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Palestinian elections: A democratic exercise in futility At first glance, the beginning of 2005 seems like a fresh breath in Israel-Palestine -- the U.S. and Israel have just seen the death of the "non-partner" Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pushing his Gaza disengagement plan, and this weekend the Palestinians will be having their first presidential elections in nearly ten years. But time will likely prove that these are false prospects for hope, and that the region, and the Palestinians in particular, will continu...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:16pm PST
Palestinians recruit Gere for elections On January9 , Palestinians living in the occupied territories will elect a president of the Palestinian Authority in the second general elections in nearly eight years....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 9:36am PST
Palestine: Elections under fire A week ago Ariel Sharon promised the world that Israel will "make possible a free, fair and effective Palestinian election". So much for that, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 9:21pm PST
Abbas Calls for Peace Talks After Poll ERUSALEM, 7 January 2005 — PLO leader and top contender Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called for peace talks with Israel after the Jan.9 Palestinian presidential election, a sharp contrast to days of hard-line campaign pronouncements that included his labeling Israel the “Zionist enemy.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 9:13pm PST
Seven Palestinian Children Killed in Strawberry Fields by Israeli Anti-Personnel Shells Israeli anti-personnel shells, which throw out thousands of metal darts in a deadly cloud that rips apart everything it encounters, killed seven children between the ages of ten and 17 in a strawberry field in northern Gaza yesterday. Dr. Mohamed Sultan of the Beit Lahiya hospital said eleven were also wounded, four critically. Two of the survivors had double leg amputations, another a single leg amputation....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 5:39pm PST
Israeli bar on voting slammed A Palestinian government official has criticised as illegal an Israeli supreme court decision to bar Palestinian prisoners from voting in Sunday's presidential elections....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:14am PST
Palestine: The election buzz Arjan El Fassed writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:12am PST
On the Narrow Shoulders of Abu Mazen Roni Ben Efrat, Challenge magazine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:11am PST
34 IDF officers sign refusal petition Thirty-four reserve officers served a petition to their company commander Wednesday informing him that they would not obey orders to evacuate settlements as part of the disengagement plan....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 1:25am PST
Palestinian elections / PA candidate demands campaign funding investigation Bassam al-Salhi, the nominee of the Palestinian People's Party (formerly the Communist party) for chairman of the Palestinian Authority, held a press conference Monday where he attacked Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, an independent candidate in this Sunday's vote, who until two years ago was a member of the same party. Al-Salhi demanded that the PA Central Election Committee investigate Barghouti's funding sources....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:26am PST
Hamas hits Israeli military base Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades have claimed responsibility for firing two mortar shells at an Israeli military base, according to a statement....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:08am PST
Digests: Nablus, Settler Protest and Jayyous A) 2005: in with a bang in Nablus
B) First Impressions and a Sub-Machine Gun
C) Olive Tree Planting Protest in Jayyous...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 8:16pm PST
Dichter: Far-right activists may create pretext to fire on troops Far-right activists opposed to the dismantling of settlements are planning to create a pretext to open fire on soldiers during the evacuation, Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 2:38pm PST
Haaretz on the Palestinian Election as in Iraq, there seems to be some manipulation of the electoral process
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/522670.html...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:54pm PST
Israeli shell kills seven in Gaza Seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli tank fire in northern Gaza....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 9:46am PST
Israeli soldier 'urged revolt' The Israeli army says a soldier has been arrested for calling on his comrades to refuse to evacuate a West Bank settlement outpost. It is the first case of its kind....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 9:44am PST
Israel arrests Palestinian candidates In an apparent effort to forestall gains by Hamas in Palestinian elections, the Israeli army has arrested a large number of potential candidates in the southern part of the West Bank....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 9:43am PST
Ramzy Baroud: How About Mustafa Barghouti as an Alternative? "Even before his almost certain victory, Abu Mazen has insisted on providing a model of the PA’s political line under his leadership.."...
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 11:20pm PST
A View from Syria on the Palestinian Right to Return "We travel in the chariots of the Psalms, sleep in the tents of the prophets, and are born again in the language of Gypsies/Ours is a country of words: Talk. Talk/Let me see an end to this journey."
Mahmoud Darwish, "We Travel Like All People," from Fewer Roses, 1986...
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 11:16pm PST
Updates on Kate Raphael and Jayyous A) Jayyous Reclaims its Land
B) Protest Against the Wall in Bil'in
C) PRESS RELEASE: ISRAEL ONLY ACCEPTS JEWS WHO SUPPORT SETTLEMENTS
D) Ha'aretz Daily: U.S. peace activist in prison facing second deportation...
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 2:44pm PST
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