Month: May 2007

Court Awards Amona Brutality Victim $61,500

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A Netanya district court judge has awarded 250,000 shekels ($61,500) to a victim of police brutality at the demolition of houses in Amona last year. The award was given by default after the state prosecutor did not present a defense.

Daniel Maman, who was expelled almost two years from the Gush Katif community of Netzer Hazani, filed the suit after mounted police clubbed him and continued to hit him after he fell to the ground. He suffered a crushed jaw and bruises on most of his body. read more

Israeli Envoy: Syrian Build-up – the Strongest Since 1973 War

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“‘We see Syria developing a very serious threat on the northern border,’ Ambassador Sallai Meridor told journalists in Washington on Wednesday. He said the threat is manifest in military activity, training, great investments in military equipment – and the build-up of a large arsenal of Scud missiles.”

“‘We are concerned that they might think that with a large arsenal of rockets that can reach everywhere in Israel, they have the capacity… to threaten us.'” read more

Ex-CIA Chief: I Prevented Pollard Deal in 1998, by Gil Ronen

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Malcolm: What About Jonathan Pollard?

How Former CIA Chief Foiled Pollard’s Release, Yitzhak Benhorin (Ynet)

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Former CIA chief George Tenet claims, in a new book, that he was the person who prevented the release of Jonathan Pollard during the Wye Plantation talks in October of 1998. The talks, between then-Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu and then-head of the Palestinian Authority Yasir Arafat, were brokered by President Bill Clinton and focused on an Israeli withdrawal from most of the biblical city of Hevron. read more