Monthly Archives: August 2005
1,000 families ‘have no homes to go to’
A leader of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel charged on Tuesday that only 100 of the 1,700 families evacuated from the West Bank and northern Samaria settlements have found permanent housing...
Sharon rebuffs charges that gov’t is mishandling evacuees
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon utterly refuted what he termed "lies" being spread in the media concerning the treatment of evacuees from Gaza and northern Samaria.
"There are many untrue statements that the government is trying...
Goodbye Gaza, Hello Hamas
Anyone who believes that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza has even the remotest chance of fostering a spirit of reconciliation among Palestinians ought to consider the ongoing, venomous declarations of 60-year-old Mahmoud al Zahar, the...
President Abbas: Withdrawal of Occupation Credited to Martyrs, Prisoners and Wounded
GAZA, Palestine, August 23, 2005
President Mahmoud Abbas asserted that the credit of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip and northern West Bank goes to the Palestinians who were killed, wounded and imprisoned during the...
PA won’t disarm Hamas, Islamic Jihad
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement with the Palestinian Authority according to which the two groups would not be disarmed.
The agreement was reportedly achieved during talks in...
Zarqawi Setting up Bases in Jordan, Gaza Strip?
Terror chief boasts of Eilat, Aqaba attack amid concerns of network expansion.
JERUSALEM - A website affiliated with al-Qaida yesterday announced the terror groups' Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was responsible for last week's...
Emergency Campaign for Gush Katif
9,000 Israeli citizens have become displaced persons overnight. They have been torn from their homes, jobs, friends and communities. Scattered in 42 locations around the country, in hotel rooms, kibbutzim, caravans and tents, all...
Evicting a Concentration Camp survivor from Atzmona in Katif
He is known as the 'Grandfather' of Atzmona.
Mr. Zadok is 82 years old, a concentration camp survivor who fought the Nazis in the forest for 4years in World War II, is the 'oldest' Jewish...
Intelligence Premonitions of Disengagement
How can the Palestinians be prevented from copying the Kassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria?
In other words-how can Israel put a stop to what the Palestinians consider the successful...
Egypt Sends Troops to Eastern Sinai
CAIRO -- Egypt has sent hundreds of troops to eastern Sinai.
Officials said the troops would man the 12-kilometer Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip. They said Israel has agreed to the arrangement.
So far,...