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#83848 The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force
by Steve Rothwell, 8 November 2007
The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force was created on 1 April 1926, to replace the disbanded Palestine Gendarmerie. It was a creation of the British High Commissioner for Palestine whose intention was that the Force should defend Trans-Jordan's northe ...
#73385 Short on substance
by Khalid Amayreh in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 November 2007
»US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories was rich in rhetoric but woefully short on substance. Rice, who arrived in Jerusalem
Sunday, is engaged in final preparations for th ...
#73386 Countdown to the offensive
by Saleh al-Naami in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 November 2007
»Last Sunday Zaher Al-Orr had a surprise for his son Ashraf and his friend Mohamed Abu Herbid. He prepared breakfast for them before going home, after their night shift. The three worked as
guards in a bathroom fittings factory near Jabalya re ...
#73387 Who wants another Israel?
by Ayman El-Amir in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 November 2007
Arabs act as if the partitioning of Iraq is a new idea, writes Ayman El-Amir*
...
#73388 US war insanity
by Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly, 8 November 2007
»A Pentagon general returning to work today after 20 years of retirement would be in for a surprise. Two decades ago his country had just emerged victorious over the international communist
order after some 40-odd years of political, cultural, ...
#73390 Jewish group plans a foxy scheme
by George S. Hishmeh in Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), 8 November 2007
As the expectations for a serious movement towards a Palestinian-Israeli settlement seem to be growing by the day, a little-known group, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC), is trying to ride the coat tails of the upcoming US-sponsored Mideas ...
#73426 Israel minister: Sack ElBaradei
by BBC staff in BBCi (BBC Online), 8 November 2007
»A senior Israeli minister has called for the sacking of Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog. Deputy PM Shaul Mofaz said the Egyptian head of the International Atomic
Energy Agency had endangered world peace by neglecting Ir ...
#73424 Bill Clinton spoke. Who got to listen?
by Mary Mitchell in Chicago Sun-Times, 8 November 2007
»How do you have a "People's Rally" for a presidential candidate and lock the people out? On Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton came to the historic Parkway Ballroom in Bronzeville to
stump for his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y) ...
#73356 Whose Road Map?
by Jeff Halper in Common Dreams, 8 November 2007
»As did his pronouncements last August in Jericho, where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated a willingness to withdraw from an area equivalent to 100% of the occupied territories, his
latest declarations to the Saban Forum, in the presence of ...
#73347 Meeting the Other in Israel and Palestine
by Kathleen Christison, Bill Christison in CounterPunch, 8 November 2007
»One hesitates to criticize these enterprises. They're so well meaning, and it seems so curmudgeonly. But the myriad efforts around the world to bring the children of political conflicts,
most notably the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, tog ...
#73355 Israel kills four in Gaza attacks
by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Electronic Intifada, 8 November 2007
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their military operations in the Gaza Strip. IOF have killed ...
#73306 Beitar soccer club disputes tribunal's right to judge booing fans
by Moshe Boker in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
»The Israel Football Association tribunal met last night to reach a verdict on Beitar following a tense hearing over the club's responsibility for fan behavior. Beitar fans started booing
during a moment of silence for slain prime ministe ...
#73310 Reservists: Hamas fights like an army
by Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Reserve-duty paratroopers who completed a month of duty in the Gaza Strip last week say that facing militant groups such as Hamas was like taking part in a "mini-war."
During the patrol company's operations deep in Palestinian territory, fou ...
#73311 PA document: Final agreement within 6 months of Annapolis
by Haaretz staff, Amos Harel in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The Palestinian Authority wants the preface to the joint statement at Annapolis to say that a final-status arrangement will be completed within six months of the signing of agreements at the summit.
This is based on a document recently written by ...
#73312 Teacher talks go on, but no progress reported
by Or Kashti in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Teacher and government representatives met twice yesterday to settle the ongoing strike, but various sources report no progress, in contract negotiations being conducted under the supervision of the National Labor Court.
In addition, the Histadrut ...
#73313 Measles outbreak improves image of vaccination in J'lem
by Tamar Rotem in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
One morning this week, at the Breslav Hasidism's central synagogue in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, a healing ritual was performed to cure a child with measles.
In the worst case of this year's measles outbreak, the 12-year- ...
#73315 Barak under fire for coolness on Annapolis
by Mazal Mualem in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The perceived undermining of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's peace drive by Defense Minister and Labor leader Ehud Barak is drawing increasing fire from within his own party ranks.
Labor left wingers were the first to accuse Barak of sabotaging ...
#73316 Interpol issues wanted notices for Iranians
by Reuters in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
MARRAKESH, Morocco - Interpol issued wanted notices yesterday for six Iranians in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina in which 85 people were killed.
