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Army Uproots Farmlands, Prepares To Annex Them
IMEMC – 2 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 08:08, Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted farmlands close to Tiqoua’ settlement, built on lands initially taken away from residents of the Tiqoua’ Palestinian village, south east of Bethlehem.
Jerusalem Woman Placed Under House Arrest
IMEMC – 2 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 06:48, Four days after ongoing interrogation, Dina Qawwas, 41, the wife of the head of the Palestinian Prisons Society in Jerusalem, was released on a 15.000 NIS bail, and was placed under house arrest.
Mitchell Leaves Middle East, Talks Suspended
IMEMC – 2 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 06:14, United States Middle East Peace Envoy, George Mitchell, left the Middle East on Friday without achieving any breakthrough in the troubled direct Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
Settlement Security Officer Torches Palestinian Olive Trees
IMEMC – 2 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 05:51, A security guard working at the Itamar Jewish settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched a number of olive trees that belong to resident of Awarta village, east of the city,
Child, journalists injured at Beit Ummar rally
10/2/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A group organizing rallies against settlement activity in the Hebron village of Beit Ummar said a child sustained burns and two journalists suffered bruises on Saturday following clashes between demonstrators and Israeli forces. Palestine Solidarity Project Spokesman Mohammad Awad said 15-year-old Mohammad Jamal Khalil Abu Hashem sustained burns to his….
Israeli army shuts down rally in Hebron’s Old City
10/2/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Israeli army declared the Ash-Shuhada Street in the Old City of Hebron a closed military zone as Palestinians and international peace activists gathered to protest its closure to Palestinians on Saturday. Demonstrators said Israeli forces attacked the rally, as well as journalists covering the protest at the Abu Ar-Rish checkpoint….
Report: Missing Jordanian killed by Israeli forces
10/2/2010 – LONDON (Ma’an) — Jordanian authorities informed the family of missing man that their relative was killed during a mission against Israel, while the man’s mother insists he remains in captivity there, the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi said Saturday. Majid Ahmad Khalef Zaboun – missing since 1991 – was killed by Israeli forces in the….
Mash’al: Occupation fears the new generation
10/2/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s insistence on recognition as a Jewish state conspires against Palestinian refugees and Palestinians living in territories occupied in 1948, Hamas leader in exile Khalid Mash’al said in a televised address Friday. In a speech he delivered during a mass wedding organized by Hamas in Damascus for….
Palestine pledges fund to Arab League initiative
10/2/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Palestine allocated $1 million to a Kuwaiti initiative supporting small business projects in the Arab world, Palestinian Authority National Economy Minister Hasan Abu Libda announced Saturday. Abu Libda headed a Palestinian delegation to the 86th session of the Arab League Economic and Social Council, which convened at the league’s….
Palestinians to travel via Rafah without registration
10/2/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Individuals traveling through the Rafah crossing between southern Gaza and Egypt will no longer have to register ahead of time, the Gaza government’s Crossings Administration said Saturday. From Sunday, travelers will be directed to the terminal building at the crossing to complete travel procedures and will then be….
UK charity supports Nablus
10/2/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — A UK charity delivered a mobile optical machine to students in the Nablus district, and provided water tankers to farmers as part of ongoing projects to support eduction and development in the West Bank district. Friends Of Nablus and Surrounding Areas trustees visited Nablus last week to monitor projects, which are….
Mitchell leaves without breakthrough
10/2/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — US Middle East envoy George Mitchell concluded his visit Saturday to the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel without achieving a breakthrough on a halt to settlement construction, tipped to bring negotiations to collapse. Mitchell arrived in Cairo as part of a regional tour aimed at saving one-month old direct negotiations from….
PLO: Israel responsible for obstructing talks
10/2/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian leadership holds Israel responsible for the collapse of talks over continued settlement construction, PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo said Saturday. Speaking after a meeting with the PLO Executive Committee, President Mahmoud Abbas and faction leaders, Abed Rabbo said the Palestinian leadership “holds Israel responsible for obstructing talks,” and thwarting….
