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Israeli communications said to prove IAF knew Liberty was U.S. ship

The Israel Air Force warplanes and Israel Navy warships that attacked the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, at the height of the Six-Day War, were aware that the vessel was an American spy ship, according to new testimony published Thursday in the Chicago Tribune. The report stated that the U.S. National Security Agency - to which the intelligence gathering ship belonged - was able to intercept IAF communications according to which, at some stage, the pilots identified the ship as American but were nonetheless instructed to push ahead with the attack.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=909552&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

ACTION ALERT: PACBI: Celebrating Peace or Camouflaging Apartheid?
On October 18th, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and international figures with the support of some Palestinians, is organizing a public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event will include performances by renowned artists Brian Adams and Ilham Madfa’i. As stated on the organization’s English webpage, the objective of the event is to “mark the first time that massive numbers of Israelis and Palestinians gather simultaneously to unite against violent extremism.”
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/10/03/pacbi-celebrating-peace-or-camouflaging-apartheid/

Policeman injured, 4 settlers arrested in West Bank
Clashes break out near illegal outpost after some 2,000 right-wing activists begin construction of new outposts. IDF declares area closed military zone, says arrival at outposts is criminal offense.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3454955,00.html

Israel to move police into West Bank headquarters near Jerusalem, despite U.S. concerns
Israel is determined to move police to a new West Bank headquarters by the end of the year, officials said Monday, despite U.S. concerns that Israeli development in that particular area near Jerusalem harms prospects for establishing a viable Palestinian state.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/01/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-West-Bank.php

Idea Raised of Two Capitals in Jerusalem
Five former State Department and Pentagon officials are proposing Israeli and Palestinian capitals in Jerusalem and excluding Arab refugees from returning to Israel as part of an Middle East accord.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPLQ9iElQrF39jrvDOvdjHr5UUYAD8S29A8G0

Hamas warns of catastrophic Gaza medicine shortage
Hamas warned on Thursday of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip which it has run for more than three months due to a dire shortage of basic medical supplies. “We are warning of a real humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip if medicine doesn’t enter Gaza,” the health minister in the dismissed Hamas government, Bassem Naim, told reporters in Gaza City. Gaza health authorities are suffering from a shortage of essential medicines, especially cancer and nephrotic drugs, Naim said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/wl_mideast_afp/mideastgazahealth_071004132914;_ylt=Ak5ef5MTcHHH4LBs6bOV0JCaOrgF

Fatah charges Hamas stormed its Gaza offices
Gaza- A senior official in President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement Wednesday charged that Islamic Hamas movement’s police had stormed its main headquarters in Gaza City and forced its workers to leave. Hazem Abu Shanab, Fatah spokesman in Gaza, told reporters that Hamas police forces stormed the building where the movement’s headquarters are “and forced the employees under the threats of guns to evacuate the place.”
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/118379.html

Bomb hits Hamas patrol in Gaza City, 3 hurt
A bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying members of a Hamas security force in the Gaza Strip early on Thursday, injuring at least three people, Hamas officials and medical workers said. Hamas officials said the Gaza City blast appeared to have been caused by a roadside bomb aimed at a Hamas patrol. The three injured were members of Hamas’s Executive Force.
http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04126947.htm

Abbas sees six-month timeframe for peace talks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s government said on Thursday formal negotiations to create a Palestinian state could be completed six months after a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL047301943.html

UN: Brazil absorbs 36 Palestinians who fled Iraq in 2003
Three dozen Palestinians who fled Iraq to Jordan and lived in a squalid desert camp for more than four years were flown to Brazil on Thursday for resettlement, the United Nations refugee agency said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=909556&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

We will not be silenced
The cancellation of the Palestinian academics’ UK speaking tour amounts to censorship and bullying, writes Amjad Barham.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2181968,00.html

Two Knights and a Dragon, By Uri Avnery
THERE ARE books that change people`s consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe`s 1851 `Uncle Tom`s Cabin`, which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the abolition of slavery. Others take the form of a political treatise, like Theodor Herzl`s `Der Judenstaat`, which gave birth to the Zionist movement. Or they can be scientific in nature, like Charles Darwin`s `The Origin of Species`, which changed the way humanity sees itself. And perhaps political satire, too, can shake the world, like `1984` by George Orwell.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22635

In the wall’s shadow: museum of Palestinian detainees
Abu Dis, West Bank- Jesus Christ was the first political detainee in Palestine, maintains a new West Bank museum which focus on Palestinian detainees and is located on the premises of al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem. “This is the Via Dolorosa,” says head of trustees Abdelaziz Abdul-Baki , as he points to a miniature stone bridge in the front court, which leads across a field of cacti.
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/In_the_wall_s_shadow_museum_of_Pale_10032007.html

