tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-323723652012-02-16T20:48:06.672-08:00Jerusalem Magazine is edited by Larry Price. All submissions are considered for publication. Please note: "This electronic work is protected by a Creative Commons non-commercial, full attribution, non-distribution license." Mr. Price's documentary "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" is now available at amazon.com, netflix, and Blockbuster Total Access.Jerusalem Magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026129911902604829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32372365.post-77319151352769002562011-10-05T07:06:00.000-07:002011-10-05T07:08:07.277-07:00

Two major economic problems seem to be converging like the perfect storm.The economic problems facing the EU as a nascent confederation and the economic problems facing the USA.Pundits believe both problems arose because of greed, corruption, and mismanagement. Greedy bankers, corrupt politicians, lousy managers.The derivative stuff has been analyzed to death. Regulators either not doing their

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Israeli news analysts deduce this: It wasn't Hamas who has no interest in heating up the border. A radical Al Qaida-type group that left Gaza, hired Bedoin, crossed Sinai reached the unfenced border near Eilat, between Mitzpe Ramon and Eilat on a back road near the Great Crater. Opened fire on a private car driven by an Israeli guy with his kids in the back. He hit the gas. Said he saw Egyptian

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"The Chabad Rebbe & The German Officer" a 56-minute documentary film about the rescue of Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the 6th Lubavitch Rebbe, from war-torn Poland in 1939 by a half-Jewish German spy named Maj. Ernst Bloch working under direct orders of the head of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, German Military Intelligence, aired on the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Channel 1 on

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On Wednesday, March 23, at least one woman was killed and over 30 injured, two seriously when a 2 kg pipe bomb hidden in a backpack placed beside a public telephone detonated, at about 15:00, near the number 74 bus stop. The bomb was placed between Jerusalem's Benyenai Hauma national convention center and Jerusalem's Central bus station adjacent to the new train station, still under

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-You're kidding.-I'm not.-Someone paid $300,000 for a piano? What? Jesus played it or something?-Hey, it was a 1917 Steinway, -Hold on, let me look. Says here that, what was it, an M or a C?-How do I know?-Look it up.-An M.-Let me see that article. You know, you're an idiot; maybe that's why you're still writing for a no readership blog. It was his wife's diamond necklace that sold for $300,000.

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The recent mega-blaze in the Carmel forest was partly the blame of the JNF.JNF planted pines because they were fast growing. Trees, according to old Turkish law, were taxed; so many pre-State Arab landowners uprooted their trees to avoid the tax. This was why Israel was partially barren when the State was declared. In Arab custom planted trees are proof of ownership of land. Also, shade and

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Barak Obama in his wisdom opened the door to Israel bashing big time.He did this with the best of intentions, in my humble opinion (well, maybe not so humble).By cosing up to the Arab countries Obama is trying to make it easier to forge a coalition that allows him to neutralize Iran, and perhaps gain a stronger purchase controlling events in the middle east.However, in order to show he was 'even

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The Gaza Flotilla incident continues to make news in Israel. The latest revelations were that the Israel Defense Forces captured and then released to men whom, informed sources say, could have been used to negotiate the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped four years ago currently being held by Hamas forces in Gaza.According to the Israeli daily Yideot Achranot “The two were

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Israel has been an independent state since 1948. This 62-year period is the longest in history that the Jewish people have ruled their own country. The combined terms of Kings David and Solomon don’t match that, and Solomon, who consolidated his warlord father’s power, controlled Israel for only 39-years.After that a succession of conquerors ruled Israel, most often from afar. The most famous

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A nuclear explosion was how one pundit described the recent revelations of fifty-year-old Rabbi Mordecai ‘Motti’ Alon’s sexual misadventures. Rabbi Alon, for many years considered one of the leaders in the modern-orthodox religious Zionist camp, retired from public life three years ago ostensibly because of ill health. The Takana Forum, a group of highly-respected modern orthodox rabbis and

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A recent announcement by Israel’s Ministry of Defense sent the residents of the beleaguered Southern Israeli town of Sderot scurrying to their phones to call the media, andwhomever else they could, to muster support for an initiative to change the Ministry’s mind over the decision not to implement an anti-missile system for the small towns along Israel’s Southern and Northern borders.At stake