Arab Peace Initiative to hold urgent session
10/2/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Arab Peace Initiative will hold an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Friday in Sirtre, Libya over direct negotiations before meeting for an extraordinary Arab League summit, the deputy Arab League chief said. Ahmad Bin Hali told reporters Saturday that President Mahmoud Abbas will address the committee and updated….
Dahlan: Israel chose extremism over peace
10/2/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fatah Central Committee member Mohammad Dahlan said Saturday that Israel had chosen extremism over peace after failing to extend a 10-month settlement freeze, a move that could lead to the collapse of peace talks. Speaking with Ma’an radio, Dahlan said Israel was “in an embarrassing situation” for failing….
Bringing the PFLP back into PLO fold?
10/2/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian People’s Party extended its hand on Friday to leaders from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, asking that the faction take part in Saturday’s PLO discussions. As of late Friday, however, PFLP’s politburo chief Khalida Jarrar confirmed that the party intended….
PA forces arrest 4 fugitives over attacking Jenin official
10/2/2010 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Preventative Security forces detained four locals it described as “outlaws” on Saturday for attacking the head of the Jenin district local committee, a statement read. The statement said forces received a complaint from the head of the Marka village council that a father and his three sons were “attacked….
Fatah MP: Party experts to join unity talks on security
10/2/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Security experts from rival movements Fatah and Hamas have been invited to join talks to reach consensus on the last disputed point of the Egyptian unity document, Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad said Saturday. Speaking with Ma’an radio, the Fatah lawmaker said security specialists Majid Farj from his party and….
Controversy over alleged Ottoman remains
10/2/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Human remains expert Dr Issa Surei countered claims made earlier in the week, saying on Friday that skeletons unearthed near Nablus were not Ottoman soldiers. The bodies were found in a cave near Aqaba village on Thursday, and initial investigations suggested they were Ottoman soldiers slain by British troops in 1918….
PCBS: Palestinian women’s life expectancy higher than men
10/2/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — As the UN marked International Day of Older Persons on Friday, studies revealed that life expectancy in the occupied Palestinian territories was 70. 8 years for men and 73. 6 years for women. A study by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Palestinians over 60 years old represented 4. 4….
UAE doctor restores hearing in Gaza
10/2/2010 – GAZA (Ma’an) — The Gaza Strip has the highest rate of deafness in the world due to explosions from Israeli military attacks and inter-familial marriage, a leading otologist said Saturday. Mazin Al-Hajiri is on his second visit to Gaza from the United Arab Emirates to perform cochlear implants, restoring the hearing of dozens of….
Overly simplistic
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology published a review of my book Compartments ( http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0190-9622/PIIS0190962210004895.pdf ). The review was quite favorable, but the reviewer found that my “promotion of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…
US war crimes in Fallujah
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – Numerous previous articles documented two decades of US war crimes in Iraq, the latest titled, “One of History’s Greatest Crimes,” accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-of-historys-greatest-crimes_7099.html On August 31, declaring an “end to the combat mission…
As direct talks die, What is Washington doing?
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – A short while ago, I was asked to write an article about why there was some hope for the peace process. I agreed to write it, after some consideration. I was completely honest in the article,…
TIP photo competition
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – Send Us Your Best Shots of Israel! 1st Prize: $150.00 2nd Prize: $100.00 3rd Prize: $50.00 We are particularly looking for colorful photos that show the full variety of daily life in Israel. If you live…
CNN anchor fired after suggesting Jews control the media
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN following his controversial comments on a radio show Thursday in which he suggested that Jews controlled the media. “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank…
Mashaal: Israel ‘fears the coming generation’
Palestine Note 2 Oct 2010 – The leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, Khaled Mashaal has said that recognizing Israel as a Jewish state will hurt Palestinian refugees and Israeli-Arabs. Speaking on Friday at a mass wedding organized by Hamas in Damascus…
Syrian leader attacks direct talks
AlJazeera 2 Oct 2010 – Speaking in Tehran, Bashir al-Assad says the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are aimed at bolstering Obama.
PLO urges Abbas to quit peace talks
AlJazeera 2 Oct 2010 – Influential Palestinian leaders urge President Abbas to quit direct talks with Israel, owing to settlement construction.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23-29 September 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Assad: Peace talks aimed only to help Obama politically
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Ahmadinejad pledges to “expand resistance”; Assad says “strategic relationship necessary for independence and stability of Middle East.”
