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Land Theft and Destruction

Another House Destroyed In Occupied East Jerusalem As Israel Orders Another 150 To Be Demolished
A Palestinian home was demolished on Monday and the foundations of another dismantled in the town of Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem. The home owner, Amjad At-Taleiqi, had his hands bound by Israeli soldiers as he tried to prevent the demolition of his house. Five other family members were forcibly evicted.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1122

Jerusalem village now closed by concrete blocks, only available route in or out is a bypass road
Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh for PNN – Police and border guards raided the Issawiya last night. The East Jerusalem village was hit Monday evening by Israeli forces that blocked in its main entrance with concrete.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7367

JCSER: Israel intends to demolish soon 150 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
The Jerusalem center for social and economic rights warned of new Israeli intents to demolish in the coming days some 150 Palestinian homes located in different neighborhoods and areas in Jerusalem.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7h5XIuQpaGobDwBABNUGCNkCnedW3IqJL2aKlCp0p1iG8IteXaV5orWxagWQbLLP9UHOJ1SgOz84ew3h0%2b2HSmCMIzotIeoNAIcPt6%2biHz7U%3d

Erekat: Israeli home demolitions part and parcel of settlement policy
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erakat condemned Israel’s continued demolition of Palestinian homes following the destruction of several Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem, including the home of the At-Taleiqi family, the official said in a statement Tuesday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=231945

Olive harvest becoming a competing photo-op, local call to move away from posturing and propaganda
Nablus / Amin Abu Wardeh for PNN – The first days of olive harvest saw aided by a number of people, but with a political twist. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank showed up to the fields ready to work in Ramallah. The Ramallah Information Service also broadcast images of Palestinian police helping West Bank farmers.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7364

Israel sees court rulings on Palestinian land as mere ’recommendations’
So what if the Supreme Court rules? In Israel those decisions are just recommendations, especially if they deal with Palestinian land. In most enlightened democratic countries, saying that decisions of the courts obligate the state authorities is like stating that the sun rises in the east. But that may not be so for Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120661.html

Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment

Update: Palestinian human rights activist being held without charges in indefinite solitary confinement
Here is an update on the case of Mohammad Othman, a Palestinian human rights activist who was detained over three weeks ago by Israel as he returned home from Norway where he had been discussing the boycott, divestment and sanction movement.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/10/update-palestinian-human-rights-activist-being-held-without-charges-in-indefinite-solitary-confinement.html

Don’t forgive, don’t forget
"Several hundred people rallied in downtown Beirut on Monday in a show of solidarity with the displaced residents of Nahr el Bared, the Palestinian refugee camp that was destroyed in spring 2007 when fighting broke out between Fatah Al-Islam militants and the Lebanese Army. The demonstration was staged days before a key court ruling that could put a halt to reconstruction, leaving some 30,000 people in temporary UN housing or squeezed into the outskirts of the camp indefinitely."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-forgive-dont-forget.html

World March for Peach and Nonviolence in West Bank’s Bethlehem Wednesday
Bethlehem / PNN – Holy Land Trust is sponsoring the Palestine-leg of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. It will reach Bethlehem on Wednesday, 14 October. The organizing NGO is working along with World Without Wars and has extended an open invitation.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7363

Activists occupy British supermarket in opposition to the sale of settlement produce
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/10/8628

Visa denied for Palestinian trainer in nonviolence: still awaiting explanation from State Department
Hikmart Bessisso-Naji a Palestinian, Muslim from Ramallah, ua scheduled to speak as part of the Partners for Peace tour: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Women Offer Perspectives on Building Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7369

Act for East Jerusalem
We as Scandinavians are very concerned about the developments in East Jerusalem. Israel is continuing a policy violating international law towards the Palestinian inhabitants of the area. We strongly urge our politicians to put pressure on the Israeli Government to end settlement expansion and annexation of Palestinian land and property.
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/10/8623

FIFA urged to give the red card to Israel
We challenge FIFA to live up to the letter and the spirit of its statutes and to seize this opportunity to prove to the world that it stands for a more just world by sending Israel an unmistakeable threat of exclusion. This would be an important victory for human rights — not only for the Palestinian people, but also for the international football community.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10826.shtml

