Bush Appears Not Enthused About Olmert’s ‘Convergence’…

Bush Expresses Cautious Approval of Convergence Plan

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after his meeting with US President George W. Bush in the White House that he was “very satisfied” with the understanding reached concerning his plan for possible unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank.

In a briefing for Israeli reporters after the meeting, Olmert stressed that Bush’s remarks about his plan, in which the president called Olmert’s ideas “bold” and “important steps towards peace,” were made in a “very clear and remarkable way,” read more

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Gush Katif Refugee Kids Get Help from Immigrant Chessed Organization, But Nothing from Major American Jewish Orgs. …

Gush Katif Kids Get Help From Organization for Immigrant Education

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Shuvu, an organization focused on establishing schools in Israel originally for the benefit of Jewish children who immigrated from the former Soviet Union, will be providing classroom space for 50 schoolchildren from Gush Katif who have been moved from place to place, and from school to school, for the past nine months. The students, who studied in the now-closed Atzmona Talmud Torah in the tent-city known as Ir Emunah, began classes today at the Shuvu School in Nitzan, where many of the former Gush Katif families have moved. read more

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Meir Sheetrit Seems to Have a Problem With ‘Convergence’…

Minister Sheetrit: Terror Will Continue After Consolidation Plan

Aaron Lerner’s IMRA captures this quote from Sheetrit in Hebrew language Ha’aretz.

Commentary;

Although Mean Meir has a problem with the continuation of terror after ‘convergence’, dimes to dollars that his obvious blind hatred for religious Jews, anything Jewish and Eretz Yisrael would blind him to all of the dangers if or when it comes to voting time on ‘convergence.’ No profile in courage here! MB read more

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Israel’s MSM Thought Police at Work …

Ticking Time Bomb in Jewish Quarter

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The following announcement was on the bulletin board at Yeshivat Hakotel in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City Monday: “Friday, 9:00-9:30 A.M., lesson in Rambam’s Hilchot Avoda (rules of Temple worship); the Temple vessels and those who use them, given by Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl.” The public notice boards in the alleyways of the Jewish Quarter were plastered with posters offering “Torah scrolls written by scribes with certificates and recommendations from the Mishmeret Stam Institute;” “instrumental music and singing lessons for Levites;” and “How can we live without the Temple: When will we wake up? How long will we sleep?” read more

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Overnight War News …

Five Gunmen Killed in Shootout With IDF Soldiers in Ramallah

IDF Artillery Retaliation for PA Rocket-Fire

Two Rockets Fired From Gaza; One Lands in Netiv Ha’asarah

11 Illegal Bedouin Buildings Tore Down, Thousands Remain
Making like they’re doing something:

Government authorities Wednesday carried out a court order and tore down 11 buildings in the Negev on land occupied by Bedouins. Only four of the structures were occupied.

There are tens of thousands of illegally built shacks and houses throughout the Negev where Bedouin tribes have squatted on land, claiming it is theirs by tradition. Authorities periodically ask the courts permission to demolish a small number of them. read more

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Olmert’s Latest Bogus Spins on ‘Convergence’ …

PM to Give Palestinians 6-9 Months to Negotiate

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Differing, conflicting signals of mis-information, dis-information are issued on this issue by the day! MB

Only ’20-30 Settlements’ to be Removed

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plans for the division of the West Bank involve the dismantling and relocation of 20 to 30 settlements, and not the previously assumed evacuation of the vast majority of the settlements on the far side of the security barrier, the prime minister’s adviser for settlements, Uzi Keren, has told The Jerusalem Post. read more

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Unprotected Schools: Another Boosha for an Insensitive, Indifferent Regime …

Cabinet Ministers in Sderot: Schools to Remain Unprotected

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Just hours after a Kassam hit a miraculously empty classroom in Sderot yesterday, the money to rocket-proof the city’s schools was found. Defense Minister Peretz now says it won’t happen so fast.

Peretz: No Chance to Fortify Schools by September

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Despite announcing plan Sunday to armor Gaza perimeter schools immediately, by Monday defense minister cynical about likelihood of completing security construction by next school year; IDF officials: Fortifying schools will take long time – plan needs wide budget, exact planning. read more

More International Anti-Israel Bias and Israeli MSM Paradise …

Amnesty International Slams Israel’s ‘Unlawful Acts’

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The IDF killed 190 Palestinians, including 50 children. “Many were killed unlawfully, in deliberate and reckless shootings, shelling and air strikes in densely populated residential areas or as a result of excessive force,” AI charged.

Commentary;

Another expresssion of Israel MSM’s slanted, bias, anti-Israel reporting.

And what about Israel’s right to defend the Jews being shot and stoned drive-by terrorists and blitzed by Kassams and Katushyas? And what about her sensitivity toward civilians manifested in the nonsensical shelling of empty fields in order to save enemy civilian lives? read more

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Overnight War News …

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Responding to Rabbi Sadan …

Rabbi: Minority Can’t Stop Next Pullout

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“There are those who say: ‘What if they come to evacuate us from our lands (in the West Bank); will we go like sheep to slaughter? We have no choice but to fight for the Land of Israel’. The answer to this is clear: Even if we will be successful in delaying this or that evacuation by applying force, there is no doubt this will lead to more force being applied against us – force that is stronger than ours,” he said. read more

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