25/11/07

My “Electronic Intifada” Debut
By Kris Petersen
ElectronicIntifada just published an article I wrote here – the article was previously posted on harmonicminor.com as Disengagement Two Years On and was taken from research I conducted with my good friend Jonas Ecke. …
harmonicminor.com/2007/11/25/my-electronic-intifada-debut/

End Israeli Terror!
By Anonymous Poster
Crossing the Line host Christopher Brown speaks with advocate, author and law professor Lisa Hajjar about the issue of political prisoners.
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16210/index.php

Iran: No Smoking Gun but Strong Evidence
The Associated Press –
Iran also supports Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militants who fight against Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. The United States calls Hamas, …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibJPkreP
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Struggling to ferment a future
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
“However, the West Bank situation is better than Gaza’s, because they have raw materials, they are closer to Israel, and they can still trade with Israel. …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4BD33B
39-781A-4F4B-A298-917D1F9808B4.htm

Hopes for Mideast talks sag
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Since then, homemade rockets fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza have spattered down upon populated areas of the western Negev in southern Israel. …
www.thestar.com/News/article/279451

Post Annapolis: Hamas Targets Abu Mazen’s West Bank And challenges …
Defense Update – Tel Aviv,Israel
The Israel-Palestinian issue is just a marginal bi-product, so it seems. Israeli analysts believe that this trend could solidify, if the Arab delegation …
www.defense-update.com/analysis/analysis_241107_anapolis.htm

Waiting for Annapolis
Tehran Times – Iran
… Israel-Palestine has long been contorted. “”Every (US) administration since 1967, when Israel won a war and occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=157756

Key Players at Annapolis Mideast Summit
The Associated Press –
___ PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS: A pragmatist who opposes violence, Abbas espouses a vision of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw0_SL1
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The Gaza Strip: Disengagement Two Years On
By CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD…(CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD…)
Kris Petersen, The Electronic Intifada, 24 November 2007. Two years after disengagement Israel has put a blockade on the Gaza Strip not allowing goods and other necessities into the region making Gazans almost completely aid dependent. …
mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/11
/gaza-strip-disengagement-two-years-on.html

24/11/07

la8: after 20 years, freedom is sweet
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
by via the electronic intifada monday, november 19, 2007 : for the last 20
years, the us government has accused me of being a terrorist. along with
six …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/20/18462359.php

from: Anna In Palestine (for links that are stated in the post …
By husna(husna)
[For this report with photographs, see publication on Electronic Intifada: click here.] Almost two weeks ago, my friend Dawud, a high school English teacher from Kufr ‘Ain, called me nearly in tears to report the checkpoint hold-up that …
lifewasgorgeous.blogspot.com/2007/11/fr
om-anna-in-palestine-for-links-that.html

23/11/07

Diplomacy: High anxiety, low expectations
Jerusalem Post – Israel
However, success – defined as an agreement setting up two states based on deep Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank – could mean problems for each party at …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546702
808&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Fate of West Bank settlements turns on Mideast peace talks
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Were Israel to withdraw its troops from the West Bank, Hamas would oust Abbas, he predicted. Israel would be left with yet another hostile border to defend, …
www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=
367a7901-6139-4477-b116-68793a44a1e7&k=16380

David Horovitz
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… failing in 1948, they chose not to suffice with what could have been a state of Palestine in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546703
839&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

ANALYSIS: The Palestinians should have set the bar higher at the …
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
The question is why the Palestinian side made do with such a banal statement and did not prevent Israel from changing the West Bank’s geography again and …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927394.html

Can US broker Middle East peace this time?
Times Online – UK
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, rules only over parts of the West Bank, while the Gaza Strip, the second-largest area of Palestinian land, …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article2933421.ece

Syria Will Boycott the Middle East Peace Conference
Tehran Times – Iran
… expressed its desire that the future Palestine should be founded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and also urged Israel to return the Golan Heights to …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=157696

FEATURE-Teaching on the frontline in Gaza and Israel
Reuters – USA
Ahead of Annapolis, some Israelis point to Gaza as proof that withdrawing from the West Bank would only unleash bloodshed. Likewise, Gazans — who blame the …
www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL2128506

