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Friday, October 21, 2005


News for 10-20-05

10-20-05 - Child shot and killed near Bethlehem


10-20-05 - Settler saboteurs target Palestinian olive trees This was not the first time that militant settlers, waging a war of attrition against their neighbours in the hills east of Nablus for the past four years, had raided his grove.
Every year, their attacks cost Mr Nasr 5,000kg of olives and 180 litres of oil. He is going to plant new trees, but he will have to wait years until they bear fruit. This time, the vengeful settlers had lopped and burned trees on 70 Salem farms.


10-20-05 - IDF calls off escort of Palestinian schoolchildren in Hebron The military escort, which was introduced about a year ago, protected the children from repeated attacks by Israeli settlers near the Maon and Havat Maon settlements....Because the children are afraid of the settlers, members of the Christian Peace Teams (CPT) used to accompany them as protection until about a year ago, but the peace activists were attacked and beaten by settlers several times while escorting the children.




10-20-05 - UPDATE on Tuwani Urgent Action


10-20-05 - Settlers attack homes, properties in Hebron An extremist settlers group of the Ma?oun illegal settlement outpost, which is constructed on Palestinian annexed lands, east of Yatta village south of Hebron, attacked homes and properties in the nearby Al Litwani area.


10-20-05 - AT-TUWANI URGENT ACTION: Demand Israeli Military Control Settler Violence Ask them why the Israeli military made statements that
they would do nothing to intervene in the case of violence against
Palestinians


10-20-05 - Soldiers invade Hebron, three children injured


10-20-05 - Israel 'still expanding West Bank settlements'


10-20-05 - Palestinians ban egg imports over bird flu fears Fears about bird flu were triggered by the confirmation last week that Turkey and Romania have cases of the H5N1 strain of the virus, which has killed more than 60 people in Asia.


10-20-05 - Before Bush talks, Abbas says settlements hurt peace "There is a struggle under way for the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people between the moderates and the fundamentalists," Abbas said. "Israel's lack of regard for the road map is having a powerfully negative effect on Palestinian society at an extremely critical time in our democratic development."



10-20-05 - Bush unsure Palestinians will have state before 2009


10-20-05 - Army stops school students from attending their schools in Hebron


10-20-05 - Bush renews Palestinian state vow


10-20-05 - Jewish extremists pray in al-Aqsa yard


10-20-05 - Qalqilya teacher wounded after being attacked by student


10-20-05 - Sharon pursues immigration Ariel Sharon vowed that Israel would bring in 1 million new immigrants by 2020.


10-20-05 - Bush Praises Abbas in White House Visit Without elaboration, Bush said Israel would be "held to account" for any actions that hamper peacemaking or burden the lives of Palestinians.


10-20-05 - Kids exposed to settlers? wrath IDF suspends escort of Palestinian school children in wake of recent West Bank terror attacks. Kids now forced to take extra-long route to reach school Sounds like a move made by an immature organization that would seek to punish innocents over something that they had no control.


10-20-05 - PA denied material to test bird flu


10-20-05 - Israeli Forces Seal off Jerusalem Before Muslim Worshippers


10-20-05 - Economic Losses Cost at $15.6 Billion by Intifada's Five Years


10-20-05 - Israel court rules compensation to Palestinian Family The state should compensate the family of Dr. Ahmed Othman from Al-Khader village near Bethlehem who was killed in 2002, who was director of Al-Yamameh Hospital in the city.



10-20-05 - Peace Now calls on Israel to evacuate 26 West Bank settlements Israeli Peace Now movement announced a new initiative on Wednesday calling the Israeli government to withdraw from 26 West Bank settlements which are relatively isolated within large concentration of Palestinian population.


10-20-05 - Report: Travel ban part of long-term plan to separate from Palestinians


10-20-05 - Jewish terrorists attack Al Aqsa mosque


10-20-05 - Mayor of Bethlehem pleads for financial aid "That's what we hear," the mayor said with exasperation. "We hear about Christians, Christians, Christians helping Bethlehem being a Christian city, but we are getting nothing out of it. Nothing. Zero."