Labor’s Herzog says diplomatic process must go on
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 РLivni calls on PM to ‘make the decisions that will enable continuation of negotiations’; Likud hawks prepare to blame PA for any failure in talks.
Report: US to advise vigilance on European travels
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – State Department may issue a travel alert to Americans on Sunday, warning them to take extra care in the wake of new al-Qaida terror threats.
Barak calls on Palestinians to remain in talks
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Following PA statements that negotiations would be abandoned if Israeli settlement construction continues, defense minister says that compromise which would ensure continued peace process can be reached within a week.
Ahmadinejad to visit ‘Iran’s border with Israel’
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Iranian President lays claim to Lebanon’s southern border which he will visit during official tour; Lebanese official calls visit “a provocation.”
Iran: We’ve learned how to fight Stuxnet computer worm
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Islamic Republic’s intelligence minister adds that several nuclear spies arrested but fails to clarify if they are connected to Stuxnet sabotage.
Egypt unearths 3,400-year-old granite pharaoh statue
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Four foot tall statue portrays pharaoh Amenhotep III wearing the double crown of Egypt disovered in southern city of Luxor.
Livni: Netanyahu must make decisions that will save talks
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – In wake of Palestinian threats to leave talks if building in settlements continues, opposition leader says PM “must choose the real long-term interests of Israel rather than his own personal political interests.”
Hamas leader: Israel as Jewish state is attack on refugees
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Khaled Mashaal warns that “the occupation fears the next generation,” says big mistake to say politics is only way Palestinians will achieve state.
Syrian president arrives in Iran to meet with Ahmadinejad
Jeruslalem Post 2 Oct 2010 – Assad expected to talk with Iranian leader about strengthening ties between the two countries and development in the Middle East.
Israeli Arab MK: Racism in Israel has reached frightening levels
Ha’aretz – Some 6,000 Israeli Arabs march in memory of 13 youths who were killed by Israel Police officers in October 2000 riots; Israeli Arabs call for suspects to be tried, declare…
Netanyahu pleads to save talks as Palestinians threaten walkout
Ha’aretz – PM urges Mahmoud Abbas not to quit month-old peace negotiations over Israel’s refusal to halt settlement building in the West Bank.
Palestinians say no peace talks without settlement curbs
Ha’aretz – Top Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo sets stage for walkout, blaming Israel for obstructing peace negotiations – but Ehud Barak remains hopeful of a last-minute deal.
Assad, Ahmadinejad: Israel’s actions prove it doesn’t want peace
Ha’aretz – Syrian President in Tehran for one-day visit; Ahmadinejad: Strengthening of anti-Israel resistance will stabilize regional peace.
Egypt destroys four Gaza smuggling tunnels
Ha’aretz – Egypt has said it destroyed over 20 tunnels in September alone along its 11-kilometer-long border with the enclosed enclave.
Assad in Tehran for meeting with Ahmadinejad
Ha’aretz – Syria’s president to receive Iran’s highest national medal for his support of Hamas and Hezbollah; talks expected to focus on Iraq, Lebanon and Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Security Disparities In East Jerusalem Make Conflict Inevitable
Uruknet October 2, 2010 – Last Wednesday, 22 September, Samer Sarhan was shot to death by a private security guard working for settlers in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan. Sarhan was 32-years-old and the father of five. Following his murder, violent clashes between the Palestinian villagers from Silwan and the Israeli police, guards, and settlers erupted. The violent collisions…
PLO urges Abbas to quit peace talks
Uruknet October 2, 2010 – An influential Palestinian body has urged the Palestinian president to quit direct talks with Israel, saying there should be no further peace talks as long as Israel continued settlement construction in the occupied territories. Reading from a statement on Saturday, Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive committee, said Israel’s failure to…
Video: Secret jail torturer becomes police chief in Israel
Uruknet October 2, 2010 – The appointment of an infamous Israeli interrogator to a high-ranking police post has sent shockwaves among human rights groups. Known among inmates as Captain George, he’s accused of numerous cases of torture and abuse of Arabs. Now that he’s in charge of Arab affairs, many Palestinians fear for their lives….
