Month: June 2007

And Fatah = al Qaida Doesn’t Seek Our Destruction?

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For recent related reports, including this one about Fatah’s relationship with al Qaida, click here.

Olmert: ‘Hamas, Just Like Ahmadinejad, Wants to Destroy Us’

Excerpts;

“Hamas does not want to recognize us and certainly doesn’t want to make peace with us. Just like Ahmadinejad in Iran, it wants to destroy us,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a speech he delivered at a Jewish Agency rally in Jerusalem on Monday morning, hours prior to his departure for the four-way summit at Sharm e-Sheikh. read more

Monday War News: Does IDF Know Where Shalit is Held?

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Report: Gilad Shalit Being Held in Booby-Trapped Gaza Building (Reuters)

Excerpt;
“Shalit was being held near Shaboura refugee camp, close to the town of Rafah in the southern part of the coastal territory.”

Related reports:

First Sign of Life From IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)

Israel Will Release 350 Hamas Prisoners for Shalit’

Father of Shalit Does not Trust Report on Son’s Health

Terror Rocket Slams into Southern Negev

Gazans Fire Four Mortars into Israel; None Hurt read more

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Parsha Balak 5767: Bila’am, The Ba’al Peor and Dividing B’nai Yisrael From Within

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by Moshe Burt

Shem Mishmuel brings a Rashi which discusses the unusual loshen — regalim (the word usually used to denote festivals) used in our Parsha Balak where Hashem brings the donkey to speak to Bila’am expressing; “What have I done to you, that you hit me these three times.” [1]

Shem Mishmuel brings Rashi quoting Chazal which notes: “These three times — it was a hint that he [Bila’am] wanted to uproot the Jewish nation, who celebrate three pilgrim festivals each year.” [2] read more

Sunday War News: Look at Who Israel, US are Helping — Fatah = Al Qaida

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Just look at who Israel’s cabinet is funding with tax transfers and proposing to hold summit talks with;

Egypt’s Intel Chief Decided Hamas Takeover Served Cairo’s Interests (IMRA)

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Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman, Masha’al said Dahlan and his allies were working with Al Qaida-aligned groups to undermine Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The source quoted Masha’al as saying that Fatah was allowing Al Qaida to infiltrate the Sinai Peninsula to facilitate attacks on the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. read more

Shabbos War News: Recently Released Terrorist Re-Arrested

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Hamas: IDF Arrested ‘Kassam’ Founder Overnight

Excerpt;
“Aruri was released in March after serving 15 years in an Israeli prison.”

Related reports;

IDF Arrests Hamas Operative Near Ramallah

Senior Hamas Terrorist, Fatah Terrorists Arrested, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)

Senior Hamas Terror-Operative Arrested, by IDF Spokesperson’s Office (IMRA)

Firefighters Battle 21 Blazes in Galilee

Excerpt;
“Police suspect that some of the fires may have been the result of [Arab??] arson.” read more

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2 Years After Expulsion: Regime to Former Gush Katif Residents = 0

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Related report:

Two Years Later, Gush Katif Evacuees Still Need Housing, by Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)

This blogger received the email below from Dror Vanunu of Katifund regarding the current status of the expelled former Gush Katif residents;

Gush Katif Special Report: 22 Months Without a Home.

For the past weeks we are witnessing the emergence of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their sowing of violence, despair and hatred among their own people.

From the ruins of our destroyed homes and synagogues they spit out their anger and cruelty to annihilate the State of Israel. read more

Don’t Bet on Peres Helping Pollard

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Commentary;

The well-meaning opinion writer below is engaging in wishful thinking and grabbing at straws — undoubtedly NOT something that the Freedom for Jonathan Pollard movement wants to be involved or associated with.

The writer himself revisits history in noting that Peres was [unelected] prime minister at the time of Pollard’s capture and encarceration.

Peres has a documented record of not letting the truth; his failures, i.e. his relationship with Arafat, his manipulation of Oslo upon the Jewish people, and the resultant abandonment of sizeable parts of Jewish land to the Arabs. He has never once admitted or been contrite for the error, the total folly of his ways, despite all of the loss of Jewish lives and the injuring and maiming of countless numbers of Jews. read more

Police, Yassamnikim Given Special Training for Amona Assault

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Police Instructed to Use Force in [Amona] House Demolitions (Israeljustice.com)

Excerpts;

Israeli police underwent special training for an assault on thousands of protesters during the demolition of nine homes in a Jewish community in the West Bank in 2006.

A senior Israeli police officer testified that 1,300 troops were told to club, trample and gas protesters, most of them teenagers, who sought to block the demolition of nine unlicensed Jewish homes in Amona in February 2005 [2006]. The troops, who trained for up to four days, used clubs and horses to injure 300 protesters, some of them seriously, despite the assessment that resistance would be passive. read more

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Friday War News

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Report: IAF Training for Possible Strike Against Iran, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

IDF Arrests Three Terrorism Suspects [in Shechem]

Hamas ‘Preventing Gaza Rocket Attacks’

Excerpt;
“A Palestinian Authority Arab source told the paper Hamas does not want to fire missiles at Israel because it fears the Israeli response.”

IDF Nabs 2 in West Bank; Grenades Thrown at Troops

Rock Throwing Terrorists Damage Car near Hevron

Gay Bash a Bust, But Watch for Precedent

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Today’s gay march in Jerusalem was, B’H a bust. While litigants from both sides spent most of Wednesday and Thursday wrapped in Supreme Court petition arguments, there were many more police and many more religious counter-demonstrators than there were fruity marchers. And the Big Deal; it came down to a march of a several hundred yards. One of Ryan Howard’s well-struck blasts travels further than the length of the parade.

Haaretz reported on the parade route; read more