In 1975 the United States Postal Department issued a stamp honoring a man named Haym Salomon for his contribution to the cause of the American Revolution. This stamp was uniquely printed on the front and the back. On the glue side of the stamp, the following words were printed in pale, green ink. “Financial Hero - Businessman and broker Haym Salomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse.” I personally have one of these stamps. Historians who have studied the story of Haym Salomon all agree that without his “contribution to the cause” there would be no America today.
Haym Salomon bought and sold financial papers to raise money for Robert Morris who was the Superintendent of Finance for the Continental Congress. He believed that America would be a safe haven for the Jews. But this son of a rabbi also believed that one day in the future, Jerusalem would rise from the dust, the Jews would return to their ancient homeland, and Israel and Jerusalem would once again be the home of the wandering Jew. Salomon determined to do all that he could ...   more »

by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) A Jewish man has won a fifteen-year battle against Arab squatters who seized his land in southern Jerusalem. The police are supposed to restore the property to him Monday, by force if necessary.
Yitzchak Herskovitz fought in court against Arab squatters from Bethlehem for 15 years over his property. An initial victory was followed by an appeal, during which the squatters promised to pay him rent and later refused.
Police have now told Herskowitz he has one day to pay for police protection in order to remove the squatters and take control of his land, which is located on Jerusalem’s Derech Hevron Street, just past the Sonol station on the right, before the turn to Givat HaMatos and then to Gilo.
That day is this coming Monday, July 2.
The land was purchased from the estate of an Armenian Christian in 1972 by a Jewish man who lived in Los Angeles and bought it while visiting Israel. He sold it to Herskovitz, who researched the ownership and deeds extensively before buying the property in 1992.
An Arab from Bethlehem’s infamous Tamra clan invaded the property, which was unoccupied at the time by the owner, and moved ...   more »

Helping to perpetuate Arab hatred of the Jewish state, Jordan's King Abdullah on Sunday referred to Israel as the enemy of the Palestinians.
In an interview with the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad, Abdullah said that all of the sloganeering and photo-ops ultimately mean nothing for the Palestinians because they “face a solid enemy that works according to programs and plans.”
The king went on to warn Israel that it will never have the peace and security it so desires unless it surrenders to the Arabs' land demands.
Jordan is typically viewed as the most moderate of Arab states and a true peace partner to Israel. However, its leaders have rarely shied away from vocalizing the general Arab position regarding Israel and its control of Judea and Samaria, which Jordan itself illegally occupied from 1948-1967.
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Shin Bet and Israel Police forces recently apprehended 11 members of Islamist group in capital. Security officials say Hamas looking to take advantage of Palestinians with Israeli identity cards to initiate subversive activity, plan future military operations
Shin Bet and Israel Police forces have recently apprehended 11 Hamas members in east Jerusalem, it was cleared for publication Monday.
The detainees, 10 of whom hold Israeli (blue) identification cards, recruited members on Hamas’ behalf for future military operations,   
including on the Temple Mount, under the guise of social-religious activity.  
In the past few years Hamas has secretly been working in east Jerusalem with the aim of bolstering its position in the capital. It has also been looking to garner support from the capital’s Palestinian residents, and present itself as an alternative to Israeli rule and recruit as many young men as possible.  
A senior Shin Bet official said Hamas was trying to take advantage of the fact that Palestinians with blue identity cards were free to move about throughout Israel, as well having a good understanding of the Israeli mentality.  
The Shin Bet’s surveillance of Hamas’ activity in Jerusalem revealed that the group was also providing help ...   more »

