Don’t Bet on Peres Helping Pollard

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

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

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

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

Faud’s Testimony: Proof Olmert’s Winograd Pledge A Contradiction

Fuad’s Stark Testimony (Opinion: Jerusalem Post)

Related report: Dichter to ‘Post’: Kadima Must Be Ready to Replace Olmert

“The ministers, evidently, were still caught up in the trauma of the IDF’s prolonged stay in south Lebanon’s security zone… Returning to the same areas would, at the very least, have constituted an admission of error and necessitated overcoming high psychological hurdles – both moves that the politicians involved feared taking upon themselves.” read more

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Reducing US Aid: Ongoing Argument With Increasing Relevance

Should Israel Really be Asking for an Increase in US Aid?, by Roni Bart (Jerusalem Post)

Related report: Bush Agrees to Increase US Aid to Israel

“This is, or should be, a matter of national honor. It was only a generation ago that the goal of ‘economic independence’ was still mentioned in Israel, if only as a distant aspiration.”

“American leverage over Israel, inter alia due to financial dependency, is manifested by the ever-present question: “What will the United States say?” read more

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Wednesday War News

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Tuesday War News 2

Rock Attack [on Jewish Motorist] Near Hawara

Rock Attack [on Jewish Motorist] Near Dir Daboun

Terrorist Cell Busted Open, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Excerpt;
“The Shabak captured a terrorist cell that planned to blow up a synagogue in Modiin, kidnap Americans in Judea and Samaria, and perpetrate other attacks.”

Israeli Vehicle Damaged by Stones South of Nablus [Shechem]

Shots Fired at IDF Bulldozer in Northern Gaza

Commentary;
How many more such attacks have not been reported by Israel’s MSM? MB
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Tuesday War News [or Olmert Regime’s Censorship-Imposed Lack Thereof?]

Palestinian Arrested for Throwing Stones at IDF Post

IDF Arrests 11 Wanted Terrorists

Arab Youths Arrested for Lighting Fires

Commentary;

Does this mean that there have been no stonings, no driveby shootings, no bombs left alongside IDF vehicles, no one apprehended smuggling weapons for use against Israel, no new weapons smuggling tunnels into Gaza, no attempted infiltrations of terrorists into Israel by way of checkpoints, no Kassam rocket attacks?

More likely, the regime spinning events, climate and circumstances by way of censorship to color the “moderate” Abbas so as to free hundreds of millions of shekels and thousands of weapons for Fatah which, may either fall into Hamas hands now, or will eventually, undoubtedly be turned on Jews. read more

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