Settlers cleared from West Bank outpost; Palestinian olive grove set on fireIDF,
Civil Administration clear Jewish settlers trying to set up tent at
Shvut Ami outpost; settler leader Daniela Weiss arrested for allegedly
attacking police officer. Olive grove belonging to Kadum residents set
ablaze short while later.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3604494,00.htmlSettler leader detained after clashing with police during outpost evacuation
Prominent settler leader and extreme right-wing activist Daniela Weiss
was detained Thursday for attacking police officers near the settlement
of Kedumim, of which she is local council head.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025931.html
Fateh member dies in a Jericho prisonPalestinian
media sources in the West Bank reported on Wednesday that one member of
Fateh movement died in vague circumstances at the Jericho Central
Prison controlled by Fateh security forces and police in the West Bank
city of Jericho.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57186Hamas: PA in Ramallah did not release 38 of the movements members
Hamas dismissed media reports that the Fatah allied Palestinian
government in Ramallah has released 38 of its members and leaders in
the West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57179Fateh accuses Hamas of arresting one of its leaders in Gaza
Source within Fateh movement, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas,
accused Hamas in the Gaza Strip of arresting Mohammad Adel Al Masry,
member of Fateh's regional council in northern Gaza, after breaking
into his home in Beit Lahia and talking him to an unknown destination.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57183Trial of leftist leader Ahmad Sa'adat postponed
The
Israeli military court faced by General Secretary of the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Sa'adat, convened last week to
announce that the trial was postponed for another two months until 25
November.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57192New convoy to break the siege on Gaza to arrive Monday
On Monday a new aid convoy aimed at breaking the siege on the Gaza
Strip is expected to enter through the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the
southern Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57182
Attack focuses new attention on Israelis' divide
JERUSALEM - Sharp differences that have existed for years within
Israeli society between ultra-nationalists in the settler movement have
been brought into sharp focus following a pipe bomb attack on a
prominent peace activist. Better known are the many well known fronts
in the Israeli-Palestinian and the Palestinian-
Palestinian conflicts
including the long running, bloody drama between Hamas and Fatah.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=08102ce3-333c-4f0c-a6b0-1cbcb6a6fd6f
Hezbollah orders its leaders not to visit Syria
Israeli Newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Wednesday that after
the recent explosions in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Hezbollah party
ordered its leaders and prominent members not to visit Syria.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57184
American technology stopping Hamas?
US
and Egyptian soldiers pair up in recent weeks in a project to uncover
Palestinian weapons' smuggling tunnels; 42 tunnels discovered in less
than a month.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3604575,00.html
Egypt to host 'Annapolis 2' peace summit in November
An
international summit is to be held in Egypt in November, with
representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the members
of the Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the
United Nations. According to a senior official in Jerusalem, the
Israeli and PA participants will brief the Quartet over progress made
in the ongoing peace talks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025598.html
Abbas says hopes Olmert's statements 'deposit' for next government
Speaking to Muslim clerics at Eid al-Fitr celebration, Palestinian
president says that if territorial concessions laid out by Israeli PM
in recent interview were to be implemented 'we could have peace in two
days time'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3604251,00.html
Hamas: Fatah rejected 'choice of the people'
Leaders of both Fatah and Hamas called for national
unity at the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Tuesday. Leaders said
that they hoped unity talks at Cairo would eliminate rifts growing
since the last summer's Hamas takeover of Gaza. But the Hamas movement
noted in a statement that many Palestinians will reject peace with
Fatah for "the division caused by a party (Fatah) that rejected the
choice of the people. " De facto Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh
told Reuters that Fatah officials "cooperated with the occupation
against their people. "
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32267
Hamas says no to government of technocrats
PNN - Palestinian diplomatic sources said today that the Hamas party
will reject the proposal to form a professional government, that of
technocrats, to handle the situation until legislative and presidential
