By David Wilder…It’s been a while since I photographed dead bodies. The last time I remember clearly was the murder of Yossi Shok from Beit Haggai who was shot and killed similarly on a Friday afternoon a few years ago. (more…)
Israel´s building of so-called `settlements` in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has dominated the world news in recent months. This document demonstrates that the mass secular media (and therefore foreign governments) are shockingly misinformed about the real situation on the ground in Jerusalem. (more…)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally made a decision to yield to mounting U.S. pressure from US President Barack Obama by declaring a 10-month construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, the so-called Westbank. (more…)
Best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg warned the world four years ago in his action-packed fiction thriller “The Ezekiel Option” about the possibility that Israel would be seen as the number one threat to the Middle East given the nuclear arms it possesses.
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Henk Kamsteeg
President Obama`s policies against Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank were slammed as “racist” by participants in a rally drawing about 2,000 Israelis in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. Speaking at the rally, Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, who heads the prestigious “Nir” Torah seminary in the West Bank city of Kiryat Arba, called Obama a “racist.”
Barack Obama has ordered Israel to freeze all settlement activity, while refusing to endorse a deal made by President Bush to allow for natural growth.
The Bush-deal was confirmed by Ariel Sharon’s aide, Doc Weinglass, in 2005, and by Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security advisor to Bush who reportedly negotiated the arrangement. The deal was in line with an official letter from Bush which stated Israel cannot be expected to withdraw from the entire West Bank and that the Jewish state would retain major settlement blocs there.
By Avinoam Sharon, Jerusalem Center for Public affairs www.jcpa.org …The term “occupation” is often employed politically, without regard for its general or legal meaning. Iraq was occupied by the Coalition forces from the spring of 2003 until June 28, 2004, at which time authority was handed over to the Iraqi Interim Government. (more…)
