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Abbas asks Palestinians to drop arms Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said his people should drop their weapons in the struggle for a state, marking out a clear change of strategy for peace with Israel after Yasir Arafat's death last month....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:06pm PST
Syria: Bomb shows Israel does not want peace DAMASCUS: Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah said Tuesday that the bombing of a car belonging to a member of the Palestinian movement Hamas in Damascus showed Israel continued to reject peace....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:54pm PST
Hariri: Oslo has led to a dead end Dubai: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has criticized international attempts to solve the Arab Israeli conflict.
Speaking on the second day of the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, Hariri said Western peace proposals, including the current U.S.-backed "road map," are "all based on the premise that the Palestinian people should prove that they deserve a separate state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:53pm PST
Israel's nuclear weapons and Iran's and the Arabs' call for a nuclear free zone Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iran has repeatedly called for a nuclear-free Middle East. Guess who opposes that idea? The United States. Guess why? Israel is the only country in the Middle East that really does have nuclear weapons. Israel has also refused to sign the non-proliferation treaty and refuses to allow international inspections. And it is Israel that views Iran as a threat.
But in the perverted world of Washington, a Muslim country that has signed the n...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:42am PST
Israeli forces shell Palestinian school in Khan Yunis PCHR strongly condemns the latest attack committed by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) this morning, when they fired an artillery shell at a school in Khan Yunis, wounding 7 Palestinian schoolchildren under the age of 9. PCHR is increasingly concerned for attacks by IOF on educational institutions, threatening the lives and safety of children, even in places where full protection is supposed to be offered to them in all circumstances....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:46pm PST
The Slow Creep of Israel’s annexation of Palestine First they were told that they were building a wall between the two populations for the protection of both.
….. Then they were told them that the wall on their land was necessary for the protection of Israel.
Then they told the Palestinian farmers on whose land the wall rests that they would have unlimited access to their lands……after which gates were erected along the wall – gates which would be opened only three times a day.
…. Then the Palestinian farmers were told that if they wa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:14pm PST
Israel attempts to kill Hamas member in Damascus using car bomb? A member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas escaped unhurt on Monday when a bomb blew up his car in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Palestinian source said....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 9:43am PST
Israelis shoot and kill another Palestinian girl Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday......
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:07am PST
Hamas Considers Joining PLO "Hamas spokesman said that Hamas sees the PLO as 'one of the great achievements by the Palestinian people that must be preserved'.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:15pm PST
Noam Chomsky: Reshaping History "Since the issue of Palestinian national rights in a Palestinian state reached the agenda of diplomacy in the mid-1970s, 'the prime obstacle to its realization', unambiguously, has been the United States government, with the Times staking a claim to be second on the list.."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:14pm PST
Barguthi quits Palestine presidential race Jailed intifada leader Marwan al-Barghuti has called off his campaign to become Palestinian president and has thrown his support behind PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas....
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 12:43pm PST
12/13 SF&Oakland Protest Anti-Palestinian Celebration On December 13, 2004, the pro-Israel AIPAC will be fundraising in San Francisco and Oakland, with lots of Democratic Party politicians invited to participate. Please protest this genocidal front for US imperialism by telling all the Democrats & Republicans in your phone book to stop supporting Israel, and they all do by definition. Also, attend the demonstrations....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:17pm PST
12/13 SF&Oakland Protest US Friends of Israel On December 13, 2004, the pro-Israel AIPAC will be fundraising in San Francisco and Oakland, with lots of Democratic Party politicians invited to participate. Please protest this genocidal front for US imperialism by telling all the Democrats & Republicans in your phone book to stop supporting Israel, and they all do by definition. Also, attend the demonstrations....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 3:04pm PST
University professor faces campaign of censorship and intimidation by pro-Israel groups ...the class that this propaganda machine is targeting, my "Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies" course, is one of a number of courses offered at Columbia that cover the Palestinian/Israel conflict. All the others have an Israel-friendly perspective, including Naomi Weinberger's "Conflict Resolution in the Middle East", Michael Stanislawski's "History of the State of Israel, 1948-Present" and a course offered in my own department by my colleague Dan Mi...
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 10:16am PST
Palestinian presidential candidate arrested at border A candidate in next month's Palestinian presidential election was detained briefly Friday by Israeli authorities after allegedly assaulting a border policeman at a checkpoint....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:57am PST
Israeli troops re-invade Gaza refugee camp Israeli occupation forces in tanks have re-occupied the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunus, a day after they shot and killed a Palestinian girl....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:49am PST
Running for the cause: Interview With Wife Of Marwan Barghouti This week proved to be an especially deciding one for Israel, the Palestinians and perhaps even neighbouring Arab states, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem...
Posted: Thu, Dec 9, 2004 3:44pm PST
37th Anniversary of the PFLP 
Sec. Gen. Ahmad Sadaat was handed over to the joint CIA-MI5 custody by Yasser Arafat in 2002. He remain in custody in Jericho. This was called the Muqata Deal....
Posted: Thu, Dec 9, 2004 1:30pm PST
Al-Barghuthi denies quitting election race Palestinian presidential candidate Marwan al-Barghuthi has denied reports that he has ruled himself out of the upcoming election....
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 3:28pm PST
Israeli soldiers beat election candidate Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa al-Barghuthi has accused Israeli soldiers of molesting him and trying to disrupt the upcoming election....
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 3:25pm PST
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