UNRWA food distribution for 750,000 will stop Friday if Gaza closure continues
UNRWA announced that it will be forced to halt food distribution to over 750,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip by Friday unless the flour, oil, milk and meat waiting to be delivered through the closed Gaza crossings are not transferred in to the Strip soon.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33155
Occupation re-routes Wall: 200 trees being uprooted in Jayyous
Less than a week after an Occupation High Court decision to change the route of the Apartheid Wall in Jayyous, Occupation forces began destroying farmland in the south of the village to make room for the construction of the Wall. They are currently in the process of cutting down some 200 olive trees that have already been marked for uprooting.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57621
IOF Arrests 5 Citizens in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, Monday, 5 citizens in the west band cities of Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, and Jerusalem.
IOF attacked and shot tear gas bombs on school children from Al-Ma'sara village, south of Bethlehem, during a peaceful demonstration on the occasion of the fourth commemoration of Late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat while another unit attacked several schools in the town of Tqoua'.
http://english.wafa.ps/?action=detail&id=12300
Special undercover Israeli military unit abducts a Jenin resident
Special undercover Israeli unit abducted on Tuesday a Palestinian resident from the West Bank city of Jenin, media sources and witnesses reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57628
Israeli forces raid neighborhoods across Nablus; set up post on residential roof
Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Tuesday and raided several neighborhoods. Israeli forces set up a military monitoring post on roof of house owned by Nassif family in the city, and no arrests were reported.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33152
Election violence: Haredim riot in Jerusalem
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police on municipal election day as haredim try to prevent voters from getting through. Officer, security guard lightly injured in two separate incidents.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3621282,00. html
Ramon: Shell 'launch pad' Gaza villages
Following the renewal of Kassam rocket fire on Israeli communities in the Western Negev, the Cabinet will discuss on Tuesday a new strategy of using heavy artillery in retaliatory actions.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910088329& pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UNRWA: Cutting off fuel supplies to Gaza collective punishment
Sami Misha'sha', the UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, has criticized the use of fuel as a political pressure card by the Zionist government against the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
Media blackout? International journalists report being barred from entering, exiting Gaza
Israel has limited food and fuel shipments into Gaza, and now appears to be preventing journalists from entering and even leaving the area. Several journalists have speculated that Israel hopes to limit press coverage of the effects of its latest blockade.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33158
Gazans plunged into darkness
Thousands of Gazans have been left without electricity following Israel's suspension of fuel shipments to the Hamas-controlled territory's only power plant. The power station was shut down on Monday evening after Israel refused to restart deliveries, despite warnings that fuel supplies were almost exhausted.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/11/20081110144158482216.html
Blackout in Gaza due to Tightened Israeli Restrictions
Palestinian shop lit by a gas lamp during a blackout in the Gaza Strip. As of this evening, 10 November, a large portion of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip will be left without power, the only respite coming from gas lamps or candlelight for those lucky enough to have bought them before they were sold out. Gaza residents have prepared for this blackout for some days now. Since Wednesday, 5 November, Israel authorities have closed all border crossings into and out of the Gaza Strip and prevented shipments of food, gas and fuel supplies, including industrial fuel.
http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/blackout-in-gaza-due-to-tightened-israeli-restrictions-20081110.html
Hamas reiterates refusal to recognize Abbas after 9 January
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar on Tuesday reiterated his movement's refusal to recognize an extension of President Mahmoud Abbas tenure after his current term ends on 9 January 2009. Zahhar warned that Abbas might have prepared "a political bomb similar to Oslo."
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33162
Hamas accused of blocking Arafat commemoration in Gaza
Organisers accused the Islamist Hamas movement on Monday of blocking their plans for events in Gaza to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "We have made every effort to organise commemorations for the fourth anniversary but the committee has had to cope with numerous obstacles, in particular the ban imposed by the Hamas government on any ceremony," said organising committee member Walid al-Awad.