David Rovics - the beautiful voice of the American Resistance
In a country which has practically turned into a world-wide symbol of the pretend and fake, it is an amazing thing to discover something so true, so powerful, so genuine that it leaves your head spinning. Have you ever felt the exhilarating feeling of coming out from a deep long dive and taking a lung-full of fresh sea-smelling water? Have you ever had the chance to breathe some pure oxygen? Or think of the proverbial glass of cool mineral water in the middle of a sun-scorched desert - any of these will convey to you what I felt when, for the first time in my life, I heard David Rovics’ songs last week.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/10/david-rovics-beautiful-voice-of.html

Aggression/Violence and Detainees

Israeli war jets strike Gaza smuggling tunnels
GAZA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Israeli war jets struck early on Wednesday the borderline area between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, and destroyed at least two smuggling tunnels, witnesses and security sources said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12227031.htm

Palestinian citizen killed in Israeli aerial raid, others detained in WB
A Palestinian citizen was killed on Wednesday and six others wounded in an Israeli air raid that targeted tunnels south of Rafah city south of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7heq0tYtSn7qbubo8v76FFZv6xZQgDPpMxgx%2bSUD6iKzTR3ptNVNnwDF5kORsAc6EWG3riuZ5chUahxdzPuZpf7ja%2fS9c%2bMbxYTQJtEOoZE4%3d

Jewish settlers assault farmers, IOF detain Jerusalemites
Jewish fanatic settlers on Wednesday assaulted Palestinian farmers near the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus city, while en route to reap their olive crops, local sources reported.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7hbyx9bj%2fYzjEwNKicqVRh%2bagOLYfwDIrq7YizXmLzXX17uGcmwei2r5Y5CVQdo90Tokdi3XCh2SgA5Mkc7BS4twSS6TWJrQTQ2HtftJ0XZY%3d

Officers suspended for destroying Palestinian cars
The new commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ Judea and Samaria Division yesterday suspended two divisional officers on suspicion that soldiers under their command destroyed cars belonging to West Bank Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120957.html

Tensions High In Several Areas Around Jerusalem Following Israel’s Restrictions On Old City
After Israeli provocation in Al-Aqsa Mosque late September, trepidation of religious Jews trying to intrude and take over the Islamic holy site had been brought out. The recent month was a holy period for Jews celebrating three of their most important holidays, but also a time of raised tension in Jerusalem and its neighborhoods.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1124

Clashes At Qalandya Checkpoint
Following the restrictions imposed by Israeli Army on Palestinians in Jerusalem, violent clashes took place last Friday at Qalandya checkpoint (Ramallah). Israeli soldiers were shooting rubber bullets and tear gas canisters against young Palestinians.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1123

Israeli forces detain three near Jerusalem
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli forces seized three Palestinians from the town of Beit Duqu, northwest of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=232070

Israel’s illegal detentions - 14 Oct 09
Two leading human rights groups in Israel have released a report that severely criticises Israel for detaining Palestinians for long periods of time without charges. The report says more than 300 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli jails without any legal basis. While Israeli authorities call this administrative detention, their opponents say it is undemocratic and illegal under international law. Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from the occupied West Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ErSFyMncQw&feature=player_embedded

Israel holds 335 Palestinians without trial: rights groups
JERUSALEM, Oct 14, 2009 (AFP) - Israel is currently holding 335 Palestinians without trial in breach of international law, two Israeli human rights groups said on Wednesday. Of the 335 Palestinians held in so-called administrative detention, one is a minor and three are women.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/AZHU-7WT3N6?OpenDocument

Wife of detainee appeals for his life
The wife of Ra’ed Awad Ashur, the detainee in IOA jails, has appealed to all human rights groups to save her husband’s life after suffering from severe heart and stomach pains.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7yaKwQkjk%2bY%2fY7EXtQdbKhnTcrtdrBJ6rhL6zLadprIubRgGbmpG7793ijzFlOiY%2bV5DgTnRv%2fyzO7jOFGOAW8GLAylzhDSO9yI9GTtu9lJE%3d

Humanitarian/Human Rights/Discrimination

Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 01- 07 Oct 2009
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7WT828?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P

Gaza suffering

"Hasan Shaban Zeyada, a senior psychologist at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) is convinced that many of the psychological problems underlying the addiction are "the consequence of living in this situation: the siege, internal division and the war"."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/gaza-suffering.html