[ePalestine] Interview: Crossing The Line – Ethnic Cleansing …
By ePalestine(ePalestine)
Electronic Intifada frequent contributor and Crossing The Line correspondent, Rami Almeghari will speak more on this story. Plus, masked Palestinian resistance fighters take over a classroom in Gaza, but they haven’t come to violate …
bahour.blogspot.com/2007/11/epale
stine-interview-crossing-line.html

ei: The Electronic Intifada
Ulasan tentang Palestina.
radiotarbiyah.multiply.com/links/
item/10/ei_The_Electronic_Intifada

After 20 years, freedom is sweet
By chet
Michel Shehadeh, The Electronic Intifada, 19 November 2007. For the last 20 years, the US government has accused me of being a terrorist. Along with six other Palestinians and a Kenyan, we were dubbed the “Los Angeles Eight” by the …
chetriese.wordpress.com/2007/11/23
/after-20-years-freedom-is-sweet/

Israel launches anti-hijack system
BloggingStocks – USA
High sophisticated electronic devices, missiles, radars, avionics,
ammunition, personal military equipment etc. B. Intelligence – as long as
the USSR …
fds.bloggingstocks.com/2007/11/21/i
srael-launches-anit-hijack-system/

22/11/07

A matter of revenge”: Israel denying medical treatment to Gaza …
By annie(annie)
Rami Almeghari is currently contributor to several media outlets including the Palestine Chronicle, aljazeerah.info, IMEMC, The Electronic Intifada and Free Speech Radio News. Rami is also a former senior English translator at and …
annies-letters.blogspot.com/2007/11/ma
tter-of-revenge-israel-denying.html

Israel Lulled by the good life
New Statesman – London,England,UK
The most important reason for the new mood is the “success” of the barrier that has been constructed to separate Israel from the West Bank. …
www.newstatesman.com/track?t=http://www.
newstatesman.com/200711220030&i=carousel-4

Palestinian cell phone company Jawwal says it signed up millionth …
International Herald Tribune – France
Jawwal is one of the largest companies in the West Bank and Gaza. Jawwal has been the only Palestinian cell phone company since its founding in 1999, …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/22/africa/
ME-GEN-Palestinians-Cellular-Phones.php

Israel approves West Bank weapons
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
In preliminary peace talks, Olmert has been telling Abbas that there can be no Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank unless his Palestinian police …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mid
east22nov22,1,3970411.story?coll=la-headlines-world

IDF kills Palestinian near Gaza fence
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Also overnight Wednesday, IDF troops arrested 13 terror suspects during West Bank operations, the army said. In Nablus, soldiers arrested a man who was in …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119554670
0035&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Saraya al-Quds calls for protecting the resistance in the West Bank
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
Palestinians consider the resistance a ‘legitimate right’, as long as the Israeli occupation of West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem continues. Israel …
www.imemc.org/article/51669

IDF holds massive exercise simulating conquering of West Bank town
Jerusalem Post – Israel
COM STAFF In the biggest IDF drill regarding the West Bank area since 1999 and only six days before the top of the Israeli government is scheduled to arrive …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119554
6692195&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

paper: blair sees palestinian jobs projects ready soon -afp
FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market – Barcelona,Spain
… launch of the second intifada in 2000. with an international meeting on
the israeli-palestinian conflict due to take place in annapolis, md., on
nov. …
www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?
StoryId=f91979c6-bac2-45d2-86cf-096b1f447d60

fear of an arab planet – hip hop is everywhere
ThugLifeArmy.com – USA
… i am optimistic. stefan christoff is an independent journalist based in
montreal and regular contributor to the electronic intifada and electronic
lebanon.
www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4046

nothing less than our freedom
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
by via the electronic intifada wednesday, november 7, 2007 :for the people
of our small village of bil’in, which lies west of ramallah in the occupied
west …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/07/18458688.php

grammar school students benefit from undp support
Al-Bawaba – Amman,Jordan
… a palestinian refugee and american educated founder of the electronic
intifada, and akiva eldar, a ha’aretz diplomatic affairs correspondent.
…
www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/218186

