The Gaza disengagement is being completed, without the armed resistance from settlers that had been feared. Reports AP: “Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday and hauled them onto buses in… Read moreGaza disengagement; West Bank “consolidation”
The Jerusalem Post reports Aug. 15 that New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is among the many infiltrators to have snuck into the Gaza Strip through the IDF roadblocks. “It was very easy to get in,” Hikind told the Post… Read moreDov Hikind: international scofflaw
A report in Britain’s Sunday Times details how one group of orthodox Jewish girls are preparing to possibly kill Israeli troops who by Aug. 17 will come to evacuate Gaza settlements. Dubbed the “Commando Girls,” these young militants are led… Read moreSome settlers push back pt. IV: Jewish “Commando Girls” plan to kill Israeli troops?
In the Gaza Strip, reality parodies Monty Python. Avid surfers from several Gush Katif communities are threatening to take their boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning. Settlement secretariats, psychologists and social workers have… Read morePopular Suicide Surfer Squad of Judea threatens strike
Finally the State of Israel is admitting that its “separation barrier,” most of which is illegally built on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, is not placed where it is solely due to “security” considerations. The form of admission… Read moreIsraeli state: fence not temporary
Gershon Baskin is co-CEO of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (ICPRI), a joint Israeli -Palestinian think tank which was involved with the Oslo process. In the June 28 Jerusalem Post, he writes: “Meeting with people in the halls… Read moreIsraeli peace wonk complains about AIPAC
Move over, Yoni, there’s a new kid in town. Sgt. Avi Beiber made headlines June 28 when he became the first Israeli soldier to refuse to act against Jewish settlers living illegally in the Occupied Palestinian Territories — like himself…. Read moreSettler-soldier refuses to “expel Jews”
Israeli pot activists try to stone the Gush: Settlers Urged to Smoke Pot During Gaza Evacuation Gush Katif, Gaza Strip (CNSNews.com — June 27) – Activists of all stripes are flocking to the Gaza Strip, some to lobby for pet… Read moreSome settlers to stone back?
The following item was featured in JTA on June 7: Rudy to the rescue? Rudolph Giuliani offered to help Israel fight crime. “I am prepared to help you but it would have to be done on a clandestine basis, not… Read more“Giuliani time” in Israel?
Yonatan Ben Artzi, an pacifist Israeli who the IDF refuses to recognize as such, was again denied conscientious objector status by Israel’s High Court of Justice on June 1. The army and state have been wrestling with Ben Artzi, who… Read moreIsraeli pacifist denied CO status — again
The May 19 Jerusalem Post reports that the Palestinian Authority pulled a link to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the notorious 19th-century anti-Semitic forgery, from one of its Web sites. The link reportedly appeared on the site of… Read moreThe “Protocols” and the Palestinians
Larry Franklin, the Pentagon analyst suspected of passing classified information to American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) bigs, has been arrested by the FBI. Franklin, who recently went back to work at the Pentagon, turned down goverment offers to cooperate…. Read morePentagon analyst arrested in AIPAC spy scandal
