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Soul
Address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the Knesset
Jerusalem, May
14, 2002
Mr. Speaker, Members of the Knesset, We are here two days
before the eve of the festival of Shavuot. "And you shall observe the Feast of
Shavuot, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest." [Exodus 34:22]
For the entire text of this speech,
click
here.
The Battle of Jenin
For both Israelis and Palestinians, a deadly
battle in a West Bank refugee camp has become a potent symbol of their
struggle. What really happened? A TIME investigation
by Matt Rees
For the entire text of this Time article,
click
here.
Saul Singer's INTERESTING TIMES: Real war criminals
By SAUL SINGER
Israel has repeatedly claimed it has nothing to hide in Jenin, so why
was it so keen on keeping the UN from investigating? The answer lies in the
perversion of international humanitarian law, which has ramifications far
beyond Israel's own situation.
For the entire text of this
Jerusalem Post column,
click
here.
Jenin: The Truth
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, May 3, 2002;
Page A27
"Jenin Camp Is a Scene of Devastation But Yields No
Evidence of a Massacre."
For the entire text of this Washington
Post column,
click
here.
U.N. Lynching Prelude
Arnold Beichman
Of the 190 countries
in the United Nations only one, Israel, has been singled out by a majority of
the U.N. membership for extinction. I will document this statement with a
catalogue of actions taken by the U.N. in the half-century of the its existence
that will demonstrate:
For the entire text of this Washington Times
commentary,
click
here.
Jewish GOPers Eye Pro-Israel Bounce
Democratic softness on Jewish
state could upend traditional allegiances.
James D. Besser - Washington
Correspondent
With congressional elections still seven months away and
the next presidential race more than two years off, Jewish Republicans are
scrambling to exploit what they say is a seismic shift in the Jewish political
firmament.
For the entire text of this Jewish Week article,
click
here.
Author Naomi Ragen
Columns - Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist who has lived in
Jerusalem since 1971. Many of her columns have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, as well as in other Israel
newspapers such as Yediot Aharonot and
Maariv.Never Prouder to be an Israeli and a Jew
I was walking
down the street in Jerusalem the other day when it suddenly occurred to me in
the way those obvious thoughts just pop into one's head out of nowhere, that
never, in all my life, have I felt more proud to be an Israeli and to be a
Jew.
For the entire text of this column,
click
here.
Passover Massacre - A personal account of the massacre at the Park Hotel.
I actually didn’t want to go to Netanya for the Passover Seder.
Even my father and mother-in–law, who live in Netanya, and who invited us
to join them at the Park Hotel, where they always stay Passover week, were
hesitant following the terrorist slaughter of women and children in another
Netanya hotel only two weeks before. There was a high security alert throughout
the country, and Netanya’s hotel row was an easy and predictable target,
being only several miles away from Arafat-run Kalkilyah.
For the
entire text of this column,
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here.
Myths of the Intifada Yasser Arafat has propagated three myths about
the deals he turned down. Now Dennis Ross has set the record straight.
by Fred Barnes
04/25/2002
Palestinian and other apologists for
Yasser Arafat have propagated three myths about his failure to reach peace with
Israel. And only now--two years after Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed
because of Arafat's intransigence--is the truth becoming known. This is mostly
thanks to Dennis Ross, the Middle East negotiator for both the first Bush
administration and President Clinton.
For full text of this Weekly
Standard article,
click
here.
The U.N.'s Israel Obsession
by David Tell, for the Editors
05/06/2002, Volume 007, Issue 33
In 1948, when the armies of five
surrounding Arab dictatorships invaded tiny, newborn Israel--in what the
secretary general of the Arab League announced was a "war of extermination"
against "the Jews"--the United Nations sat on its ass. And did not send a
fact-finding mission.
For full text of this Weekly Standard article,
click
here.
McCain Addresses AIPAC Annual Policy Conference
Washington, DC – U.S.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today made the following remarks to the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Conference regarding the current
situation in the Middle East:
For text of the speech
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here.
Using the Sacred as a Political Tool
Sermon by B. F. Spears, Jr.
Pastor, Fort Worth, TX
April 12, 2002
Yasser Arafat got on his
cellular phone Thursday and told an Egyptian group meeting in a church in
Cairo, "The (Israeli) occupation is going beyond limits, not only against...
our children, our women... (but) against our Christian and Muslim sanctuaries."