An endless pool of prisoners
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
They are abducted at night from their homes or city streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, after which a few stand trial, at which the evidence presented …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/926804.html

Failure at Annapolis could affect Gaza security
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
“If after the summit there is no positive development and Abu Mazen doesn’t get stronger, Hamas could ‘leak’ from Gaza into the West Bank and fortify …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/926789.html

Analysis: Armored vehicles are the least of Israel’s problems
Jerusalem Post – Israel
According to recent intelligence assessments and contrary to public thinking, Hamas is just as strong in the West Bank as it is in the Gaza Strip. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119554669
3991&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel eases Gaza export block prior to US summit
Independent – London,England,UK
… transfer of a shipment of 25 Russian-made armoured vehicles and ammunition to the Palestinian security forces in the restive West Bank city of Nablus. …
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3182332.ece

Israel oks armoured vehicles for Palestinian forces
Reuters – USA
The shipment of ammunition and 25 lightly armoured trucks will be used in Nablus, the restive West Bank city at the centre of a Palestinian campaign to …
www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL216328473

EU expected to follow Middle East peace conference with major aid push
International Herald Tribune – France
“Levels of poverty and unemployment in Gaza and the West Bank are intolerable, and we are ready to do what we can to help the people in these areas,” Brown …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/22/europe/EU-GEN-EU-Mideast.php

Another brick in the wall: Saving schools in the West Bank
Independent – London,England,UK
In 1967, the UN Security Council decreed Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza illegal, yet they have flourished. Tomer is where the work is. …
news.independent.co.uk/education/schools/article3180160.ece

Recipes of the West Bank Olive Harvest
NPR – USA
NPR.org, November 21, 2007 · The annual West Bank olive harvest holds special significance for Palestinians. Read recipes and stories about some of the …
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16530921

21/11/07

FACTBOX-Olmert and Abbas: the distance between them
Reuters – USA
Palestinians say Israeli occupation in the West Bank hinders their efforts. Hamas Islamists opposed to Abbas control the Gaza Strip. …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL19148461

Failed leaders cannot bring peace to Palestine
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Mr Abbas has lost control of Gaza to Hamas, his Islamist enemies. In truth, he does not wield much power over the West Bank, either, and the supposed …
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?
xml=/opinion/2007/11/21/do2104.xml

FACTBOX-Where past Middle East peace talks faltered
Reuters – USA
These include: – Palestinian state in Gaza and 94-96 percent of West Bank territory, plus 1-3 percent land swap and a “safe passage” link between the two …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL1421658

OPT: Proposed humanitarian terminals in West Bank could triple aid …
IRINnews.org – New York,NY,USA
It provides education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over 4.4 million refugees living in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, …
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75409

Iran, Syria said to be stepping up support of terrorists
Jerusalem Post – Israel
The IDF has also instructed Israelis to refrain from entering Palestinian towns and soldiers from hitchhiking in the West Bank out of fear that they will be …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546682609
&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Olmert: Israel won’t choke settlements
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Palestinian construction workers build at a new housing development in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, near Jerusalem, Sunday. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119512754
6665&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Middle East conference will fail unless crisis in Gaza is on agenda
Ekklesia – UK
Effectively imprisoned and with only a drip-feed of humanitarian aid, the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are entirely cut off from the West Bank …
www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6313

IDF chief: Army has removed 24 West Bank roadblocks
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… said Tuesday that the IDF had recently removed 24 West Bank road obstructions in coordination with Palestinian authorities, Israel Radio reported. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119554667824
5&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israelis rediscovering West Bank
Ynetnews – Israel
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are conducting talks on reopening Jenin to Israeli citizens in order to strengthen the Palestinian economy and …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3473688,00.html

In West Bank, Checkpoints
Wall Street Journal – USA
Economists largely blame the plunge on the restrictions and a loss of Palestinian employment in Israel. The splintering of the West Bank is undermining a …
online.wsj.com/article/SB11954943561
2298089.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

