Gulf Daily News
RAMALLAH: Bankers in the Palestinian territories worry less about boardroom battles and more about the daily fight to stay in business.
The threat of US sanctions has stopped banks dealing with the government. Disgruntled state workers, largely unpaid since March, have been vandalising automated teller machines and other bank property. And the economy is in freefall. Some experts say the chaos threatens the long-term viability of the 11 Palestinian banks operating in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. A dozen Arab banks with branches here have also been badly hurt. Comment: All according to plan.
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Reuters
Oct 25, 2006 Israel denied a German newspaper report on Wednesday that two of its air force planes had fired twice as they flew over a German navy vessel patrolling the Lebanon coast.
Comment: Israel has been known to attack their "allies" before, such as the shameful USS Liberty incident.
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PNN
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PNN
Thursday, 26 October 2006 Israeli prison authorities have just announced that all Palestinians arrested at Nablus' Hawara checkpoint over the Eid al-Fitr holiday have been taken to Qadumim Prison east of Qalqilia. The prison, which lies inside the illegal Israeli settlement of Qadumim, is notorious for its stories of prisoner abuse and neglect. Lawyer Fayez Alzerba told PNN, "I was surprised to hear that those arrested had been taken to Qadumim."
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(Jenin) Ali Samoudi
PNN For many Palestinian towns, not a day of Eid al-Fitr passed without some form of arbitrary military action by the Israeli forces. This year's holiday, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, included Israeli forces storming homes, harassing farmers, and arresting Palestinian young people.
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Thursday October 26, 2006
Jonathan Cook Palestine Chronicle.com As a coup de grace, Lieberman has recently demanded the execution for treason of any Arab parliamentarian who talks to the Palestinian leadership.
The furore that briefly flared this week at the decision of Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to invite Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party into the government coalition is revealing, but not in quite the way many observers assume. Lieberman, a Russian immigrant, is every bit the populist and racist politician he is portrayed as being. Like many of his fellow politicians, he harbours a strong desire to see the Palestinians of the occupied territories expelled, ideally to neighbouring Arab states or Europe. Lieberman, however, is more outspoken than most in publicly advocating for this position. Comment: Someone tell us; what is the likely outcome of the current "Middle East crisis" with people like Libermann in power? What is the likely destiny of the American people, with people like Bush and Cheney in power?
It's time to wake up, if only to die on your feet rather than on your knees. |
IMEMC & Agencies
26 October 2006 Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Tubass on Thursday at dawn, attacked a coffee shop and detained all the guests inside.
Eyewitnesses reported that army undercover units first stormed the coffee shop and forced everyone on the ground. Troops and army jeeps arrived and detained the guests for several hours. During that time, soldiers strip searched the people, checked their ID cards and interrogated them. |
IMEMC & Agencies
25 October 2006 The Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby Qabatiya town on Wednesday morning and took two Palestinians as prisoners.
Troops and army jeeps stormed Qabatiya town opened fire randomly at residents and searched some houses before taking Jihad Nazal and Majdi Alaounah to unknown locations. In the meantime another force invaded the city of Jenin searched and ransacked a number of houses and fired sound bombs and residents in the streets and left the city without taking prisoners, local sources reported. |
IMEMC & Agencies
26 October 2006 The Israeli forces took prisoner five residents from the town of Abu Deis near Jerusalem on Thursday morning.
Troops and police officers stormed the town and searched and ransacked residents' houses before taking the five to unknown locations. The five were known as: Dawod Mohsen, 26, Ramzi Salah, 22, Hamza Salah, 19, Mohamed Salah, 22 and Omer Salah. All are residents of the town. |
IMEMC & Agencies
26 October 2006 The Israeli army took prisoner three residents from the West Bank city of Tulkarem and the nearby Nur Shams refugee camp on Thursday morning.
The three were identified as Ala' Darwish, 21, a Palestinian national security officer, Ashraf Shihada, 21, a Police officer, both from Nur Shams refugee camp, and Ibrahim Hannoun, 22, from the city of Tulkarem. All detainees were taken to unknown locations after troops searched and ransacked a number of houses in the city and the refugee camp, local sources reported. |
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