http://arabia.ndtv.com/Story.aspx?pageheader=news&sub_ category=&ID=NEWEN20080072110
At Arafat memorial rally, Abbas blames Hamas for continued rift
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday blamed political rival Hamas for another failed reconciliation attempt.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036373.html
Abbas: In talks, Israel has proposed concessions regarding Jerusalem
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that during peace talks over the past year, Israel had proposed concessions to him regarding Jerusalem, but he rejected them because they were partial.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036405.html
Israel must give up land for peace: Olmert
AFP - Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that Israel must give up most of the Arab territories it has occupied since 1967, including east Jerusalem, if it wants peace.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081110/ wl_afp/ mideastconflictisraelpoliticsr abin
Livni distances herself from Olmert comments on '67 borders
Kadima Chairwoman and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni distanced herself Tuesday from outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent assertion that Israel needs to return to its pre-1967 borders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036355.html
Foreign troops could deploy in West Bank after peace deal
BRUSSELS - After an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories within the framework of an overall peace agreement, foreign forces could be stationed there for a specific period, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, told Haaretz in an interview over the weekend in Brussels.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036103.html
PPP calls for boycotting Jerusalem municipality elections
The leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) issued a statement on Monday calling on the Palestinian people in Jerusalem to boycott the Jerusalem Municipality elections. The PPP said that this is the position of all factions and senior Palestinian political figures in the Holy City.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57623
IAF dismayed at Amman for blocking Sheikh Raed Salah's entry to Jordan
The IAF has expressed dismay at Amman's government decision to bar the entry of Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 areas, into Jordan to attend an IAF-sponsored event.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
UN chief 'deeply distressed' at plight of Palestinians in Gaza
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed profound concern over the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip while stressing the importance of the Middle East diplomatic Quartet in the ongoing efforts to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-7L9UMN?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P
New Israeli restrictions target Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem
As of Sunday, 2 November 2008, new Israeli army guidelines are in force, requiring Palestinian medical personnel from the West Bank who work in Jerusalem hospitals to come in only through the Qalandiya checkpoint in Ramallah. Medical personnel from the West Bank are prohibited from coming to work through other checkpoints, even if these are closer to where they live.
http://electronicintifada.net/ v2/article9947.shtml
Palestinians bid goodbye to India, hello Sweden
More than 100 Palestinian refugees from Iraq have left India in the first large-scale resettlement of Palestinian refugees from outside the Middle East.
http://www.unhcr.org/news/nEWS/4919b20b4.html
Palestinian village turning into 'ghetto'
Separation wall threatens to isolate town from much of its agricultural land and its factories from their markets.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081110/FOREIGN/137859693/1042/rss
Palestinian couple evicted from home of 50 years as Jerusalem settlers move in
Britain, US and UN fail to stop supreme court decision.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/10/israelandthepalestinians
Solidarity tent in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
Surrounded by dozens of Israeli soldiers and police on Monday, national and religious figures pitched a solidarity tent in East Jerusalem. Hundreds of people rallied around the Kured family who were forcibly evicted. At gunpoint Israeli special forces took the Kured family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood at dawn yesterday.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3945&Itemid=28
Candle Procession in Gaza
Hundreds of residents and peace activists participated in a candle procession in Gaza organized by the Popular Committee Against the Siege, as the Gaza Strip plunges in darkness due to the Israeli siege and Israel's rejection to allow fuel supplies into the coastal region.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57620
Palestinian life: Splits and barriers
More than 40 years of Israeli occupation distorts everything in Hebron, even the school run. Two brothers, Mohammed and Amjad Taha, live in the narrow lanes and covered courts of the old town centre. Until a few years ago their quarter was crumbling, but it has been renovated with Swedish aid money.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7722811.stm
Thousands of Palestinians Demonstrate against Construction of "Museum of Tolerance"
On 6 November, thousands of Palestinians peacefully demonstrated against the Israeli High Court decision to permit construction of the Museum of Tolerance over an historic Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem. On Thursday, 6 November, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against the recent Israeli High Court decision permitting the construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's "Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance ( http://www.motj.com/index. html)" on top of the Ma'mam Allah Islamic Cemetery in West Jerusalem.
http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1410/104/
Boycotting Settlement Products: Tactic vs. Strategy
A spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to locations inside pre-1967 Israeli borders gives the impression that boycotting products originating in illegal Israeli colonies is on its way to becoming mainstream, handing the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement with a fresh, substantial victory.
