Archive for September, 2006

Once Again, Arabs Travel Freely, Jews Restricted, This Time in the Old City…

September 26th, 2006

Restrictions on Old City Jews During Ramadan, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Full Text;
With the onset of Ramadan (Moslem holy month) celebrations, the police have instructed Jews living on a main Old City thoroughfare not to traverse it between 8 and 10 PM in the coming weeks.
The Jews living in […]

Amazing What the Israeli Foreign Ministry Can Do When it Wants to! Disgraceful How it Ignores Pollard!

September 26th, 2006

Received this email from a friend in the US;
Subject: [bsaje] Isn’t it amazing what the Israeli Foreign Ministry can do when it wants to? Disgraceful how it ignores Pollard!
Israeli Spends Rosh Hashanah Eve in a US Jail
Full Text;
An Israeli tourist who planned to spend the two-day Rosh Hashanah holiday with friends in the […]

Tuesday War News…

September 26th, 2006

Hizbullah Moving Rockets to Palestinian Camps, by Aaron Klein (World News Daily)
Excerpt;
Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.
The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a […]

Regime Still Not Fulfilling It’s Responsibilities to the Jews It Evicted…

September 25th, 2006

Gov’t Yet to Begin Homebuilding for Some Gaza Evacuees
Absurd Statement of the Day;
“Sela administration head Zvia Shimon confirmed that construction has yet to begin on a single permanent house. However, Shimon questioned the timing of this report ’since much progress had been made in recent months.’”
Full Text;
Twenty-three Gush Katif evacuee community leaders gathered on the […]

As in Chevron, Israel’s Police: You Stand at Kotel as Long as We Allow and You Do As We Say, or Else…

September 25th, 2006

Man Arrested for Blowing Shofar at Western Wall, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Commentary;
What does it take to get Jews fed up and fired up. Must this author keep repetitiously relating about the regime’s repeated harrassments and intimidations?
As with Chevron and other Jewish Holy Sites, Israel’s Police and Military: You Stand at Kotel […]

Monday War News…

September 25th, 2006

Bomb Detonated Against Soldiers in Gaza
Kassam Rockets Damage Vehicles, Hits College
2 Kassam Rockets Land in West Negev; None Wounded
IDF Injures Three Arabs Who Stoned Israeli Cars
Three Palestinian Youths [Throwing Molotov Cocktails] Wounded by IDF Fire
IDF Seizes NIS 6m in Raids on Moneychangers
IDF Kills Five [Teens Picking Up Kassam Launchers] in Two […]

Ongoing Nightmare at Kever Rachel: Is it Easier to Get to Uman than to the 3600 Year Old Jewish Holy site, Rachel’s Tomb, in Israel?

September 24th, 2006

This is a crucial question and the perspective is a personal one, and so this blog will dispense with the usual third-person convention — “this author.” I’ve agonized on this ongoing story for months, out of concern for the welfare of those involved at the Kever Rachel complex, so as to […]

Abbas: Demanding Barghouti for Shalit…

September 24th, 2006

Abbas: We’ll Demand Barghouti for Shalit

Excerpt;
“Palestinian president says PA will demand release of Fatah leader Barghouti, PLF Secretary-General Saadat as part of any agreement that would include Shalit’s release; representatives for groups involved in kidnapping deny reports of imminent prisoner exchange deal.”
For context on Marwan Barghouti, click here.
Commentary;
Abu (Abu Abbas in […]

War News Over Rosh Hashanah…

September 24th, 2006

Kassam Rocket Hits South of Ashkelon; No Injuries
IAF strikes Gaza house that Hid Smuggling Tunnels
Report: Gun Battle Outside West Bank Church
Excerpt;
“Palestinian police guarding a West Bank church exchanged fire with assailants and chased them away early Saturday. Churches in the West Bank and Gaza have been attacked by firebombs and gunfire in recent […]

To Embrace Our Identity as Jews …

September 22nd, 2006

Column One: A Prayer for 5767 By Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
Today, the Jewish people, in Israel and throughout the world find ourselves under attack from all quarters. The rise of anti-Semitism globally, and particularly in the Islamic world, finds us in a period of grave self-doubt. Like the […]