Inside the Tunnels: How Gaza’s Underground Economy Works
A 30-foot drop was the only way into the dark, earthy abyss, and the Palestinian tunnel workers were giggling nervously at the prospect of a foreign journalist going for a plunge. It didn’t seem like a good idea. Apart from the descent, there had been Israeli air strikes for the past three days targeting the dense smuggling network that snakes beneath the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt. An Israeli F-16 was circling overhead at that very moment.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1929050,00.html

Lucky pasta, By Amira Hass
Lucky pasta! When an American senator discovered Israel bans importing pasta into the Gaza Strip, a storm broke out. And ever since, senior Israeli defense officials have included noodles on their list of permitted products. And calves, how did we forget them? That was approved by the highest levels of the Defense Ministry. After all, the bureaucrat-officers would never have dared violate the siege directives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120642.html

Palestinians: IDF destroying vehicles used to smuggle workers
B’Tselem quotes residents of south Mount Hebron area as saying soldiers torching vehicles used to smuggle Palestinians into Israel. Army says looking into allegations.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3789684,00.html

Fatah’s Shamelessness
Abbas slams Hamas of evading reconciliation pact
RAMALLAH, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slammed on Tuesday Gaza ruling Hamas movement, saying the Islamic movement made use of the UN fact-finding report on the Israeli war on Gaza last winter to evade signing a reconciliation pact in Cairo.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/13/content_12225651.htm

Abed Rabbo compares Hamas leader to Judas
Ramallah – Ma’an – Senior PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo called Hamas leader Khalid Mash’al a “Last Supper man” in an apparent reference to the biblical betrayer Judas on Tuesday. Abed Rabbo launched this latest attack on Hamas while speaking at a press conference alongside Fatah leader Muhammad Dahlan at the Palestinian Information Center in Al-Bireh, outside Ramallah. The official used the phrase “Last Supper man” multiple times during his remarks.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=231953

Yasir `Abd Rabbu now wants armed struggle against Israel
"Abed Rabbo also criticized Hamas for preventing Palestinian military groups from launching shells at Israeli targets bordering the Gaza Strip. He said Mash’al “wants to be nothing more than a border guard for Israel.”" If Muhammad Dahlan is the worst Palestinian, this one is one of the worst five or six. [end]
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/yasir-abd-rabbu-now-wants-armed.html

Abbas says Hamas leaders fled to Sinai during Israeli war on Gaza
"’I will say it for the first time,’ he said during a speech in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The leaders of Hamas escaped in ambulances to the Sinai and left our people to be slaughtered."
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1506835.php/Abbas-says-Hamas-leaders-fled-to-Sinai-during-Israeli-war-on-Gaza

Hamdan: Abbas went too far in his lies during Jenin speech
Osama Hamdan, the representative of Hamas Movement in Lebanon, stated Tuesday that Mahmoud Abbas went too far in his lies and exceeded the bounds of courtesy during the speech he made today in Jenin.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7EwIKZtahNIoGxQD1p26gRdvFc8UM%2bt6uefut6XXvPs5YQGzW%2b2x%2fqOedBVFssPBCsh8slqj0CHYmPpTm00lSlAdBwW5P44jyStkWvneUPt4%3d

The US-funded, collaborationist gangs
"The lackof progress toward that goal is starting to sap Palestinian public support for the forces and erode morale among troops, even as they win praise and fresh funding from Washington for their accomplishments. Meanwhile, the more the Palestinian Authority Security Forces cooperate with the U.S. and Israel to suppress Hamas, the more they threaten to undermine popular support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas — who is key to Washington’s Mideast peace effort. Popular anger at Mr. Abbas has already boiled over because of a series of concessions he made to Israel, under U.S. pressure, including his decision to withdraw support for a United Nations report that alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Mr. Abbas later reversed the decision, and supported the report. Israel has denied its forces acted improperly."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/us-funded-collaborationist-gangs.html

Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete
As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it was conducted against a poor, defenseless and physically trapped nation, united people of every color, race and religion. But among those who seemed utterly unmoved, unreservedly cold were some Palestinian officials in the West Bank.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15490

War Crimes

U.N. rights body opens door to new Gaza debate
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an extraordinary meeting this week on the occupied Palestinian territories, providing another chance for Israel’s critics to discuss a Gaza war crimes report.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE59C2VN20091013

Haaretz exclusive: Palestinian draft resolution on Goldstone, Gaza and Jerusalem
Haaretz obtains copy of draft that Israel believes was triggered by ’Israeli provocations in Jerusalem.’
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121025.html

