www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525966410&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull sheera claire frenkel and jpost.com staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 29, 2006 Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin reiterated on Tuesday at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Palestinian terrorist organizations were studying the Lebanese-Israeli war to learn how to play on Israel’s weaker points. Diskin said the West Bank has […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting efforts being made by Representative Tom Lantos, the top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, to have the $230 million US aid package for Lebanon frozen until the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora takes control of its borders with Syria and prevents arms […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 27, 2006 The officially-neutral UN peacekeeping force posted, on its website, information about Israel’s troop deployments in Lebanon – but nothing about Hizbullah. UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along […]

ZOA New York – A new Israeli poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Israelis — 64.4% — oppose the Israeli Government Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s proposal of negotiating the handing over of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a peace treaty with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Only 27.4 % of […]

By Eynav Ben Yehuda Haaretz August 26, 2006 In the midst of the war in Lebanon, as Bank Hapoalim staffers and executives toured the North, a few soldiers approached deputy chair Danny Dankner. The soldiers told Dankner their concerns about their imminent entry into enemy territory without appropriate equipment. The soldiers talked about a shortage […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva August 24, 2006 The issue of administrative detention – the imprisonment or restriction of citizens’ movement without trial – is the subject of a new campaign by Knesset and extra-parliamentary efforts. Administrative detention, a legal remnant from the British Mandate period, allows security forces to hold citizens in prison without […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 23, 2006 An IDF soldier was killed in the Har Dov region of southern Lebanon on Tuesday night when his unit accidentally activated two landmines placed there by the IDF years ago against Hizbullah. The incident was released for publication Wednesday afternoon. Two Givati Brigade soldiers were seriously wounded […]

Roee Nahmias August 21, 2006 Hizbullah, Iran, and Syria are working feverishly to rearm Hizbullah ahead of the next round. A senior officer of the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran said that huge quantities of weapons – including weapons of various sources – reached Damascus during the last three weeks, and are waiting to be transferred […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva August 22, 2006 A group of 500 reservists and supporters called for the top three officials in the government to resign during a protest held outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Jerusalem office Tuesday night. With reservists protesting outside the Knesset and politicians in the opposition and even many from […]

by Tamar Sternthal CAMERA August 14, 2006 “[T]he most remarkable element of the Time report is that one could read the magazine cover to cover and never know that any Israelis had been killed and injured in their homes, in the street, in a train depot, by Hezbollah missiles,” Bradley Burston of Ha’aretz commented about […]