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Jerusalem News-722
Jerusalem News-722
17 Shebet 5768, 24 January 2008
Contents:
1.
Guysen Israel News Extracts
2. Anti-Jewish Israeli Staff Poison Jewish Minds in Israel
3. Lights On, Nobody Home
4. The Australian: Deep inside the plucky country
5. Gen. Oren Shachor:
'Return to Gaza!'
1.
Guysen
Israel News Extracts
www.guysen.com
2008-01-21 , 15 Shevat 5768
Extracts:
23:09 The CEO of Renault-Nissan is in Israel to launch the electric car. Carlos
Ghosn confirmed during a ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office, the first part
of the project, in conjunction with the Israeli company, the Better Place, which
will involve the setting up of the appropriate infrastructure for the operation
of this environmental vehicle. Jean-Michel Casa, the French ambassador in Tel
Aviv, was also present. (Guysen.International.News)
21:27 ''Israel risks being transformed into a state exposed on three fronts''
Binyamin Netanyahu said at the Herzliya conference. The leader of the Likud
party spared no criticism of successive governments that, by withdrawing from
southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, have given way to two Iranian bastions, and
risks creating a third on Israel's flanks by leaving Judea and Samaria. (Guysen.International.News)
19:46 According to a recent report of the Interior Ministry, the population of
Judea and Samaria increased in 2007 by 5.2% compared to the previous year. A
total of 282,000 people were living in 2007 in this region. The largest town
located beyond the Green Line is Modiin Illit with 37,895 inhabitants. Maale
Adumim, Beitar Illit and follow with 34,495 and 32,046 inhabitants
respectively. (Guysen.International.News)
16:17 ''It is inconceivable that Israel will make its capital an illegal
outpost,'' Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky said in reaction to reports that the
government had frozen construction in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem located
beyond the Green Line. For his part, MK Ruby Rivlin (Likud) expressed regret
that the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has taken a decision without consultation
with the cabinet and without being submitted for the approval of the Knesset. (Guysen.International.News)
04:44 Only 194,000 people were unemployed in Israel in late November 2007, or
6.6% of the active population, according to data provided on Sunday by the
Central Bureau of Statistics. (Guysen.International.News)
2. Anti-Jewish Israeli
Universtiy
Staff Poison Jewish Minds in Israel
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Israel a 'Nazi apartheid regime'? Bible 'full of myths'?
Watchdog monitors 'anti-Jewish trends' of Jerusalem universities
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59786
3. Lights On, Nobody Home
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Lights_On,_Nobody_Home.asp
The media leaves the false impression that Israel has completely cut Gaza's
electricity.
4. The Australian: Deep inside the plucky country
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23072242-7583,00.html
by Greg Sheridan.
"The Australian": Interesting pro-Israel article.
5. Gen. Oren
Shachor:
'Return to Gaza!'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125004
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Oren Shachor, a former IDF general who was forced to resign for
having leaked details of secret Hevron negotiations to then-opposition leader
Shimon Peres, is just the latest public figure to say Israel has no choice but
to enter Gaza with military force.
Speaking with Arutz-7's Uzi Baruch on Tuesday, Shachor said, "[We have] to enter
with a sufficiently strong military force to stop the rocket-firing
altogether." He added that the army forces "will apparently have to remain
there longer than just a short time. We have no other choice... I don't mean
we should conquer the area; that's too strong of a word. But we have to be there
with sufficiently strong forces that will prevent them from firing rockets."
The retired general admitted that the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005
was a mistake: "At the time, I thought differently, but there is [now] no doubt
that the Disengagement was an error. It has resulted in the formation of a
Hamastan state in Gaza... In addition, there is an entire population that is
still without homes and with unsolved problems - many thousands of people. I
believe that we should admit openly: The Disengagement was a mistake."
Shachor recommends sanctions such as cutting off fuel and electricity to Gaza
"in a much more massive manner [than is being done at present], in a way that
will get the Palestinian civilian population to rise against those who fire the
rockets and tell them, 'We've had it, no more.'"
Shachor's History
As Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza during the
mid-90's, Shachor held a top position on negotiating teams with Yasser Arafat
and the Palestinian Authority - especially regarding the Hevron Agreement. He
apparently misused his power; it was learned in late 1996 that he had leaked
information on the negotiations to Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin - two leading
opposition left-wing Knesset Members. As a result, Shachor was ultimately
forced to resign from the army.
In August 1997, Shachor reportedly toyed with the idea of joining the far-left
Meretz party, but in the end announced that he was joining the Labor Party, just
to the right of Meretz. His left-wing positions included support for the
formation of a Palestinian Authority industrial park near Jenin, in close
proximity to Jewish communities in the Shomron - in opposition to the Ministries
of the Interior, Industry and Trade, and the Environment.
However, he took a hawkish view against the PA's violation of its Oslo
obligations, and often said - at times of increased Arab terrorism - that
military activity was preferable to negotiations. In June 2002, for instance,
he said that Israel had no choice but to take over and remain in PA-controlled
areas. "This is the only way to prevent the sprouting up of a new terrorist
infrastructure," he told Arutz-7. "It is especially easy for them to prepare
suicide attacks [if we are not there]; it's obvious that this is so... I'm sure
we can convince the U.S. of the importance [of such a step], and even if we
can't convince the Europeans, they will have complaints against us in any event,
so it doesn't matter. We have to worry first and foremost about our own
security."
In May 2004, during a military offensive in Gaza, Shachor said, "Even if there
is a disengagement [withdrawal from Gaza] next year, we will have to enter Gaza
and put things into shape. The disengagement will not stop terrorism..."
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