http://palestinechronicle.com/ view_article_details.php?id=14369
Closing arguments begin in Hamas financing retrial
AP - A Muslim charity funneled more than $12 million to Palestinian schools and charities controlled by the militant group Hamas, prosecutors said in closing arguments Monday at the charity's second trial for allegedly financing terrorism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_us/muslim_charity_ trial
Testimony: A Boy Beaten, Imprisoned with Adults
By Muhammad Khawajah, 12
I live with my family in Ni'lin. We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives on the second floor. Last Thursday [11 September], around 3:00 A.M., I woke up from my mother's shouts. She was shouting, "Get up! Get up! The army is here!" My father wasn't home that night. I got up and went out with her to the inner courtyard of the house. There were about 12 soldiers there, and their faces were painted black. One soldier wore a black hat that covered his face. He sat on the stairs outside the house and didn't take part. I think he was a collaborator who led them to houses.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14366
Acre Pogrom Highlights Zionist anti-Arab Racism
Violent attacks by Jewish residents in the Israeli city of Acre last month have left 14 Palestinian families, a total of 72 people, homeless. All 72 are Israeli citizens who had their homes destroyed. For the more than 1 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, the Jewish "riots" in Acre are only the most extreme example of the systematic discrimination they face within the Zionist state.
http://palestinechronicle.com/ view_article_details.php?id=14365
Kawther Salam - We are Sick of the American-Israeli Interference
I am writing this article after I escaped from the criminal action of Israelis on November 1, 2008, who came to Vienna to watch and to harass me. I wonder if the mission of these criminals to terrorize me in exile was coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian "security" team, just like what is happening in Palestine now.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/11/10/kawther-salam-we-are-sick-of-the-american-israeli-interference/
A Bone in America's Throat
Even before the voting began, Israeli politicians and pundits were asking: Will an Obama Administration be good for Israel? "Be good for Israel" is our code for "Will the US allow us to keep our settlements and continue to support our efforts to prevent negotiations with the Palestinians from ever bearing fruit?" For Americans the question should be: Will the Obama Administration understand that without addressing Palestinian needs it will not be able to disentangle itself from its broader Middle Eastern imbroglios, rejoin the community of nations and rescue its economy?
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14362
A Turning Point
There is no doubt that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 13 years ago, was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and that the period that followed could have turned out very different in his presence. Rabin had three reasons to enter into a serious peace process. The first was his experience in trying and failing to suppress by force the first Palestinian intifada, a period of popular Palestinian non-violent resistance against the occupation. The failure came in spite of his direct orders to be as tough as "breaking their bones", an order Israeli soldiers followed to the letter. This experience led him to conclude that there could be no military solution to the conflict.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14364
Football-crazy Palestinians tackle rugby
AFP - In the West Bank, where football reigns supreme, the sight of Palestinian players kicking and tossing an oval ball draws incredulous stares and bemused comments.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081111/ lf_afp/mideastwestbanksportsrugby
Darwish poetry lives on in Marcel melody
Every word evoked an emotion, every verse had a feeling, and every stroke of the oud lured the audience to breathe an air filled with magic. For two consecutive hours, Khalife and his team captured the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows as he made the audience smile, cheer and cry. The UAE concert tour titled "A Salute to Mahmoud Darwish from Marcel Khalife" was a tribute to Darwish who was meant to be in a duo with Khalife that night - until fate decided otherwise.
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/nation/10258675.html
Interview with Checkpoint 303: Electronic / Experimental music from Palestine, Tunisia and France
Checkpoint 303 is a collective of artists from Palestine, Tunisia and France that creates electronic experimental music that carries a strong message for peace and justice. In particular, Checkpoint 303 attempts to speak about Palestine in a radically novel way. The name of the project is inspired by the name of a real military checkpoint in the West Bank, called Checkpoint 300, which separates Bethlehem from East Jerusalem. In a way, Checkpoint 303 is a virtual artistic checkpoint.
