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Friday, October 26th, 2001
(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser) The Israel Security Agency (ISA), in cooperation with the Gidonim Unit and the Jerusalem Police, have arrested a number of suspects in connection with the assassination of the late Minister of Tourism Rechavam Ze’evy. The questioning of Salah Alawi (resident of Azariya, who collaborated with the assassins) and […]
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Friday, October 26th, 2001
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to present the Palestinians with a state – as part of an interim agreement. According to the plan Sharon hopes to show U.S. President George Bush next month in Washington, the state would be established even before its final borders are drawn. Sharon will emphasize to Bush, however, that the […]
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Friday, October 26th, 2001
Here are the brief facts on the Israeli conflict today… Takes just 15 minutes to read. It makes sense and it’s historically correct. It’s relevant to both Jews and non Jews. Nationhood and Jerusalem Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying […]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2001
What do Muslims think of Osama bin Laden? Ask Westerners and you’ll hear how marginal he is. President Bush says bin Laden represents a “fringe form of Islamic extremism . . . rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics.” American specialists on Islam agree. “Osama bin Laden is to Islam like […]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2001
SOME American Jews have left an indelible, if now nearly forgotten, mark on the nation’s history. Alfred Mordecai was one such individual. He introduced scientific methods into the development of pre-Civil War American military munitions. The outbreak of the Civil War placed Mordecai, a native Southerner, in an untenable moral and emotional dilemma. In 1861, […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2001
The United Nations has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations! With the Nobel award to the UN, hope springs eternal. Now, the most deserving individuals or groups — so long and unjustly overlooked — have a chance. If the UN deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, then . . . Woody Allen deserves the Loyalty to […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2001
President George W. Bush plans to reinforce yesterday’s State Department directive to Israel to “get out” of the PA-controlled areas. He will “stop by” a meeting between visiting Foreign Minister Peres and National Security Council head Condoleeza Rice, and tell Peres that the IDF must immediately withdraw from the areas it took over this weekend. […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2001
On Oct. 1, 2001, President George W. Bush casually mentioned that the Mitchell Report is the basis of future peace talks between Israel and the PLO. One year after that report was commissioned, perhaps the time has come to take stock as to whether that report was indeed "balanced and fair." In late October, 2000, […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2001
Today’s edition of the weekly Cabinet meeting dealt with the IDF’s offensives in Judea and Samaria. Prime Minister Sharon began by reviewing the army’s extensive weekend activities, which included the capture of territory in and around six Palestinian-controlled cities: Ramallah, Jenin, Beit Jala, Bethlehem, Tul Karem, and Kalkilyeh. Government officials, including Ariel Sharon, stressed repeatedly […]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2001
A little over two weeks ago my husband Mordechai began erecting our Succah. Actually, he didn’t have to work very hard since we used to of our caravan’s walls and one wall of our security room. I didn’t have to do much either to prepare for the holiday. I packed our bags to spend the […]
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