19/10/07

FEATURE-Toy guns cocked, Palestinian boys play at militants
Reuters – USA
Palestinian child protection groups say children in the occupied territories — who account for more than half of the population in Gaza and the West Bank …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL1494000

Weekly Report: on Israeli Human Rights violations in the Occupied …
The Muslim News – UK
IOF conducted 34 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 5 ones into the Gaza Strip. IOF arrested 54 Palestinian civilians in the West …
www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13439

End olive harvest attacks
Ynetnews – Israel
Each year skirmishes between Jewish settlers and Palestinian farmers take place adjacent to these trees in the West Bank. The farmers blame the settlers for …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461437,00.html

Kosher ritual turns into a food fight
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
“The Israeli Government makes it easy for Israeli vegetables to go to markets in the West Bank, but Palestinian vegetables are hard to get through the …
www.smh.com.au/news/world/kosher-ritual-
turns-into-a-food-fight/2007/10/19/1192301044789.html

This Week In Palestine – week 42 2007
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
This week the Israeli army escalated its attacks and invasions into various parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip while in the meantime, …
www.imemc.org/article/50974

ANALYSIS-Gruelling road ahead for Rice on Middle East peace
Reuters – USA
The ideas floated by Clinton in December 2000 would have produced a Palestinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of Gaza. …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL19387311

Cold reality for Fatah
Al-Ahram Weekly – Cairo,Egypt
It is suggesting the formation of a central government for both the West Bank and Gaza, with a programme reminiscent of that of the national unity …
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/867/re71.htm

Palestinian authorities begin second census
Euronews.net – Lyon,France
Ten years ago, nearly 2.9-million Palestinians were recorded in the West bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 war. …
www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=449210&lng=1

Ordinary Palestinians have no reason to treat the upcoming …
Al-Ahram Weekly – Cairo,Egypt
There is a geographical-political division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, poverty is rife and economic collapse is everywhere, and Israeli …
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/867/re1.htm

PCHR weekly report: “Five residents killed, 31 injured and 57 …
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
The army carried a total of 34 invasions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank and five into the Gaza Strip. During these invasions, 53 Palestinians were …
www.imemc.org/article/50957

Support for One Million Voices from the Palestinian Authority
MidEast Web Views – Israel
Haven’t we taken enough wooden nickels from ISM, Electronic Intifada,
Indymedia, Palestine Solidarity and the infamous Palestinian Campaign for
the Academic …
www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000634.htm

Fighting For Turf, Palestinian Americans relavancy and role
Arabisto.com – Orlando,FL,USA
Recently, two articles were published by ATFP and Electronic Intifada (EI)
respectively accusing each other of betraying the aspirations of the
Palestinian …
www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=865

In Advance of Annapolis Conference, APN Launches “Push for Peace …
Americans for Peace Now – USA
APN’s campaign combines print ads in major publications, a letter-writing
drive, opinion articles, and a new weekly electronic publication, …
www.peacenow.org/pr.asp?rid=&cid=4140

Ex-BBC Journalist now on Iranian TV
By Adam Holland(Adam Holland)
In a 2005 interview with Electronic Intifada, Llewellyn openly identified with the Palestinian cause and excoriated BBC:. It doesn’t tell the story: Which is that the Palestinians are occupied and are fighting for independence in the …
adamholland.blogspot.com/2007/10/ex
-bbc-journalist-now-on-iranian-tv.html

On Israel-Palestine
By Annegw(Annegw)
The Electronic Intifada, a Palestinian-American website, has a section devoted to Caterpillar. They had a story on February 6, 2006 reporting that the Church of England voted to divest its funds from Caterpillar. …
practiceofpeace.blogspot.com/2007/10/on-israel-palestine.html

18/10/07

Mid-East Summit: Doomed Again
Human Events – Washington,DC,USA
Palestinian leaders demand Israel withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines, basically the 3900 mile borders comprising the so-called West Bank and the Gaza …
www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22895

At least 25 Palestinians abducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
In the southern part of West Bank, the Israelis abducted a Palestinian from the town of Al Obeidiah, near Bethlehem. Security sources reported that the …
www.imemc.org/article/50919

Palestinian census-takers fan out across Gaza, West Bank
International Herald Tribune – France
The first Palestinian census in 1997 counted 2.89 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel captured in the …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/
18/africa/ME-GEN-Gaza-Census.php

