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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
Is “Disengagement” The Answer?
That Jews need to be "disengaged" from the Arabs is not a new idea. In July 1937 the British issued the Palestine Royal Peel Commission that concluded: "An irrepressible conflict has arisen between two...
Followed by Reporter’s Protests Against Press Restricions of the Palestinian Authority
31.07.05
An expanded board attended a meeting this afternoon hosted by the IDF, GPO and the Foreign Ministry. At the meeting, significant reductions in access and stringent new controls were issued. Here is a summary:
Contrary...
1995 eulogy for Northern Samaria terror victim Ofrah Felix
"I remember her as a little girl in the Shomron horizons, one of the followers of this beautiful and difficult land. How can we eulogize a 19-year-old girl? A girl who is a sacrifice...