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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Sderot; A Town Under Siege
The international outrage machine is ginned up again, and all but seven members of the U.N. General Assembly recently voted to condemn Israel for its military incursion into Gaza. The buzzword, recycled from Israel's...
Of clowns and Kassams
It's Thursday morning, and we're awakened at about the same hour we usually are this week by the sound of sirens, seemingly set to coincide with the time when all the children of Sderot...
Covering JFK’s Funeral: Four Decades Later
The first thoughts that hit me were that he was such a young guy, like a nice uncle who always had new ideas. My mind was racing, and I quickly wrote down my thoughts. How would we remember JFK? I remembered listening to him in sixth grade at his inauguration - "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." JFK had one message, to get involved.
Cabinet Secretary: Israeli Overflights In Lebanon Represent No Threat To UNIFIL
--An Israeli official made it clear that Israeli flights over Lebanon are for very limited reconnaissance missions, and that they are not meant to be hostile to the UN force in Southern Lebanon--Hamas Intensifies Use Of Dual-Engine Rockets--Hamas Establishes Control Center For Missile Strikes
Commentary: The Baker-Hamilton Report, Syria, and More
Recommendations of the Baker Hamilton Commission on how to proceed in Iraq have not been formally announced as yet, but they have been leaked. A major -- and hugely horrendous -- proposal is that...
Prime Minister’s Advisor Rebukes Noam Bedein’s November 17th article, on this website: ” Parents...
November 19th, 2006
David Bedein Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency Beit Agron Int'l Press Center 37 Hillel Street Jerusalem 94581 Israel tel. 02 530 0125 cell. 0547 222 661
DISSONANCE IN THE PM OFFICE
Following receipt...
DEFENSE MINISTRY OPPOSED TO FORTIFYING HOUSES AGAINST KASSAM ROCKETS
(translation by ISRAEL NEWS TODAY)
The Defense Ministry is opposed to the proposal to fortify all the residential homes exposed to Kassam rocket fire, at a cost of NIS 900 million. The reason is that...
Israeli Overflights in Lebanon Represent no Threat Whatsover to UNIFIL: Nothwithstanding, UNIFIL Feels Threatened
Today, the Israeli cabinet secretary assured the Israeli press corp that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has no plans whatsover to attack intruding Israeli military aircraft. The Israeli official made it cleat...
HAMAS INTENSIFIES USE OF DUAL-ENGINE ROCKETS WITH 12.5 KM RANGE
The Kassam rockets that were fired at Ashkelon two weeks ago and which led to the fatal shelling of Beit Hanoun were dual-engine rockets, and not single-engine ones, said intelligence officials.
One of the rockets...
Commentary: The Danger of Hudna
This past week Ma'ariv reported on a tentative plan being worked on, and reportedly covertly discussed between Israelis and Palestinians, that would involve a pullback from substantial parts of Judea-Samaria, establishment of a "provisional"...