He continued, "The aggression that continues today against the Church of the
Nativity... is a crime... We will continue to defend these churches regardless
of anybody."
For the entire text of this sermon,
click
here.
News from Jenin
News photos have been released to indicate the
area of destruction in the town of Jenin is small compared to the claims. The
photos can be seen on the "Maps of Jenin" web site
(also linked above). The bitter destruction, regrettable as it is, is only a
few hundred square meters. Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, the Executive VP of Birth
Right organization sent the following article, verifying it's authenticity. The
madness assuredly must stop. As long as it continues, please do not think that
the avowed policy of a nation state has stooped to the level of the very people
that exterminated half our population. Here it is for your consideration. Rabbi
Ballon
As someone who has made a living for over thirty years by
taking certain facts and ignoring others in order to create dramatic myths on
film, I know propaganda when I see it. When I engage in it as a screenwriter it
is to write a movie whose first job is to entertain. What has been coming out
of Jenin this last week, however, is posing as unbiased journalism whose first
obligation is to seek out and report the truth. In some instances the reports
have been no less a fiction than what I write for a living.
For the
entire text of this article,
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here.
"ISRAEL NOW: OUR SEARCH FOR PEACE"
Speech given by Steven A.
Brickman, Samford University, Leslie Wright Auditorium, April 23, 2002
As long as we live, I want us to always remember tonight - a night we
stand shoulder to shoulder, people of different faiths and backgrounds, in
unity, as one people with one destiny, to proudly proclaim to our Community and
to our State and to our Nation and to the World - Am Yisrael Chai - Israel
Lives - Now and Forever.
For the entire text of this speech,
click
here.
Israel on the Edge: Fighting despair, Arabs, and the enmity of the
world.
by Paul Johnson - National Review
April 24, 2002
In the
current Arab-Israeli crisis, the Israelis appear to have forfeited the sympathy
of much of the civilized world. Why is this? And what can Israel, and its
allies, do about it?
For full text of this National Review article,
click
here.
Endangered Species: The Jewish Dove Groups holding out for peace try to
counteract a growing image of American Jews as pro-Sharon -- and, increasingly,
pro-Bush:
by Anthony York - Salon
April 25, 2002
Jewish doves
have a dilemma: How do you articulate a vision of peace and security for Israel
while anti-Semitism is growing across the world and as American Jews
increasingly back Ariel Sharon's hard-line Israeli government?
For
full text of this Salon article,
click
here.
What Parents Can Tell Children About Matsav:
Yom Ha-Atzmaut Milken
Community Center
April 16, 2002
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
I want to
talk to the children tonight. Because I'm concerned for your souls and your
faith. You've heard that we are aggressors -- savagely invading, occupying,
oppressing a sovereign people. You've heard we have brutally destroyed their
cities and towns, their homes and shops, desecrating holy places, turning
once-thriving centers of life into fields of destruction and death. You've
heard that we have committed atrocity; that we have massacred hundreds of
innocents, bull-dozed living people into rubble, shot pregnant women and little
children, halted ambulences from attending to the wounded.
For the
entire text of this speech,
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here.
New
Yorker Magazine Commentary:
COMMENT: TWO STATES by Nicholas Lemann
The New Yorker Magazine: Issue of 2002-04-22 and 2002-04-29
Posted
2002-04-15
Like any great tragedy, the conflict between the Israelis
and the Palestinians is full of smaller sadnesses. One of these is that, as the
Israeli tanks have rolled through the West Bank, discussion of the conflict has
begun to take the form of horror stories about whichever side is the enemy: the
orders placed for explosives, the crushed houses and cars, the baby stillborn
at a checkpoint, the bombers blown up on the way to kill more people. This is
not yet an all-out war—in all-out wars, we should remind ourselves before
completely giving in to despair, many more people die than have died in Israel
and Palestine since the second Intifada began—but it is close enough to
produce the pattern of thinking that leads to wars, the mutual conviction that
the other side has moved morally beyond the pale.
For the entire
text of this commentary, click
here.
Speech In The US Senate The following speech presents many
interesting historical facts which should be considered. I had never considered
one part of it which has been highlighted .We accept something at times as if
it always existed when in fact it did not . The speech should be read in its
totality . 
PEACE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Senate Floor Statement by
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla)
March 4, 2002
For text of the speech
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here.
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