Palestine Today 101807
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
In the southern part of the West Bank, Israeli troops attacked a house in the village of Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem on Thursday morning. Palestinian …
www.imemc.org/article/50952

Rice: ‘Moment of Opportunity’ But More Work Needed on Israeli …
Voice of America – USA
Rice met earlier with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mr. Abbas accused Israel of hampering preparations for a …
www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-17-voa52.cfm

More than 60% of Gaza residents live below poverty line
Ynetnews – Israel
Average wage in Gaza Strip totals NIS 1680 a month. Palestinian families spend some 47.2% on food. 63% of Gaza residents and 45% of West Bank residents live …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3460845,00.html

Forty Years in Search of Arab-Israeli Peace
US Department of State – Washington,DC,USA
The substantive issues that would have to be resolved eventually included territory (would the West Bank and Gaza be the core of a future Palestinian home, …
usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=
2007&m=October&x=20071016104615dmslahrellek0.5755426

Gaza Banks Running Out of Cash
The Media Line – New York,NY,USA
The Israeli financial clampdown is part an international campaign aimed at isolating Hamas in Gaza and bolstering the Fatah-aligned West Bank government …
www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19284

Gaza absent in conference build-up
BBC News – UK
The agenda for discussion is likely to include borders, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian refugees and the possible division of Jerusalem. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7049401.stm

Planting seeds of independence
By Bouvard Pécuchet(Bouvard Pécuchet)
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 15.10.07. A domestic gardening
project in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah has been a part of the US-based
Save Gaza program, is intended to empower poor women in the rural and
remote areas of the …
palestina-etulsai.blogspot.com/2007/
10/planting-seeds-of-independence.html

16/10/07

Civilian dies in West Bank clash
BBC News – UK
Two Palestinian men have been killed during a raid by Israeli troops in the West Bank, Palestinian officials say. One of the men was in his 70s – hit by a …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7046541.stm

Palestine sees talks with Israel “difficult, complicated”
Xinhua – China
… a bid to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas whose forces lost the Gaza Strip for rival Hamas movement, but remained dominant in the West Bank. …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/16/content_6891920.htm

UN Should Quit Failing Quartet: Envoy
Journal of Turkish Weekly – Ankara,Turkey
The UN human rights official accused Israel of crushing Palestinian human rights. Dugard, who has been visiting the West Bank and Gaza for the past seven …
www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=49530

Hamas: Islamic Democracy and National Liberation
Dissident Voice – Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, which the West and Israel hoped would do their job of repression against the Palestinian …
www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/hamas-
islamic-democracy-and-national-liberation/

Barak turns his back on dovish past
International Herald Tribune – France
Even as Olmert talks of withdrawing from the West Bank, Barak says Israel should stay in the area for at least 2 1/2 years while it develops a missile …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/16/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Rebranding-Barak.php

Two die in Israeli West Bank raid
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
Two Palestinians, including a 70-year-old man, have been shot dead during an Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Nablus. A gun battle erupted after …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B75D
C6F2-9A37-4F3B-8AFF-B55548994569.htm

Should Israel Swap Land For War or Peace?
The Conservative Voice – Kernersville,NC,USA
Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are reportedly looking at swapping land in the West Bank for land in Israel as a means of overcoming the PA’s long …
www.theconservativevoice.com/article/28667.html

Defense Focus: Borders business — Part 2
United Press International – USA
… Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza from Israel’s heartland and prevent suicide bombers form those areas wreaking havoc on civilian targets. …
www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/
2007/10/16/defense_focus_borders_business_part_2/9836/

Blaming Israel
International Herald Tribune – France
Instead, in early 2006 Hamas won the Palestinian elections. It intensified rocket attacks on southern Israel and Gaza came to resemble Mogadishu. …
www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/opinion/edgold.php

Bush-Rice call for Mideast peace conference: What’s the rush
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
As a special rapporteur appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, Dugard “has been visiting the West Bank and Gaza for the past seven years. …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate
/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=21178

One Million Voices: Middle East peace and its enemies
By News Service(News Service)
A coalition of terror groupies and peace thugs, ranging from Abunimah and his Electronic Intifada to PACBI – Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel to Neta Golan and ISM, smeared the One Million Voices …
middle-east-analysis.blogspot.com/2007/10/
one-million-voices-middle-east-peace.html