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No matter how hard some people try, they can’t blame the recent failed attempt to blow up a Delta plane on any of U.S. President Barak Obama’s policies.According to an article in the New York Times by correspondent Steven Erlanger, two of the terrorists transferred from incarceration at the Guantanimo, Cuba prison to a high security prison in Yemenite, not only escaped from that prison but went

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According to Tuesday’s (Nov 8, 2009) Israeli Haaretz newspaper the European Union foreign ministers said today that a way should be found to make Jerusalem the capital of two nations, Israel and a future Palestinian state.Haaretz reported that “Last week, Israel sternly warned the EU against adopting new language that endorses East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.”Analysts say

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Fourth Of JulyShort Story by Samovar LightfootFourth of July, 1961, Chicago Loop. Harry was behind the bullet-proof glass. Only two cars hadpulled into the parking lot since he'd started his shift at eight in the morning, relieving Willy Blackman. Willy'd been asleep when Harry knocked on the window, startling him awake. Willy went for his gun, a .38 snubnose special he kept in his belt. When he

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Sometimes the IRS or Mas Hachnesah (the Israeli equivalent) send out letters to ataxpayer demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, or shekels, in back taxes. Theseletters are usually a complete surprise and result in the taxpayer quickly contactingthe IRS or Mas Hachnesah. That was the government’s point: to get the taxpayers attention. Soon it becomes evident that the sums of money the

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Trying to find out the breakdown of the Swiss economy can be rather difficult. Why would anyone living in Israel be interested in Switzerland? Simple. The Swiss population of 7.8 million people is roughly the same as that of Israel.There the similarities nearly stop.Switzerland has an economy of about $403 billion in 2007, making it, according to some charts, the 16th richest country in the world

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Nobel Prize Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa told the Israeli daily Haaretz on Thursday that said the West was consumed with guilt and regret toward Israel because of the Holocaust, "as it should be.""But who pays the penance? The penance is being paid by the Arabs, by the Palestinians. I once met a German ambassador who said Germany is guilty of two wrongs. One was what

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The ultra-Orthodox riots in Jerusalem were sheer politics, according to most analysts. The Eda Haredit ultra-Orthodox group boycotted the Jerusalem elections because they were punishing the ultra-Orthodox candidate, Meir Poruch, who had upset the leader of the Gur Hassidim by voting against a bill in the Knesset the Gur wanted passed. This bill would have meant that certain monies controlled by

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President Barak Obama is viewed with suspicion in Israel, according to most reports, especially among the Holocaust survivors. “I don’t know what he’s going to do, so I’m a little suspicious,” said Prof. David Halivni Weiss, 82, who survived the Wolfsberg subcamp during the Holocaust.Professor HaLivni was commenting after meeting another survivor who it turned out had been in the same camp at the

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An estimated one million people will protesting in Iran today. (Thursday Sept 18). My guess is the ayatollahs will be sitting on their cushions with butterflies in their stomachs worried that the crowds will turn on them, not just Achmadinejad, either politically or even physically. Could this unrest spiral up to the top and spin those leaders out of office resulting in a new election, a

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu spoke on Sunday replying in part to the now famous ‘Cairo Speech’ of U.S. President Barak Obama.First Obama. Obama reached out to the Arab world with a branch of peace. He also began pushing Israel for movement on the peace process.The Palestinian Authority’s Said Erekat responded to the Obama speech by saying the PA hasn’t had a friend as good as

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U.S. President Barak Obama has tightened the screws on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu’s thumbs.In the pivotal “Cairo Speech” last Thursday, Obama hinted at a new Middle East initiative. Yesterday Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrived in Israel. The press reports that Mitchell will try to push Israel into concessions as part of what the US sees as a window of

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On May 19th the Jerusalem Post printed an article entitled “UJC to pull 110 Jews out of Yemen, by Haviv Rettig Gur. The rescue attempt is laudable and necessary. But it may just put the Yemenites and their children in grave danger.The article dealt with the Jews left in Yemen and how the United Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization for the United Jewish Federations, in the USA, was

