Month: February 2007

Kassam Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded

7 Hurt as Stone Thrown at School Bus in Beersheba

Molotov Cocktail, Bomb Hurled at IDF in Tulkarm

Rehovot: 2 Palestinians Suspected of Robbing Woman

2 Kassams Hit Western Negev; No Wounded Reported

Jerusalem Police on Alert [For Muslim Violence in Old City]

IDF Troops arrest 14 Palestinian Fugitives

20 Illegal Arab Structures Torn Down

Palestinians Throw Molotov Bottle Near Maccabim

Not With My Money, by Lori Lowenthal Marcus (Jerusalem Post)

“Three of the principal goals of JAFI are to develop Jewish communities in the Galilee and the Negev, encourage aliya, and promote Jewish continuity… All three of those goals, however, would be considered illegitimate colonizing enterprises by at least one of JAFI’s grantees – the Mossawa Center, an Arab-Israeli thank tank. Mossawa seems committed to eliminating every one of them.”

“It is time for Jewish donors who wish Israel to remain a Jewish state – and there is nothing inconsistent with it being a Jewish state and a democracy – to scrutinize the actions of their investment professionals.” read more

Abandoning Land to Arabs: First Stage of Next Withdrawal?, by Hillel Fendel (Israel national News)

Farm owner Yaakov Talia: “Even the Civil Administration admits that the Arabs can’t sufficiently prove it’s theirs – but the army gave it to them anyway. There is also other land nearby that is 100% mine – I have contracts with the State and the Settlement Department – and the Arabs and leftists came [today] into both these areas! They uprooted the zaatar and other protected bushes, and also the grains that I planted…” read more

Commentary;

Indecisiveness, indecision, lack of training, incompetence at the command and political levels as well as shortages of military necessities were not all that cost Israel severely during last summer’s Lebanon debacle.

It is now revealed General Dan Halutz, as then commander of the Israel Air Force halted development of a weapon system and “rejected a US offer in 2002 to sell Israel ‘bunker buster’ bombs capable of penetrating underground Hezbollah bunkers.” Both of these systems could have been used to Israel’s great advantage against Hezbollah during last summer’s Lebanon hostilities. read more