Moshe Feiglin, who heads the Jewish Leadership faction within the Likud Party, praised Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu for deciding to hold party primaries early and announced his intention to run against him for the position.  
“We have already seen Netanyahu,” Feiglin said, referring to the current opposition leader’s past service as prime minister. “The time has come for leadership with faith and determination. Therefore I am announcing my candidacy for the coming primaries.” The position also entails candidacy for prime minister in the upcoming elections.
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IsraelNN.com) The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has announced a fundraising drive to provide $11.5 million to upgrade bomb shelters along the confrontation line in the north and Sderot, according to a statement by the organization.
“At the request of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and as the threat of war with Israel’s enemies looms, [the Fellowship] has stepped up efforts to restore and provide supplies for 2,523 private bomb shelters,” said the statement.
“The Israeli government has acknowledged that it cannot afford the necessary repair and upgrade of private bomb shelters,” it added. “Reports indicate that Iranian-backed Hizbullah has used the ceasefire…to fully re-arm in preparation for another attack.” The campaign is geared toward funding repairs to electricity and plumbing, floors, ceilings, bathrooms and major appliances, as well as purchasing furniture, medical supplies, and other items to install in the shelters.
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AMMAN (AFP) - One of the suspects arrested in Britain by police investigating three failed bomb attacks is a Jordanian doctor called Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, officials in Jordan said on Monday.
Asha, 27, who is of Palestinian origin and carries a Jordanian passport, could be the mastermind of the bomb plots, the officials said on condition of anonymity. They said his wife Dana was also arrested.
Seven people have now been detained since a blazing car loaded with gas canisters ploughed into the door of the main terminal at Glasgow airport on Saturday following two failed car bombings in London on Friday.
Anti-terror officers arrested a man and a woman, believed to be Asha and his wife, on a motorway in northwest England on Saturday. They are now being questioned in London.
Asha's father Jamil AbdelKader Asha told AFP he had not been informed of his son's arrest and had learnt about it only through the media. "My son is incapable of such acts," he said.
He called on Jordan's King Abdullah II to intervene with the British authorities, saying: "Not all Arabs are terrorists."
Jamil Asha said his son obtained his medical degree in Jordan in 2004 after ...   more »

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND, Maine — The bumper stickers — "Independence Day 07 01 07 Chebeague Island ME" — began showing up a couple of weeks ago, along with T-shirts proclaiming "Town of Chebeague Island, est. July 1, 2007."
While the rest of America prepares for the Fourth of July, Chebeague residents celebrate their own independence day Sunday when the island becomes the nation's newest town.
After 186 years as part of the town of Cumberland, a suburb of Portland, Chebeague Island is going it alone. Islanders say independence will help the island remain a viable, working-class community rather than become another seasonal playground for the wealthy.
"I've wanted this since way back when," said Bob Dyer, who was born in a house on Chebeague 75 years ago and never moved away. "But I didn't think it'd ever happen."
The rocky-shored island, settled in the 1700s, is barely 5 miles long and 3 miles wide, a 20-minute ferry ride from the mainland. It has 350 year-round residents, many of them still earning their livings by fishing, with more than 2,000 in the summers.
The idea of seceding from Cumberland had come up now and again over taxes or the differences between life ...   more »

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
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"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com
U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point."
As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft."
The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow might be a target.
Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice ...   more »

 JAPANESE defence minister Fumio Kyuma today said the 1945 US atomic bombing of his country "couldn't be helped", as the attacks led to the end of World War II.
Government officials in Japan – the only nation to suffer an atomic bombing – typically express sympathy for the victims, but avoid criticising the attacks out of consideration for Tokyo's ties with Washington, its closest security ally.
However, Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma went further in discussing the bombing.
"My understanding is that it ended the war and that it couldn't be helped. I don't intend to despise the US for it," he said, the Kyodo news agency reported.
"When it was dropped on Nagasaki, it was a tragedy," he said, quoted by Kyodo.
Mr Kyuma, 66, said he did wonder why the US had to use the bombs when its victory against Japan was evident, but added that Washington may have used them to try to prevent the Soviet Union from entering the war against Japan.
Japan has been criticised for stressing its status as victim because of the atomic bombings and failing to acknowledge its own war atrocities.
Mr Kyuma, whose electoral district includes Nagasaki, is known for his outspoken ...   more »