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Palestine :  Development:

BUSH PEACE CONFAB A SWAN DIVE OR BELLY FLOP?
By Khody  Akhavi, The Electronic Intifada, 24 September 2007 

WASHINGTON, 21  September (IPS) - This past summer,
President George W. Bush extended a hand  where he never
has before, calling for a Middle East conference to find  a
solution to the long-moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace
process. This  time, says US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, her boss expects results.  Yet as with most of
Washington's diplomatic overtures to the region over  the
last seven years, Bush's recent demands for a "viable
Palestinian  state" -- which critics argue simply aim to
spit-shine an already tarnished  presidential legacy -- may
crumble under the weight of stark realities on the  ground.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9007.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9007.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Opinion/Editorial:

LIFT THE SIEGE ON HAMAS
By Ahmed Yousef, The  Electronic Intifada, 24 September 2007

While largely unnoticed in  American discourse on the
topic, much has been said and written to debunk  the
sanctions regime imposed on Hamas government
administrations since its  resounding victory in the
Palestinian Legislative Council elections of  January 2006.
These calls and reports show that the sanctions regime  is
wrong and misguided and that it is a reaction to the
excessively  intense pressure that the US administration
has exercised over other nations.  Political advisor to
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Dr.  Ahmed
Yousef comments.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9004.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9004.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Opinion/Editorial:

THE TIDE IS TURNING
By Angela Godfrey-Goldstein,  The Electronic Intifada, 24 September 2007

For the sake of both Israel  and the Palestinians, we must
save Israel from itself. Living in South Africa  under
apartheid, I saw boycott efforts encourage public
awareness, apply  pressure and state disapproval for the
government's racist policies. Israeli  historian Ilan Pappe
has said boycotts "will not change positions in a day,  but
they will send a clear message to the Israeli public that
these  positions are racist and unacceptable ... They would
have to choose." Angela  Goldfrey-Goldstein comments.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9005.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9005.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Human Rights:

ISRAEL DECLARES GAZA "ENEMY ENTITY"
Report, Al-Haq, 24  September 2007

Al-Haq is deeply concerned by the Israeli  security
cabinet's unanimous decision on Wednesday, 19 September  to
declare the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity," ostensibly
paving the way for  the imposition of collective penalties
on the 1.5 million Palestinian  civilians living in the
Gaza Strip. These include intensifying the already  severe
border closures, limiting the provision of essential
supplies, and  dramatically reducing the supply of
electricity, all of which will exacerbate  the existing
dire humanitarian crisis.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9006.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9006.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Opinion/Editorial:

DEHUMANIZING THE PALESTINIANS
By Ali Abunimah,  The Electronic Intifada, 21 September 2007

The Israeli cabinet has voted  to declare the occupied Gaza
Strip a "hostile entity," thus in its own eyes  permitting
itself to cut off the already meagre supplies of food,
water,  electricity and fuel that it allows the Strip's
inmates to receive. The  decision was quickly given backing
by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  Israel is the
occupying power in the Gaza Strip, despite having  removed
its settlers in 2005 and transforming the area, home to
1.5  million mostly refugee Palestinians, into the world's
largest open-air prison  which it besieges and fires into
from the perimeter. Ali Abunimah  comments.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9002.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9002.shtml)   

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