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Why are the Jewish people so successful, as a group?‘Innovation derived from restless energy,’ speculated one philosopher.Why is Israel so productive?‘Work has more meaning when one is involved in problem,’ said the same pundit.than engaged in routine tasks.Jews apparently have a restless energy. When confronted witha task as, many Jews will find a way to make the task more interesting by adding

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Uzi Arad, chairman of Israel’s National Security Council, hinted last night on Israel Television that the Obama demand for a two-state solution was more rhetoric than substance. Arad was part of the Netanyahu government’s group meeting with their U.S. counterparts in the first visit of Israel’s PM Netanyahu to the USA. Arad diplomatically hinted that Obama was naïve thinking such a solution was

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Spain has a long history, not only with its relationship to the rest of the world, but specifically with its relationship to the Jewish people. The Jews were first alienated, imprisoned and tortured during the “Inquisition” that began in the 14th century and lasted officially until the middle of the 19th Century. Historians estimate that approximately 3,000 Jews were burned at the stake during

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Dire predictions about Israel's imminent demise at the hands of Iranians shooting nuclear missiles have been circulating on the internet usually forwarded by well-meaning concerned friends of Israel.In these missives U.S. President Obama is criticized for backtracking on pledges to protect Israel. These critics use photographs of Obama ostensibly bowing to Saudi rulers. No mention is made of

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Wouldn't it be funny if we were just stuff that happened, we meaning the earth, in a galaxy that was part of a universe filled with galaxies that had other earths just like or almost like ours and other galaxies almost like ours, and yet all together all the galaxies and universes were just part of the atomic structure, part of the sub-atomic structure actually, or one atom that made up one

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Israel’s 32nd government was sworn in on Wednesday April 1,2009. To some analysts the 30 member cabinet was an April Fool’s joke. To others a bulwark against encroaching Arab control of the region, to yet others a lifeline in a time of economic uncertainty.Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu is Israel’s new PM with a record number of cabinet ministers. A few of them, like Labor’s Avishai Braverman, made

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As opposed to the US and other countries, rain in Israel is considered a blessing. Up until the elections Israel had dry weather and the forecasters on TV were making much of a drought. No sooner had the election results come in then it started to rain. As the coalition talks went on the rain drifted in and out of the region. Today, while Bibi Netanayhu exercises his two-week extension to form a

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Gilad Shalit’s parents pitched a tent near the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, holding a vigil they hope will motivate Israel’s powers that be to close a deal with Hamas that will result in the return of their imprisoned son Gilad, now in his 994th day in a cell somewhere in Gaza.The new Netanyahu-led Likud government is soon to take over the government, and the Shalit family is concerned

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The coalition talks are nearly finished. An Israeli government is expected by next week. Avigdor Lieberman has by common consent among journalist come out of the talks the clear winner. His Israel Beiteinu party may have only won sixteen seats, but he has maneuvered himself into position to approve the appointment of the Minister of Justice, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of

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Egos at play. Has it ever been any different? Isn’t that the name of politics? Perhapseven of leadership, in any field?In the Middle East today egos have gathered in Sharm El Shek for a meeting on how best to rebuild Gaza. Leaders from all the major countries of the world came to pledge money for the embattled Palestinians living under the thumb of Israel.The US showed up in the form of U.S.Sec

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What happens when an out-going Prime Minister tries to influence crucial events?He gets hammered. Ehud Olmert inserted himself into the “lull” negotiations between Israel and Hamas at the last minute, issuing a demand that any agreement include the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Hamas for over 2 1/2 years.Israel will not negotiate directly with Hamas, but

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Rockets continue to fall on Israel as outgoing Prime Minister Olmert says that the final talks on a negotiated “lull” are to be linked to the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive by Hamas for nearly three years.Israel continues to bomb the smuggling tunnels in the Philadelphi route in response to the missiles fired from Gaza into Israel. On Monday two rockets fell in

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HOW THEY VOTED: (according to a Haaretz Newspaper poll)Party Knesset Seats Percent of VotersKadima 28 23 Likud 27 21Yisrael Beitenu 15 12Labor 13 10Shas 11 9United TorahJudaism 5 4NationalUnion 4 3JewishHome 3

