Monthly Archives: August 2005

Arab World Delights as Evictions Edge Nearer

The Jewish settlement and watchtower went up in flames as the delighted crowd looked on. It was only a cardboard effigy, but it was a portent of long-awaited destruction soon to befall the hated...

Do US Pressures Determine Israeli Policy?

The United States Department of State has made it clear to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. It wants the Jews out of the Katif district of Gaza by August 15th, with no excuses. The Chief Rabbi...

Potential Humanitarian Disaster in the Katif District of Gaza

On August 15, 2005, the date set for the expulsion of Jews from the Katif District of Gaza, the Government of Israel will be closing down the only medical clinic in Katif: Doctors, nurses and...

Israeli Police Beat Up Katif Spokeswoman at Check Point

On Tuesday, August 9th, at 5:30 p.m., Katif Council Spokeswoman Debbi Rosen was returning to her home in Neve Dekalim from prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, when she was stopped at the...

Abbas: Israeli Withdrawal Should not Be Linked to Disarming Factions

GAZA, August 9, 2005, - President Mahmoud Abbas stressed on Tuesday that the Israeli withdrawal should not be linked to any other issue. In a speech before Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza, the President...

Deep Concern Over Sharon Aide Weisglass Saying 60,000 Jews Will Be Uprooted From Judea...

New York - The ZOA has expressed deep concern that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top aide, Dov Weisglass, said last week that "Israel could eventually expect that at least 180,000 of the current 240,000...

Abbas: Meeting with Hamas Leaders “Positive”

GAZA, Palestine, August 10, 2005 - President Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday evening with a delegate of senior leaders of Hamas Movement in his presidential premises. He later described the meeting as "cordial" and "positive". The...

The People of Sa-Nur

Sa Nur, Israel On July 4th, 2005, I step down from a bulletproof journalists' tour bus onto the controversial soil of Sa-nur, one of the four Shomron area settlements to be evacuated come mid-August. My...

Disengagement Text Not Available to Israelis

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has not made the text of the Disengagement Plan easily available to Israeli citizens. An investigation by BR has found that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO)...

Murders on a Bus: Requiem to the Memory of Proportionality

More than 27,000 Arab terror attacks have taken place against Israeli citizens over the past five years, in the so-called second "intifada", the Arabic term for "casting off" of Israel. with a toll of...