Despite heavy diplomatic pressure from Iran, delegates at the world ...
#73317 Professors are also on strike, just in case you haven't heard
by Tamara Traubman in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
As the university professors strike enters its third week, it appears to many professors that the action is overshadowed by the teachers strike, which appears to garner far more media coverage and public sympathy.
The professors action is conside ...
#73318 Bereaved author snubs PM at Emet Prize ceremony
by Jonathan Lis, Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Two Emet Prize winners yesterday used the award ceremony to make barbed political points.
Author David Grossman, whose son Uri died in last year's Lebanon war, snubbed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert while Justice (ret.) Aharon Barak used the occa ...
#73319 All in favor / Amnesty young guard forms lobby
by Shahar Ilan in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
»Amnesty International's youth members certainly know how to take advantage of the strike at secondary schools. They came to the Knesset yesterday morning going from one MK to another,
trying to persuade them to vote for two bills promoti ...
#73320 Akiva Eldar wins journalism prize
by Asaf Carmel in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Haaretz's senior military correspondent, Akiva Eldar, was awarded a prominent journalism prize from a co-existence group in New York yesterday.
The Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle Eastern Journalism are presented annually by Search for Comm ...
#73321 Who doesn't want their kid to be a Jewish doctor? Jewish doctors
by Yuval Azoulay in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Most doctors are not eager for their children to study medicine, according to a Geocartography poll commissioned by the Israel Medical Association. Only 35 percent of the 500 doctors polled last September would recommend the profession to their child ...
#73322 Justice minister micromanages bills through the system
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann has been personally drafting many of the bills concerning reforms in the judicial system, and submitting to the legislative department detailed drafts of bills he himself initiates.
The legislative department at t ...
#73323 Indictments expected in post-murder burglary
by Ronit Singer-Heruti in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Three suspects in a break-in at the home of an elderly murder victim are likely to be indicted on Sunday. The three broke into the Holon apartment of Shoshana Birnbach, who was allegedly murdered two and a half weeks ago by her nursing aide, a Moldov ...
#73324 Three Dutch couples named Righteous Among the Nations
by Cnaan Liphshiz in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The children of three Dutch couples received the title of Righteous Among the Nations yesterday in their deceased parents' names, the Israeli Embassy in the Hague told Haaretz.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority said it had posthu ...
#73325 Olmert leads in one poll: Most corrupt minister
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was judged the most corrupt member of government by the public during his second year in office according to the Sderot Conference, an annual gathering of experts which published its yearly report yesterday.
The Conferen ...
#73326 Brain drain takes quarter of Israeli academics
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Roughly 25 percent of all academics leave Israel, according to Dr. Dan Ben-David of the public policy department at Tel Aviv University. He put the number at between 1.5 percent and 4 percent for European countries.
Ben-David spoke at the Sderot C ...
#73327 Czech groups gear up to counter neo-Nazi demonstration in Prague
by Yehuda Lahav in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Czech citizens' groups aim to confront a planned neo-Nazi march through Prague's historic Jewish Quarter on Saturday, the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The police are preparing in case the confrontation becomes violent.
President Vaclav ...
#73328 Rabbi Nachman's Uman grave could be sold into private hands
by Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Bratslav Hasidim stand to lose control over the area surrounding the grave of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine, over a debt to a local businessman and MP. Members of the community are threatening to stage a protest and to disrupt the scheduled visit to ...
#73329 Haifa Sea Scouts prepared to brave Kishon waters
by Fadi Eyadat in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Alex Babin, 16, has become bored of having to take a boat into the water off Acre every Saturday. He wanted to take a boat out, as he used to, into the Haifa port so that he could gaze from the sea toward the buildings of the city on the slope of the ...
#73332 Curtains up in N.Y.
by Haim Handwerker in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
NEW YORK - The evening belonged to Asher Fisch, the musical director of the New Israeli Opera. Last Monday, New York hosted the opening event of the Friends of the Opera Society. Fisch, a conductor who sometimes also appears with New York City's ...
#73333 Refreshing the prosecution
by Haaretz editorial writer in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The search committee appointed for the purpose is slated to make its decision on a new state prosecutor next week. Its decision is a recommendation to the cabinet, which chooses the appointment. The committee can recommend one or more candidates. If ...
#73334 And after Annapolis, Gaza?
by Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
PRO: After the Annapolis summit there will be no more excuses, and the Israel Defense Forces can embark on a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip. First they said there was tension in the North and we should not open a front in the South, a ...
#73335 The right is to blame; the left is to blame
by Daniel Ben Simon in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
For years, they were taught to hate. Even after winning the leadership of the state, the right's leaders did not miss an opportunity to incite against the elite, the left, the Ashkenazim and the wealthy, describing them as the true lords of the ...