Settlers expand settlement, burn, bulldoze fields
Uruknet October 2, 2010 – Settlers began bulldozing Palestinian farmland to build a new settlement in the northern West Bank on Friday, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Doughlas, who holds the settlements file in the area, said a number of bulldozers were working in the area west of Urif village south of Nablus, which borders the illegal Yitzhar settlement….
FROM HAMAMA TO GAZA
Uruknet October 1, 2010 –
Israeli Arab MK: Racism in Israel has reached frightening levels
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – Some 6,000 Israeli Arabs marched Friday from the Galilee town of Kfar Kanna in a procession that marked the commemoration of the October 2000 riots, in which 13 Israeli Arab youths were killed by Israel Police officers. Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List-Ta’al) urged Israeli officials to try the police officers allegedly responsible. “…
Exclusive: Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the stolen guns. Get over the murder arrests, the fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with steroids and cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger…
LEILA KHALED’S ADDRESS TO LONDON EVENT COMMEMORATING 10yrs SINCE THE START OF THE SECOND/AL-AQSA INTIFADA
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – Brothers, Sisters and comrades, I am glad and honoured to be addressing you for this event. I would like to tell you that from the start of our Palestinian revolutionary movement, we knew we were not alone, that our struggle was part of the international struggle. This makes us continue our struggle without fear in…
Occupation bulldozes lands in the village of Takku
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation bulldozers started on Friday morning to bulldoze Palestinian lands close to a Jewish settlement built on confiscated Palestinian land belonging to the village of Takku to the south east of Bethlehem. Local sources believe that the work of the bulldozers in their land is a prelude to confiscation of the…
Israel “used toxic substances against civilians in Silwan”
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – Demands have been made for an international committee to investigate the type of bombs used by Israeli security forces against civilian demonstrators in Jerusalem last week. The calls were made at a conference convened jointly on 29th September by the Committee for the Defence of Silwan and the Jerusalem Information Centre. Conference participants heard that…
Settlement Security Officer Torches Palestinian Olive Trees
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – A security guard working at the Itamar Jewish settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched a number of olive trees that belong to resident of Awarta village, east of the city, No’man Awwad, a 40-year-old local villager, told the Maan News Agency that he saw the security officer parking his jeep near…
Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley bleeding Palestinians dry
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – THE JORDAN Valley is a patchwork of different shades of brown and beige desert relieved by snatches of palm-frond green. Cropped fields are eating up the flat land while Israeli settlements and military zones are consuming the rolling hills, shrinking Palestinian space. A thick band of dead land stretches north to south for 120km behind…
Construction fever on the West Bank
Uruknet October 1, 2010 – With the Arab world and Palestinian Authority seemingly caught in a spiral of weakness and vacillation, and the Obama administration unwilling or unable to pressure Israel, the Israeli government has allowed anti-peace Jewish settlers to embark on all-out drive to build as many settler units as possible. The audacious move came hours after a 10-month…
Leadership: Israel Holds Responsible for Impasse
WAFA РRAMALLAH, October 2, 2010 (WAFA)- The Palestinian Leadership considered that Israel’s failure to line up to its Road Map commitments to freeze settlement activities , undermines confidence in the
Choice between Settlements or Peace in Israel’s Hands, UN Committee Says
WAFA – NEW YORK, October 2, 2010 (WAFA)- The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted Friday its annual draft report of its work, which welcomed renewed
Palestinians ‘will not resume talks without new freeze on settlements’
The Guardian 2 Oct 2010 – Israeli refusal to extend a freeze on new construction frustrates America’s efforts to keep talks alive The Palestinian leadership confirmed yesterday that it would not return to direct peace negotiations with the Israelis without an extension…
Middle East peace talks at a ‘dead end’ says Palestinian leadership
The Guardian 2 Oct 2010 – PLO confirms it will not return to negotiations with Israel without an extended freeze on settlement building The Palestinian leadership has confirmed it will not return to direct peace negotiations with the Israelis without an extension…
Choice between Settlements or Peace in Israel’s Hands,’ Palestinian Rights Committee Hears, as It Adopts Draft Annual Report
Relief Web 1 Oct 2010 – Source: UN General Assembly
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PA: ‘Israel responsible’ for talks’ deadlock
YNet News – PLO executive committee calls on Mahmoud Abbas to suspend direct negotiations if….
