GERALD M. STEINBERG Jewish News (UK) – June 1 2007 http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/occupation_myths.pdf While Israel celebrates 40 years of a reunited Jerusalem and what many still see as a miraculous victory that reversed Nasser’s threat to “push the Jews into the sea”, the Palestinians are celebrating 40 years of “occupation” slogans. This rhetoric has provided them with […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Some 15,000 people are expected to return to the ruins of Homesh, located in northern Samaria, next Tuesday. The march will mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War and its liberation of Judea and Samaria, according to organizers. The recently thriving town of Homesh was destroyed by the […]

Enduring occupation – Palestinians under siege in the West Bank (Communicated by the Justice Ministry Spokesman) Jerusalem, 4 June 2007 Following is the Government’s response to the report released today (Monday, 4 June 2007), by Amnesty International, entitled “Enduring Occupation: Palestinians Under Siege on the West Bank”: “Israel views with the utmost importance the safeguarding […]

By: Editorial Board Wednesday, May 30, 2007 At first blush, the renowned political columnist Hillel Halkin’s proposed solution to the problem he identifies as arising from the rocket attacks on Sderot seems somewhat off the wall. Israel, he wrote last week in the New York Sun, should declare on a given day: Starting exactly one […]

By: Michael B. Oren Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Great wars in history eventually become great wars about history. Only a few years after the last soldier leaves the battlefield, accepted truths about the nature of a military conflict and the motivations for it invariably come under assault by revisionists and counter-revisionists whose vehemence can rival […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Mortar shells were fired at the Erez Crossing with Gaza Sunday – injuring four IDF soldiers, one moderately. Hamas took credit for the attack. A Kassam rocket hit the hothouses of the town of Netiv HaAsara. Nine Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza over the weekend. One struck a […]

Sharon Roffe-Ofir – YNET News – May 30, 2007 www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3406576,00.html [Trnaslated by J4JP] Dossier drafted by The Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home says during his tenure as prime minister vice premier transferred to US documents that led to spy’s conviction; in letter to MK’s group members urge legislators to think twice before voting for […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Israel National Radio.s Yishai Fleisher and Tamar Yonah visited Sderot with Arutz-7’s Ezra HaLevi last week. The following are interviews and photos from a day in Sderot under fire. The road to Sderot, through wheat fields The IDF Home Front Command “Olmert, Go Home!” A surveillance blimp, constantly overhead, monitors Beit […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 31, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527976961&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Wednesday’s decision by Britain’s University and College Union to call for a boycott of Israeli universities and colleges was not only hypocritical. It was suicidal. It is not simply that the British prefer to boycott Israeli universities than say, Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Saudi and Jordanian […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The miraculous Six Day War led to a no-less miraculous period of return to and rebuilding of the lands for which we’d pined since the Exile began. The following is a timeline of milestone events in the past 40 years of history of the liberated lands – Old Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, […]