http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/10/interview-with-checkpoint-303-electronic-experimental-music
-from-palestine-tunisia-and-france/
The immeasurable toll of war
When I enlisted in the IDF in 2004, I became the first of my family to serve in the armed forces for three generations. The last of my ancestors to take the King's Shilling had been my great-grandfather, who fought for the British empire during the first world war, and took part in the fierce battle of the Somme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/11/firstworldwar-israelandthepalestinians
Tuesday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 51 Wounded
Excerpt: At least six Iraqis were killed and another 51 were wounded, mostly during bombing attacks in Baghdad and Mosul. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, the fate of a U.S.-Iraqi agreement may rest on support from a political group that has much to lose regardless of the choice they make.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13751
Baghdad triple bomb kills 28; teenage girl strikes
Two car bombs exploded in central Baghdad Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/ts_nm/us_iraq
Baghdad street sweepers clear bodies after bombings
BAGHDAD — Three or more explosions Monday ripped through a busy shopping district in northern Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood, at killing at least 28 people and wounding at least 68.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/55645.html
Baghdad bomb attack kills 2, wounds 17
Reuters - Two roadside bombs exploded in a crowd of part time laborers in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 17, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081111/ ts_nm/us_iraq_bomb
Iraq suicide bomber targets crowd helping schoolgirls
BAGHDAD witnessed its worst day of violence in months yesterday as a suicide bomber struck in a crowd that had gathered where an explosion moments earlier had hit a bus full of schoolgirls. The blasts killed at least 31 people and wounded 71 others.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Iraq-suicide-bomber-targets-crowd.4679795.jp
In Baghdad, Blasts from the Past
Time.com - The suicide bombings on Monday may not signal a return of Al-Qaeda but they are a reminder of how fragile security is in the Iraqi capital.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081111/wl_time/inbaghdadblastsfromthepast
Iraq begins paying Awakening groups
Fighters with Sunni Awakening groups in Iraq, who were paid by the US to turn against al-Qaeda, have begun to receive their first pay cheques from the Shia-dominated Iraqi government. The Iraqi government started paying the salaries of about 54,000 Awakening fighters at 60 locations in Baghdad on Monday. About $15m is to be distributed in a process expected to take several days.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/11/20081110172020177594.html
Moment of truth for Shiite party over pact
AP - The fate of an agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years rests with Iraq's largest Shiite party, which must choose between its two main partners: the United States and Iran.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_shiite_ dilemma
New Iraq Pact Bans US Troops Past 2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's government spokesman said Monday the proposed U.S. changes to a draft security agreement were "not enough" and asked Washington to offer new amendments if it wants the pact to win parliamentary approval. The comments by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh were the first by the Iraqis since the U.S. submitted a response last week to an Iraqi request for changes in the draft agreement, which would keep U.S. troops here until 2012 and give Iraq a greater role in the management of the U.S. mission.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/new-iraq-pact-bans- us-tro_n_142604.html
'No to violation of Iraq's sovereignty'
Sadr al-Din Qubanchi, a close aide to Ayatollah Sistani, said on Monday that the Grand Ayatollah would announce his stance on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) as soon as Iraqi officials concluded their talks on the security pact, Aswat al-Iraq News Agency reported.
http://www.presstv.com/detail. aspx?id=74959§ionid=351020201
UN warns of possible violence in Iraq elections
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said passage of a law clearing the way for provincial elections in Iraq was "a milestone" in the process of national reconciliation, but he warned of the possibility of election violence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_un_iraq
International Iraq Fair inaugurated in Baghdad
The International Iraq Fair has been opened in Baghdad on Monday with the participation of 16 Araband foreign countries and dozens of local and foreign firms, the official television said. The Iraqyia channel aired a footage showed that Iraqi Trade Minister Falah al-Sudani said in the ceremony of the Fair's inauguration on behalf of the Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri al-Maliki that "Iraq today is more opened than before."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english/2008-11/10/content_ 10337634.htm
Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/iAEA_suspects_fraud_in_ evidence_for_1109.html
Israel urges Biden not to go soft on Iran, Hamas
AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged US vice president Joe Biden in a telephone call to keep up a tough line on Iran and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, her ministry said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081110/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelusirandiplomacynu clear
Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
I have been trying in the last few days to make clear to Israelis the enormity of the meaning of the presidential election in the United States. Only one thing works. "Imagine," I tell them, "that Israel elected an Arab prime minister." At first there is, without exception, a stunned silence. Then something dawns. Something unformed. And, in general - even with leftists - something deep inside that seems unable to wrap the head around the thought.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035692.html
Report: Hamas says its officials met Obama aides before U.S. election
The Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that United States President-elect Barack Obama's advisors met with members of the Palestinian militant group before the U.S. presidential election.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036364.html
Experts offer Obama advice on advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace
After campaigning on a platform of discarding failed past formulas and bringing "fundamental change" to Washington, Senator Barack Obama has won his bid for the presidency. Throughout the campaign, Obama and his supporters drew on the wisdom of Albert Einstein, frequently declaring that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result."
