Peretz: More Empty Fields to be Hit??

Peretz Promises Dramatic Changes in a Number of Hours [Not exactly holding our breaths]

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As Sderot residents continue moving away from the southern city due to daily rocket attacks, Defense Minister (Labor) Amir Peretz on Monday promised a “dramatic change” “…in a number of hours or perhaps tens of hours” if the rocket attacks are not halted.

Visiting the Sderot area accompanied by President Moshe Katsav, Peretz vowed to bring an end to the rocket attacks, declining to detail what exactly the “dramatic change” entails. read more

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Selective “Free Speech” …

Think Again: Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, by Jonathan Rosenblum

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WHILE AS a Torah Jew I attempt to maintain a degree of restraint in my own speech, I do not want the secular Israeli state to attempt to impose a regime of restraint through the law.

Nadia Matar’s current trial on charges of “insulting a public official” is a case in point of selective enforcement, as this paper pointed out this week (“Noxious speech,” editorial, June 12). No doubt Yonatan Bassi was insulted by a letter from Matar likening the Disengagement Authority to a modern day “Judenrat.” read more

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Background: Impact of the Blitz on Sderot and Why No Concrete Action is Taken to Eradicate Smuggling, the Terrorists, the Launchers, the Stockpiles…

Sleepless in Sderot, Judy Lash Balint

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Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gush Katif last summer, Sderot has become the new address for a barrage of Kassam rockets fired from the area of the now-destroyed Jewish communities of Dugit, Alei Sinai and Nisanit. According to IDF statistics, more than 600 Kassams have been launched against Israel from the Gaza Strip since last September. Several have targeted the Ashkelon industrial area, but it’s Sderot, barely three miles away from Beit Hanoun, that has borne the brunt of the onslaught. read more

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With 5 Billion NIS Tax Surplus Plus Announced Budget Surplus, Why Aren’t the Gush Katif Refugees Being Compensated?

A reasonable question? For context on the budget surplus, Click here.

Good for the Rich

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It also isn’t true, as Hirchson says, that “lowering VAT is necessary because the surplus from tax revenues will reach NIS 10 billion this year. We must return some of that money to the public.”

According to the finance ministry’s tax administration, the country’s tax surplus (the difference between planned tax revenues and the amount of tax actually paid) stands at about NIS 5 billion. Nor is there any leftover from VAT revenues; that real growth is about four percent. read more

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Overnight and Monday War News …

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“Olmert is Giving Up All of Jerusalem”: Caroline Glick

Column One: Olmert’s Plan for Jerusalem, by Caroline Glick

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Olmert apparently thinks that partitioning the city will secure the Jewish majority of the city. Yet, taking these neighborhoods out of the city will actually endanger that majority.

Over the past few months, a team of American and Israeli researchers conducted a demographic study of Jerusalem and its environs. Last year the same researchers – Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, Michael Weiss and Yoram Ettinger – conducted the first independent study of the Palestinian population data published by the PA’s Central Bureau of Statistics in 1997. Their study exposed that the PA had inflated the number of Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza by some 1.5 million or 50 percent. Olmert and his colleagues in Kadima and the Labor Party have justified their plan to surrender Judea and Samaria to Hamas on the basis of these inflated numbers which falsely project that by 2015 there will be more Arabs than Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. read more

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Regime Still Denying and Cheating Gush Katif Refugees Out of What is Theirs …

Who Gave the Order to Change Property Appraisals?, by Moti Sender

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Information received by the Legal Forum for Eretz Israel indicates that the Government Appraiser told external assessors hired to give their professional opinion on which to base refugees’ rights to compensation, that they should change their original reports so that the amount of compensation would be substantially reduced. “This gross intervention in assessors’ appraisals is very worrying”, wrote Attorney Yitzhak Meiron, one of the heads of the Legal Forum, to Ami Lindner, Chairman of the Expulsion Administration’s Eligibility Committee. read more

The Continuing Sderot Blitz and Other War News …

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PM: Accessory to Murder??

Manhigut Yehudit: PM Olmert is an Accessory to Murder

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Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) “sees the prime minister, the defense minister, the justices of the High Court of Justice, and any officer and soldier involved in the transfer of weapons to the murderer Abu Mazen and his gang as accessories to the murder of Jews,” the movement’s statement said. Furthermore, Manhigut Yehudit, headed by Moshe Feiglin, declared that it would work towards trying those involved in the weapons transfer before a court of law when the movement takes over the reigns of power. read more

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