10-20-05 - Palestinian film day in Haifa


10-20-05 - Japanese accident survivor challenges Zim account The Japanese newspaper Yomyuri Shombon published the eye witness account of Kanama Fujisato, 53, the sole survivor of the collision, in which he said, "I don't believe that the Zim Asia ship didn't feel us. If they had saved us immediately, my colleagues could have survived, like me," said Fujisato. ...Fujusato's daughter said, "Why did they run away without reporting it? If they were quickly saved, maybe some of them could have been saved."


10-20-05 - Israeli, Irishman among foreign fighters in Iraq-US


10-20-05 - Olive Picking ? 2005 Tentative Schedule


10-20-05 - Can video game produce peace in the Middle East?


10-20-05 - Estonian police confiscate 43 kilos of cocaine from five Israelis


10-20-05 - Jerusalem school dropouts bad news for city


10-20-05 - Activist discusses U.S. influence on Israel conflict


10-20-05 - Jewish Groups Watch for Changes At U.N. The Israeli mission and U.S. Jewish organizations hope the 30-year-old Palestinian-related committees will be shut down.


10-20-05 - The Palestinian Invasion: Will "Paradise Now" Be the Biggest Arabic-Language Film Ever?


10-20-05 - Retirements Leave Israel's High Court at a Fork in the Road The court recently ruled that the so-called "neighbor practice" conflicts with international law - and shouldn't be used. But Mofaz wants the court to leave use of the "neighbor practice" to senior officers' discretion.


10-20-05 - Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2005 Few of the region?s countries rank high in the Index. Israel (47th) does best but it slipped several places this year because of the army?s mistreatment of journalists in the Occupied Territories. This kind of violence decreased sharply during the year and is no longer dealt with in a separate section as in previous years. The expulsion of a French journalist in July also contributed to Israel?s downgrading.




10-20-05 - PA tries to bring back two prisoners who broke out of Jericho Prison


10-20-05 - Berlin snubs Jerusalem Proposal to sign sister city deal rejected because Jerusalem not recognized as capital; Jerusalem is unique, needs to legitimization from others, mayor says


10-20-05 - 10 residents, including 2 women, arrested in the W. Bank


10-20-05 - Poor trust in Palestinian security chiefs


10-20-05 - Give Protestants Stake in Peace by Investing in Interfaith Efforts Wow, so they were given a glimpse of the 'chain link fence' and introduced to a few peaceniks, that's some balance that the Hasbara committee offered them. What a joke.


10-20-05 - Jordan and Israel bird flu talks


10-20-05 - Delegation: Improve Israeli Arabs' Status Arnon Sofer of Haifa University has said that the number of Israeli Arabs will reach 2 million in 2020 and the Jewish majority will shrink to 65 percent, compared to its present 80 percent


10-20-05 - Hamas: Bush Promotes Palestinian Conflict


10-20-05 - The Pressure Mounts on Syria, but Israel May Still Pay the Price They realize that peace with Syria would mean giving back most of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
That's a price they don't believe is worth paying in the current circumstances
Land is worth more than lives?..


10-20-05 - The Young and the Damned


10-20-05 - American Support for Palestinian Mothers and Newborns in Bethlehem


10-20-05 - Annan "surprised" by Moussa''s criticism of UN Mideast Coordinator


10-20-05 - Right-winger: Tibi went too far


10-20-05 - 'Another Road Home' takes maudlin look at timely issues


10-20-05 - Website Design and Development by Dynamic Digital Advertising Promotes Shurush Initiative DDA features a page devoted to articles and recognition that demonstrate how the Shurush Initiative is helping Palestine citizens' and changing the future of the Palestinian economy


10-20-05 - Israeli program gets U.S. grant An Israeli group that promotes Arab-Jewish cooperation in schools received a U.S. grant.


10-20-05 - Trusted Abbas courts US


10-20-05 - Chirac encourages investment in Palestinian territories


10-20-05 - Two States Are ?Common Sense?


10-20-05 - Reaching for Middle East peace


10-20-05 - Flag display leads to water cutoff


10-20-05 - Letter: Our shared goal is peace Most upsetting is Brodsky's anecdotal descriptions after spending his "whole past summer in Israel." It would have done him well if she had also spent time in the Palestinian territories, where he would have seen the devastating consequences of Israel's occupation


10-20-05 - Minoff?s hoop dreams involve Playing for Peace

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