Month: August 2008

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Commentary;

Here’s a report that oughta knock your socks off and get your backs up. It has been learned that Home Center, a popular Israeli owned home wares chain has been offering preferential “secret” discounts to “people belonging to a certain minority.” For those thinking that Hareidim, Moroccans, Ethiopians, S’fardim, foreign workers or IDF soldiers could buy at Home Center and receive a 10% minority discount — NOT!

A customer at a Home Center branch recently observed a cashier scanning each item being purchased with the message popping up on the register’s computer each time; “Minority Discount” with the cashier clicking “no” each time. read more

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This author was among the 3,000-5,000 people who attended the Gush Katif Remembrance event near the Kisufim checkpoint.

The event featured a number of speakers, both youth and adults who spoke about Gush Katif, interspersed with acappella negunim conveying a spirit of returning to and rebuilding Gush Katif.

This author visited with Rabbi Yigal Kamenetsky, the Rav of former Gush Katif residents as well as MK Tzvi Hendel and with a Rav who spoke 4 years ago at the Hachnasat Sefer Torah which took place on 4 July, 2004 at Shi-rat Hayam. read more

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Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev

IDF Lifts Roadblock Near Hebron [One of Many Recently Lifted]

Commentary;
Yet another artery for terrorism reinstated? MB

IDF Troops Arrest 12 Palestinians

Arab Nabbed After Throwing Rocks at Border Police

Massive Rock Attacks Continue at Beit Omar

One Hurt Lightly in Rock Attack Near Hevron

20-Year-Old Palestinian Arrested in Hebron With Large Knife

IDF Finds Terrorist-Bulletproofed Car, Weapons, in Yata [Near Hevron]

Israel Frees Jailed Hamas Leaders, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News) read more

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Rock Attack [on Israeli Car] Near Shechem

Related reports;

Shomron Mayor: IDF Very Quick to Respond to Arab Claims, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Excerpts;

“A Jewish youth from Yitzhar was arrested on Friday for throwing a rock that injured two Arabs…

Shomron Regional Council Mayor Gershon Mesika feels the IDF decision is just another indication of the government’s policy of making life difficult for Jews in Judea and Samaria. ‘Where was the IDF all these years whenever we complained of rock-throwings?’ he asks.” read more

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Commentary;

As has repeatedly occurred in the past, police again seem to be denying Jews access to pray at Rachel’s Tomb in the days leading up to Tisha B’av, ostensibly under the guise of a “security situation.”

It would seem highly likely that the government, through permitting Arabs to reside in proximity to the Kever and then walling it in to facilitate attempting to close down access or, to enable turning access on and off at will, are attempting to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of creating conditions (i.e. fear of visiting the Kever and it’s resultant neglect) for a repetition of the regime’s previous Kever Yosef abandonment. MB read more

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Commentary;

It seems that successive Israeli regimes have institutionalized MSM (mainstream media) dissemination of blatant lies and deceit regarding not only the extent of compensation actually paid to former Gush Katif residents and businesses, but also regarding bogus and deceitful representations of financial support for Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther Pollard.

Pollard’s suit against the Israeli government, which is being handled by Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, seeks to flush out the truthful facts concerning the regime’s false representations about Israel’s [non-existent] support of her imprisoned agent and his wife. read more