#73336 Do you have change for 15 billion shekels?
by Anar Shalev in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The university faculty strike, now in its third week, is a warning sign that must not be ignored. This sector is not strike-prone, and has demonstrated surprising patience in light of the ongoing salary erosion it has faced.
According to Central B ...
#73337 Deserting sovereignty
by Haaretz staff in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
The Sderot Conference for Social and Economic Policy taking place this week is only five years old, and already has an important place in the social discourse. This may be the reason why the state's leaders, apart from Defense Minister Ehud Bara ...
#73338 Inside Intel / The race against the bomb
by Yossi Melman in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
»The United Arab Emirates has assumed a central place in the United States' strategy to tighten an economic siege against Iran. The importance of the oil emirates, which are located on the
coast of the Persian Gulf, is growing as it becom ...
#73339 Court in Session / Men of letters
by Yuval Yoaz in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
"To the son of the gods, the light of the Bar Association, president of the Israel Bar Association, my outstanding teacher and leader." So opens the sardonic letter written this past Sunday by the chairman of the Israel Bar Association's nationa ...
#73340 Caretaker: I murdered elderly woman because she pestered me
by Ronit Singer-Heruti in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Nurse awakes from coma, tells police that she killed the woman because she commented on the man she was dating. ...
#73314 Lieberman urges defense minister to outlaw Arab leadership council
by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
»Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman demanded yesterday that Defense Minister Ehud Barak outlaw the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, the senior leadership body of Israel's Arab
citizens, although its official recognition is limited. ...
#73341 Higher Arab Monitoring Committee tells gov't to dismiss Lieberman
by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Call follows Lieberman's demand that the senior leadership council be outlawed. ...
#73342 Three tourists killed, two locals injured in Negev road accident
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
Two Americans, one German killed when car slams into a truck while making u-turn near Be'er Sheva. ...
#73343 Israeli stores recall toy found with elements of date-rape drug
by Bar Hion, AP in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
China-made toy being tested after Australian scientists discover coating on beads could metabolize into drug. ...
#73353 El Al plane from N.Y. hits flower crates at B-G Airport; no injuries
by Zohar Blumenkrantz in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
All 450 passengers disembark from plane without hindrance; authorities investigating cause of incident. ...
#73354 Father finds body of murdered son in Be'er Sheva apartment
by Mijal Grinberg in Ha'aretz, 8 November 2007
According to initial police investigations, victim's wife did not return home until after the time of the murder. ...
#73349 Beit Omer village attacked by Israeli troops; 19 civilians kidnapped
by Ghassan Bannoura in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 8 November 2007
»Israeli forces on Thursday morning invaded the village of Beit Omer, located near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, kidnapping at least 19 civilians. Local sources reported that the
civilians were kidnapped after at least 20 military veh ...
#73350 Israeli army invades Bethlehem area, 2 homes demolished
by Ghassan Bannoura in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 8 November 2007
» At least 15 Israeli military vehicles, and two army bulldozers, on Thursday morning invaded the village of al-Fourdess, located to the east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem,
demolishing two homes. Witnesses told IMEMC that troops ...
#73351 Israeli military invades Jenin and Salfit
by Nisreen Qumsieh in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 8 November 2007
»Israeli military forces invaded different the northern West Bank cities of Jenin and Salfit in the early hours of Thursday morning, searching and ransacking homes. Local source reported
that Israeli forces invaded the al-Taiyba and Kufr Dan v ...
#73352 Israeli military invades two mosques in Nablus; 6 kidnapped
by Ameen Abu Warda in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 8 November 2007
»Israeli military forces invaded on Thursday morning invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacking two mosques and kidnapping six Palestinians. Local sources reported that
soldiers attacked the mosques, located near the old city, se ...
#75495 Land (Swap) for Peace?
by Eetta Prince-Gibson in Jerusalem Post, 8 November 2007
From the top of Mt. Alexander the view to the west leads across Israel's central region and coastal plain to the Mediterranean Sea, glinting yellow and blue in the afternoon sunlight. To the southeast, the views of the Palestinian city of Jenin and t ...
#73630 Double disaster for Bethlehem family as the occupation destroys cousins' homes
by STW contributor in Stop the Wall, 8 November 2007
Occupation forces have destroyed the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khirbet Qasa, West Idna, to the west of Hebron city, driving 263 people from their homes. ...
#73307 Court delays Israeli bid to cut Gaza electricity
by Mark Lavie in The Guardian, 8 November 2007
The supreme court yesterday delayed by at least a week a move by Israel to cut the electricity supply to the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, after appeals from 10 human rights organisations.The appeals argued that cutting the supply of electricity to ...
#104903 What's the fuss about?
by Jonathan Steele in The Guardian, 8 November 2007