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article695
U.S. Jewish group to Mormons: Stop baptizing Holocaust victims
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon Church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036093.html
Yes, You Can!
In July 2004, the convention of the Democratic Party was about to nominate John Kerry as its candidate for President. The organizing committee had to decide who would deliver the keynote speech. In the American tradition, that speech sets the tone for the whole convention.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14368
Saudi King to meet U.S. Jewish leaders at interfaith summit
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is set to meet with United States Jewish leaders at an interfaith meeting on Wednesday, as part of his ongoing efforts to promote dialogue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036381.html
UNRWA announced that it will be forced to halt food distribution to over 750,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip by Friday unless the flour, oil, milk and meat waiting to be delivered through the closed Gaza crossings are not transferred in to the Strip soon.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Occupation re-routes Wall: 200 trees being uprooted in Jayyous
Less than a week after an Occupation High Court decision to change the route of the Apartheid Wall in Jayyous, Occupation forces began destroying farmland in the south of the village to make room for the construction of the Wall. They are currently in the process of cutting down some 200 olive trees that have already been marked for uprooting.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
IOF Arrests 5 Citizens in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, Monday, 5 citizens in the west band cities of Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, and Jerusalem.
IOF attacked and shot tear gas bombs on school children from Al-Ma'sara village, south of Bethlehem, during a peaceful demonstration on the occasion of the fourth commemoration of Late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat while another unit attacked several schools in the town of Tqoua'.
http://english.wafa.ps/?
Special undercover Israeli military unit abducts a Jenin resident
Special undercover Israeli unit abducted on Tuesday a Palestinian resident from the West Bank city of Jenin, media sources and witnesses reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli forces raid neighborhoods across Nablus; set up post on residential roof
Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Tuesday and raided several neighborhoods. Israeli forces set up a military monitoring post on roof of house owned by Nassif family in the city, and no arrests were reported.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Election violence: Haredim riot in Jerusalem
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police on municipal election day as haredim try to prevent voters from getting through. Officer, security guard lightly injured in two separate incidents.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Ramon: Shell 'launch pad' Gaza villages
Following the renewal of Kassam rocket fire on Israeli communities in the Western Negev, the Cabinet will discuss on Tuesday a new strategy of using heavy artillery in retaliatory actions.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/
UNRWA: Cutting off fuel supplies to Gaza collective punishment
Sami Misha'sha', the UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, has criticized the use of fuel as a political pressure card by the Zionist government against the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Media blackout? International journalists report being barred from entering, exiting Gaza
Israel has limited food and fuel shipments into Gaza, and now appears to be preventing journalists from entering and even leaving the area. Several journalists have speculated that Israel hopes to limit press coverage of the effects of its latest blockade.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Gazans plunged into darkness
Thousands of Gazans have been left without electricity following Israel's suspension of fuel shipments to the Hamas-controlled territory's only power plant. The power station was shut down on Monday evening after Israel refused to restart deliveries, despite warnings that fuel supplies were almost exhausted.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Blackout in Gaza due to Tightened Israeli Restrictions
Palestinian shop lit by a gas lamp during a blackout in the Gaza Strip. As of this evening, 10 November, a large portion of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip will be left without power, the only respite coming from gas lamps or candlelight for those lucky enough to have bought them before they were sold out. Gaza residents have prepared for this blackout for some days now. Since Wednesday, 5 November, Israel authorities have closed all border crossings into and out of the Gaza Strip and prevented shipments of food, gas and fuel supplies, including industrial fuel.
http://www.alternativenews.
Hamas reiterates refusal to recognize Abbas after 9 January
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar on Tuesday reiterated his movement's refusal to recognize an extension of President Mahmoud Abbas tenure after his current term ends on 9 January 2009. Zahhar warned that Abbas might have prepared "a political bomb similar to Oslo."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Hamas accused of blocking Arafat commemoration in Gaza
Organisers accused the Islamist Hamas movement on Monday of blocking their plans for events in Gaza to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "We have made every effort to organise commemorations for the fourth anniversary but the committee has had to cope with numerous obstacles, in particular the ban imposed by the Hamas government on any ceremony," said organising committee member Walid al-Awad.
http://arabia.ndtv.com/Story.
