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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Archive for July, 2005
Israel sees forced removal for half Gaza settlers
Israel Threatens Massive Ground Operation
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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Some Gaza settlers to don WWII death camp uniforms for pullout
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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ROUNDUPS OF JEWS – by Rachel Saperstein
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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Fact Sheet
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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Bantustan Nights
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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STANDOFF IN THE DESERT
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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Among the Believers
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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Letter to Soldiers and Police Officers of the Gaza Evacuation
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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Sharon's Friend to Build Casino in Gaza
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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