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Olmert: “We Have No Intention of Capitulating to Blackmail”

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Prime Minister Olmert told the cabinet Sunday: “We and the international community know that Gilad [Shalit] is being held by a bloodthirsty gang of terrorists who are causing us much suffering but who are mainly hurting the Palestinian population, which is bearing the results of this terrorist activity….I have instructed the security establishment and the IDF to increase the strength of their actions in order to pursue these terrorists, those who dispatch them, their ideologues, and those who sponsor them. As I said, nobody will be exempt….We have no intention of capitulating to blackmail. Everyone knows that capitulating to terrorism today means inviting the next act of terrorism. We will not do this.” (Prime Minister’s Office) read more

After 20 Years: Knesset Recognizes Pollard As A Prisoner of Zion

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

“Members of Knesset ratified a decision tonight recognizing Pollard as a Prisoner of Zion and calling upon the US to free him.”

“Twenty years after he entered prison in America, after being convicted of espionage for Israel, the Knesset tonight issued a resolution which states, ‘The Knesset recognizes Jonathan Pollard as a Prisoner of Zion, and calls upon the Unites States to release him upon humanitarian grounds.’ The Knesset will also petition the Prime Minister to make an official request to the US regarding this matter.” read more

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Ehud, keep “them” Gaza mythical lies coming. You know, the ones about restored deterrence while you, Olmert and Livni held the IDF back from scoring methodical victory and, in so doing, achieved none of the goals for which you went to war; Hamas again makes their tunnels operational, maintains substantial numbers of rockets, mortars and ammo and still holds Gilad Shalit. You and the rest of your Troika again wrested defeat from the jaws of victory. The responsibility for consequences rest squarely on the shoulders of the three of you! MB read more

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The Olmert, Kadima, Barak, Livni, Yishai government of weakness, equivocation and partisan convenience has given up the store, the entirety of Israel’s diplomatic and military assets and set back Israel’s credibility to a historic low-point. Their lack of stregnth and principle has netted a minus in all areas, credibility, principle, hasbara and national branding. Gilad Schalit is further from liberation than ever.

Evelyn Gordon’s Must-Read analysis sums up this way; read more

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Below is Caroline Glick’s contrast between Colombia’s steadfast struggle against the terror and subversion of Chavez nor pro-Chavez forces and the “new Israel” of one-sided “cease-fires” and dishonorable, disrepectful deals freeing terrorists to kill and maim more Jews in exchange for a single captive and/or 2 other captive body-bags.

Glick notes succinctly;

It is a failure of will rather than a failure of capacity that has brought Israel to its current cowed and humiliated condition where its media… ignores completely the very notion that he [Shalit] can be rescued. read more

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Ze’evi Assassin Gets Life Plus 100 Years, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)

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“Jerusalem District Court sentenced PFLP terrorist Hamdi Qur’an to life in prison and another 100 years jail time, for the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi in 2001 and other terrorist offenses.”

Related report; Minister Ze’evi’s Murderer Jailed for 125 years

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“The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced Hamdi Quran to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment…” read more