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Taking active steps towards resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may reward the Palestinian Authority in more ways than one, according to a report in the New York Times Thursday. The United States together with European and Arab countries have proposed a potential doubling of pecuniary aid to the struggling Palestinian Authority, should the PA prove it are cooperating towards reducing the bloody conflict between the two nations, American and Palestinian officials told the New York Times. The aid package would amount to $6 billion to $8 billion, to be allotted over four years, contingent on smooth chairmanship elections on January 9...

Three polls published Monday revealed growing support for jailed terrorist Marwan Barghouti, revealing a desire of the Arab public for a less moderate-appearing PLO president. Two polls showed that Barghouti is tied with PLO Fatah candidate Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and a third poll put Abbas in the lead. Abbas held an overwhelming lead in the polls towards the Jan. 9 election until Barghouti last week announced his candidacy. The Fatah party Monday threatened to expel Barghouti from the movement if he doesn't drop out of the race, but his strength will pressure the PA to put on a more...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me The Bush Administration is planning, as part of its tries to restart the peace process in the region, to transfer aid at the amount of 20 million dollar directly to the Palestinian Authority. Sources in the administration have said that committees in Congress have already received the message about this plan, and in the coming first meeting of the Sec. of State, Collin Powell, with officals in the Palestinian Authority this step will be announced.

Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA)- In connection with the death of Yasser Arafat, president of the State of Palestine, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and head of the Palestine National Authority, due to illness on November 11 the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea decided to set the period from Nov.15 to 17 as a mourning period and fly flags at half mast at some institutions in this period. A close friend of the Korean people, President Yasser Arafat visited the DPRK six times from October 1981 to June 1993. He was awarded the...

(IsraelNN.com) In this evening’s press conference held in France, PA Foreign Minister Dr. Nabil Shaath admitted Yasser Arafat is in a deep coma and is no longer expected to recover, explaining he now is suffering from intercranial bleeding. Shaath added that doctors reported to him that Arafat’s brain, heart, and lungs continue to operate, so “he is not dead”. He added that as Muslims, they do not believe in euthanasia and therefore, there is no discussion of “unplugging Arafat”, adding at this points, “it depends on his body’s ability”. He called thoughts of euthanasia “ridiculous”. Shaath went on the explain...

Video shops in Gaza are selling a new DVD featuring the recent beheading of an American in Iraq. The gruesome video, priced at NIS 15, is apparently selling like hotcakes. "When I saw the DVD I started to worry about our future," said Muhammad, a young Gazan father of three who works for the Palestinian Authority. It was so cruel. I couldn't watch. I only looked at the still shots." Muhammad bought the DVD "out of curiosity," he said. "Of course I did not bring it home to my children. I watched it in my office." The clip starts with...

Further evidence emerged Monday of the direct link between the armed wing of Fatah, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Palestinian Authority. Obituary notices distributed in the West Bank town of Salfit by Fatah and the PA's General Intelligence Force revealed that the local commander of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was killed on Sunday when his M-16 rifle exploded, had doubled as a security officer. Jihad Hassan, who is also known as Abu Naaim, was the commander of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Salfit and has been wanted by Israel for the past two years. Residents said Hassan purchased two...

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 PMW: PA religious leaders call for genocide of Jews Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin September 14, 2004 PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH phone: 972- 2- 625-4140 fax: 972-2- 624-2803 visit our website, click here: www.pmw.org.il for further information, contact PMW Director, Itamar Marcus material may be quoted, citing PMW as the source subscribe free to PMW reports, details below Twice in three days on PA TV: PA religious leaders call for genocide of Jews By Itamar Marcus & Barbara Crook Introduction Twice in three days, PA religious leaders have openly called for the genocide of Jews. Broadcast on...

Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin September 7, 2004 PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH phone: 972- 2- 625-4140 fax: 972-2- 624-2803 visit our website, click here: http://www.pmw.org.il for further information, contact PMW Director, Itamar Marcus material may be quoted, citing PMW as the source subscribe free to PMW reports, details below Palestinian Authority: Terrorist/murderer Samir Quntar is a "hero", "leader" and "model of a brilliant warrior" By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Introduction Societies measure their heroes in different ways. Some societies honor athletes or performers. Others celebrate caregivers and humanitarian workers. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have consistently chosen to honor murderers...