UN chief: Broaden settlement building restrictions
YNet News – Even after PLO decision to suspend talks, Ban Ki-moon speaks to parties, calls….
Iran says arrested Stuxnet ‘spies’
YNet News – Intelligence minister says ‘nuclear spies’ who spread virus aimed at derailing….
Assad: Peace talks boost Obama’s image
YNet News – Syrian president arrives for official visit to Tehran, where he receives award….
Mashaal: Israel fears our next generation
YNet News – Hamas politburo chief speaks at mass wedding in Damascus, says peace talks ‘big….
Muslim world atwitter over Twitter
YNet News – Queen Rania, Syria’s Asma Assad gather Facebook fans as clerics vow to battle….
Mitchell: Peace still within reach
YNet News – The direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations are practically deadlocked, but Israel and the US are refusing to give up hope, maintaining cautious optimism as to the …….
Yesha chair: US’ offer is poisonous pill
YNet News – One week after the settlement movement marked the end of the West Bank construction freeze, the movement on Saturday commended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refusal …….
Oktoberfest, West Bank style
YNet News – Residents of the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh, a West Bank community located 7.5 miles northeast of the Ramallah, hosted their own version of Oktoberfest …….
Palestinian Information Center
Palestinians need a commission of truth
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – There are portents of reconciliation in the air, and Palestinians are quite optimistic that Fatah and Hamas may finally be on their way to close one of the saddest chapters in our recent history.
IOF soldiers leave injuries on marchers in Beit Ummar
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) cracked down on a weekly march against settlement activity in Beit Ummar leaving a minor severely burned while other marchers suffered breathing difficulties.
Bahar: We support reconciliation not negotiations
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – First deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar has reiterated rejection of futile negotiations with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA).
European Lifeline 5 convoy to land in Egypt within days
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – Spokesman for the Lifeline 5 land-sea aid convoy Zahir Beirawi said efforts are being made to convince Egyptian authorities to ease the task of the humanitarian mission en route to Gaza Strip.
IOF troops round up 300 Palestinians in one week
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up more than 300 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem over the past week, the Palestinian prisoner’s society said.
Gov’t in Gaza: Goldstone report freeze a free service to Israel
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – Dr. Mohammed Ghoul said attempts by the Fatah authority to freeze the Goldstone report to the UN for another six months for the second time in one year act as a “free service” to Israel.
PFLP boycotts PLO meeting
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – The PFLP has announced it would not attend the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee meeting called for by de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Shin Bet at loss after counter-espionage campaign in Gaza
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – A Palestinian security source said that a state of confusion prevails inside Shin Bet after the Palestinian security apparatuses successfully eliminated its network of spies in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas members jailed with criminals in Ramallah
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – Different Palestinian sources reported that the Palestinian Authority’s security militias lock up Hamas members with drug dealers and criminals in its jails in Ramallah city.
CNN axes Sanchez after anti-Jew remarks
PIC 2 Oct 2010 – Anti-Arab CNN announced it fired anchor Rick Sanchez a day after he assailed The Daily Show Jewish host John Stewart as a “bigot” and suggested that CNN and the other media outlets are run by Jews.
Palestinian leaders threaten to quit Mideast peace talks
LA Times 3 Oct 2010 – Palestinian Authority leaders say U.S. efforts to find a solution to the settlement standoff have failed because Israel would not extend its moratorium on West Bank settlement construction. In the latest blow to Mideast peace talks, Palestinian leaders said Saturday that they had lost hope in U.S. efforts to find a solution to the settlement construction standoff and repeated their threat to quit direct negotiations unless Israel agrees to halt building in the West Bank.
Future of vast Jewish enclave in West Bank far from settled
LA Times 3 Oct 2010 – Ariel, established in 1978, is Israel’s fourth-largest settlement. It is also deep inside the West Bank, and there is no consensus about whether it should be part of Israel or absorbed into a Palestinian state. Ron Nachman had waited 10 months for this day. But when Israel’s West Bank construction moratorium expired a week ago and settlers celebrated with balloons and bulldozers, the mayor of the fourth-largest Jewish settlement was nowhere to be found.
