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Halting Raids, Releasing Prisoners Key for Truce: Hamas
CAIRO, March15 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Hours before taking part in an inter-Palestinian dialogue hosted by Egypt, Hamas said reaching a formal ceasefire with Israel is conditional on the release of all Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails and halting incessant incursions against the Palestinian people....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 8:53am PST
Sharon rejects Palestinian truce offer
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected a ceasefire agreement with Palestinian factions, saying his government cannot accept a proposal that does not give up the terror option....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 8:08am PST
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 4.8MB)
This is a summary of israeli War Crimes in Palestine for the week ending 10 March 2005. 5mins (english)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 10:31pm PST
Hamas has no choice
This evening, under Egyptian auspices, and presumably in the presence of Syrian representatives, the various Palestinian factions will meet in Cairo for what may well be remembered as one of the most important gatherings in the history of the Palestinian national movement....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 8:37pm PST
Jericho handover to PA control to take place Wednesday
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef met Monday night in Herzliya, and overcame the major stumbling blocks in the talks on Israel's handover of five West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority's security responsibility....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 8:32pm PST
Single minds, double standards, and plural societies: One month on in Lebanon
Laurie King-Irani, The Electronic Intifada, 13 March 2005...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 8:31pm PST
Israel: Settlements still expanding
Construction on illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank continues unabated even as the Israeli cabinet has committed itself to their evacuation, the Israeli press reported....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:18pm PST
Israeli wall to engulf Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the final route of the illegal barrier around Jerusalem that will include Jewish settlements in parts of the West Bank, officials said....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:34am PST
Report: Abbas to offer giving up Right of Return
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will tell Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo Tuesday that the right of return of refugees should be looked upon "realistically," and that not all exiled Palestinians will be able to return to former homes in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the London-based Asharq al Awsat newspaper reported Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:32am PST
Sharon says truce not enough, demands to disarm Palestinian groups
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held an indirect exchange of views Sunday night, starting with Abbas telling Israel's Channel 1 that, after the anticipated announcement this week of a formal cease-fire by all the Palestinian factions, he would be ready for full-scale diplomatic talks....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:08am PST
Fatah, Hamas supporters clash
Supporters of Palestinian Islamic resistance group Hamas and the ruling Fatah movement have clashed at a university in Hebron in a brawl over student council elections....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:06am PST
Report highlights costs of occupation for Israeli society
A new report from the Tel Aviv-based Adva Centre has detailed Israel’s massive expenditures on the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Successive governments have spent billions of dollars on the expansion of settlements in West Bank and Gaza, and on the suppression of Palestinian resistance. These costs have been placed squarely on the backs of the Israeli working class, which has seen a sustained assault on its wages, conditions and social benefits....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 7:54am PST
Hamas to contest legislative elections
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has decided to participate in legislative elections in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip this summer....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 7:45am PST
Budrus tears down the Wall!
1. Budrus tears down the Wall!
2. PalestineCalendar.org Honors Rachel Corrie...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 2:14pm PST
Beating Israel's activist deportation system, this time
K. Flo Razowsky, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:08am PST
The Vision of a Blind Woman
Sami Abu Salem writing from Occupied Gaza, Live from Palestine, 7 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:06am PST
Defusing Israel's "demographic bomb"
Israel has long lived in fear of the so-called "demographic bomb" -- the fact that the Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories is increasing much faster than the Israeli Jewish population. While Israeli Jews thought the day they would become a minority was perhaps still twenty years away, the evidence is increasing that the bomb has already exploded and Palestinians are already a majority in historic Palestine, as they were until Israel was created....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:05am PST
Cracks within Fatah
Pressured by the quiet growth of Hamas, the movement behind Abbas may soon be ripe to fall, writes Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:04am PST
Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2005...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 10:55am PST
BTL:Peace Process Bound to Fail if Israel Expands West Bank Settlements
Interview with Dr. Jeff Halper, coordinating director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 5:17am PST