20/11/07

One single secular democratic state
By Bilal(Bilal)
Ali Abunimah, Co-founder of Electronic Intifada, Author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (2006) Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Co-editor of South Africa in the Global Imaginary …
bilalsblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/on
e-single-secular-democratic-state.html

Punishing Gaza
By Profile of Mike Ghouse(Profile of Mike Ghouse)
Electronic Intifada editor Ali Abunimah compares the process to “one of those big budget Broadway extravaganzas; they go on for years (and) with each revival the cast changes,” but the outcome is always the same as intended. …
peace-palestine-israel.blogspot.com/2007/11/punishing-gaza.html

Audio: Crossing the Line focuses on Palestinian political prisoners
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
by via the Electronic Intifada Tuesday, November 20, 2007 : There are more
than 10000 Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails. …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/20/18462360.php

This is a new feature on the indispensable Electronic Intifada …
By As’ad(As’ad)
This is a new feature on the indispensable Electronic Intifada. Hicham
provides a reliable selection and commentary of Lebanese newspapers.
(This one includes a translation of a section of my article on social
justice in Lebanon).
angryarab.blogspot.com/2007/11/th
is-is-new-feature-on-indispensable.html

Palestinian and Israeli scholars to advance one-state solution in …
By Nathan
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 12 November 2007. Leading Palestinian and Israeli scholars and activists will be among the speakers at an unprecendented conference to explore a one-state solution, at the School of Oriental and African …
nathanr.ca/politics/world/palestinian-and-is
raeli-scholars-to-advance-one-state-solution-in-london/

19/11/07

A wall runs through it
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
Area E1 completes a Jewish ring around Jerusalem and interrupts Palestinian contiguity between the north and south of the West Bank. …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/925404.html

Livni to Israeli Arabs: Look to Palestine
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
Right-wingers accused her of speaking prematurely of the creation of a Palestinian state given the terrorist threat emanating from the West Bank and Gaza. …
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105386.html

Playing fields and killing fields
Jerusalem Post – Israel
He might have removed himself to the relative safety of the West Bank. There, in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last week dedicated …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119512754
4262&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Sick Palestinian dies waiting for exit permit from Gaza
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… originally petitioned the High Court of Justice to be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment in Jordan, the West Bank, east Jerusalem or Israel. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11951275359
70&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Refugees from Gaza Face Uncertain Future in the West Bank
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
… spokesperson at Palestinian Authority (PA) headquarters in Ramallah, nearly 400 refugees from Gaza are warily taking up residence across the West Bank, …
www.associatedcontent.com/article/453120/
refugees_from_gaza_face_uncertain_future.html

Blair unveils Palestinian schemes
BBC News – UK
Earlier, the Israeli government approved the release of 450 Palestinian prisoners and reiterated its pledge to freeze new settlements in the West Bank and …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7102444.stm

UN aid chief attacks new Israeli checkpoint plan
Guardian Unlimited – UK
UNRWA is the largest employer in the Palestinian territories with 4800 Palestinian staff in the West Bank and another 10000 in Gaza. …
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2213591,00.html

INTERVIEW-Israel disrupts Palestinian policing -EU adviser
Reuters – USA
Israel let 300 members of the Palestinian National Security forces deploy in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus this month as President Mahmoud Abbas …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL19279252

Blair unveils job plan to boost Palestinian economy
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Former British PM to outline plans including industrial parks and agricultural ventures in the West Bank and Hamas-ruled Gaza. Tony Blair visiting a West …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2213605,00.html

Rice’s Highs and Lows
The Associated Press –
LOW — Hamas routs rival moderate Palestinian forces in Gaza in June 2007 and assumes control of the territory. This splits the Palestinian government and …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jC9by1
FremrvWOb14BC722eSLcvQD8T1164O0

Photostory: Bil’in, the art of shaking off
By via the Electronic Intifada(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Monday, November 19, 2007 : In January 2005 the people of the West Bank village of Bil’in began holding weekly demonstrations demanding access to their farmlands that had been cut off by the Israeli separation barrier. …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/19/18462107.php