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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s “generous offer” to the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat’s reasons for rejecting it. In addition, the document provides valuable insights into what larger goals Israel hoped to achieve at Camp David and how similar ambitions are driving its policies to this day. Jonathan Cook analyzes the document for EI.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9181.shtml
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Lebanon : Diaries: Live from Lebanon:
WHEN IS IT THE PALESTINIANS’ TURN? By Christopher Brown, Live from Lebanon, 2 January 2008
The four of us sat in the tight confines of a shop nestled in the curving alleyways of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp established to house those whose families fled historical Palestine in 1948. Twenty-five years ago this then little-known camp — along with a nearby area called Sabra — was also the site of a bloody massacre that left more than 2,000 Palestinians dead at the hands of Phalangist militias backed by the Israeli army. EI contributor Christopher Brown writes from the Shatila refugee camp.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9189.shtml
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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:
HAJJ PILGRIMS STRANDED IN EGYPT By Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 1 January 2008
“We are in a prison. Our situation is so miserable in the arena the Egyptian authorities have placed us in. Yesterday a 45-year-old woman pilgrim died in front of us,” says Nayef al-Khaldi. The 55-year-old al-Khaldi is stuck at an arena turned into a shelter at the Egyptian border town at al-Arish along with more than 1,100 other Palestinians following the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The pilgrims refused Egypt’s demands that they return to Gaza through an Israeli-controlled border crossing, fearing that they would be vulnerable to arrest and interrogation. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9191.shtml
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Palestine : Business & Economy:
AIDA CAMP RESIDENTS SAY WALL HARMING THEIR LIVELIHOODS Report, The Electronic Intifada, 1 January 2008
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, BETHLEHEM, 31 December (IRIN) – Behind a luxurious five-star hotel and close to Bethlehem, yet unknown to most visitors who converged on nearby Manger Square for the recent Christmas mass, residents of Aida refugee camp — home to nearly 5,000 people — say their lives have been adversely affected by the Israeli restrictions on movement, in particular the barrier built around the city.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9192.shtml
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Palestine : Development:
POLLUTION WITHOUT BORDERS Report, The Electronic Intifada, 1 January 2008
BEER SHEBA/RAMALLAH, 30 December (IRIN) – In what should be a dry river bed at this time of year, grey water flows, revealing the extent to which the River Hebron, which runs from the West Bank into Israel, is polluted. The stench underlines the problem. “Most transboundary streams in the region are contaminated and characterized by widespread pollution from Palestinian sources [typically raw sewage], as well as a variety of … sources from within Israel.”
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9190.shtml
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