Monthly Archives: May 2005

ADL-backed TAU Survey on World Wide Anti-Semitism: Once again Palestinian Anti-Semitism Underplayed

The Anti Defamation League (ADL), in coordination with the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, held a press conference in Tel Aviv University yesterday, outlining findings of new trends...

Abbas Takes Tough Line on Final Status and on Interim Israel Withdrawal

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas asserted that he and the Palestinian leadership would not accept anything less than a total return to the frontiers of June 4, 1967, the Palestinian media reported Wednesday. "We will not...

Israel and Palestinians Both Allowed Escape of Jihad Terrorist Who Attacked Tel Aviv; IDF...

Staff Sergeant Dan Telesnikov, 21, was an Israeli paratrooper who might be alive today if Israel and the Palestinian Authority were really serious about stopping suicide bombers, instead of scoring diplomatic points. Telesnikov came back...

ZAKA Rejects Request to Take Part in Exhuming Jewish Graves in Gush Katif

News Release For immediate release Tuesday, May 03, 2005 The Israeli security establishment has requested that ZAKA, the organization that ensures proper burial and collection of human tissues after terror attacks, participate in exhuming the graves of...

100,000 Could Send Disengagement Back to Knesset

Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Major-General Dan Halutz met in Gush Katif last week with community leaders. Katif.net reports that during his exchange of comments with Avner Shimoni, the Gaza Coast Regional Council head, the...

Egypt Smuggles 600 Kalashnikov rifles to Terrorists

The Palestinians are making do without us. Current intelligence indicates that at least 600 Kalashnikov rifles were smuggled into Judea and Samaria in the past two weeks. The IDF and Border Police succeeded in partially...

Proposal for Palestinian Security Forces to Move Into Evacuated Homes

Settlements in northern Samaria that are to be evacuated would become camps for the Palestinian police, according to a proposal the IDF considered recently in light of the dilemma of what to do with...

Retreat from Gaza?

Since December 2003, Ariel Sharon has astonished friend and foe alike, embracing the very idea he opposed in the elections that confirmed him in power in January 2003. The idea is "unilateral disengagement," whereby Israel,...

Minister Sharansky’s Letter of Resignation

May 2, 2005 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Office of the Prime Minister Jerusalem Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign as Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Jerusalem. As you know,...

Israeli Position Renders Balfour Declaration Obsolete

Lawyers representing Israel in its bid to defend the vacuation/Compensation Law (the Disengagement Plan), negate the Balfour Declaration as a basis for Jews to settle in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. The lawyers made their controversial...