At Arafat memorial rally, Abbas blames Hamas for continued rift
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday blamed political rival Hamas for another failed reconciliation attempt.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Abbas: In talks, Israel has proposed concessions regarding Jerusalem
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that during peace talks over the past year, Israel had proposed concessions to him regarding Jerusalem, but he rejected them because they were partial.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israel must give up land for peace: Olmert
AFP - Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that Israel must give up most of the Arab territories it has occupied since 1967, including east Jerusalem, if it wants peace.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Livni distances herself from Olmert comments on '67 borders
Kadima Chairwoman and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni distanced herself Tuesday from outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent assertion that Israel needs to return to its pre-1967 borders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Foreign troops could deploy in West Bank after peace deal
BRUSSELS - After an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories within the framework of an overall peace agreement, foreign forces could be stationed there for a specific period, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, told Haaretz in an interview over the weekend in Brussels.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
PPP calls for boycotting Jerusalem municipality elections
The leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) issued a statement on Monday calling on the Palestinian people in Jerusalem to boycott the Jerusalem Municipality elections. The PPP said that this is the position of all factions and senior Palestinian political figures in the Holy City.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
IAF dismayed at Amman for blocking Sheikh Raed Salah's entry to Jordan
The IAF has expressed dismay at Amman's government decision to bar the entry of Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 areas, into Jordan to attend an IAF-sponsored event.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
UN chief 'deeply distressed' at plight of Palestinians in Gaza
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed profound concern over the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip while stressing the importance of the Middle East diplomatic Quartet in the ongoing efforts to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
New Israeli restrictions target Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem
As of Sunday, 2 November 2008, new Israeli army guidelines are in force, requiring Palestinian medical personnel from the West Bank who work in Jerusalem hospitals to come in only through the Qalandiya checkpoint in Ramallah. Medical personnel from the West Bank are prohibited from coming to work through other checkpoints, even if these are closer to where they live.
http://electronicintifada.net/ v2/article9947.shtml
Palestinians bid goodbye to India, hello Sweden
More than 100 Palestinian refugees from Iraq have left India in the first large-scale resettlement of Palestinian refugees from outside the Middle East.
http://www.unhcr.org/news/
Palestinian village turning into 'ghetto'
Separation wall threatens to isolate town from much of its agricultural land and its factories from their markets.
http://www.thenational.ae/
Palestinian couple evicted from home of 50 years as Jerusalem settlers move in
Britain, US and UN fail to stop supreme court decision.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Solidarity tent in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
Surrounded by dozens of Israeli soldiers and police on Monday, national and religious figures pitched a solidarity tent in East Jerusalem. Hundreds of people rallied around the Kured family who were forcibly evicted. At gunpoint Israeli special forces took the Kured family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood at dawn yesterday.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Candle Procession in Gaza
Hundreds of residents and peace activists participated in a candle procession in Gaza organized by the Popular Committee Against the Siege, as the Gaza Strip plunges in darkness due to the Israeli siege and Israel's rejection to allow fuel supplies into the coastal region.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Palestinian life: Splits and barriers
More than 40 years of Israeli occupation distorts everything in Hebron, even the school run. Two brothers, Mohammed and Amjad Taha, live in the narrow lanes and covered courts of the old town centre. Until a few years ago their quarter was crumbling, but it has been renovated with Swedish aid money.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
Thousands of Palestinians Demonstrate against Construction of "Museum of Tolerance"
On 6 November, thousands of Palestinians peacefully demonstrated against the Israeli High Court decision to permit construction of the Museum of Tolerance over an historic Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem. On Thursday, 6 November, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against the recent Israeli High Court decision permitting the construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's "Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance ( http://www.motj.com/index. html)" on top of the Ma'mam Allah Islamic Cemetery in West Jerusalem.
http://www.alternativenews.
