Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Shots Fired at Troops Near Tulkarm; No Wounded

Palestinian Policeman Wounded by Hamas Gunfire

Israeli Enters Kalkilya After mother’s Stolen Car

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Arab Media: Trade Terrorist for Pollard

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“A popular Arab television network is lobbying for a deal in which a convicted terrorist running in upcoming Palestinian elections would be freed from Israeli prison in exchange for the U.S. release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.”

“The developments come a year after Pollard first exposed the potential deal when he told WorldNetDaily he learned he may be exchanged for the terrorist leader, Marwan Barghouti, who has been convicted of several counts of murder.” read more

Two NSC Chairmen: Sharon Makes Decisions Without Proper Preparation

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“As someone who conducted the negotiations with the United Nations ahead of the withdrawal from Lebanon and was involved in talks preceding the Mitchell, Tenet and Zinni reports, [National Security Council (NSC) chairman Giora] Eiland has an interesting perspective on the Israeli leadership. ‘The decision-makers here prefer the bottom line to a proper process of preparation for negotiations – including examining the basic assumptions, defining your interests and mapping out those of the rival parties, formulating minimal objectives and determining the negotiation tactics.’” read more

Likud candidate: Is Kadima a Party or a Faction?

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“Shai Galili, a Likud Knesset candidate, appealed to the Knesset legal advisor Friday evening to determine whether Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Kadima movement was a faction or a party.”

Bieber Unrepentant After IDF Discharge

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“Even now, close to half a year later, Bieber still speaks about the incident on the Gaza Strip sand dunes with a mixture of anger and excitement. Freshly discharged from the army, Bieber, whose family made aliya from New Jersey nine years ago, speaks freely about his refusal of orders and what pushed him to disobey the military he said he still loved.”

“Bieber was arrested immediately and stood trial before his superiors. Sentenced to 56 days in prison, Bieber was transferred to Prison 4 in Tzrifin. But even before he got there he knew, by the dozens of phone calls, that he had done the right thing. An 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, Bieber said, called him and said that he put on tefillin for the first time in 40 years after watching the refusal of orders on television.” read more

Gaza Evacuee on Qassams: I Told You So

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“I warned that the disengagement would blow up in our faces, says Avi Farhan, a former resident of the Ele Sinai settlement in Gaza, which was evacuated last summer.”

“Terrorists have been firing Qassams from the Ele Sinai area toward Ashkelon, and Qassam attacks from Beit Hanun and Beit Lahiya have been targeting Sderot, Farhan’s current home.”

“I call Sharon to be the man that I knew 40 years ago.”

Steinitz: You’re too Absurd for Words! read more

Amazing what some rain will do to keep Terrorism down!

Jihad Threatening With New Longer-Range Rocket

Possible Car Bomb Near Rachel’s Tomb

Terrorists Fire at Soldiers in Shechem

Tensions Mounting in Kadima

Peres May Join Kadima Election Lineup

Peres likely to be Kadima MK

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Netanyahu Offers Feiglin a Deal

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“Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu ended his efforts to expel right-wing activist Moshe Feiglin from the Likud on Thursday, just two days after he announced a quest to purge the Likud of ‘negative elements.'”

“Netanyahu offered Feiglin a deal whereby he would agree to not expel him from the party in return for Feiglin dropping his race for a slot on the Likud’s Knesset list, Likud sources said.” read more

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Deal: Barghouti to Form PA Government

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“Following a long dispute, the two factions of the Palestinian Fatah movement has reached an agreement Thursday to unite the group under the leadership of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Arab-Israeli weekly al-Sinara reported on Friday.”

“The newspaper has released the details of what it defined as the ‘bargain deal,’ between the rivaling sides, revealing that in the framework of the agreement Barghouti has consented to the movement’s unification in exchange for an effort to persuade the factions to carry on with the state of intra-Palestinian lull set to expire at the end of the month.” read more