Third Intifada coming

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Written by Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly Online Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Published: 27 October 2006 27 October 2006
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Israel appears sure that increasing aggression against the Palestinians will lead them to internal collapse whereas it is more certain to lead to a new national uprising, reports Khaled Amayreh


While Western and even some Arab media continue referring to the daily killing by Israel of Palestinian civilians, activists and militants as "clashes", the Israeli occupation army has intensified its brutal onslaught against Palestinian population centres both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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A deadly scandal continues in Gaza

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Written by Patrick Seale Patrick Seale
Published: 27 October 2006 27 October 2006
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With the world's attention focused on the unfolding disaster in Iraq, on the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and on how to how to moderate Iran's nuclear ambitions - three problems for which no credible solutions have yet been proposed - the Palestinians continue to bleed, starve and suffer unimaginable humiliations and hardships under Israel's pitiless rule.

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Dems Repudiate Carter Book

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Written by Jennifer Siegel, The Jewish Daily Forward Jennifer Siegel, The Jewish Daily Forward
Published: 26 October 2006 26 October 2006
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[The battle lines are being drawn: Jimmy Carter's new book critical of Israel's apartheid system is causing Democrats show their true colors: as apologists for Apartheid. - AUPHR]

Top Democrats are rushing to repudiate former President Carter’s
controversial new book on the Middle East, in which he accuses the
Israeli government of maintaining an apartheid system.

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Report that Jews backed Democratic Rep. Harman for help on AIPAC trial

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Written by Ron Kampeas Ron Kampeas
Published: 26 October 2006 26 October 2006
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (JTA) — The FBI is looking into allegations that Jewish donors to the Democratic Party unduly influenced Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee.

The investigation was first revealed by Time Magazine last Friday. Several Jewish and congressional officials familiar with the inquiry told JTA that the case, while still technically open, has been abandoned in its earliest stages because it went nowhere.

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Israel criticized on security policies

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Written by Jewish Telegraph News, JTA Jewish Telegraph News, JTA
Published: 26 October 2006 26 October 2006
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An Israeli human rights group accused Israel of violating international law in its handling of Palestinian security prisoners.

In a report issued Thursday, B’Tselem said Israeli security forces have arrested some 9,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, incarcerating many of them within the Jewish state.

This, it said, constitutes a breach of international laws against civilians from an occupied territory being forcibly transferred to the territory of the occupying power. B’Tselem further alleged that prison arrangements make it hard for inmates’ families to visit.

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