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American Premier of Historic Palestinian Photographs by Hanna Safieh on Display during Palestinian Film Festival October 1 – 3...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week made a clear threat to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an interview to mark the Jewish New Year holiday. Sharon reiterated an earlier threat to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories at a “convenient” time. But he went on to stress that he saw no difference between Arafat and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March, and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed the following month....

Obeid slammed the U.S. Congress' latest call on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and U.S. criticism of Syria and Lebanon on human rights grounds. "The U.S. Congress would do better to focus on human rights violations in the West Bank and in Iraq." He said Lebanon was being asked to deal with the issue of the national anti-Israeli resistance without bearing in mind that there is Lebanese land still under Israeli occupation....

"It is hard to defeat youngsters who refuse to cooperate with continuous anomaly. It is hard to prevent the trickling down of the objectors' message, and hard to ignore their accumulative influence on the revulsion the public feels toward the occupation and the settlement movement, which prevents putting an end to it."...

The UN Security Council, tasked with the protection and maintenance of international peace and security, was established to enforce the aims and principles of the United Nations. And the council’s decisions are, most of the time, in accordance with those lofty aims. However, the situation has changed after the world came to live under the “new world order”. Under this new dispensation, the Security Council has lost its objectivity and its decisions have come to serve the interests of larger c...

To our east lay the illegal settlement of Netzarim, its 400 inhabitants living in a world within a world. A little more than 8000 settlers occupy approximately 40% of the land in the Gaza Strip; about 1.3 million Palestinians live on the remaining 60%....

Vanunu, who blew the whistle on Israel's Dimona reactor, seeks refuge as a Palestinian citizen from the tyranny of Israeli society. Watch for many radicals taking Palestinian citizenship and the Intifada returning, on a much bigger scale. Israeli society....

The meetings came in the wake of a World Bank report on the repercussions of Mr Sharon's plan to unilaterally withdraw settlers from the Gaza strip and four West Bank colonies while reinforcing Israel's control over other parts of the occupied territories. The World Bank called for Israel to allow much greater freedom of movement by Palestinians to help revive the Palestinian economy....

Since August 15, more than 3,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the strike protesting conditions that are contrary to both international as well as Israel's own military law. Another 4,000 prisoners are expected to join the strike in the upcoming days, including women, children and prisoners....

1. International Solidarity Movement, (ISM), Activists Join Palestinian Political Prisoners and Stage Hunger Strike; Women and Children, Joined by ISM, March in Tulkarem to Support Prisoner Demands 2. Interview with Fadwa Barghouti, Wife of Imprisoned Marwan Barghouti 3. Update on British Journalist Detained 21 Days as of September 1, 2004...