Political Developments

Change? What change? U.S. to Egypt: Fatah-Hamas deal undermines Israel-PA talks
The United States sent a message to Egypt stating it does not support the proposed reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas as it would undermine negotiations with Israel, Haaretz has learned.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120633.html

State to Palestinians: Don’t Give Up on Us! Or on Yourselves!
As predicted/snarked, not the greatest day at the State Department press briefing. Spokesman P.J. Crowley gets asked about Fatah’s memo expressing disillusionment with President Obama.
http://washingtonindependent.com/63647/state-to-palestinians-dont-give-up-on-us-or-on-yourselves

US puts spotlight on Quartet goals for Palestinians (AFP)
AFP - The United States supports efforts at reconciling feuding Palestinian factions, as long as it produces a government that respects Quartet goals, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091013/pl_afp/mideastpoliticspalestinianusdiplomacy

PA demands UN censure Israel over Temple Mount, Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council’s deliberations over the Goldstone report on last winter’s Gaza offensive will also deal with Jerusalem, the Temple Mount riots and the siege of Gaza, according to a resolution the Palestinian Authority and a group of countries intend to submit.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120972.html

Inside Story - Turkey’s stand - 13 Oct 09
Turkey banned Israel from participating in an annual NATO exercise on Turkish soil. Is Turkey shifting its stance from a neutral player in the Middle East conflict? And can Israel afford to keep offending its biggest ally in the region?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF9U1l_Cfew&feature=youtube_gdata

Other News

Hamas denounces the murder of detained Abu Zuhri in Egyptian jails
Hamas mourned the death of Yousef Abu Zuhri, the brother of its spokesman in Gaza Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, who died Tuesday of torture in one of the Egyptian jails.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7uLR0KFXZmRZCzoZ%2bUU24aXfWB6BDitbGBYPcbfwqAK%2bZhG0lmv98Il2LcjH7%2fFAYx%2fUYechWTlb6hzE0p3ZfuOH6sYcgLzSzLDJcMVRPo6s%3d

’Two-state solution is a disaster’
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has since its formative years in the 1980s staunchly called for armed resistance against Israeli occupation and refused to acknowledge or participate in peace talks.
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/2009101451842607440.html

MIDEAST: Gaza Gets Ambitious With Mud
SHEIKH ZAYED, Gaza, Oct 13 (IPS) - On a searing summer morning, workers are adding layers to the mud-brick police station being constructed in Sheikh Zayed, northern Gaza. "We started building on Jun. 20," says Mohammed el-Sheikh ’Eid, a consultant engineer with Gaza’s Ministry of Interior. "Since this is the first time we’ve built something on this scale with mud bricks, we can’t estimate exactly how much longer it will take to complete. Maybe another two months or so."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48828

After the bombing, drug addiction strikes Gaza
Abu Ahmed lived through last winter’s Gaza war in a daze. Though the district where he lives was invaded by Israeli ground forces and came under heavy fire, including the use of white phosphorus shells, he felt little fear. For by then, the 45-year-old unemployed father of 10 was popping tablets of the painkiller Tramadol to feed an ever more dangerous habit."Of course you care about the children but [with the drugs] you forget about yourself," he explains. "You feel less frightened."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/after-the-bombing-drug-addiction-strikes-gaza-1802256.html

The real Israel
"Fascinating/depressing story on NPR about a group of Jewish "vigilantes" trying to stop interracial dating in Israel - and their shockingly inept approach: There is, apparently, an epidemic of possible miscegenation at work: Jewish girls are dating Arab boys, and someone has to stop it. So, since there’s apparently no shortage of available zealous busybodies who have nothing better to do after-hours, several troupes of vigilantes have formed amongst Jewish men who hope to "save" the young girls for themselves. With names like "Love of Youth" and "Fire for Judaism," they prowl those areas where teen couples are known to congregate and perform interventions with tactics not unlike those of abortion protesters, trying to save "problem cases" by administering lectures and disseminating CDs and literature on the dangers, presumably, of miscegenation." [end]
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/real-israel.html

Liberal arts...my potato
This is what I call academic freedoms, Zionist-style: "Shalem College, I can assure you, will not become yet another home to scholars who have made their reputations by negating the Zionist and Israeli narrative." I wonder: will scholars who have made their reputations by negating the Palestinian narrative be welcomed at the college? [end]
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/liberal-artsmy-potato.html

