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Ted Belman 1394 days ago
Finding our footing where lunacy looms large. Victor Davis Hanson, NRO Public relations between the so-called West and the Islamic Middle East have reached a level of abject absurdity. Hamas, whose charter pledges the very destruction of Israel, comes to power only through American-inspired pressures to hold Western-style free elections on the West Bank. No one expected the elders of a New England township, but they were nevertheless somewhat amused that the result was right out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Almost immediately, Hamas's newly elected, self-proclaimed officials issued a series of demands: Israel should change its flag; the Europeans and the Americans must continue to give its terrorists hundreds of millions of dollars in aid; there will be no retraction of its promises to destroy Israel. Apparently, the West and Israel are not only to give to Hamas some breathing space ("a truce"), but also to subsidize it while it gets its second wind to ...
Joseph Alexander Norland 1394 days ago
My one-way correspondence with the Israeli ambassador to Canada is given below. Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:47:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph Alexander Norland" Subject: Amona To: info@ottawa.mfa.gov.il, ottawa@israel.org To: Ambassador Baker Embassy of Israel, Ottawa Dear Ambassador Baker, I am writing to you to request that you convey the following comments to your government. Like millions of others, I watched the video clips showing the assault of the Israeli police and army on the Jews of Amona. The clips and the injuries sustained by the unarmed civilians (including three members of the Israeli parliament) leave no doubt that the people were assaulted by storm troopers, bent on inflicting severe injury. They succeeded. Words fail me to describe how utterly disgusted I feel about the current GOI. On a more global scale, the GOI is now perceived as one that acts like a poodle when it comes to its enemies - terrorists, the EU, ...
IceViking 1394 days ago
From Israel National News: Bruriah C., 18, a youth leader in Petach Tikvah: "I can tell you that it hurts very much... We were standing outside the second house, when very suddenly, the police and their horses came charging into us. One horse jumped... and kicked me; I wanted to leave and walk away, and so did many others of us - but the police didn't let us. They just closed in on us and continued swinging their clubs and beating us... Yaakov L., 16, Beit El: "We were on the roof of house number 7, and when the police came onto the roof, they just started hitting us with abandon. Even those who said they're willing to go - they got hit even more. It seemed that whoever opened his mouth got hit hard. Click here to read and watch.
Jerry Gordon 1394 days ago
by Onnie Schiffmiller, An American Israeli, mother of two teen age children living in Israel. These are comments on the assault, protests and violence that occurred at the outpost in Judea destroyed by Israeli police on orders of the Supreme Court and implemented by the interim government of acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The author is a talented American Israeli writer and parent of two teen age children, Onnie Schiffmiller. The response to Ms. Schiffmiller's comments by regular IsraPundit contributor, Jerry Gordon, on the disaster at Amona have been posted elsewhere on this weblog in Part II. ____________________________________________________________________ Hi Jerry, I hope all is well with you. All of us were horrified to watch the pictures coming out of Amona yesterday - horrified to see how much blood was spilled and the lack of discipline on the part of the police. Maybe if the foreign press was there, as it was in Gaza, behavior would have been ...
IceViking 1394 days ago
From Israel National News: "MK Aryeh Eldad, whose arm was broken by police at Amona said, "One policeman told me that the order was to 'mow their faces down.' MK Benny Elon said, "Based on what I saw there, I can say that the fact that no one was killed is a miracle." "Hendel made the accusation at a National Union Party press conference Thursday night. Specifically, he said that Eyal Arad, Olmert's strategic political advisor, had told a leading Yesha (Judea/Samaria) personality, "The nation hates you [the Jewish public living in Judea and Samaria] as much as it hates the Arabs, and my job is to make sure they hate you even more." By Hillel Fendel MK Tzvi Hendel, an expelled resident of Gush Katif now living in Yad Binyamin, said that Acting PM Olmert's political advisor said outright that his job is to get the public to "hate the settlers." Hendel made the accusation at a National Union Party press conference ...