The United States believes that Syria has acquired centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium through the network of Pakistani nuclear chief Abdul Kader Khan, the Canadian news website Middle East Newsline reported Thursday. According to the report, the US intelligence community has assessed that Syria became a costumer of smuggled Pakistani P1 nuclear centrifuges in 2001 through Firas Tlas, the son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas. Khan was arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in January 2004 and admitted to secretly selling nuclear know-how to Iran. Iraq and North Korea are believed to have been clients of Pakistani nuclear scientists....

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: snip The Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat said today that all Palestinians are willing to be shadeeds (martyrs). Arafat said this in response to the Israeli minister of Internal Security, Zachi Hanegbi, who said he could care less if all the terrorist prisoners died or were hurt during their hunger strike.

IDF troops apprehend Palestinian boy, 14, carrying 900 bullets, at roadblock between Nablus and Tul Karm

Palestinian terrorists shot and killed a 15-year-old Arab boy in Beit Hanoun this morning, after he and his family objected to the placing of Kassam rocket launchers outside their home. The boy and other members of his family, seeing the terrorist cell arrive, "greeted" them with sticks and stones in an attempt to banish them. The terrorists responded with gunfire that killed the teenager and also wounded five others. After the murder, the terrorists loaded up their weapons and fled the scene. PA sources first accused Israeli forces of having killed the boy. The Israeli Defense Forces recently circulated an...

WASHINGTON - Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is blocking an investigation to find the killers of three American security guards attacked in the Gaza Strip last year, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. The United States has persistently complained the Palestinians have failed to investigate fully the bombing of a U.S. diplomatic convoy but officials had not directly blamed Arafat for the handling of the probe before. "There has been no satisfactory resolution of this case. We can only conclude that there has been a political decision taken by the chairman [Arafat] to block further progress in this investigation,"...

The Palestinian Authority is appealing to the international community to put pressure on Israel to end its massive military operation in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Minister Saeb Erekat said Tuesday. The Arab League, responding to Palestinian appeals, convened Tuesday in Cairo and said the Israeli operation was aimed at "ethnic cleansing." The League also said it would start taking judicial steps to bring Israelis to trial for war crimes. After a day of military build-up and the isolation of Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces launched an operation early Tuesday in...

Bush to send Condoleezza Rice to Berlin in coming weeks where renewing talks with Abu Ala will be on agenda (Israel Radio)

The Palestinian Authority has released funds it froze in August last year belonging to Hamas-affiliated charity organizations. Nine months after the money was sequestered by the PA, it was transferred over the weekend to the organizations' bank accounts in the Gaza Strip. Official records show the organizations provide aid for tens of thousands of needy Palestinians in the Strip. Palestinian sources on Monday said the transfer was a one-time gesture to help the families cope with the harsh economic conditions in the Palestinian areas. They said it did not indicate a general release of the millions of dollars belonging to...

Gaza Palestine Satellite TV Channel in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, carries at 0950 GMT on 30c April 2004 a live sermon from Shaykh Zayid Al Nuhayyan mosque in Gaza. Shaykh Ibrahim Mudayris delivers the sermon that he devotes to the prophet's birthday. But, he also alludes to the predicament of the Palestinians and blames Arabs and Muslims for not making a single move. The imam continues with the same theme in the second sermon. He praises the prophet and Islamic message, saying: "We are advocates of peace. We do not fight for the sake of fighting....

The United States on Sunday repeated a $5 million offer for information on those responsible for a Gaza Strip bombing that killed three Americans last October - the latest sign of U.S. disappointment with the Palestinian investigation into the attack. The offer, published in two Palestinian newspapers, was made due to the Palestinian Authority's slow-moving investigation into the bombing, an American official said on condition of anonymity. Palestinian authorities still haven't charged anyone in the attack, which killed three American security guards. It was at least the third time this year the Americans have publicized the reward, another U.S. official...

www.sana-syria.com/english/headlines/1-5/assad-interview.htm President Bashar al-Assad gave an extensive interview broadcast tonight by the Qatari TV. space Channel ,AlJazeera . On the president's look to the Arab general situation , the president indicated that there is a state of frustration and despair prevailing most of the Arabs due to the current situation. He added that the Arab leaders bear the most part of responsibility which is a natural thing. He pointed out that there are two current in the Arab world and both are present in the governments and among the people. The first current calls for surrender , despair , and...