Syrian leader visits Iran to discuss regional issues
LA Times 3 Oct 2010 – Bashar Assad’s meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes after an improvement in U.S.-Syrian relations. The trip may be an attempt to reaffirm Syria’s close ties with Iran. Syria’s president paid a one-day visit to Iran on Saturday to discuss “the exceptional ties” between the two countries, but the meeting came amid a cluster of regional developments that could divide Damascus and the Islamic Republic.
Palestinian Leaders Urge End to Talks With Israel
New York Times 2 Oct 2010 – The Palestinian leadership called for global pressure on Israel to stop settlement building but stopped short of a final decision on peace talks.
Iran Says It Arrested Worm Suspects
New York Times 2 Oct 2010 РWhile the origins of the Stuxnet worm remain obscure, many experts believe it was created by a government with the intent of sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program.
Film: To Take Up Arms or Not? A Film Joins the Debate
New York Times 2 Oct 2010 – “Budrus” shows a skeptical West Bank audience that nonviolent protests can sometimes achieve results.
Platini: ‘I’ll Kick Israel Out Of Europe’
Palestine Monitor – The UEFA President has taken a tough stance, “Israel must choose between allowing Palestinian sport to continue and prosper or be forced to face the consequences for their behaviour.” Michel Platini, president of European football’s ruling body, threatened Israel with expulsion from the union if it…
Security Disparities In East Jerusalem Make Conflict Inevitable
Palestine Monitor – “What’s happening in Silwan is not just these past two weeks, it’s been happening for months,” Zakaria Odeh, the Director of the Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, told me when I visited him in his office in East Jerusalem. Israeli police and security…
U.S. Presses Israelis on Renewal of Freeze
Palestine Monitor – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is trying to cajole the Israeli government into a 60-day renewal of the freeze on Jewish settlement building by offering it security guarantees, ranging from military hardware to support for a long-term Israeli presence in the strategically sensitive Jordan Valley, according…
Israeli forces toss gas bomb on protester near Hebron, causing ‚Äôsevere burns to the entire body of Mohammed Jamal Abu Hashim, 14‚Ä?
Mondoweiss – And other news from Today in Palestine: Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing Settlers burn 10 dunums of farmlands south of Nablus NABLUS, (PIC)—Israeli settlers from the Itamar settlement in south Nablus burned on Friday at least ten dunums of land cultivated with olive…
The NYT is wrong again on settlement legality
Mondoweiss – The New York Times makes another stab today at telling the truth about the legality of Jewish-only “settlements” in the West Bank, and fails again: The settlements, which most countries consider illegal, . . “Most countries?” Ethan Bronner is insinuating that there is a minority group of countries…
Jewish identi-kit(h)
Mondoweiss – A question often raised on this blog is “What is Jewish identity?” Religious commitment, especially of the Orthodox variety, is easy to understand, but what is a Jewish atheist? Some commenters here have argued that there is really little more to it than a few comfort…
Palestinian children betrayed by aid agencies
Mondoweiss – Children develop a keen sense of injustice at an early age. This is experienced by exasperated carers all over the world as protestations,ad nauseam, of unfairness: “but she has a bigger piece; why can‚Äôt I go too?” Strategies employed, with limited success, include distracting the little…
Yonatan Shapira, a moral giant
Mondoweiss – Anyone who has had the good fortune to meetYonatan Shapira will beparticularly sickened at the reports that he was tasered in the heart and leftscreaming after he and the others on the Jewish boat to Gaza werestoppedillegally. In person, Yonatan is friendly, likeable, and genuinely considerate…
PLO Urges Abbas to Quit “Peace Talks” over Settlements
Al-Manar 2 Oct 2010 – The Palestinian leadership on Saturday urged president Mahmud Abbas to quit US-backed so-called “peace talks” over Israeli settlement construction. “Our position has not changed. We will not hold negotiations while settlement activity continues,” Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP after a special meeting of…
Reham Alhelsi – This is Our Land and This is Our Blood
Palestine Think Tank 2 Oct 2010 – It is true that the visit of the war criminal Sharon to the Noble Sanctuary and his desecration of this holy place and the massacre that followed were the spark that started the Intifada, but it was the rage, the humiliation, the oppression that led to…
Palestinians issue talks threat
BBC 2 Oct 2010 – Palestinians warn they will not continue peace talks with Israel unless a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank is reinstated.