Boycotting Settlement Products: Tactic vs. Strategy
A spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to locations inside pre-1967 Israeli borders gives the impression that boycotting products originating in illegal Israeli colonies is on its way to becoming mainstream, handing the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement with a fresh, substantial victory.
http://palestinechronicle.com/ view_article_details.php?id=
Closing arguments begin in Hamas financing retrial
AP - A Muslim charity funneled more than $12 million to Palestinian schools and charities controlled by the militant group Hamas, prosecutors said in closing arguments Monday at the charity's second trial for allegedly financing terrorism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Testimony: A Boy Beaten, Imprisoned with Adults
By Muhammad Khawajah, 12
I live with my family in Ni'lin. We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives on the second floor. Last Thursday [11 September], around 3:00 A.M., I woke up from my mother's shouts. She was shouting, "Get up! Get up! The army is here!" My father wasn't home that night. I got up and went out with her to the inner courtyard of the house. There were about 12 soldiers there, and their faces were painted black. One soldier wore a black hat that covered his face. He sat on the stairs outside the house and didn't take part. I think he was a collaborator who led them to houses.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Acre Pogrom Highlights Zionist anti-Arab Racism
Violent attacks by Jewish residents in the Israeli city of Acre last month have left 14 Palestinian families, a total of 72 people, homeless. All 72 are Israeli citizens who had their homes destroyed. For the more than 1 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, the Jewish "riots" in Acre are only the most extreme example of the systematic discrimination they face within the Zionist state.
http://palestinechronicle.com/ view_article_details.php?id=
Kawther Salam - We are Sick of the American-Israeli Interference
I am writing this article after I escaped from the criminal action of Israelis on November 1, 2008, who came to Vienna to watch and to harass me. I wonder if the mission of these criminals to terrorize me in exile was coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian "security" team, just like what is happening in Palestine now.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
A Bone in America's Throat
Even before the voting began, Israeli politicians and pundits were asking: Will an Obama Administration be good for Israel? "Be good for Israel" is our code for "Will the US allow us to keep our settlements and continue to support our efforts to prevent negotiations with the Palestinians from ever bearing fruit?" For Americans the question should be: Will the Obama Administration understand that without addressing Palestinian needs it will not be able to disentangle itself from its broader Middle Eastern imbroglios, rejoin the community of nations and rescue its economy?
http://palestinechronicle.com/
A Turning Point
There is no doubt that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 13 years ago, was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and that the period that followed could have turned out very different in his presence. Rabin had three reasons to enter into a serious peace process. The first was his experience in trying and failing to suppress by force the first Palestinian intifada, a period of popular Palestinian non-violent resistance against the occupation. The failure came in spite of his direct orders to be as tough as "breaking their bones", an order Israeli soldiers followed to the letter. This experience led him to conclude that there could be no military solution to the conflict.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Football-crazy Palestinians tackle rugby
AFP - In the West Bank, where football reigns supreme, the sight of Palestinian players kicking and tossing an oval ball draws incredulous stares and bemused comments.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Darwish poetry lives on in Marcel melody
Every word evoked an emotion, every verse had a feeling, and every stroke of the oud lured the audience to breathe an air filled with magic. For two consecutive hours, Khalife and his team captured the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows as he made the audience smile, cheer and cry. The UAE concert tour titled "A Salute to Mahmoud Darwish from Marcel Khalife" was a tribute to Darwish who was meant to be in a duo with Khalife that night - until fate decided otherwise.
http://www.gulfnews.com/
Interview with Checkpoint 303: Electronic / Experimental music from Palestine, Tunisia and France
Checkpoint 303 is a collective of artists from Palestine, Tunisia and France that creates electronic experimental music that carries a strong message for peace and justice. In particular, Checkpoint 303 attempts to speak about Palestine in a radically novel way. The name of the project is inspired by the name of a real military checkpoint in the West Bank, called Checkpoint 300, which separates Bethlehem from East Jerusalem. In a way, Checkpoint 303 is a virtual artistic checkpoint.
http://www.mideastyouth.com/
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The immeasurable toll of war
When I enlisted in the IDF in 2004, I became the first of my family to serve in the armed forces for three generations. The last of my ancestors to take the King's Shilling had been my great-grandfather, who fought for the British empire during the first world war, and took part in the fierce battle of the Somme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Tuesday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 51 Wounded
Excerpt: At least six Iraqis were killed and another 51 were wounded, mostly during bombing attacks in Baghdad and Mosul. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, the fate of a U.S.-Iraqi agreement may rest on support from a political group that has much to lose regardless of the choice they make.
http://www.antiwar.com/
Baghdad triple bomb kills 28; teenage girl strikes
Two car bombs exploded in central Baghdad Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Baghdad street sweepers clear bodies after bombings
BAGHDAD — Three or more explosions Monday ripped through a busy shopping district in northern Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood, at killing at least 28 people and wounding at least 68.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
Baghdad bomb attack kills 2, wounds 17
Reuters - Two roadside bombs exploded in a crowd of part time laborers in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 17, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Iraq suicide bomber targets crowd helping schoolgirls
BAGHDAD witnessed its worst day of violence in months yesterday as a suicide bomber struck in a crowd that had gathered where an explosion moments earlier had hit a bus full of schoolgirls. The blasts killed at least 31 people and wounded 71 others.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.
