Dear readers
Here is the digest for 30th, 2004

1- On the day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2-Two Female settlers apprehended, stealing olives


1- On the day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Opinion-George Rishmawi & Agencies, November 29, 2004

The date of 29 November was chosen because of its meaning and
significance to the Palestinian people. On that day in 1947, the
General Assembly adopted resolution 181(II), which came to be known as
the Partition Resolution. That resolution provided for the
establishment in Palestine of a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State",
with Jerusalem as a "corpus separatum" under a special international
regime. Of the two States to be created under this resolution, only
one, Israel, has so far come into being.

Resolution 181 includes the recommendations that Jaffa be part of the
proposed Palestinian state and that Bethlehem be part of the "corpus
separatum".

In resolution 58/19 of 3 December 2003, the Assembly requested the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People and the Division for Palestinian Rights, as part of the
observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People on 29 November, to continue to organize an annual exhibit on
Palestinian rights in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission
of Palestine to the United Nations. It also encouraged Member States
to continue to give the widest support and publicity to the observance
of the Day of Solidarity.

On this year in particular year, the Palestinian people are in the
utmost need of International Solidarity.  However, it is missing.

Israel, fully backed by the U.S. administration is practicing all
kinds of Human Rights violations, kicking aside all Human Rights
charters and conventions and throwing the International Law in the
trash.

The present American Administration initiated a "peace plan" called
the Road Map, and soon after that endorsed the Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's unilateral Disengagement plan that aims to avoid
implementing the internationally-Road Map.


Despite the Road Map does not restore much of the violated Palestinian
Rights, yet Israel insists that it should not be implemented.

The Palestinian people, who now number more than 8 million, live
primarily in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967,
including East Jerusalem, part of which is now administered by the
Palestinian Authority; in Israel; in neighboring Arab States; and in
refugee camps in the region.

The International Solidarity with the Palestinian People is not only
by exhibits and festivals.  However it is needed in the UN security
council that should publicly outlaw the Israeli occupation to
Palestine and strongly demand that Israel should end the occupation,
starting by destroying the annexation and expansion wall being built
on the West Bank land confiscating almost %50 of the West Bank that is
%22 of the Historic Palestine pre-1948.

Dismantling the occupation should be the call of the Security Council
on the Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. 
It will serve both peoples living on this small piece of land,
Palestinians and the Israelis. 
Peace harms nobody, except the enemies of peace.

The ones who really act in solidarity with the Palestinian People are
those of the International Solidarity Movement and others who put
their lives on the line sometimes to save a Palestinian child or a
house or a tree from being killed, destroyed or cut by the Israeli
Killing Machine.

Those ISM activists, like Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, Brian Avery and
many others have made all days of the year, days of International
Solidarity with the Palestinian People reminding the world of their
duties and commitments towards peace and justice, and towards the
selective implementation of the UN Security Council.


2-Two Female settlers apprehended, stealing olives
George Rishmawi-IMEMC & Agencies, November 30, 2004, 10:45

Israeli newspaper online Haaretz said police arrested two female
settlers while stealing olives from a Palestinian olive grove near the
village of Sinjil north of Ramallah.

The two girls who come from the settlers outpost of Givat Haroeh were
found with backpacks filled with stolen olives.

The two refused to cooperate with investigators when they were brought
to a nearby police station, said Haaretz.

While trying to locate one of the two girl's parents, an officer who
took her cellular phone found a text message inciting for killing the
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

The sentence read: "We eliminated Rabin. We will eliminated Sharon."

The girl denied any involvement in any organized incitement efforts
insisting that this sentence expresses her own opinion.

After investigation, the two girls were released from custody. No
charges were pressed.

Palestinian sources reported that Israeli army arrested on Tuesday a
Palestinian female from Bethlehem suspected of being a potential
bomber