Checkpoints in August 2007
Observations of Machsom Watch - an organisation of Israeli women against the occupation and for human rights- “The village Hirbat Asla, in the district of Qalqilia, owned 6000 dunams of land before the construction of the fence. Now, 70% of the land is trapped on the western side of the fence. An agricultural gate is installed in the fence a km to the west from the way that leads from the village to the lands. Through this gate the farmers are supposed to reach their plots. The gate is far from the lands and cannot be reached by a tractor or any other vehicle. So they have to make the rocky mountainous path on foot or on donkey, and thus they are practically prevented from cultivating their vineyards.”
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22626

Palestinians struggle in dire straits
Hassan is 53, but the lines on his face suggest a man at least 20 years older; when asked to describe what his life is like he uses a single word: “al-mawt” (death). He is a charcoal-burner in the blackened, smoke-filled valleys around Yabad, in the northern West Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7027405.stm

My Favorite ’Anti-Semite’
The utterly charming thing about the Zionist Thought Police is their apparent inability to restrain themselves, even from the very excesses that will prove to be their own undoing. Having asked sane and rational people to believe that Jimmy Carter is a Holocaust denier simply for pointing out the obvious about the apartheid regime Israel maintains in the occupied territories, the same crew now want us to believe that Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an anti-Semite. No jokes! That was the reason cited for Tutu being banned from speaking at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis. “We had heard some things he said that some people judged to be anti-Semitic and against Israeli policy,” explained university official Doug Hennes.
http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/03/my-favorite-anti-semite/

Dissenting at your own risk
Last year, I agreed to speak to a Jewish youth group about my organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, and our opposition to Israel’s occupation. My talk was to follow one from a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which calls itself “America’s pro-Israel Lobby.” A week before, a shaken program leader said the AIPAC staffer had threatened to get the entire youth program’s funding canceled if I was allowed in the door. The threat worked, and in disgust, they canceled the whole talk.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/10/04/dissenting-at-your-own-risk/

Harvard law school expels star student for ’holocaust denial’
CAMBRIDGE, Mass (AP) What began as a minor citation in a scholarly work ended up causing Noor Aljiem to be expelled from Harvard Law School. Aljiem, a third-year student majoring in criminal law, submitted a paper that examined Nazi travesties of criminal law, and received an ’A’ grade. She was set to graduate Summa Cum Laude at the end of this semester, but the university law school was forced to reconsider her status when criminal law professor Alan Dershowitz criticized Njiem’s scholarship.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/10/03/harvard-law-school-expels-star-student-for-holocaust-denial/

Where is the occupation?
The de facto separation is today more similar to political apartheid than an occupation regime because of its constancy.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=909327&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4

Na’ima is threatening the Jewish majority
Jerusalem public schools: Separate, unequal, & leaving Palestinian children behind.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909323.html

“Amen” for Israel, say Christian Zionists
“Coming here just does something inside of me,” McCaleb said at Shiloh, a holy Jewish site in the occupied West Bank where the Bible says the Ark of the Covenant once rested. “This land belongs to God, and God gave it to the Jews.”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0219167620071002

Hillary’s Position on Jerusalem Directly Contradicts Bill’s
Israeli writer and journalist Gershom Gorenberg is clearly horrified by Hillary Clinton’s position on Jerusalem. And he lives there! Writing in The American Prospect, he says that Hill’s position opposing a shared united city is strikingly different than the 42nd President’s.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/oct/03/hillarys_position_on_jerusalem_directly_contradicts_bills

Audio: Crossing the Line interviews sportswriter Dave Zirin
This week on Crossing The Line: In the second part of a two part series, host Christopher Brown speaks with Joel Kovel, scholar, lecturer and author of the book Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Democratic State In Israel/Palestine. Kovel discusses the unattainable “pipe dream” of a two-state solution which many have been pushing as a solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Next, Brown speaks with award-winning sportswriter, Dave Zirin author of three books including Welcome To The Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports. Brown asks Zirin about the tactic of isolating Israeli sports teams from international competitions — as was done with South Africa — as an effective tool to end the occupation.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9025.shtml

Iran’s “international mission” to limit Israeli power
Tehran- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had an “international mission” to stop Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. “Iran has an international mission and those who believe the country should solely focus on domestic issues are wrong and efforts should also be made to reform international issues as well,” IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a Tehran mosque on Wednesday.
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Iran_s_international_mission_to_lim_10042007.html

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