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY INVOLVED IN TERROR, STATE DEPT ADMITS SO WHERE ARE THE SANCTIONS? NEW YORK- For the second year in a row, the State Department's annual report on global terrorism has acknowledged that senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are involved in terrorism yet the Bush administration still has not imposed sanctions on the PA. The State Department report, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003, noted that "The PA's efforts to thwart terrorist operations were minimal in 2003," and, moreover, that "some personnel in the security services, including several senior officers, have continued to assist terrorist operations." ZOA National President Morton A....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said on Friday it stood by its opposition to the assassination of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat after Israel's prime minister said he no longer felt bound by a pledge not to harm the Palestinian leader. "Nothing has changed in the U.S. position and I will look at the statement and see what we have to say," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he was no longer bound by a pledge he gave President Bush not to harm Arafat. "I said during in our first meeting about...

Gaza Palestine Satellite Channel Television in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, and Gaza Voice of Palestine in Arabic -- Second Program -- official radio station of the Palestinian Authority broadcasting from Gaza -- at 0950 GMT on 2 April 2004 carry a 30-minute live sermon from Shaykh Zayid mosque in Gaza. Shaykh Ibrahim al-Mudayris delivers the sermon. After praising God and His messenger, he condemns Jews for "killing Palestinians and destroying their homes." The Palestinian Land Day celebrations, he says, have proved the Palestinian people's "loyalty to this land." "Palestine," he says, "loves those watering its soil...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me "The opened for us ovens to cook in them humans...when one oven no longer lights, they light for us 100 ovens." This was what was broadcasted last in a childrens musical on official Palestinian Authority television. The Associated Press writer Hagai Hoberman reports that in the educational musical they celebrate the Arab attacks against the Jewish "traitors and satans," to the Land of Israel, during the British mandate. The broadcast was translated by an agency that looks at Palestinian media. Hoberman notes that in one of the scenes there is an Arab who...

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GAZA, April 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A leader of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Thursday voiced his support for Iraqi insurgency against foreign occupation, calling Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W. Bush as "murderers." "The Palestinian people are fully supporting the Iraqi people," Abdel Aziz Ranteesi said in a demonstration in Gaza City, where hundreds of Hamas supporters marched in the streets. "Great and big greeting to Moqtada al-Sadr, we support you and God with you," Ranteesi said, referring to the radical Iraqi Shiite leader. He said that the hundreds of demonstrators "came here to...

Arabs of the Palestinian Authority were out in the hundreds to condemn the United States and express support for the "resistance" in the wake of an ongoing American counter-terrorism offensive in Iraq. Dozens of Iraqis have died in US and coalition operations in several Iraqi cities. The protests took place in PA-controlled areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria throughout the day yesterday. There were denouncements of American "massacres", "random killings" and "war crimes" in Iraq and expressions of support for the "steadfastness" of the Iraqi people under what was called American occupation. In Ramallah, locale of PLO leader Yasser Arafat's...

PA Foreign Minister Nabil Sha`ath: U.S. has promised `huge` assistance package to the Palestinians (Israel Radio)

A US federal judge in has ruled the Palestine Liberation Organisation and its governmental entity must each pay more than $151 million for their role in the murder of two Jewish settlers near the West Bank eight years ago. Magistrate David Martin yesterday handed down his ruling in Providence, Rhode Island, on the drive-by shooting deaths of Yaron Ungar, an American citizen, and his Israeli wife, Efrat, in June 1996. The decision must first be upheld by a US District Court judge before becoming final. The Ungars were killed in a drive-by shooting as they returned home from a wedding....

The recent arrests by the Shin Bet and IDF forces of a father and son, both Fatah Tanzim members from Nablus, revealed that they received instructions and funds from senior members of the Palestinian Authority and were also in contact with Hizbullah operatives in Lebanon who sent funds to support ongoing terrorist activities against Israelis. Due to the sharp increase in attempts by terror cells in Nablus to launch suicide bomb attacks in Israel and evaluations by security officials that such activities will escalate anytime from now up until and during Pesah, security forces have imposed a tight blockade around...

