List of Aid Efforts For Evictees From Gaza and N. Samaria
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Where to Send Your Donations to Help Gush Katif, Shomron Evictees …
Overnight War News …
More on Amona Knesset Hearings; Lame Excuses, Praise and Accusations from Police Chief; COS Okayed Use of Police Batons, Didn’t Define When/How Police Use Them …
Shteinitz Calls on Mazuz to Examine Suspicious Police Behavior
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“The chairman of the Knesset committee tasked to examine the events during the eviction of nine families in Amona, MK Yuval Shteinitz, has called on Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to examine actions by police that raise suspicions of premeditated violations. Specifically, MK Shteinitz noted that the policemen were not wearing identifying badges, as regulations require, and that they ignored recommendations that female officers be deployed to evacuate female protestors.”
Honenu Head Arrested: Political Abuse by Olmert Regime of Legal Aid Society?
Head of Honenu Legal Aid Society Arrested
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“Earlier this evening, Shmuel Meidad, the head of the Honenu legal aid society was arrested by police at his home in Hevron. The charges against Meidad include involvement in an unidentified incident in Kiryat Malachi. Meidad was never questioned regarding the charges for which he was arrested today.”
“‘Honenu was established to defend the rights of those ‘whose civil rights and entitlement to fair and even-handed justice have been violated,’ according to the organization’s literature. Specifically, Honenu has offered aid in the cases of those arrested for protesting recent government policies or those arrested in connection with self-defense against Arab terrorists.”
Comptroller: State and Its Institutions Failed the Expelled Citizens of Gush Katif …
Comptroller Slams Gaza Resettlement Failures
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“In a special report released for publication Wednesday, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss blasted the Disengagement Authority (Sela), the Prime Minister’s Office and the Finance Ministry for their poor performance in handling the evacuation and resettlement of 1,750 families from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
“‘A supreme and concentrated national effort was required of all the
ministries that dealt with the disengagement, and above all by the Prime Minister’s Office and Sela,’ wrote Lindenstrauss.”
Abbas Endorses Kadima, Likud: Even Abbas realizes Kadima More Leftist than Labor
Labor Upset by Abbas Support for Olmert
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“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he endorses Israel’s acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in elections this month.”
“In an interview published Wednesday in Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Abbas said that Olmert’s victory would be a positive outcome for the March 28 national balloting.”
“‘We’ll respect the will of the Israeli people,’ he told the paper, adding, ‘I hope Olmert wins.'”
Overnight and Wednesday War News …
West Bank: Two Israelis Lightly Wounded by Stones
Israeli Woman Injured in Rock-Throwing Attack
Kassam Rocket Lands, No Damage or Injuries
Five Infiltrators Apprehended at Egyptian Border
Arab Attacker Targets Border Guards With Pipe Bombs
Arab Terrorist Captured With Three Pipe Bombs
Arabs Attacked an Ambulance in the Bethlehem Region
More on Today’s Knesset Amona Investigations …
AG Defends Decision to Evacuate Amona
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“Attorney General Menahem Mazuz told the special parliamentary investigative committee into the violent events at Amona on Tuesday that settler offers of a compromise that were presented to him prior to the Amona evacuation were untenable, not to the point, and unfeasible.”
“Mazuz added that the Amona structures had to be demolished because, ‘they were tainted with all levels of illegality.'”
“The structures were built on private Palestinian land,’ he said.”
Jews, Make Your Votes Count!
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“Ehud Olmert, the acting prime minister of Israel, has made things quite clear. The March 28th elections are a referendum on the future of Judea and Samaria and on the creation of a sovereign Palestinian Arab nation-state west of the Jordan River.”
“In other words, the referendum that we asked for is here.”
“For the better part of two years, the zeitgeist of Judea, Samaria and Gush Katif was that the government of Israel must hold a referendum before any decision is made concerning the proposed destruction of our communities and the creation of an armed Arab entity, whose purpose would be to transform any area under its control into a launching pad to liberate the rest of ‘Palestine'”.
The Achievement Claims of Olmert, Sela for Gush Katif Refugees?
Acting PM Olmert Convenes Ministerial Disengagement Committee
This story is newsworthy for it’s inaccuracies, distortions, blantant overstatement and it’s obvious media spin. If 1.3 Billion NIS has been disbursed, to whom has it been disbursed? It has not gone to the refugee families for they consistently report having received either nothing or a fraction of the promised compensation. MB