroyed by God as a punishment for the decadence and cruelty of its inhabitants. But a new disaster has befallen the ancient metropolis - coalition troops serving in Iraq are accused of causing irreversible damage to what is one of the world's most important archaeological sites.
http://entertainment. timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_ and_entertainment/visual_arts/
Islam and Obama: American Muslims overwhelmingly voted Democratic
The American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections released a poll today of over 600 Muslims from more than 10 states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, and it revealed that 89 percent of respondents voted for Obama, while only 2 percent voted for McCain. It also indicated that 95 percent of Muslims polled cast a ballot in this year's presidential election—the highest turnout in a U.S. election ever—and 14 percent of those were first-time voters. The Gallup Center for Muslim studies estimates that U.S. Muslims favored Obama in greater numbers than did Hispanics (67 percent of whom voted for Obama) and nearly matched that of African-Americans, 93 percent of whom voted for Obama. More than two thirds who were polled said the economy was the most important issue affecting their decision on Nov. 4th, while 16 percent said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan informed their vote—numbers that put Muslims roughly on a par with the general population.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/
Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees
US president-elect Barack Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
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