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Sunday, October 30, 2005


News for 10-29-05

10-29-05 - Israeli Aircraft, Artillery Bombard Gaza


10-29-05 - Police use stun grenades to keep Palestinians out of J'lem Police and Border Police officers threw stun grenades at hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the A-Ram checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Friday morning, in an effort to maintain the closure imposed on the West Bank in the wake of Wednesday's suicide bombing in Hadera.


10-29-05 - Mofaz orders eviction of 15 settler families in Hebron Settlers at the "worshipers' route" in Hebron also attacked Palestinians living in the area. One of them, Mubar Jabber, said his family was forced to leave their house when the youths stoned the building. Other Palestinians said the inhabitants of one house were beaten by Jewish youths but the security forces did not intervene.


10-29-05 - Palestinians seek halt to Israeli bombings in Gaza


10-29-05 - Palestinians pledge new crackdown on illegal arms


10-29-05 - Ceasefire deal between Israel, Palestinian militants underway: sources


10-29-05 - Two Israeli prisoners stab an underage Palestinian detainee


10-29-05 - PA: Massive new IDF checkpoint aims at creating 'canton' This will complete the transformation of the Nablus-Jenin region into a separate canton severed from the central West Bank


10-29-05 - Quartet: Israel has asked for halt to study of Gaza-West Bank link In deference to Israel's views, however, the World Bank agreed to conduct research on the relative costs and benefits of the two proposals, and the U.S. government agreed to finance the study, on condition that Israel and the Palestinian Authority both consent. Both Wolfensohn and World Bank officials received the impression that Israel had no objections to the study, and therefore set it in motion. But Haaretz has learned that in early October, after the World Bank sent the study's terms of reference to Israel, a Defense Ministry official sent a letter to the World Bank demanding that the study be halted, and the bank complied.



10-29-05 - New confidence crisis with U.S According to the agreement between Israel and the U.S., every purchase of such devices must be under close supervision, as conditioned by the U.S. government. The defense establishment recently discovered a fault in the supervision procedures of these devices, which caused hundreds of loss incidents not to be reported to the Americans at all.


10-29-05 - Israel cuts Gaza electricity


10-29-05 - Troops invade Hebron, several surrounding villages


10-29-05 - Arab League blasts Israeli minister The Arab League Saturday blasted Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz for accusing the Palestinian Authority of failure and saying peace was impossible.


10-29-05 - Israeli patrol burned in Nablus


10-29-05 - Israel's land confiscations, home demolitions, exploitation of natural resources main causes of crisis in occupied Arab territories, Second Committee told Reinforcing that point, the observer for Palestine said Israel had been exploiting and destroying Palestinian natural resources for 38 years, in violation of its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law. During the initial construction of the West Bank separation wall, Israel had confiscated 200 cisterns and 36 groundwater wells, and had threatened to demolish 14 other wells, forcing Palestinians to pay 12 per cent more for water.


10-29-05 - Palestinian police disperse Islamic Jihad protesters outside Abbas' offices


10-29-05 - Four residents arrested in Bil?in


10-29-05 - Settlements in Focus - Vol. 1, Issue 13: HEBRON Hebron is the only Palestinian city that has Israeli settlers living in the heart of its built up area, side-by-side with Palestinians.


10-29-05 - Timeline for Palestine / Israel 1936-1939: First major Palestinian uprising against British and Zionist colonial projects. Put down brutally by the British occupation. But also led to British "White Paper" recognizing that unlimited Zionist colonization despite native Palestinian objections is a cause of major problems, Britain attempts to limit immigration but fails because of world war and strength of now established Jewish Zionist militias and International Zionist organizations. Zionist terrorism focuses against British as well as Palestinian people. Future prime ministers/leaders of Israel among British wanted terrorists (e.g. Begin, Shamir).


10-29-05 - Iran says not threatening attack on Israel


10-29-05 - Family of Rabin's Assassin Wants Him Freed Yigal Amir killed Rabin on Nov. 4, 1995 to prevent the handover of land to the Palestinians. He has shown no remorse


10-29-05 - Let's not Forget to Expel Israel Too


10-29-05 - Clear stand on Israeli violations urged


10-29-05 - State offers JNF NIS 1.3b in biggest land deal ever The JNF protocol prohibits selling land ownership and selling any rights to non-Jews


10-29-05 - Palestinians warn against Israeli flyers


10-29-05 - Dangerous bluster The beneficiary, ironically for Iran, is Israel whose hand in Washington is strengthened. But such speeches bolster extremists


10-29-05 - Shock but no surprise on the streets of Jerusalem Israel is taking no chances, and is in the process of acquiring 500 bunker-busting bombs from the US that could be used to destroy Iranian facilities


10-29-05 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad AIPAC? Comfy incumbents who know they can?t be toppled nevertheless don?t want to be hounded by Jewish constituents, denounced by local rabbis, abandoned by Jewish contributors and challenged by a suddenly richer, pro-Israel candidate. So they go along to get along.
This article seeks to downplay the power of AIPAC. Here is another article on the matter.


10-29-05 - Barghouthi calls for an independent Palestinian judicial system


10-29-05 - UN Special Committee: "UN should be more innovative in its approaches to the question of Palestine"


10-29-05 - Jerusalem Summit: What Are The Neocons Cooking?


10-29-05 - Three Cities Against the Wall: Ramallah, Tel Aviv, New York


10-29-05 - Israel welcomes Security Council's message to Tehran

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