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• Palestinian Moves Reshape Attitudes - WSJ.com

  RAMALLAH, West Bank—The Palestinian bid for United Nations statehood, whatever its outcome, is already helping reshape Palestinian attitudes to expect less of negotiations—which most feel have failed to deliver after nearly two decades—and embrace a more confrontational stance toward Israel. That could mean challenging Israel using boycotts, demonstrations and international diplomatic forums more aggressively—ideas that are gaining currency among young Palestinians. In a year when peaceful demonstrations have radically altered the political landscape of the Arab world, they increasingly embrace notions of nonviolent resistance.

• Saudi Arabia will pay unemployment benefit from Nov - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com

  Saudi Arabia, which had a 10.8 percent unemployment rate in July, will begin to pay unemployment benefits for the first time from November, Labour Minister Adel Fakieh said on Sunday. The government from next year also will seek to encourage the hiring of more Saudi nationals in the kingdom’s private sector, Fakieh said in comments published by newswire Bloomberg.

• Raymond Davis, CIA Contractor, Charged After Fight Over Parking Spot

  Hometown Heroes - Colorado! HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Colorado authorities say a man accused of shooting and killing two men while working as CIA contractor in Pakistan faces misdemeanor charges after a fight over a shopping center parking spot. Douglas County Sheriff's Lt. Glenn Peitzmeier says Raymond Davis has been charged with third degree assault and disorderly conduct.

• Israel welcomes peace talks plan - The Washington Post

  ** Great, buying further time for the continued colonization of Palestine under the guise of peace talks ** Israel on Sunday agreed to a proposal by international mediators to resume peace negotiations after the initiative was positively received by the Palestinians, but there were no signs that a dispute over Israeli settlement building that has blocked talks was any closer to being resolved.

• Kuwait gets funding for $6.2bn Vietnam refinery - Construction - ArabianBusiness.com

  Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) will receive funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to build Vietnam's second oil refinery, its chairman has said. Hussein Ismail said in comments published by Kuwait's state news agency Kuna that building the $6.2bn Nghi Son oil refinery was part of Kuwait's strategy to invest in large-scale refining and petrochemicals projects in East Asia.

• Hollywood star joins Egyptian activists in protests - ArabianBusiness.com

  US actor Sean Penn joined thousands of Egyptian activists who packed downtown Cairo on Friday demanding that military rulers speed up the transfer of power to civilians and end emergency laws once used by Hosni Mubarak against his opponents. Local media said Penn, holding an Egyptian flag, walked with Egyptian actor Khaled el-Nabawi in Tahrir Square, where Egyptians demonstrated in what they dubbed as "Reclaiming the Revolution" day amid growing discontent over the way military rulers had managed the transitional period.

• Not Everyone Thinks Killing Anwar al-Awlaki Was the Right Thing to Do -- Daily Intel

  As Williamson wrote in the National Review, "the prospect of putting American citizens on a government hit list should give us pause as conservatives: not for what this administration might do with such power, but for what an administration 50 years down the road might do with it."

• Bachmann blames Obama for Arab Spring - The Washington Post

  At an event in Concord, N.C., GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann blamed President Barack Obama's stand on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for the uprisings against autocratic governments across the Arab world. (Sept. 30) (CBS News)

• Kuwaiti man guilty of royal Twitter insults - Real Estate - ArabianBusiness.com

  A Kuwait court convicted a man for insulting Gulf rulers and putting inflammatory sectarian comments on social media, but released him immediately because of time already served while awaiting trial, a human rights activist said on Wednesday. Nasser Abul, a 26-year-old Shi'ite, was sentenced to three months in jail on Tuesday for posting comments critical of Sunni Muslim ruling families in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and for insulting followers of Sunni Islam.

• Kuwait Central Bank staff hold pay demonstration - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com

  Several dozen of Kuwait Central Bank employees held a demonstration on Wednesday, demanding improved employment and financial conditions, the latest in a wave of strikes by government employees in the Gulf Arab state.

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