Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Gush Katif Farmers Must Give Up Compensation To Receive Land

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The Cabinet decided Sunday to offer land to expelled Gush Katif farmers but only on condition that they renounce compensation for their former land and that the newly allocated farm be situated in the Negev or Galilee. After 15 months since being forced out of their communities, many Gush Katif farmers still are without permanent land for agriculture.

The farmers, many of whom are in their 60s, also must work the land themselves and may not rent it to others. read more

Soldiers [Goldwasser, Regev] Were Seriously Wounded in Northern Border Attack

No Injuries in Rock Attack

Arab Attackers Stone Israeli Bus Near Hevron

IDF Wounds 2 Palestinians by Gaza Fence

Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded

Al Aksa Operative: Rockets Will Resume

IDF Nabbed 40 With Ties to Aksa Head

Aksa Martyrs See Selves as Exempt From Cease-Fire

Police Arrest 69 Illegal Workers Overnight

Man Killed When Hit by Car in Mevaseret Zion

IDF Arrests 29 Palestinian Operatives Overnight read more

Our World: Olmert’s Saudi Friends, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“The ‘deal’ that the Saudis are ‘brokering’ is nothing less than a blueprint for Israel’s destruction.”

“Olmert will do anything to take the Israeli public’s attention away from his failure in office. And to successfully ‘spin’ the public, he needs the support of the Israeli media.”

“Olmert’s embrace of a new imaginary ‘peace process’ will win him the support of Haaretz and the other radical leftist elements in the Israeli media. These media organs will then work to prevent the opening of police investigations into Olmert’s alleged criminal activities.” read more

PM’s Remarks Anger Soldiers’ Families

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should talk less and do more to secure the release of kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, Goldwasser’s mother, Miki, told Army Radio on Tuesday morning.

On Monday, Olmert told a group of high school students that Israel had pulled out of this summer’s Lebanon war despite the fact that Goldwasser and Regev had not been rescued in order to save other soldiers’ lives.

If Goldwasser and Regev were still alive, Olmert said, it was better for them to remain captive “a little while longer” than for other soldiers to die in an attempt to rescue them. read more