elections are held. The impending Hamas rejection comes in response to
a proposal made by some Palestinian parties during the pre-national
dialogue factional consultations held in Cairo throughout September.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3659&Itemid=1
Palestinian president says Washington trip 'a successful
visit'
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday
said that last week's trip to Washington, DC was "a successful visit. "
Abbas told reporters that he and American President George W. Bush
included "clear and frank discussions and points. " "We have exactly
what is required and I think it was a successful visit," Abbas said. In
response to questions on the potential that Israeli Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni could become prime minister, Abbas said that "we don't
choose their prime minister. " "They are the ones who choose, and we
deal with their choice," he said.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32270
Israeli general says settler violence increasing
undreds of Jewish settlers are engaged in violence against Palestinians
and Israeli soldiers who get in their way, Israel's top general in the
occupied West Bank said in remarks published on Thursday. "In the
past, only a few dozen individuals took part in such activity but today
that number has grown into the hundreds. That's a very significant
change," Major-General Gadi Shamni said in an interview with the
Haaretz newspaper.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2395917.htm
'Hundreds join' settler violence
Hundreds of settlers are engaged in violence against Palestinians and soldiers, a senior Israeli commander says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7647991.stm
How I became a target for Israel's 'Jewish terrorists'
Peace campaigner attacked with a pipe bomb tells Donald Macintyre why
militant Zionism should be feared. Zeev Sternhell is careful about his
choice of words when he unhesitatingly calls the pipe bomb which
exploded outside his front door last week "an act of Jewish
terrorism." As a Holocaust survivor orphaned by the age of seven and a
combat veteran of Israel's wars, Professor Sternhell, 73, who was lucky
to have only been injured in the leg by flying shrapnel from the bomb,
is "horrified" not for himself but because it might have hit his wife,
daughter his grandchildren on one of their sleepovers, or their
neighbours. "It was a terror act because they couldn't know who would
have been hit."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-i-became-a-target-for-israels-jewish-terrorists-948610.html
Yesha's balance of fear
The pipe bomb attack on Prof. Zeev Sternhell does not necessarily
herald "an escalation of activity by the radical right" and is not
necessarily part of the escalation that has characterized the right
since the Gaza disengagement. After all, there have been incidents in
the past in which people on the left were attacked without any
connection to one withdrawal or another - from the intimidating posters
of the "Dov" organization [dikui bogdim, suppressing traitors] in the
1970s, to the murder of Emil Grunzweig in 1983, to the explosives
placed outside the apartments of journalists and politicians associated
with the left by the Sicarii in the early 1990s.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025605.html
Seth Freedman: In Israel, conscientious objection is disapproved of, unless you're from the ultra-orthodox community
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/02/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast
Rattling
the Cage: Militias in the mirror
As I write
this, Sunday morning, a teenage Palestinian shepherd has been found
shot to death near Nablus, which is surrounded by more Baruch Goldstein
wannabes than anyplace else in the country except for maybe Hebron.
Some Palestinian witnesses say they saw a white car with settlers in it
chasing the shepherd. Recently I interviewed a Palestinian shepherd
near Nablus who said the settlers in the area harass him all the time,
killing his sheep. He complains to the police, the police do nothing.
I'm sure they'll do nothing this time, too. Another unsolved murder of
a Palestinian in Israel's "heartland." "Nationalistic motives" - Jewish
"nationalistic motives" - are suspected. What's new?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017432028&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A schizophrenic state
The
West Bank separation fence divides Israeli society into two worlds
utterly different in their perceptions of reality and of the problems
that affect them. On one side are those disturbed by the crisis on Wall
Street, by the lack of leadership and the Iranian threat. Few worry
about what is happening in the West Bank, and certainly no one visits
there. The Palestinians are forgotten when there are no suicide
bombings, the settlers are viewed as a strange society, and the peace
talks pursued by Ehud Olmert seem like irrelevant spin.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025607.html
Ramadan in Jerusalem
Jerusalem
is the sacred city of all three monotheistic religion, but during the
holy month of Ramadan, Muslim followers converge on the city that is
home to the oldest Islamic monument. A difficult task in these times.