Iran makes ‘nuclear spy’ arrests
BBC 2 Oct 2010 – Iran says it has arrested several spies on suspicion of being behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme, state media report.
The Impending Collapse of Israel in Palestine
Sabbah report 2 Oct 2010 – By Francis A. Boyle* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about…
Construction Fever
Sabbah report 2 Oct 2010 – By Khalid Amayreh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz With the Arab world and Palestinian Authority seemingly caught in a spiral of weakness and vacillation, and the Obama administration unwilling or unable to pressure Israel, the Israeli government has allowed anti-peace Jewish settlers to embark on all-out…
Overcoming AIPAC is not enough
Sabbah report 2 Oct 2010 – By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Two stories have recently appeared, each discussing a different approach to overcoming the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby that presently has enough clout to substitute its own parochial interests for the…
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This is Our Land and This is Our Blood
Reham Alhelsi, My Palestine, Palestine Think Tank10/2/2010
They came from everywhere; from Yafa, from Haifa, from Acca, from Nazareth, from Um-Il-Fahim. They came from everywhere to tell the martyrs: We will never forget, we will continue the struggle. They came in thousands to tell the Zionist entity: We will never forget, we are here to stay. They marched in thousands to the graves of the martyrs. They marched in thousands to tell their children: This is our land and this is our blood. On this day, October 1st, ten years ago, Palestinian struggle for freedom was united, yet again, across occupied Palestine. On this day, October 1st, ten years ago, Palestinian blood across occupied Palestine met and mingled, yet again, with the land that is one undivided. On this day, October 1st, ten years ago, Palestinian steadfastness across occupied Palestinian reminded the Zionist entity, yet again, that there is one Palestinian people and there is one Palestine from the River to the Sea. On the 1st of October 2000, and as Palestinians across occupied West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and occupied Gaza stood up as one to the Israeli killing machine, stood up as one to fight for their rights and for their freedom, their brothers and sisters in the rest of occupied Palestine stood up with them in the face of Zionist terrorism.
In 2000, and after 7 years of futile negotiations with the Zionist entity, the Palestinians had had enough: Palestinians were being murdered by the Zionists on a daily basis, occupied Palestine was being ethnically cleansed of its people to make place for Zionist colonists from the US and the EU, occupied Jerusalem was being Judaized to delete any trace of the indigenous people who lived and owned the land, Zionist settlements on usurped Palestinian land were expanding and killing the land, Palestinian fields were destroyed to make “Jewish-only” roads for the Zionists who had no right to the land. In 2000, the situation in occupied Palestine – not much different from what is happening today – was on the verge of an explosion, Palestinian anger was boiling and Palestinian patience had reached its limit. And when Palestinians reach the point when enough is enough, they revolt…. — See also: Source more.. e-mail
UN Report finds Israel ‘summarily executed’ US citizen on flotilla
Glenn Greenwald, Salon10/1/2010
Last week, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a comprehensive report detailing its findings regarding the May, 2010, Israeli attack on the six-ship flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Israel-blockaded Gaza. The report has been largely ignored in the American media despite the fact (or, more accurately: because) it found that much of the Israeli force used “was unnecessary, disproportionate, excessive and inappropriate and resulted in the wholly avoidable killing and maiming of a large number of civilian passengers”; that “at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions”; and that Israel violated numerous international human rights conventions, including the Fourth Geneva Conventions (see p. 38, para. 172).
Even more striking in terms of U.S. media and government silence on this report is the fact that one of the victims of the worst Israeli violations was a 19-year-old American citizen. As Gareth Porter documents in an excellent article at The Huffington Post, the report “shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos.” In particular:
The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.
The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.
The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.”…. more.. e-mail
Abbas, it is not yet time
Nasser Lahham, Ma’an News Agency10/2/2010
On the presidential plane, President Mahmoud Abbas sat among assembled journalists and said this would be the last time we traveled with him.
We were all silent.
