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Israeli soldiers accused of tampering with corpses A military police investigation was ordered yesterday by the Israeli Chief of Staff into allegations that soldiers had tampered with the bodies of dead Palestinians and posed for photographs with the corpses....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:32pm PST
US Churches Take Stand Against Israeli Occupation WASHINGTON, 20 November 2004 — Appalled by squalid living conditions of Palestinians in the occupied territories, several American churches have decided to take a stand against the Israeli occupation by proposing a “divestment of holdings by multinational corporations doing business with Israel” who, they say, are profiting from the occupation.
The possible divestment process could result in the sale of stock in June2006 ....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:25pm PST
The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago November 16, 2004 - He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 1:53pm PST
World must take firm stand on free elections in Palestine Adri Nieuwhof and Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2004...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:25am PST
Gaza's blocked arteries 
It is a public holiday in Gaza - with Eid and the period of official mourning for Yasser Arafat - so there is no better time to sample what it is like for Palestinians travelling through the Israeli-occupied strip.
Gaza is a 40km by 5km (25-mile by three-mile) ribbon of land along the south-east corner of the Mediterranean Sea, home to some 1.3 million Palestinians and 8,000 Jewish settlers....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:35pm PST
Egypt furious after Israel kills policemen CAIRO: Cairo lodged a formal protest Thursday after the Israeli Army killed three Egyptian border policemen by mistake, threatening to plunge their delicate diplomatic ties into crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to defuse the row by personally calling President Hosni Mubarak to express "deep sorrow" over the incident on the Gaza border and promised to keep him abreast of an official investigation....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:16pm PST
Palestinian groups to field candidate Five Palestinian factions have agreed to field a joint candidate in the 9 January presidential election to replace the late Yasir Arafat, an official said.
Two of the groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, boycotted the previous Palestinian election in 1996. Both factions rejected Arafat's interim peace deals with Israel....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 2:57pm PST
Israel releases senior Hamas leader A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:52am PST
Settlers' assaults bar Palestinians from attending school Some 20 Palestinian children from the south Hebron hills area cannot attend school due to continuing harassment and assaults by residents of the nearby outpost of Havat Maon....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:47am PST
What Palestinians should do now The first priority for Palestinian leaders now must be to defend their people against Israel's relentless colonization and violence and not to negotiate with Israeli guns to Palestinian heads. They must formulate a national strategy to regain Palestinian rights enshrined in UN Resolutions, clearly explain this strategy, and organize Palestinians and allies everywhere to struggle for it, starting with full implementation of the ICJ decision on the West Bank wall. Palestinians should seek to em...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:26am PST
Letter to editor of Sacramento Union re: Hateful article after Arafat's death This is a letter to the editor I wrote to the Sacramento Union after they printed a vitriolic diatribe against Arafat (more suited to the 'comments' section of an indymedia site) as an editorial in their paper on Nov. 12, 2004. After receiving many complaints, they printed a 'response' on Nov. 15, defending the article and continuing their false and racist statements against Arafat and the Palestinian people....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 6:39am PST
Settlers Burn Palestinian Olive Groves At approximately 8:00AM, Palestinians and international human rights activists attempted to enter Palestinian-owned land in Awarta, South East of Nablus, in order to harvest the olives.
Illegal settlers from Itamar Settlement are being protected by the Israeli Army as they burn an unknown number of Palestinian olive trees. Palestinians refused to sell their olives to the settlers, who then began to burn the trees in retaliation....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:03pm PST
Israel probes soldiers' misconduct The Israeli army has launched an inquiry into allegations that soldiers posed for photographs alongside bodies of several Palestinians killed in the occupied territories....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:00pm PST
Israeli tank kills Egyptian soldiers Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed by an Israeli tank crew on the border between occupied Gaza and Egypt.
Aljazeera's correspondent in Ram Allah reported on Thursday that all three soldiers had been on their side of the border near the Rafah border crossing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 10:58pm PST
Arafat loyalists view succession favorite with suspicion 'If occupation continues, it will not be possible to have cease-fire'...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 4:56pm PST
Black Muslims Respond to Arafat's Death Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, 75, died of unknown causes in Paris early on the morning of Nov. 11. His death is quickly capturing the attention of leaders across the globe.
Some remember Arafat for his continuous quest for peace within Israel, as well as his much-documented push to create an independent Palestinian state. But others remain less inspired about the legacy he has left, finding disfavor with his political strategies and even charging that he was corrupt.
But Akbar Muham...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 9:23pm PST
IDF officer reprimanded after anti-Palestinian statement by soldier An Israel Defense Forces platoon commander was reprimanded on Wednesday after he threw a yarmulke on the ground, when a religious soldier said Palestinian towns should be wiped off the face of the Earth, Israel Radio said....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 8:49pm PST
NATO invites Israel to joint exercises BRUSSELS - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has suggested that the Israel Defense Forces, for the first time, take part in multinational military exercises and participate in anti-terror activities such as patrols in the eastern Mediterranean Sea....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 5:31pm PST
Hamas not to run in Palestinian election Hamas will not participate in January's election to replace Yasir Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority, the movement's leader in the Gaza Strip has said.
"The presidential election is illegal," Mahmud Zahhar told reporters as he entered talks with the new head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Mahmud Abbas....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 4:04pm PST
Al-Aqsa Brigades endorse al-Barghuthi 
The Palestinian resistance group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades says it is opposed to Mahmud Abbas as Yasir Arafat's successor and would instead back jailed West Bank Fatah leader Marwan al-Barghuthi.
A spokesman said: "We do not support Abu Mazin [Abbas] for the election and we have decided to vote for Marwan Barghuthi to be our candidate for president."...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 8:33am PST
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