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Rockets continued to fall on Israel. Two more fell on Monday, destroying cars in a kibbutz parking lot at seven in the morning. Israel responded by bombing two Hamas outposts. The elections are getting closer. 34 parties are registered for the election, set for Tuesday, to choose the 120 Knesset members. Whichever party gains the most votes will be asked to put together a coalition of at least 61

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A piece in Haaretz.com claimed that Avigdor Leiberman, leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party, was an ex-Kach member. Kach was the ultra-nationalist party run by the late Meir Kahane. Pundits didn't think this revelation was going to help Leiberman in the polls. Leiberman's office denied the allegation, saying that Leiberman may have visited the Kach offices on occasion but was never a

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Fourteen rockets fired by Hamas or its affiliates were fired from Gaza on Sunday, injuring three people. Another four were fired on Monday. Israel responded Sunday night by bombing tunnels in the infamous Philadelphi route, and taking out a group that fired missiles on Monday. These in spite of the fact that talks to set up an official ‘lull’ are still ongoing with Hamas in Egypt. Hamas has said

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The Turks were proud of their role as mediators between the Israeli and the Syrians. The Turks thought that because of this role Israel would turn to them to help mediate between Hamas and the Israelis, but Israel relied on Egypt. In certain ways, this was a Turkish opportunity to enter the world’s diplomatic stage, and perhaps gain some ground acting as a leader in the Middle East.The Turks were

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Hamas has resumed firing rockets into Israel. Two have fallen in the South in the last couple of days. A roadside bomb exploded near an Israeli Army Jeep killing one soldier and wounding another. Some Israelis are now saying that Israel didn’t go far enough in operation Cast Lead, and made a mistake leaving the Hamas leadership in place, not entering Gaza City, not securing the release of Gilad

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An Israeli soldier was wounded and three were injured when their Jeep was hit by a roadside bomb as the soldiers patrolled near the kissufim crossing along the Gaza Strip.Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas leader, said Israel was to blame for continuing to fire into Gaza. Al-Masri said his group had not agreed to a full cease-fire but only to a lull in fighting.Israeli political sources were quick to

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Words On Stone By Samovar LightfootAll rights reservedPrice Communications, Inc.P.O.Box 45228Jerusalem, Israel 974511,476 wordsSammy Lightfoot’s the name I was given at my grandmother Sadie Greenstein’s insistence. She was a nice old woman. Small, plump beneath a flowered housedress, always smiling, Hadassah arms, you know, the kind that hang loose beneath biceps that

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The war is over in Israel, or rather, this battle has ended. There will always be another one. There always has been. The best that can be said of this one is it was run well. About 850 rockets fell on Israel; nothing like the 4,000 that Hezbollah fired at the north in 2006. Then, a million people fled their homes. Then, the Israeli army arrived to fight Hezbollah, but they arrived with no battle

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No rockets fell in the south for the first time since operation "Cast Lead" began. Schools were opened, and students returned to school. The towns and villages of the South returned to "shigra' or normal life.Israel opened up the Karni and Kerem Shalom crossings. Reportedly over 200 trucks were allowed into the Gaza strip. The trucks carried medical supplies, food, and fresh vegetables. Now

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Despite the unilateral seven-day cease-fire called by Israel at 02:00 Sunday morning, Hamas fired nearly 20 missiles into Israel; one a direct hit on a home in Ashdod. One man was injured and another suffered from shock. Israel returned fire at targets reportedly firing the rockets.According to Israel’s deputy Defense Minister Ben Eliezer it will take a few days for the cease-fire to filter down

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six Israelis were injured, two seriously, when a Grad rocket hit an Israeli car in the negev city of Beer Sheva.The Israeli air force reportedly struck at Hamas buildings today, killing two senior Hams officials, including Hamas Interior Minister Sayid Siam, his brother and another man, all near the top of the Hamas military establishment. Overnight Israel attacked over 70 targets in Gaza.Israel

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UNIFIL Commander Claudio Graziano told Israeli defense officials that three Grad rockets were discovered and disabled in Southern Lebanon. All were set on a timer with a one-hour countdown. Earlier in the morning three Grad rockets were fired into Israel from S. Lebanon, landing in the area of Kryiat Shmona. There were no causalities. This is the second time Israel has been fired upon from the