At 32,000 feet above Turkey, a stream of questions came after the stunned silence, but he was reticent to answer. I looked to his advisor, Akram Haniyeh, searching for a clue, but his body language revealed nothing, anything he knew was concealed.
Regardless of the validity, or invalidity, of the desire or unwillingness of the president to step down, his resignation will be blow to his people.
In relinquishing office, Abbas will gain on a personal level, as will his family, and the TV channels that attacked him will sing his praise. Poetry will be written for him from London to Qatar, and he will be honored in Arab capitals, Europe, and Africa as a hero who stepped down against US imperialism. Statements will be issued in Gaza and Damascus, while leaders in Ramallah will celebrate a new opportunity to rule.
But Palestinians will suffer.
If Abbas is looking solely at his personal interests, he should resign now. He will be honored like Arafat, and will enter the history books for his resolve against the US and Israel. more.. e-mail
Platini: ‘I’ll Kick Israel Out Of Europe’
Palestine Monitor: 2 Oct 2010 – The UEFA President has taken a tough stance, “Israel must choose between allowing Palestinian sport to continue and prosper or be forced to face the consequences for their behaviour.” Michel Platini, president of European football’s ruling body, threatened Israel with expulsion from the union if it continues to undermine football in Palestine. His comments this week were prompted by Israel’s refusal to allow six of the Palestinian national team to travel from Gaza to a match with Mauritania in August. Israeli spokesmen said the players were denied access for “security reasons”, claiming they did not have the correct permit. Protests were held in the West Bank town of Al-Ram and Palestinian Football Federation (PFF) President Djibril Rajoub vowed to take the matter further and “demand the removal of Israel from international sporting organizations.” Following a conversation with Rajoub, Platini, president of the European Union of Football Associations (Uefa), took a…more
Security Disparities In East Jerusalem Make Conflict Inevitable
Palestine Monitor: 2 Oct 2010 – “What’s happening in Silwan is not just these past two weeks, it’s been happening for months,” Zakaria Odeh, the Director of the Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, told me when I visited him in his office in East Jerusalem. Israeli police and security guards looking down on the Al-Bustan neighbourhood of Silwan (East Jerusalem). Photo: Jillian Kestler – D’Amours Last Wednesday, 22 September, Samer Sarhan was shot to death by a private security guard working for settlers in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan. Sarhan was 32-years-old and the father of five. Following his murder, violent clashes between the Palestinian villagers from Silwan and the Israeli police, guards, and settlers erupted. The violent collisions lasted for days and Jerusalem police conducted raids into Palestinian homes, detaining residents. The Wadi Hilweh Information Centre reports that seven men aged 16 to 26 were detained on Wednesday, 29 September, and…more
U.S. Presses Israelis on Renewal of Freeze
Palestine Monitor: 2 Oct 2010 – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is trying to cajole the Israeli government into a 60-day renewal of the freeze on Jewish settlement building by offering it security guarantees, ranging from military hardware to support for a long-term Israeli presence in the strategically sensitive Jordan Valley, according to lawmakers and other officials briefed on the proposals. But with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so far resisting the administration’s entreaties, the United States is also weighing a fallback plan, officials said, that could involve reaching out to the Palestinians with a pledge to formally endorse one of their central demands for the borders of a future Palestinian state. The American proposals to Israel came amid a frenzy of diplomatic horse-trading, with the administration maneuvering furiously to keep the talks alive while Mr. Netanyahu appeared to be trying to extract a high price for acquiescing on settlements. The Palestinians have threatened to walk away…more
The Impending Collapse of Israel in Palestine
Dissident Voice: 2 Oct 2010 – On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about 130 states. Palestine has de facto diplomatic recognition from most of Europe. It was only massive political pressure applied by the U.S. government that prevented European states from according to Palestine de jure diplomatic recognition. Palestine is a member state of the League of Arab States and of the Islamic Conference Organization. When the International Court of Justice in The Hague—the so-called World Court of the United Nations System—conducted its legal proceedings on Israel‚Äôs apartheid wall on the West Bank, the World Court invited the State of Palestine to participate in the proceedings. In other words, the International Court of Justice recognized the State of Palestine. Palestine has Observer State Status with the…more
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