Film on Lebanon War: While Halutz, Top IDF Command Planned, Executed Expulsion of Citizens from Homes, Preparations for Real War with Hezbollah Ignored

The Disengagement, the Media, and Dan Halutz, by by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

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Top Israeli broadcast journalist Ilana Dayan: “The ‘level of truth’ in the media decreased during the Disengagement – and thousands of expelled residents paid the price.”

Delivering a lecture entitled “The Truth” to a group of media students at Bar Ilan University this week, Dayan – a leading popular broadcaster not known for espousing right-wing views – implied that Israeli journalists did not carry out their job properly. read more

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Systemic Sector Discrimination of Law Enforcement in South Israel: Police Inaction Breeds “Disaster Waiting to Happen”

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Negev rancher Shai Dromi is now charged with murder after having fired at four men who trespassed on his property, poisoned his guard dog (not the first such occurrence) and broke his sheep-pen locks. They were about to get away with his entire herd, in which everything he had was invested. The loss of the herd would have meant ruin.

Dromi had been robbed of his livestock in the past, and barely managed to rehabilitate his small agricultural enterprise. The fear of repeated thefts was so tangible that he had taken to spending the bitterly cold desert nights with the sheep in their pen to prevent rustlers from destroying his livelihood and life’s work. read more

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Comrade Peretz Puts it to Former Gush Katif Residents

MK Ariel: Peretz Spitting in Evacuees’ Faces

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Defense Minister Peretz is “spitting in the faces of Gush Katif evacuees,” MK Uri Ariel (NU/NRP) said Friday. Ariel was reacting to the defense minister’s decision to suspend construction at the Maskiyot site in the Jordan Valley, where a community was being built for the evacuees.

“Only yesterday we sat with the Prime Minister who promised to help the evacuees, and Peretz is spiting in their faces” said Ariel. “The nation is sick of Peretz as defense minister. He has no right to go on making bad, politically motivated decisions.” read more

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12 Palestinian Fugitives Arrested in West Bank

Synagogue Built in Memory of Terror Victim Burned

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For the second time in three months, a synagogue near the Binyamin region community of Dolev was ransacked by Arabs. The community plans a “Zionist response.”

The Yad Yair synagogue was damaged, with many of the holy books and accoutrements inside viciously burned and destroyed. Torah scrolls were damaged in the attack, in addition to an adjoining building. Both structures are located on privately-owned Jewish land. read more

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Thursday War News: Olmert Promise; Safeguard Sderot Homes — Any Day Now, Any Day Now

Halutz Resigns as Chief of Staff: Will Olmert, Peretz be Next or Will They Appoint a Lackey as COS?

UPDATED Halutz to General Staff: ‘I Won’t Leave in a Rush’, By Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

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Hours after dropping a bombshell by announcing his resignation, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz told the General Staff on Wednesday morning that he had faith in the IDF’s capability to continue dealing with threats Israel faced, and said he had no intention to “take [his] stuff and leave in a rush.”

Halutz said he planned to stay in place until a successor was chosen, and the changeover complete. read more

Criminal Probe Launched Against Olmert, Other Probes Possible

Police Launch Criminal Probe Against Olmert on Bank Leumi Sale, by by Gil Zohar (Israel National News)

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State prosecutor Eran Shendar ordered Israel Police to launch a criminal probe Tuesday against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert concerning the sale of the government’s shares in Bank Leumi.

Olmert, it is alleged, used his former position as finance minister in order to help two friends who were interested in buying the shares. Olmert has denied interfering in the tender for the state’s controlling interest in the bank. read more

Regime’s Disengagement Policies Claim a Fatality

Disengagement Claimed Yuri Stern, of Blessed Memory, by David Bedein (Israel National News)

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Dr. Yuri Stern, a member of the Knesset who came on Aliyah from the former USSR in 1981, died today at the young age of 58.

I knew this man. Not as a politician. He came into my office twenty years ago, needing a place to work. Not a job. A place to work. To help new immigrants struggle with their first stages of Aliyah.

Indeed, Yuri took a cubicle at Beit Agron and worked round the clock.

After a few years of hard work, he came to the conclusion that he could only really help people if he would enter politics. read more

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