http://www.france24.com/en/20081001-jerusalem-israel-palestinian-territories-al-qasa-ramadan
Month in pictures: Ramadan in Palestine, September 2008
The
above slideshow is a selection of images from the month of September
2008. This year, September coincided with the month-long period of
Ramadan in the Islamic calendar. This month's photographs feature
Ramadan in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9867.shtml
Hasan Abu Nimah - The right of no return
The debate on the Palestinian refugee problem has been confused and
badly mishandled. While Israel maintains a consistent position, the
Palestinians and the Arabs are often contradictory, vague and
inconsistent. For some unclear reason, the refugee problem has, with
time, been limited to only one aspect: the right of return. This
narrowed the scope of discussion to an extent that not only shifted
emphasis but also played well into the hands of the Israeli hardliners
who stubbornly deny all refugee rights as well as denying Israel's
responsibility in creating the refugee problem, first through the
systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine and then by refusing to allow
refugees to come back home. Yet the refugee problem entails more rights
than the right of return and should be dealt with on that basis.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/10/02/hasan-abu-nimah-the-right-of-no-return/
VIDEO / Israeli, Palestinian women come together to lose weight
Starting after the Muslim Ramadan and the Jewish New Year, a group of
Palestinian and Israeli women will be meeting face to face in
Jerusalem. Not for political reasons, not to cast blame on who's right
or wrong in the Middle East conflict - these women will be focusing on
their waistline, and sharing a simple and common desire to lose weight.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025567.html
The Explosions in Damascus and Tripoli; Bombs in the Levant
Two bombings in three days have rattled both Syria and Lebanon. And as
with most events in the Middle Eastā€”especially those that occur in
neighboring countriesā€”nothing happens by coincidence. The first took
place in Damascus on Sept. 26, killing 17, all civilians. According to
Syria's state run news agency SANA, the attack was the result of a
suicide car bomber. This past Monday, a second car bomb, this time
detonated via remote-control, targeted a bus filled with Lebanese
soldiers in the northern city of Tripoli, killing seven and injuring 33.
http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#compose
Wednesday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 37 Wounded
Excerpt: At least eight Iraqis were killed and 37 more were wounded in
the latest attacks. The lion's share of the casualties occurred during
an attack on a shrine in Balad. No Coalition casualties were reported
anywhere in Iraq. The Eid al-Fitr holiday continues, so there may be
fewer reports than normal coming out of the country. In other news,
U.S. and Iraqi casualties were down from the same period last September.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13537
Deadly attacks hit Baghdad mosques
Several worshippers killed in bombings close to mosques in the Iraqi capital.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/200810261628410157.html
Six Iraqis killed in gunfire attack northeast of Baghdad
Six family members were killed and three others injured on Thursday in
a gunfire attack on their vehicle near a town in the volatile province
of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, a provincial police source said. The
incident occurred when unknown gunmen showered with bullets a minibus
carrying the family of 10 persons while traveling near the town of
Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on
condition of anonymity.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/02/content_10142307.htm
Sept sees 440 civilians, security staff killed in Iraq
The
number of Iraqi civilians and security personnel killed in insurgent
and militia violence in September was 440, little changed from August,
security officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/532854-sept-sees-440-civilians-security-staff-kill-in-iraq
Maliki
says Iraq ready to compromise on US security pact
Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki said Monday that the
government was ready to compromise to reach a
security accord with the United States, saying
the country still needs US troops despite the
recent drop in violence.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=96406
Sahwa fighters warn Iraqi government
Sunni fighters who turned their guns on al Qa'eda say Iraqi government must continue to support them or risk a return to chaos.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081001/FOREIGN/820033496/1041/rss
Marines accused in Iraqi slayings refuse to testify against each other
Lawyers
say two sergeants will not provide court-martial testimony. The pair
also refused to testify at the August federal trial of their former
squad leader, who was subsequently acquitted of killing four Iraqi
prisoners. In August, a former Marine sergeant charged in the killing
of four Iraqi prisoners was acquitted in federal court -- in large part
because two Marine sergeants refused to provide key testimony against
him.
http://feeds.latimes.com/%7Er/latimes/middleeast/%7E3/409005469/la-me-marine2-2008oct02,0,1855819.story
US soldier faces court-martial in Iraq killings
Army
Spc. Steven Ribordy was part of a patrol accused of killing four Iraqi
prisoners in spring 2007 who were bound, blindfolded and shot before
being dumped in a canal. Ribordy, who is not believed to have taken
part in the actual shooting of the prisoners, is scheduled to be
court-martialed Thursday, charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Last month another soldier, Spc. Belmor Ramos, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to seven months in prison and a dishonorable discharge.
Ramos, 23, testified that he stood guard as the killings were carried
out.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYtcV7GUHRC88uGXnQ8Hl6I5lvbAD93I7G000
The Ho Chi Minh trail leads to Baghdad
McCain
still believes that in Iraq and Vietnam the problem was the wrong
strategy, not the wrong war. It may be the last thing in this campaign
McCain says that's true to his core beliefs and record, but he's wrong.
Dead wrong.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/01/john.mccain.iraq.vietnam
"The Age of the Warrior": Robert Fisk on the U.S. Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine
Robert Fisk is Britain's most celebrated foreign correspondent and has
borne witness to countless tragedies in the Middle East for over three
decades. With the publication of a new collection of essays, Fisk joins
us to talk about the U.S. elections and their bearing on Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Israel-Palestine.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/2/the_age_of_the_warrior_robert
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