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The old joke about the root of all Jewish holidays is, “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat.” According to Dr. Guy Bechor, an expert in Arab affairs, Israel has won the war with Hamas, all that remains now is the diplomatic victory. Bechor believes that Hezbollah, whom he calls Hamas’ mentor, is disappointed with the Hamas failure. But he says that Hamas should learn from Hezbollah, and

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Over 700 missiles have been fired into Israel since ‘Operation Cast Lead’ began. According to military intelligence, the number of rockets fired into Israel has decreased steadily since the IDF entered Gaza. Overall more than 10,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza in the last eight years.Israel has reported that the thousands of reserves troops called up should Israel enter stage three of the

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Israel has reportedly expanded the operation in Gaza to Sheikh Ajleen, an area of the densely populated Gaza City. It was described as the fiercest battle yet between Palestinian and Israeli fighters. Fourteen people were reportedly killed in and around the area. Israel also struck at a mosque in the southern city of Rafah that Israel intelligence says was used as a terrorist training base and

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The fog of war seeped out of Jerusalem spread over Israel and blanketed Gaza. This was the feeling in Israel entering the Jewish Sabbath, and the same feeling once the Sabbath ended Saturday night. Forty targets were hit by the Israel air force and thirteen Israeli soldiers were injured, most lightly.Titus, a retired Israeli physician who walks his dog twice a day in the Jerusalem Forest,

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Golani unit Sergeant Omer Rabinovitz, 23, from Arad, was the tenth Israeli soldier to die in this operation. A sniper reportedly shot him. The death of these ten Israeli soldiers has a demoralizing effect on the Israeli public. Each soldier killed brings a cease-fire closer, since Hamas knows that Israelis don't like to lose their boys in battle and will do whatever is necessary, including early

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Two Israeli soldiers died on the 13th day of the War with Hamas, bringing to total killed to nine. Roi Rosner, 27, an Israeli officer of the Haruv force, was killed today in the central Gaza strip when an anti-tank round struck his unit as they entered a building near the Kissufim crossing. Another soldier was also injured. According to the Israeli daily Yideot Achranot, it was not clear if

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Upstairs downstairs may have been a popular TV show, but according to Israeli observers it isn’t working with the Palestinians in Gaza. Upstairs is considered the Palestinians who are above ground hunkered down in their homes afraid to go out into the streets for fear of being caught in a firefight or in the range of an Israeli air force attack.Downstairs are the Hamas leaders who have sought

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A mystic once said that eleven was the number of surprises. Certainly the eleventh day of the War With Hamas was a day of sad surprises. Two Israeli tanks mistook Israeli Golani soldiers for Hamas fighters, perhaps mistaking one building for another, and fired tank rounds at them, killing four and wounding twenty. The Golani soldiers killed were identified as Cpl. Yosef Muadi, 19, from Haifa, Maj

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Over thirty rockets fell on Israel from Sderot to Beer Sheva, starting with the first light on Monday, causing property damage and some injuries. A number of people were admitted to the hospital suffering from shock. Many of those were elderly residents of the South who had no other place to go. On Sunday forty-five rockets fell on Israel. Israel’s former Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz said that

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One Israeli soldier. Dvir Emmanueloff, 22, from Givat Zev, was killed and one critically injured in the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.According to Sky News approximately 150 Israeli tanks have taken up positions in a former Israeli settlement of what was called Netzarim in Gush Katif, but now part of Gaza. The occupation of this land effectively cuts Gaza in half. Tanks now control

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The Israeli army entered Gaza at seven o’clock on Saturday evening in Israel, Israel TV reports that the army is performing as they had planned, with no surprises. By midnight Israel time both Israel TV’s Channel 10 and Channel 1 report over thirty Hamas fighters killed in the initial incursion.The Israel air force kept up their attacks, coordinated with attacks by the Israeli navy, ground troops

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“Knocking on the roof,” is the Israel air force’s method of warning of an impending bombing. Israel knocked on the roof of Hamas leader Mufti Nazir Rayen on Thursday, but the radical Islamic cleric refused the warning. Reportedly Rayen had devised the tactic of sending residents of a building marked for attack to the rooftops to wave off the Israeli war planes, be them jet fighters, helicopters,

