Archive for July, 2005

By Dan Williams Sun Jul 31, 8:44 AM ET JERUSALEM (Reuters) -     Israel fears that half of the Jewish settlers slated for evacuation from occupied Gaza next month will stay put rather than agree to relocation, forcing troops to remove them, a cabinet minister said on Sunday In separate remarks, Israel's deputy defense minister repeated an Israeli threat of a...
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JERUSALEM -     Israel would launch a massive ground operation if Palestinian militants fire on Israeli soldiers and settlers during next month's Gaza pullout, the deputy defense minister said Sunday. In such a scenario, the evacuation of settlers would be halted for 10 days to two weeks while Israeli forces occupy Palestinian towns near the Jewish settlements, said Deputy...
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By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press   Some residents of the northern Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai said Thursday they planned to wear Nazi concentration camp prisoner uniforms when security forces evacuate them from their homes during the disengagement. The striped uniforms, which were to include yellow Stars of David with the word “Jude” sewn on to the lapels,...
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Rachel Saperstein Our community phone message system is in operation most of the day. Notices of prayer meetings, protest gatherings, organized meetings between soldiers and settlers, births, deaths, controlled explosions, ‘take cover’ because of Arab bombardment, ‘return to normal’ (or what passes for normal here)… all these and more are reported to us. But most frightening of all was the...
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In May 1967, the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria – with backing from several other Arab countries – amassed on Israel’s borders in a bid to wipe out Israel. In response, Israel launched a pre-emptive attack and unexpectedly gained control over land including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel later gave up about 90 percent...
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By Gerald A. Honigman MichNews.com Jul 28, 2005 I've spent too many nights thinking about this stuff. But these are indeed troubling times… At press conferences and other public presentations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other State Department spokesmen increasingly emphasize the need for the emergence of a viable, contiguous Palestinian State. They do this with full knowledge that in order...
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By David DolanAs the Sharon government made final preparations to evacuate some 9,000 Jews from their homes in the embattled Gaza Strip and northern Samaria in mid-August, physical and verbal clashes sharply escalated between Israeli security forces and opponents of the controversial withdrawals.  This came as a majority of Knesset members reaffirmed their commitment...
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From: Rebecca SinderbrandSubject: Looking Beyond the Gaza WithdrawalWednesday, July 20, 2005, at 3:31 AM PT   JERUSALEM—To add to the general edginess of pre-disengagement Jerusalem, for the last few weeks the city has been gripped by successive heat waves of, well, biblical proportions. By noon, the stones of the Old City seem to radiate heat;...
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My name is Racheli, I was born 25 years ago in Yamit , and since the evacuation of Yamit I have been living in Gush Katif. I live here with my husband, my two daughters, my parents, my siblings, and my grandmother...
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Former MK Shmuel Flatto-Sharon (pictured, right), the major player in the plans to build the casino, revealed to Arutz-7's Itzik Wolf that among his partners are a Saudi Arabian billionaire and Kern (pictured, left). Flatto-Sharon said that he has already been in contact with the Palestinian Authority regarding his plans to build the casino on the lands of what is...
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