A ten-year-old Palestinian child carrying a large explosive device likely designated for a terror attack inside Israel has been caught. The bomb was later detonated by IDF sappers. The incident took place at a checkpoint near Nablus earlier today (Monday). A Border Guard policewoman at the checkpoint noticed the child and asked him to open the bag he was carrying. A short examination revealed that the bag contained a 6-kilogram (about 13 pounds) explosive device. The child, who is currently being questioned by security authorities, was apparently instructed to deliver the bomb to a Palestinian waiting at the other side...

Britain and other European Union states gave the Palestinians more than 20 million euros to pay for legal and information consultation, the European Institute for Research on the Middle East reports. Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Norway paid the funds to the PLO negotiations aid department (NAD) and negotiations support unit (NSU), which in recent months have been busy mustering international support for the hearing on the separation fence in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The institute had asked several states for details of the aid they gave the PA for information consultancy. The institute's research editor,...

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat urged Palestinians on Monday to "make their voices heard" against Israel's separation barrier, as the world court was holding a first day of hearings on the legality of the partition. "The wall that Israel is constructing is meant to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital," Arafat said. An hour before the opening of the hearings at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, the Palestinian leader said, "We announce today to the whole world: The apartheid wall turns our towns into jails, our people to prisoners." Calling...

Turkey is demanding that the Palestinian Authority launch an investigation into an attack on the offices of a private Turkish news agency in Gaza City. Five gunmen raided the offices of the IHA news agency on Thursday night and ordered the workers to close down the bureau within 24 hours. "They searched the offices and threatened to destroy all our equipment unless we closed down," said one of the workers. "They were carrying rifles and pistols and threatened to shoot us." He said only one of the attackers was not masked. "He was about 35 years old and I'm sure...

A bomb exploded prematurely on Monday after Palestinian children were reportedly playing with the explosive device in the Shakti refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The blast went off inside an apartment in a 12-story building in Gaza City, next to the refugee camp on the Gaza beach, killing Louai Abu Hamdeh, 17, and seriously wounding his mother and 9-year-old brother. There was no damage visible outside the building, ruling out an Israeli air strike, though Israeli warplanes had been circling for several hours.

MIAMI - A U.S. citizen injured in a terrorist attack in Israel and the estate of an Israeli lawyer killed by the same attacker have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami, seeking more than $20 million from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, five Palestinian groups and other individuals. The suit by Moshe Saperstein and the estate of Ahuva Amergi accuses Arafat, the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Preventive Services and Yaser Mahmud Alkativ, a commander in the Palestinian General Intelligence Services, with organizing, facilitating and sponsoring attacks against Jewish civilians in Israel and regions of...

Bereaved family members of a lethal Jerusalem suicide bombing filed a NIS 430 million civil suit Wednesday against the Palestinian Authority in the Jerusalem District Court. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the victims of the Jerusalem neighborhood Beit Yisrael bombing two years ago, states that the PA planned the attack, which was carried out by the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Eleven men, women and children were killed and 55 were injured in the 2 March 2002 bombing, which occurred as Jewish worshipers were making their way home from synagogue after Shabbat.

US Midast envoy Sutterfield: Israel did too little to translate intentions of aiding Palestinian reforms into deeds (Israel Radio)

Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Salam Fayyad has revealed that files and documents detailing revenues from oil products of the PA's Petroleum Authority have disappeared under mysterious circumstances from his ministry. Fayyad was speaking at a special session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City on Tuesday night. It was the first meeting of its kind in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of violence three years ago. Several legislators queried the Finance Minister about a series of corruption scandals that have hit the PA over the past few years, including the embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars from...

"100 tons of marijuana are smuggled into Israel every year from the Palestinian Authority." So said Israel Police Drug Department head Yifat Steinberg yesterday at a Knesset anti-drugs committee session. The session was convened following the uncovering of what the Shabak and police called a very grave matter. It was found that Arabs of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) attempted to enlist addicted Israeli youth prior to their enlistment in the IDF, and take advantage of their need for drugs to force them to spy on the army. The Arabs promised them drugs in exchange for classified information. In light of...