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Six Grad rockets fell on Ashkelon and Ashdod on Thursday. One rocket punched a six-foot wide hole through the roof of an eight-story building. The apartment was empty at the time of the attack. Video from the site shows external plaster cracked and hanging perilously from the building. The police cleared the area of bystanders in case the chunk of wall breaks loose and falls eight floors to the

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The Israeli cabinet rejected a French initiated 48-hour ceasefire as Grad rockets with a range of nearly 25-miles have hit as far as Beer Sheva, a city of about 250,000, as the fighting between Israel and Hamas entered it’s fifth day. Hamas fired over 60 rockets at Israel during the day. Israeli warplanes continued bombing Gaza, including a Mosque that Israeli intelligence said served as a

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A kindergarten in Beer Sheva was hit by a Grad rocket Tuesday evening, causing light damage from the blast but not shrapnel. Channel 2’s reporter on the scene spoke to the kindergarten teacher who came to check to damage. She thanked God that the rocket didn’t hit in the morning when the building was filled with children. About ten pm two Grad rockets fell in a playground in Ashkelon lightly

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One man was killed and fourteen injured when a Grad rocket plowed into a building site in Ashkelon, an Israeli coastal city with 105,000 residents. Other Grad rockets also fell in Ashdod, population 250,000, killing one woman and injuring four. Qassam rockets fell in various parts of the Negev. One man was killed. Many rockets fell in Sderot, but caused no injuries. Over all 70 rockets fell in

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Israel has mobilized 6,700 reservists in preparation for a ground invasion of Gaza.Israeli warplanes continue striking at Hamas targets.40 tunnels Hamas used to smuggle weapons and explosives into Gaza from Egypt have been destroyed.Key Hamas security locations have been demolished. Three Hamas leaders have been killed.Palestinians claim over 270 dead and over 700 wounded.Military analysts say

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As you know at 11:30 Shabat Morning December 27,2008, in Israel the Israeli air force launched a surprise attack on Gaza, destroying over 40 targets within five minutes. Over 70 jets and a dozen helicopters pounded targets in Gaza. By the end of Shabat Israel Television's Channel 1's Yoav Limor was reporting that officially Hamas was reporting 200 Gazans killed and 300 injured, but according to

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As a Christmas present to Israel over 80 rockets were launched from Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad within the last 24-hours. 57 Israelis went to the hospitals, most suffering from shock. The rockets landed from the Negev to Ashkelon, some falling in open fields, others punching holes in the rooftops of houses. One rocket landed in the playground of a kindergarten filled with 60 children.Israeli

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Greed is not something the Jews invented, although many bigots think so. Greed is something indigenous to human beings, and some lesser animals. CNN ran a report on its website about a 640 lb man who traveled to N. China in order to attend a weight-loss clinic. By the time the cameras showed up he only weighed 400 lbs. His goal was 280.He was so fat, he told the interviewer, that he was fired

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Genius is both objective and subjective. According to Harvard University Prof. Howard Gardner, a person can have genius for one thing, but not another. Albert Einstein had genius for conceptualizing solutions to physics problems, but might never have been a jet-pilot. Michael Jordan had genius for basketball but not for baseball. So is genius objective?Jordan bulldozing over the opposition to

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Why the Jews?195 people were killed in Mubai in nine separate locations, from the luxury Taj hotel, a “postcard spot” according to one TV journalist reporting from Sky news during the attacks, the other a major railroad station, another luxury hotel. But why chose a residential building and an apartment that is home to the Chabad House in Mumbai?Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivka Holtzberg were two

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According to a report published in today’s Yideot Achracnot newspaper over half of all residents of Sderot have been hit by rockets since Hamas began firing into Israel nearly two-years ago. 74.2 per cent of the children live in fear, according to the survey. One expert said the problem wasn’t limited to security. Most of the residents felt abandoned by the government and the rest of the

