By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – While Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has the past few weeks directed large numbers of Israeli forces to demolish several isolated West Bank Jewish homes deemed illegal, a report newly released here charges Jerusalem’s city hall deleted files documenting hundreds of illegal Arab building projects throughout eastern […]

Handler of Pollard says information obtained was essential to Israel’s security By Associated Press – March 5, 2006 The Israeli handler of Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel two decades ago, defended the risky operation that tarnished Israel-U.S. relations in an interview published Friday, saying Pollard’s information was too good to resist […]

Alert hareidi-brigade soldiers suspected an Arab who arrived at their checkpoint, and ultimately found that he was in fact wearing a ten-kilogram explosive. The soldiers were manning a barrier near Bekaot in the Jordan Valley, east of Shechem, when an 18-year-old Arab arrived. Brigade Commander Lt.-Col. Yaron Frankel told Arutz-7’s Kobi Finkler what happened: “The […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 30 March 2006 With our national elections behind us, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces important challenges and questions. Here are a few: 1. Arrangements at the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip are a farce, with the Palestinians not only responsible for inspections but also having the last […]

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent 26 March 2006 [IMRA: Why “dumb America”? Because Rice pushed Israel to reopen Karni even though Kerem Shalom could have handled the critical traffic. Why “dumb Israel”? Because Israel reopened Karni even though Kerem Shalom could have handled the critical traffic. The mishandling of this challenge by the Olmert Administration […]

by Aaron Klein A number of Christian and Jewish American groups have announced the formation of an umbrella organization that will lobby against acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to withdraw Jewish communities from the West Bank, arguing in part any withdrawal would be against United States interests. “Olmert’s plan means the destruction of the […]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent 29 March 2006 www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/699804.html For the first time, Palestinians fired a 122mm Katyusha rocket, a much longer-range projectile than the Qassam, from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the IDF confirmed Tuesday night. The Katyusha was fired Tuesday morning. It caused no injuries or damage. Israel Channel 10 Television said the […]

By Ezra HaLevi The following is a breakdown of the 120 tentative members of the 17th Knesset and the parties they belong to. Party names are hyperlinked to their English web sites, where available. _Kadima_ (http://www.kadimasharon.co.il/11-en/index.aspx) ? 28 seats: Chairman Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, Tzipi Livni, Meir Sheetrit, Avi Dichter, Marina Solodkin, Haim Ramon, Shaul […]

Borders are interesting places to be. From the border, one needs to turn his back on the rest of the world to see the interior, while to focus on the outside world requires facing away from the interior. It induces a certain clarity of thought that sometimes is lacking in more muddled locales. Borders, of […]

Hanan Greenberg and Shmulik Hadad YNET 28 March 2006 www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/CdaNewsFlash/0,2297,L-3233163_3089,00.html [IMRA: South correspondent Nissim Keinan of Israel Radio reports that the daughter of the murdered man was also there and was able to report that she heard the shriek of an incoming rocket or mortar shell before the explosion. The media team covering Amir Peretz […]