Monday, 17 November 2008


Today's Top Stories

Israel bows, sends aid; Arabs rejoice, send rockets
Foreign governments and international aid organizations at the weekend demanded the Israeli government allow shipments of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite the fact that rockets fired from the Strip - with the enthusiastic support of its Arab residents ...

Britain pushing for economic siege to dismantle settlements
Britain, which prides itself as having played a major part in bringing _apartheid_ South Africa to its knees through the imposition of economic sanctions, wants to implement a similar strategy to force Israel into dismantling Jewish communities in Samaria and ...

Israeli court orders Jews out of Hebron home
Israelis living in Hebron and other parts of their nation's biblical and historical heartland were angered Sunday when Israel's High Court of Justice ruled in favor of the Olmert government and against Jews claiming ownership of a Hebron home. According ...

Leftist paper decries Netanyahu's 'out of step' peace plan
Israel's stongly-left-leaning daily _Ha'aretz_ voiced its alarm Sunday at the news that Likud leader and prime ministerial contender Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a path towards peace with the Palestinian Arabs that was not in line with the universally-supported two-state-solution. The outcry ...

Obama must press Israel to stop making nukes - US study
After his inauguration next January, President Barack Obama must turn the screws on Israel to stop producing the nuclear weapons that help keep the Middle East's multiple and massive Muslim states from attacking the lone and little Jewish one. This ...

Veteran Zionist politician moves right
A long-serving Israeli politician and former minister made news Monday with the announcement that he had decided to leave his political home of 22 years and moved into the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party. Uzi Landau, who was ...

Olmert now to free 250 'Palestinian' terrorists
Outgoing and disgraced Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday promised PLO terrorist chief Mahmoud Abbas Israel will release 250 Arab prisoners in December. The amnesty would be a "goodwill gesture" according to the Prime Minister's Office. Olmert's promise was said ...



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