The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Evacuations Planned for 24 Outposts
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The author of this article is pretty slick with the use of the term “unauthorized” throughout the article while using the term “illegal” in the picture. Since when does “unauthorized” always define itself as “illegal?” MB
Comptroller Recommends Investigating Shimon Peres
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According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 television station, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has recommended to the attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, that his office open an investigation into donations received by Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Lindenstrauss passed along to the attorney general the information collected by his office after he was unconvinced by explanations offered by Peres at a hearing the comptroller held on the matter.
Exclusive: Fugitive to Head PA Force 17
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A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office in 2001 announced the arrest of three members of Force 17 who were allegedly involved in the killing of Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane and his wife Talia in December 2000.
According to the statement, Damra was responsible for arming and instructing the three men, who were identified as Talal Ghassan, 37, a senior Force 17 member in Ramallah, Marzouk Abu Naim, 43, and Na’man Nofel.
The three were planning on carrying out additional attacks on soldiers and civilians, especially on the Ramallah-area bypass roads, on the Allon road and in Jerusalem, the statement said.
Our World: Abbas’s Newest Big Lie, by Caroline Glick
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Fresh from her tete-a-tete with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas last week, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed her press flack to tell her fellow cabinet ministers to remain mum on Abbas’s latest “diplomatic” gambit. In the words of her communications director Shai Ben Maor, Abbas’s decision to turn a document written by convicted Palestinian murderers and attempted murderers sitting in Israeli prisons into the centerpiece of his diplomatic policy is “an internal Palestinian issue” and so Israel should not be weighing in on it.
Another Tack: Sins of Omission, by Sarah Honig
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Earlier this month, Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav was asked during an interview with the Israeli Arabic-language weekly Kul al-Arab whether he’d accept in principle the return to Haifa of “tens of thousands of Arab refugees” who left it in 1948.
Yahav replied he “wouldn’t mind their return” in the context of a peace agreement, adding: “In all sincerity I feel the refugees’ pain… because my father too tasted the bitterness of homelessness and loss after he fled Germany.”
Gush Katif Resettlement Efforts Mired in Bureaucracy
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Lior Kalfa, head of the Gush Katif Residents Council, described the situation of the some 1,700 families uprooted from their homes in Gush Katif ten months ago. “Bureaucracy rules,” he says.
“When the government wanted to expel us,” Kalfa told Arutz-7’s Yigal Shok, “there was no bureaucracy. Everything worked smoothly. But now, to resettle us, there are complications and everything goes very slowly. This cannot continue.”
Poland Apologizes to Rabbi after Attack
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Poland’s president expressed solidarity Monday with the country’s chief rabbi, who was attacked over the weekend, assuring the Jewish leader he would do everything in his power to oppose anti-Semitism.
President Lech Kaczynski invited Rabbi Michael Schudrich to his palace, where he expressed regret over the attack and said Poland will not tolerate anti-Semitism, said the presidential undersecretary of state, Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka.
Schudrich was punched in the chest and doused with what appeared to be pepper spray on a Warsaw street Saturday by a young man who yelled “Poland for Poles” – an old anti-Semitic slogan implying Jews are unwelcome in Poland.
‘Women in Blue-and-White’ Recorded Complaints Against Machsom Watch
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A grassroots organization called Women in Blue-and-White in Haifa visited IDF soldiers at a checkpoint located outside Tul Karem in Samaria, in order to record complaints by the soldiers against members of the Machsom Watch organization. According to the soldiers, members of the all-women left-wing radical Machsom Watch organization interfere with the security functions at the checkpoint (called a machsom in Hebrew) and degrade the soldiers in front of the Palestinian Authority residents who pass through the area. The Machsom Watch activists also threaten the soldiers with formal complaints if they refuse to do as the activists demand.
Hezbollah Becomes Strategic Threat; Rockets Can Strike Tel Aviv
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Sunday’s rocket strike at a military base near Tzefat was the deepest a rocket fired from southern Lebanon has ever penetrated Israel.
The attack, which Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres termed “coincidental,” may have been a deliberate effort by Hezbollah to showcase its new strategic weapons.
Those weapons … are now able to strike virtually everywhere in Israel from the Galilee to the northern Negev.
PM Olmert: “We Will Strike a Painful Blow at All Those Who Fire at the North”
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Prime Minister Olmert said on Sunday, 28 May: “At around 04:00 this morning, a barrage of Katyusha rockets was fired approximately eight kilometers into Israel. This assault on Israeli communities was initiated by terrorist elements in Lebanon. We carried out an aerial attack and we will use all aerial and ground responsive measures at our disposal in order to strike at the terrorist elements that tried to disrupt life in the north. We were careful. Naturally, residents in the relevant areas were asked to go into shelters. We do not want any of our civilians to be hurt; we also do not want any innocent Lebanese civilians to be caught up in these exchanges of fire but I can say here that we will – without any doubt – strike a painful blow at all those who try to disrupt life in the north of the country. Israel’s response was an important warning to Palestinian elements in Lebanon of what they may expect if such things recur. We hope that the response will be properly understood and that there will be no further attempts. In the meantime, I hear that the firing is continuing, mainly in the western Galilee and I think that the elements that are taking part in the firing have erred in their assessments. They will receive an unequivocal and aggressive response, without any hesitation, if they do not stop.”