Tom and Jerry – Volume 2

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Zahhar survives assassination attempt

Gaza - PA foreign minister Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar on Sunday survived an assassination attempt at the hands of armed elements affiliated with the Fatah Movement and the Force-17, both under the direct command PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, according to the ministry.

Taher Al-Nunu, the ministry spokesman, said that a number of snipers were deployed around the ministry’s premises and started shooting at Zahhar’s motorcade immediately after he left the ministry.

Abbas stops talks with Hamas, opens channels with Israel

Nazareth - After announcing that talks on unity government with Hamas Movement had failed, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas met with two Israeli emissaries sent by Israel’s premier Ehud Olmert to pave the way for a summit between the two leaders, the Hebrew Haaretz newspaper revealed.

In its Tuesday edition, the Hebrew paper unveiled that Olmert’s two men Yoram Turbowicz, the head of Olmert’s bureau, and Shalom Turjeman, the political advisor of Olmert, met Sunday with Abbas and his close associates in secret sessions in Ramallah city.

The paper furthermore quoted Palestinian sources as affirming that the two envoys were gauging Abbas’ intentions, his next steps after aborting unity talks with Hamas, and contents of his anticipated speech to the Palestinian people.

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Hamas: Beit Hanun massacre won’t pass unpunished

Gaza – The Hamas Movement on Wednesday described the IOF troops’ massacre in Beit Hanun earlier in the day as a “horrendous bloodbath” in which the scattered remains of children and women were mingled with their devastated homes, and vowed not to let the “butchery” pass without the appropriate punishment.

The Movement, in a statement commenting on the massacre, said that it is a new witness to the cycle of “Zionist violence and systematic terrorism” that persisted in reaping Palestinian lives without any moral deterrence.

“The pogrom recalls back to mind the series of Zionist massacres in lines of the Palestinians ever since that entity was established on usurped Palestinian lands and reflects the bloody mentality of that entity that prospers on the shedding of blood and only lives in the darkness of hatred and never nourishes peace,” the strongly-worded statement elaborated.

It said that the brutal carnage aimed at breaking the Palestinian people’s determination to achieve “cheap” military and political goals, “which we believe would never be materialized”.

The Movement asked all Palestinian resistance forces to unite, cement ranks and expedite retaliation to the “Zionist criminality”, and urged PA security elements to join the resistance factions in defending the Palestinian people.

Abu Marzouk: Palestinians entitled to use all means to retaliate to the IOF massacres

Damascus – Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chairman of the Hams political bureau, on Wednesday affirmed that the Palestinian people are entitled to employing all means available to retaliate to the ceaseless Israeli massacres, the latest of which being the Beit Hanun bloodbath at dawn Wednesday that killed 19, mostly women and children, and wounded 40 others.

Abu Marzouk, speaking to the PIC, said that the fresh massacre in Beit Hanun fell in line with the Israeli policy of “murder and terrorism”. He expressed surprise and dismay at the Arab and international silence vis-à-vis the endless “Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

He strongly condemned the American administration’s support for the Israeli occupation in its “horrible massacre in lines of children, women and old people”.

Hamas, Fatah Agree on End of Clashes

GAZA CITY — The ruling Hamas movement and Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed early on Saturday, October 28, to work together to end armed clashes in the Gaza Strip.

“Both movements have agreed not to deploy armed men on the streets, end all armed clashes and protect public property,” IslamOnline.net quoted Ibrahim Abu Annaja, the Secretary of the Inter-Palestinian Steering Committee.

Both factions agreed to keep all their gunmen off the streets on Saturday and allow only the police to patrol.

“Hamas and Fatah will help the police forces to deploy and they will prevent any rallies or armed displays by their members,” added Abu Annaja.

The agreement was brokered late Friday, October 27, by leaders from the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Hamas accused some loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas of plotting a “coup attempt,” warning that they planned to storm some public buildings on Saturday.

But after Friday’s meeting, senior Hamas leader Fathi Hammad was quoted by Reuters saying: “fears that some may try to carry out a coup attempt have vanished.”

Identity Card

Mahmoud Darwish – 1964 

Write down!
I am an Arab
And my identity card number is fifty thousand
I have eight children
And the ninth will come after a summer
Will you be angry? Write down!
I am an Arab
Employed with fellow workers at a quarry
I have eight children
I get them bread
Garments and books
from the rocks..
I do not supplicate charity at your doors
Nor do I belittle myself at the footsteps of your chamber
So will you be angry?

Write down!
I am an Arab
I have a name without a title
Patient in a country
Where people are enraged
My roots
Were entrenched before the birth of time
And before the opening of the eras
Before the pines, and the olive trees
And before the grass grew

IOF troops arrest 1,500 Palestinians since the capture of Shalit

Ramallah – A statistics report issued by the PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners’ affairs revealed that the IOF troops have rounded up more than 1,500 Palestinian citizens, including children and women, since Palestinian resistance captured IOF corporal Gilad Shalit last June.

Palestinian sources, however, expressed fears that the IOA will turn around demands set forth by the Palestinian resistance for Shalit’s freedom, and could swap the newly kidnapped Palestinians with Shalit.

Palestinian resistance was clear in its human demands for Shalit’s release as it demanded the simultaneous release of Palestinian children, women, sick persons, and those spending more than 20 years in Israeli jails.

The report further unveiled that the IOF troops had so far arrested more than 5,000 Palestinian children and 500 women since the outbreak of the Aqsa intifada in the year 2000.

3 Palestinians killed, dozens wounded in rebels’ random firing

The clashes came in the wake of PA interior minister Sa’eed Siyam’s orders to enforce discipline in the streets after the PA security elements, who receive orders from PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, organized violent demonstrations demanding payment of their arrear salaries. They received a one month salary a couple of days ago.

Khaled Abu Hilal, the interior ministry spokesman, told a press conference that the “unruly” security elements were smearing the image of Palestinian policemen through damaging citizens’ property and firing into the air a big number of bullets the price of which was enough to pay their salaries.

Abu Hilal charged foreign parties, which he did not name, of fueling such moves, adding that this ministry had acquired recorded material displaying the connivance of those involved in the riots.