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Wednesday, October 12, 2005


News for 10-11-05

10-11-05 - Israel citing 'security' to limit Palestinian rights: UN Hina Jilani, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Human Rights Defenders, said that Israel was blocking lawyers, journalists and rights activists from monitoring potential rights abuses


10-11-05 - Israeli army to appeal against deal to ban "human shields"


10-11-05 - Christian prophetic voices face many battles a public campaign had been launched to silence the voices of Christians demanding justice, peace and security for Palestinians alongside Israelis.



10-11-05 - Shin Bet reveals arrest of female bombmaker


10-11-05 - Fatah set to trounce Hamas in Palestinian election


10-11-05 - Palestinian charged with killing student


10-11-05 - British Organisation to Commemorate Rachel Corrie


10-11-05 - Egypt, Palestinians Open Border for 1 Day


10-11-05 - Qatar donates six million dollars to Israeli-Arab town The donation was "more than a sports gesture toward more than one million Arabs suffering from discrimination inside Israel,"


10-11-05 - Israel/OPT: The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders established by the Commission on Human Rights Restrictions on the freedom of movementby the Wall, closures, checkpoints, roadblocks and other barriers, while affecting the entire population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories also inhibits and obstructs the activities of human rights defenders. I am especially concerned with the situation of field workers engaged with any area of rights who face daily harassment, intimidation and humiliation in the course of conducting their work...I note the total lack of respect for the freedom of assembly that is apparent in repressions of the right to peaceful protest in the OccupiedPalestinianTerritories. I have observed one such event in the villageof Bil'in



10-11-05 - Violent officer rewarded? IDF officer photographed assaulting Palestinian takes up post of division deputy commander


10-11-05 - Some Relief for Gaza's Fishermen On a number of occasions the Israeli military opened fire against the civilian fishermen in order to enforce the 9 nautical mile limit imposed on them


10-11-05 - Save the Children UK Advocacy Officer For many years, we have been an active presence in the occupied Palestinian Territories, defending children?s rights to health, education, protection and development in the face of ongoing occupation. Operating under difficult circumstances, we?ve achieved some real success. Now, we?d like to build on that success. You?ll help us to determine how to do this in order to achieve broader change in the lives of Palestinian children


10-11-05 - 'Positive investment' in Israel-Palestine central to Council action The resolution directed the SRI committee to "engage in dialogue with and, where appropriate, to file shareholder resolutions" with companies in which the church invests who operate in the Occupied Territories and "whose products or services contribute to violence against either side, or contribute to the infrastructure that supports and sustains the Occupation." Such infrastructure includes settlements and their bypass roads, the security barrier where it is built on Palestinian land, and demolition of Palestinian homes.



10-11-05 - Professors' history project opens new chapter for Israeli, Palestinian students


10-11-05 - Groups launch campus program A pro-Israel campus initiative launched a fellowship program


10-11-05 - From April : Glossing Over Israel's Human Rights Abuses The Janus Face of the Department of State


10-11-05 - Israel must compensate detained Jewish activist An Israeli court ordered the state to pay a right-wing activist 22,000 dollars in compensation for falsely keeping him under house arrest for his alleged links to violent extremists


10-11-05 - Israel bids to prevent Hamas from strengthening in West Bank


10-11-05 - The canny Sharon's one and three-quarter state solution "The fence is the border," he says, confident that Israel would pull back, more or less, to the line traced by the wall, or security barrier, it has built through the West Bank. That would entail dismantling a few isolated settlements - and keeping the large settlement blocs. Such a move would see Israel out of, perhaps, 50% or 60% of the West Bank. Combined with Gaza that would represent the de facto Palestinian state, promised by the road map and now routinely demanded by George Bush, Tony Blair and everyone else.


10-11-05 - With Indictment of AIPAC Honchos, Trial of Spy-for-Israel Franklin May Be Postponed The Franklin indictments already suggested that the government has a trove of information on the functioning of AIPAC, ?an organization that hates exposure,? noted the JTA. In fact, AIPAC keeps such a low profile that it is rarely mentioned in the Washington, DC media.


10-11-05 - UK Jews charge 'bias' in BBC peace series


10-11-05 - State to let victims' families view files on Oct. 2000 Arab riots


10-11-05 - Iowa Jews protest forum Jewish groups in Iowa are protesting a local conference that they say features virulently anti-Israel speakers.


10-11-05 - Israeli Arabs meet U.N. rep Israeli Arabs have vowed to increase international scrutiny of their situation since the Justice Ministry found last month that there was not enough evidence to press charges against police who shot 13 Arabs dead during pro-Palestinian riots in 2000


10-11-05 - Suspect: Syrian Gave Bombers $50,000


10-11-05 - IDF to recommend releasing more Palestinian prisoners The General Staff believes that prisoner releases are what Abbas most needs from Israel, since the Palestinian public is pressing him on this issue


10-11-05 - Once again the olive orchards will become closed military zones


10-11-05 - Bezeq withholds services from Arab citizens 'for safety reasons'


10-11-05 - Big change at the UN for Israel


10-11-05 - Israeli ambassador to U.S.: Syria is sheltering 10 or 11 terror groups


10-11-05 - ADL Heartened By Episcopal Church Decision to Reject Divestment From Israel


10-11-05 - AJC Welcomes Episcopal Church Decision on Divestment


10-11-05 - Israel fears PA weapons may be used against it in the future


10-11-05 - From Gaza to the Galilee: Same Policy, Same Agenda From the beginning, demographics within the areas occupied in 1948 have obsessed Israeli strategists, academics and politicians. With higher Arab than Jewish birthrates, the Zionist agenda of maintaining a state for one ethnic group only becomes increasingly difficult.


10-11-05 - Fatah militants quit security apparatuses in Tulkarem


10-11-05 - What will happen to Samer? What will happen with Samer? If the present Israeli policy continues, he
will be forced to risk imprisonment when he wants to look for work. He and
hundreds more like him will spend what is potentially the most productive
years of their lives, in and out of Israeli jails


10-11-05 - MPs reject lifting Israeli boycott

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