1: BBCi (BBC Online) 2: CounterPunch 3: Electronic Intifada 4: Ha'aretz 5: Ramattan News Agency online 6: The Guardian 7: The Independent
#47006 An open letter to Arnon Golan
by Haim Bresheeth, 2 October 2006
It
should come to you as no surprise then, that such words as you have written
help us to persuade people everywhere in the need of an academic boycott
against Israeli institutions which continue to support the occupation.
You may indeed, want ...
#47065 Israel Continues to Steal Water and Soil from Lebanon
by Kurt Nimmo, 2 October 2006
»On September 20, "Lebanese President Emile Lahoud denounced Israeli continued violations of UN Security Council resolution No. 1701," the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. "Lebanese
National Agency for Information said that President Lahoud, ...
#47021 Gazans fear call from Israeli army
by BBC staff in BBCi (BBC Online), 2 October 2006
»People in Gaza dread receiving a telephone call from the Israeli Defence Force. It usually means they are being warned to leave their house, before it is destroyed by an Israeli
warplane.«
»One man who lost his house to an Isra ...
#47020 The Roadmap to Nowhere - An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
by Éric Hazan, Tanya Reinhart (interviewee) in CounterPunch, 2 October 2006
Your new book, Roadmap to Nowhere, covers the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the last three years, a period dominated by Ariel Sharon's leadership. You argue that during this period it became evident that in Israel, decisi ...
#47022 Lie Less in Gaza - An Open Letter to Jeremy Bowen
by Arthur Neslen in CounterPunch, 2 October 2006
Dear Jeremy,
I read your reply to the Medialens email about the BBC's lack of coverage of Rabbi Menachem Froman's Gaza peace initiative with some interest. As a former BBC staffer, I know the time pressures that editors are put under and the attit ...
#47023 Meeting Nasrallah - An Encounter with a Fighter
by Assaf Kfoury in CounterPunch, 2 October 2006
In the wake of "Operation Grapes of Wrath," the 17-day Israeli military assault on southern Lebanon in April 1996, there was a spate of articles in the Western press on Hizbullah and its secretary-general, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli operati ...
#47019 Eight killed, including child, in Fateh-Hamas clashes in Gaza Strip
by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2006
Eight Palestinians, including a child, and at least 115 others were injured in bloody incidents that included armed clashes in Gaza City on Sunday, 1 October 2006. PCHR strongly condemns these incidents, which extended to other areas th ...
#47054 Paralysis of the Palestinian 'Authority': What's to be done?
by Rima Merriman in Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2006
For over a decade now, since the Oslo Agreement signed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1993, the Palestinians, along with much of the world, have been laboring under a couple of misapprehensions. One is that, with Oslo, ...
#47076 Freshwater shortage leads to health problems in Gaza Strip
by IRIN in Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2006
Environmentalists and public health specialists are warning of escalating health problems due to a growing freshwater deficit and declining water quality in the Gaza Strip. Nahed Abu Dayyia, an ecologist with the Palestinian Water Autho ...
#47077 Information Brief: The Gaza Economy
by Sara Roy in Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2006
One year after Israel's 2005 "disengagement" from the Strip, which was hailed by President Bush as a great opportunity for "the Palestinian people to build a modern economy that will lift millions out of poverty [and] create the in ...
#47027 MDA: Youth in several cities stoned ambulances operating on Yom Kippur
by Rali Saar, Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 2 October 2006
MDA officials: 1,779 people evacuated for medical treatment during holiday; 65 faint as result of fast. ...
#47217 Hamas Legislators urge forming coalition government based on national harmony document
by Ramattan staff in Ramattan News Agency online, 2 October 2006
The 'Change and Reform' parliamentary Bloc of Hamas condemned Monday the assaults of yesterday on the PA institutions throughout the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Spokesman of the bloc Salah Al-Bardawel urged all of President Abbas, PM Haniyeh, ...
#46993 Eight Palestinians die as Fatah and Hamas fight on streets of Gaza City
by Rory McCarthy in The Guardian, 2 October 2006
»Eight Palestinians were killed and dozens injured yesterday in an increasingly violent struggle for power between rival factions in the Gaza Strip. Hours after the clashes, gunmen loyal to
the Fatah movement set fire to rooms in the Palestini ...
#46994 'Smugglers' get 15 minutes to go, then house is blown up
by Conal Urquhart in The Guardian, 2 October 2006
»Everyone in Rafah is dreading a call from Abu Nimr. It could come at any time but it normally means the recipient has 30 minutes to evacuate his house before it is blown up. Abu Nimr has
been busy. Last week he called five households in Rafah ...
#47012 Coming out in Arabic
by Brian Whitaker in The Guardian, 2 October 2006
Israel, however, is not quite the gay paradise that many imagine. There is still hostility from conservative Jews, and some of their blood-curdling statements are not very different from the more widely publicised remarks of Muslim clerics. In Jerusa ...
#47018 Hamas closes offices as violence spreads
by Guardian staff in The Guardian, 2 October 2006
Hamas has suspended the operations of all its government offices today as violence between rival militias continued to wreak havoc in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Militiamen loyal to Hamas withdrew from Gaza streets following the worst day ...
#47003 Six killed as factional feuding erupts into Gaza gun battles
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 2 October 2006
»They also follow six months of mounting tensions aggravated by the non-payment of salaries to Palestinian Authority employees because of the international economic blockade imposed on Hamas
for refusing to recognise Israel. The fighting overs ...