Archive for the ‘General’ Category

The Mughrabi Gate mess continues

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to a Turkish inspection of the construction work at disputed holy site in Jerusalem, the Turkish prime minister said Thursday.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Olmert had shown him photographs of the construction work, but had failed to convince him [my italics] that it would not harm the holy sites there. — YNet (AP)

So the words and photographs presented by the Prime Minister of the sovereign state of Israel, in regard to work being done in Israel’s capital city, were not enough to convince the PM of genocidal Turkey. Inspections are needed. And if the results are not satisfactory, then what?

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More on who is really desecrating the Temple Mount

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

By Vic Rosenthal

The Jerusalem Post recently conducted a Q&A with Dr. Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist with the Hebrew University and the Shalem Center, about issues concerning the Temple Mount — both what Israel is doing in the vicinity, and what the Waqf has done, and continues to do, on and within the Mount itself.

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How to deal with barbarians

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

By Vic Rosenthal

Goldwasser and RegevThe families of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev met with Pope Benedict XVI today, the Jerusalem Post reports. The Pope was said to be sympathetic, but of course he has little or no influence on Hezbollah. Why would they care what the ‘crusaders’ think?

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The forgotten pogrom: Tzfat 1834

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

By Dvar Dea

Dvar Dea is a student in Israel. More of his work can be found on his site. I’m very pleased to be able to publish this. It also appears with additional commentary here.

How many people know there was a pogrom against the Jews of Tzfat in 1834? How many know that it was far worse than the famous massacre of the Jews of Hebron in 1929? It lasted for 33 horrific days.

I suspect few people know the first fact, and even fewer, if any, know the second. I only discovered it after some research.

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The moderate faction

Monday, February 12th, 2007

A Palestinian man who allegedly foiled a suicide attack inside Israel was killed in Ramallah on Monday by gunmen belonging to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.

“The collaborator was executed after he confessed that he had been recruited by the Israeli authorities on December 17, 2002,” said a statement issued by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing…

Last month a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, who allegedly passed on information to the Israeli security forces about Palestinian terrorist groups responsible for Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, was arrested by PA security forces loyal to Abbas…

The man, who has been accused of “collaboration” with the Shin Bet, has confessed and will be brought to trial soon on charges of “high treason,” the source said. If convicted, he will face the death penalty. — Jerusalem Post

Now, let’s see…this is the moderate faction to whom the US has just given $86 million.

Update [14 Feb 1642 PST]: The US Congress has frozen the funding, in view of the signing of the unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas. The money was to have been transferred in a few days. Damn, they were all going to get new SUV’s, too.

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