In Baghdad, Blasts from the Past
Time.com - The suicide bombings on Monday may not signal a return of Al-Qaeda but they are a reminder of how fragile security is in the Iraqi capital.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/
Iraq begins paying Awakening groups
Fighters with Sunni Awakening groups in Iraq, who were paid by the US to turn against al-Qaeda, have begun to receive their first pay cheques from the Shia-dominated Iraqi government. The Iraqi government started paying the salaries of about 54,000 Awakening fighters at 60 locations in Baghdad on Monday. About $15m is to be distributed in a process expected to take several days.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Moment of truth for Shiite party over pact
AP - The fate of an agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years rests with Iraq's largest Shiite party, which must choose between its two main partners: the United States and Iran.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
New Iraq Pact Bans US Troops Past 2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's government spokesman said Monday the proposed U.S. changes to a draft security agreement were "not enough" and asked Washington to offer new amendments if it wants the pact to win parliamentary approval. The comments by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh were the first by the Iraqis since the U.S. submitted a response last week to an Iraqi request for changes in the draft agreement, which would keep U.S. troops here until 2012 and give Iraq a greater role in the management of the U.S. mission.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
'No to violation of Iraq's sovereignty'
Sadr al-Din Qubanchi, a close aide to Ayatollah Sistani, said on Monday that the Grand Ayatollah would announce his stance on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) as soon as Iraqi officials concluded their talks on the security pact, Aswat al-Iraq News Agency reported.
http://www.presstv.com/detail. aspx?id=74959§ionid=
UN warns of possible violence in Iraq elections
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said passage of a law clearing the way for provincial elections in Iraq was "a milestone" in the process of national reconciliation, but he warned of the possibility of election violence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
International Iraq Fair inaugurated in Baghdad
The International Iraq Fair has been opened in Baghdad on Monday with the participation of 16 Araband foreign countries and dozens of local and foreign firms, the official television said. The Iraqyia channel aired a footage showed that Iraqi Trade Minister Falah al-Sudani said in the ceremony of the Fair's inauguration on behalf of the Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri al-Maliki that "Iraq today is more opened than before."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english/2008-11/10/content_ 10337634.htm
Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/
Israel urges Biden not to go soft on Iran, Hamas
AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged US vice president Joe Biden in a telephone call to keep up a tough line on Iran and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, her ministry said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
I have been trying in the last few days to make clear to Israelis the enormity of the meaning of the presidential election in the United States. Only one thing works. "Imagine," I tell them, "that Israel elected an Arab prime minister." At first there is, without exception, a stunned silence. Then something dawns. Something unformed. And, in general - even with leftists - something deep inside that seems unable to wrap the head around the thought.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Report: Hamas says its officials met Obama aides before U.S. election
The Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that United States President-elect Barack Obama's advisors met with members of the Palestinian militant group before the U.S. presidential election.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Experts offer Obama advice on advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace
After campaigning on a platform of discarding failed past formulas and bringing "fundamental change" to Washington, Senator Barack Obama has won his bid for the presidency. Throughout the campaign, Obama and his supporters drew on the wisdom of Albert Einstein, frequently declaring that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result."
http://www.palestinemonitor.
U.S. Jewish group to Mormons: Stop baptizing Holocaust victims
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon Church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Yes, You Can!
In July 2004, the convention of the Democratic Party was about to nominate John Kerry as its candidate for President. The organizing committee had to decide who would deliver the keynote speech. In the American tradition, that speech sets the tone for the whole convention.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Saudi King to meet U.S. Jewish leaders at interfaith summit
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is set to meet with United States Jewish leaders at an interfaith meeting on Wednesday, as part of his ongoing efforts to promote dialogue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
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