Another Mideast envoy fed up with quartet
Electronic Intifada. The United Nations has come under strong criticism from one of its own top human rights officials for failing to take effective action to check the ongoing Israeli abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. …
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/
2007/10/16/another_mideast_envoy_fed_up_with_quarte

Mideast Summit Faces Huge Challenges
The Associated Press –
Israel is unlikely to undertake the gargantuan task of uprooting tens of thousands of settlers from the West Bank unless Palestinian leaders guarantee the …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7Lci
xOJidqEkT6sg9EO6QSm95XgD8S9SCL01

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are about the final disposition …
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria
“Any future Palestinian state should include all occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza,” he added. “This is going to be the future Palestinian …
www.pr-inside.com/israeli-palesti
nian-negotiations-are-r248421.htm

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Urgent Appeal for Intervention
International Solidarity Movement – Palestinian Territories
C, in need of urgent bypass heart surgery, referred to a Palestinian hospital in Nablus in the West Bank. 2. T, 53, in need of urgent bypass heart surgery, …
www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/10/15/physicians-for-
human-rights-israel-urgent-appeal-for-intervention/

Palestinian girl’s tragedy crumbles wall of hostility
Chicago Tribune – United States
Two human-rights lawyers have volunteered to represent the family in a Supreme Court petition against the plans to transfer Maria to the West Bank. …
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld
/chi-girl_greenbergoct16,1,7448612.story

Certification Sought On ‘Smart’ Weapons
Baltimore Jewish Times – Baltimore,MD,USA
Palestinians want a state in all of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas said. In his most explicit agenda statement yet, …
www.jewishtimes.com/News/7056.stm

Smuggling Tunnels Discovered Leading To Gaza Strip []
RTT News – Williamsville,NY,USA
Rice, who is in the West Bank trying to lobby for a peace summit in the US, said President Bush would make finding a resolution a top priority of his time …
www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=10/15/2007&item=13

US warns Israel and Palestinians to find common ground
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, travelled to the West Bank town of Ramallah to try to persuade the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2191904,00.html

Israel denies exit for 8 seriously ill Gaza patients on security …
International Herald Tribune – France
One patient turned back is a 16-year old girl with a heart condition who needs immediate surgery in the West Bank city of Nablus, Weingarten said. …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/15/africa/
ME-GEN-Palestinians-Trapped-Patients.php

15/10/07

Israel’s Barak heads to US
Africasia – London,UK
The two also discussed ways of easing Palestinian travel restrictions across the West Bank and the deployment of Palestinian police in several West Bank …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?
area=mideast&item=071014151836.npb4yuwh.php

Needed in Gaza: Israeli journalists
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
The West Bank is still open to journalists, where it is dangerous. But a complete blackout has been imposed on Gaza. Only Roni Daniel can still join the …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912413.html

Gaza Is Squeezed as Israeli Banks Cut Off Cash
New York Times – United States
The decision of the Israeli banks has added to the political and economic pressure exerted on Hamas by both Israel and the West Bank-based Palestinian …
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/
middleeast/12cnd-mideast.html?hp

Israeli minister to Rice: Jerusalem not on table
Xinhua – China
Barak added that the Palestinian Authority has yet completed the daily deployment of 500 Palestinian police officers in the West Bank city of Nablus during …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/15/content_6881705.htm

One Voice events postponed
Ynetnews – Israel
The One Voice organization, which was been active since 2002 in Israel and The Palestinian Authority through branches in Tel Aviv, Ramallah, and Gaza, …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3459785,00.html

Rice preparing Middle East agreement
Radio Netherlands – Netherlands
These interests include key issues such as the partition of Jerusalem, the definitive borders of the Palestinian state (including the West Bank security …
www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/071013-middle-east-mc

Steven Spiegel
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
… first in which there are two different Palestinian entities: one in Gaza under the control of Hamas and one in the West Bank under the control of Fatah. …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=912698

Palestinians to conduct census, hope results will aid in …
International Herald Tribune – France
The first Palestinian census, conducted in 1997, counted 2.89 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/14/
africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Census.php

UN envoy attacks Mid-East Quartet
BBC News – UK
In his role as a UN special rapporteur, Mr Dugard has been visiting the West Bank and Gaza for the past seven years. Special rapporteurs are independent …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7044069.stm