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ZOA Opposes Olmert Government’s Eviction Of Jewish Hebron Residents

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

IDF destroys Jewish homes, clothes torn off Jewish women New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), in a letter signed by ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, Chairman of the Board Dr. Michael Goldblatt, Chairman of Executive Committee Dr. Alan Mazurek, and Treasurer Henry Schwartz, has expressed its deep concern and opposition to […]


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What Constitutes an Illegal Order?

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the head of the hesder yeshiva in Elon Moreh, called Tuesday for a public discussion of what constitutes an illegal, and therefore refusable, order. “Everyone agrees that refusing orders is an awful thing,” he said, “and everyone agrees that there are certain orders that a soldier is required […]


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Chartered Flight Brings Another 210 North American Jews Home

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) A chartered flight of 210 new immigrants from North America landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport Tuesday morning. The immigrants, Jews who are making Aliyah (moving to Israel), were greeted by throngs of friends, family, VIPs and Aliyah enthusiasts. Among the current arrivals are 21 young people preparing to join the IDF. […]


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Qassam lands in Sderot kindergarten

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Rocket lands in schoolyard, damaging nearby buildings, including other adjacent schools. Kindergarten empty due to summer vacation; no casualties Shmulik Hadad YNET Published: 08.06.07, 18:18 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3434446,00.html A rocket launched from northern Gaza landed in a kindergarten schoolyard in Sderot, moments after the completion of a Monday afternoon meeting between Prime Minister Ehud […]


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Hebron Expulsion August 7, 2007

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

It wasn’t easy for me to come out with a public call last week to Israeli residents to oppose the evacuation of Jews from Hebron. Hebron is Jerusalem, NOT Yamit. I called for passive, non-violent resistance against the declared intentions of the government in Hebron. It was only because I am convinced that the security […]


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Our World: History’s unsettling verdicts

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 6, 2007 Compare and contrast two separate actions taken last month by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Last month, after a five-year campaign by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies which culminated in the publication of a petition signed by […]


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Swift Courts Martial Convened for IDF Hevron Eviction Refusers

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Two officers and 10 soldiers were sentenced Monday night to 28 days in an army jail for refusing to participate in the expulsion of Jews from their homes in the former Hevron marketplace. The site is known as the Shalhevet neighborhood, named after 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass, who was murdered by […]


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New Options for Middle East Peace: A Plan to Extend Israel’s Democracy to the West Bank

Monday, August 6th, 2007

American-Israel Strategic Planning Group www.aispg.com August 3, 2007 Originally Published in the Washington Times under title: ‘Preserving Israel’ By Bennett Zimmerman and Michael L. Wise with Roberta Seid The separation of Gaza and the West Bank provides the greatest opportunity since 1967 to resolve the status of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Policy-makers have been […]


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Never Say Die: Yesha Activists in Hevron, Homesh, Ariel, Eitam

Monday, August 6th, 2007

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) 120 people spent yet another Sabbath in Disengagement-destroyed Homesh, Hevron residents brace for a violent eviction, and cyclists ride from Tapuach to Ariel. With Israeli and US government officials trying to give the impression that a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria is all but a done deal, many members of […]


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Academic Prohibition

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

By Rabbi Aryeh Spero FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/3/2007 In today’s America, you can burn our flag but you can not mistreat the Koran. Burning the flag is freedom of expression, a form of allowable speech our courts tell us, but mistreating the Koran is a criminal felony punishable under hate-crime legislation. If you are a Moslem […]


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