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked Palestinian leaders to show support for a transitional Iraqi government that is to be installed by June, the Palestinian foreign minister said. Palestinian backing could boost the legitimacy of such a government in the eyes of the Arab world, at a time when U.S. policy in Iraq is under sharp attack. Palestinian-Iraqi ties have traditionally been close, and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had styled himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause. The request, made in a letter from Powell to Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, marks the first time the...

Less than a week after the attack, in which 2 soldiers were killed at the Tunnel Road checkpoint, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has appointed Zuhair Mansarah as the new governor for the Bethlehem region, replacing Mohammed el-Madanni. Mansahah replaced Jibril Rajoub, as head of the Preventive Security Service in the West Bank last year after serving as governor of Jenin. Meanwhile, Shin Bet head Avi Dichter told cabinet Sunday morning that $8 million of European Union aid money – slated for Palestinian Administration aid programs – has been diverted to the PLO chairman's personal bureau for sponsoring terror activities. Health...

Two weeks ago, recently resigned Palestinian cabinet minister Abdel Fattah Hamayel told the BBC that the Palestinian Authority shells out $50,000 a month to members of Fatah's Aksa Brigades terror cells. Hamayel said that Yasser Arafat is aware of these payments. The BBC reporter then sat down with Ata Abu Rumaileh and Zakariah Zubaidi, the respective heads of Fatah's political and terrorist wings in Jenin. Together the men explained to the BBC reporter that "there is no difference between Fatah and the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades." The men also explained that Arafat commands both. What we learn from this report is...

US President George W. Bush has assured Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah the United States stood with his country in the wake of a new deadly attack in Riyadh, a White House official said. "The President spoke to Crown Prince Abdullah this morning and he expressed his condolences to the people of Saudi Arabia and to the families of those killed in yesterday's attack," a White House official said. "The President also told the crown prince that the United Stated stands with Saudi Arabia in the war against terrorism." Seventeen people, including five children, were killed in a midnight suicide bombing...

Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat transfers $100,000 from funds directed to the Palestinian Authority to his wife Suha who lives in Paris along with the couple's daughter, according to an investigative report conducted by CBS television show 60 Minutes, to be aired Sunday accross the United States. According to the report, Arafat has accumulated in his private accounts more than $800 million from aid originally appropriated to the Palestinian authority. PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad aided in the CBS investigation. Fayad is currently trying to track down all the PA-allocated money that never reached its intended destination.

It was 20 years ago this week, on October 25, 1983, that US armed forces stormed onto the small Caribbean island nation of Grenada, toppling its radical Marxist government and securing the lives of hundreds of American medical students who were based there. Though the operation was mocked at the time by various observers, and provided late-night television hosts with plenty of fodder for their comedy routines, the Grenada campaign in fact proved to be a turning point in the Cold War. It marked the first time since Vietnam that Washington had been willing to employ military force to roll...

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in upgrading much of its F-15 fleet. Industry sources said Riyad has raised the issue with the United States as well as with the Boeing Co., the manufacturer of the F-15. The sources said the kingdom has not entered into formal negotiations over the issue. In 1981, Saudi Arabia procured 91 F-15C/D fighter-jets from the United States. About 80 of the aircraft remain in service. The sources said Riyad wants to improve avionics and weapons payload of the F-15C/D. They said the upgrade would not include either the engine or the structure...

Syrian diplomat tells New York Times that Damascus calling up reservists due to heightened regional tension (Army Radio)

In stark contrast to their official position on terrorism, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday that Palestinians are entitled to fight Israel "by all means," a seemingly implicit approval of the suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of people and derailed past peace initiatives. Farouk Kaddoumi is representing the Palestinians at a weeklong series of meetings and summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prevented from leaving Ramallah by the Israeli military. "Pursuing the armed struggle is a must, as it is the only solution in sight to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Kaddoumi, the de...

The Jerusalem Times (independent Palestinian weekly) 10 October 2003 http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=4157 The Saudi government has contributed $5 million to the Al-Aqsa Fund account in support the Palestinian people. President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Ahmad Mohamed Ali said that this amount comes in response to the Beirut summit appeal to Arab countries for an additional to $150 million to support the development sectors in Palestine. Saudi Arabia announced earlier the additional contribution of $21 million to support the Al-Aqsa Fund and had paid $16 million. The recent $5 million payment is the last installment towards this contribution. With this the...