Some congressional leaders worry Gaza pullout amounts to appeasement Geostrategy-Direct, www.geostrategy-direct.com, August 2, 2005 Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip is making some prominent House and Senate […]

TEL AVIV \u2013 Palestinian terrorists, exploiting Israeli military preparations for withdrawal from Gaza, have achieved their first successful infiltration from the area. Israeli military sources said a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber slipped past the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and entered Israel. He was arrested on July 23 near Kibbutz Nir Am in […]

Israel has been attacked by Palestinian Arab terrorists 25,375 times since October 2000, General Security Service Director Yuval Diskin told his Knesset overseers Tuesday. That figure includes 142 ‘suicide’ bomb attacks, Diskin said in a briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The results of that terrorist onslaught are 1,048 persons murdered and […]

New York – A major new Israeli poll carried out by the Tel Aviv University Institute for Media, Society, and Politics show that only 48% of Israelis support the Gaza withdrawal plan. Researchers Dr. Yari Tsfati and Dr. Yoram Peri took the survey questioning a random sample of 519 Israelis. Drs. Tsfati and Peri said […]

At 105, Herbert Brown is impeccably dressed in a crisp blue shirt that brings out the color of his eyes but belies the strain of time on his frail frame. Given his time spent in a Nazi concentration camp and his run-in with the notorious Adolf Eichmann, it’s a wonder Brown has survived. But here […]

Mountainous terrain can be treacherous whether in Israel’s Negev desert or in the Colorado Rockies. And that’s why joint training exercises between rescue units for the two locations have proven to be so beneficial to both sides. That was the assessment following last month’s visit by ten members of Israel’s Negev Highlands Rescue Team (NHRT) […]

Tens of thousands of anti-disengagement protestors are under police siege in the small moshav Kfar Maimon. The police refuse to allow them to proceed towards the Kisufim Junction outside Gush Katif. Despite 24 hours of uncertainty and tension, the protestors are in high spirits, with circles of singing and dancing breaking out intermittently. The thousands […]

The massive anti-Disengagement protest in Netivot began Monday evening, albeit three hours late due to police efforts to prevent protesters from arriving for the rally. The protesters began marching toward the community of Kfar Maimon, in the direction of Gush Katif, despite police refusal to authorize the march. The organizers of the rally, the Yesha […]

Yesha Council heads met with Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi this afternoon, in an attempt to coordinate the massive 3-day march that will head for the entrance to Gush Katif tomorrow afternoon. The meeting resulted in a decision to have teams representing both the organizers and the police meet and iron out the remaining issues between […]

Sharon’s plan to use American aid to develop the Galilee and Negev to attract Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria faces opposition in the U.S., which may insist the money be used for Arabs. Israel has asked the Bush administration for $2 billion to finance the government’s plan to dismantle more than 25 Jewish communities, […]