Analysis/Op-ed

Abbas; The Betraying President
In every occupation one finds a small group of occupied native puppets, who would betray and oppress their own people for the sake of fake political power positions and money granted by the occupier. As we find puppet President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, and puppet President Jalal Talabani in Iraq, we also find puppet President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank of Israeli occupied Palestine.
http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com/2009/10/abbas-betraying-president.html

Father Miguel D’escoto talks to the Real News Network about
Watch outgoing UN General Assembly President Father Miguel d’Escoto speak to The Real News Network about the United Nations and Palestine.
http://endtheoccupationblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/father-miguel-descoto-talks-to-real.html

Phyllis Bennis talks to Peace by Piece about Goldstone Report, International Law, Civil Society
Check out US Campaign Steering Committee member Phyllis Bennis talking to Jared Sandersfeld of "Peace by Piece" about the Goldstone Report, international law, and the role of civil society in promoting accountability for human rights violations.
http://endtheoccupationblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/phyllis-bennis-talks-to-peace-by-piece.html

The dark side of Tel Aviv | Abe Hayeem
The glitzy celebrations for the White City’s ’centenary’ airbrush over a complex history of colonialism. The centenary of Tel Aviv, a city said to date from 1909, has provided a useful opportunity to present the face of Israel as a hip country built by Jewish pioneers on empty sands. Its vibrant cosmopolitan flavour, its commercial centre, its Mediterranean beaches, its liberal society and culture, are seen as signifying a truly commendable Zionist enterprise. According to the blurb on the centenary celebrations "several dozen families gathered on the sand dunes on the beach outside Yafo to allocate plots of land for a new neighbourhood they called Ahuzat Bayit, later known as Tel Aviv".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/13/tel-aviv-origins-centenary

Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense
Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We’ve honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s performance at the UN, we’re delivering it with just the right tone of outrage: How dare anyone deny us the right to self-defense! How dare anyone deny us the right to fight back against terrorism! Very nice. Puts everyone else on the defensive. The right to self-defense is up there with motherhood and apple pie - who’s going to come out against it, especially for us, for Israel, for the Jews, for the people of the Holocaust? The right to self-defense - perfect. But I’d like to ask: Do the Palestinians also have the right to self-defense?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254861893834&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

Talking to Israelis is so useless
That’s not my headline, it’s Noam Sheizaf’s. It’s from his great blog Promised Land. Up until recently Sheizaf worked for the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv. Here he recounts a typical debate he gets into with fellow Israelis, and says it’s getting tiresome.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/10/talking-to-israelis-is-so-useless.html

Of tunnels, Goldstone and the ’peace process’
In late September 1996, a tunnel was dug under the Al-Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank almost immediately flared once the news was out. A mini-intifada ensued. The demonstrators accused the Israeli government of attempting to undermine the foundations of the mosque, threatening its collapse. The Israeli prime minister then was Benjamin Netanyahu.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=107483

Straight line, or zig zag line: it does not matter
"Kramer appeared quietly incensed. He said, "I thought to myself, well, certainly the early Zionist leaders knew that there was a tremendous demographic disadvantage. They were very much tilting against reality on the ground, and yet they didn’t despair. Because they knew something, I think, through their reading of history that perhaps this particular leader didn’t know. That history is not a straight line."" Oh, no. They should despair. It is over. Israel is doomed no matter how many years pass and no matter how many wars Israel win. It has no chances of life. It will be a small footnote in the long history of the Middle East. How much does the crusades occupy in Middle East history books? A chapter? Half a chapter? Maybe Israel on the long run will get a page or two. [end]
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/10/straight-line-or-zig-zag-line-it-does.html

Power Tripping: Jeopardizing the Palestinian Cause
Several droplets had barely dripped down the sides of a frozen Israeli-Palestinian conflict when a new blizzard iced them up again. The Goldstone report, nearing infamy, has transformed into a political groundhog. Both Israelis and Palestinians saw their shadows and ran back inside, ensuring six more weeks of winter.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15488

Book review: Palestinian views on suicide operations
In his new book The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, Nasser Abufarha examines the phenomena of Palestinian suicide operations. It is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, mostly in and around the northern town of Jenin. A native of the city, Abufarha interviewed families of suicide bombers, observed demonstrations and studied Palestinian cultural products that addressed suicide attacks. Asa Winstanley reviews for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10825.shtml