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The murder of reputed mob boss Ya’acov Alperon on the streets of Tel Aviv was the latest in the audacious criminal acts carried out recently in Israel. Alperon, 54, was killed Monday afternoon when his private vehicle passed over a bomb at the corner of Pinkas Street and Namir Road in north Tel Aviv. He was on his way home from court, where two of his sons were on trial for extortion.Several

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Nir Barkat, the secular forty-seven year old former major in the paratroops, has been elected mayor of Jerusalem defeating the ultra-orthdox Meir Porush by 52 per cent to 42 percent. The third candidate, Akady Gydamak, garnered only 3 per cent of the vote. Barkat only won 6 seats on the 31 member city council, and will need a coalition that includes the ultra-orthodox, with 13 seats, if he wants

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Great Day For AmericaThe Israeli media is in favor of Barak Obama as U.S. President. Politicians on both the left and right issued statements in support of the new president.Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni said she expects the strong friendship between Israel and the US to continue under President Obama. Analysts predict that Obama won’t abandon Israel.Other Israeli pundits looked at the campaign

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As the old saying goes if you’re not a socialist in your youth you have no heart when you’re old. A recent New Yorker Magazine issue carried a series of letters by the late literary lion Norman Mailer dating back to his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. In the early letters Mailer admits to being an avowed Marxist and socialist, but one with a deep dislike for the Russians. As time

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A pseudo news report making the rounds of the web claims authoritatively that “Jews” walked away with $400 Billion just before Lehman Brothers collapsed. This anti-Semitic tirade was in the same vein as those espoused by morons after the collapse of the Twin Towers following the attack by two jetliners on Sept 11, 2001. Then some websites claimed the “Jews” had already fled the building before

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Will the Hebrew calendar year5768, which ends when three stars shine in the sky Monday evening, go down as a pivotal year in the world’s history?This was the year when Iran scoffed at the world and continued the unhindered headlong rush towards a nuclear bomb.This was the year when the duplicitous leader of Pakistan was forced to resign, giving way to the widower of his harshest political

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The front page of the daily Ha’aretz newspaper had two lead stories above the fold. One was the police recommendation for an indictment of PM Ehud Olmert for money laundering, with an accompanying picture of the Prime Minister. The other was about the attempted assassination of a Netanya underworld figure, with five photographs of five of his gang, including his son, and his late brother, gunned

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Proof that Israelis are just like anyone else came with the bizarre announcement that a grandfather was suspected of killing his granddaughter, who was also his step-daughter, the child of his wife, who was also his son’s ex-wife. A story with twists and turns like the LeMans speedway.Like the stories of lost and murdered children in America and England and around the world, Israel is now buzzing

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Israel disappointed the Government of Georgia, according to press reports. At least two ex-Israelis serve in the Georgian cabinet. Both are former Georgians who immigrated to Israel during difficult times in Georgia and then returned to their homelands.Not only have the Georgians expressed disappointment, but also the Russian Jewish community, for different reasons. The leader of the Russian

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Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was questioned again on Friday. This is the fifth time police have questioned him over a variety of suspected misdeeds, ranging from fraud, to breach of public trust, to possible tax evasion.Israel Army radio’s Friday morning talk show hosted Moshe Shlonsky was the venue for a discussion on Olmert’s charges. “If the police had something on him, he’d have

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This is an easy one. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Wednesday that he would resign following the choice of his Kadima party’s candidate for Prime Minister on September 17, 2008.Israel TV’s reporter Ayala Sasson analyzed the speech and pointed out that although Prime Minister Olmert has decided not to run in the primaries, he may be the interim Prime Minister until as late as

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Uzi Dayan has joined the Likud party, according to Israeli press reports. Dayan, a reserve general, ran for the Knesset on his own Tafnit party, that failed to win any seats in the last election, with a platform of clean honest government He was shown on Tuesday shaking hands with Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Dayan reportedly was turned down by the Labor party when he approached

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Morris ‘Moshe’ Talansky, is still undergoing cross examination in the deposition of witnesses in possible bribery charges against `PM Ehud Olmert. The 71-year old American businessman, reportedly a committed Zionist fundraiser, displayed a flawed memory Sunday. Under cross-examination he said he couldn’t recall exact sums of money he gave to then Trade and Commerce Minister Olmert, nor exact

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“In Israel there’s no such thing as international relations, only local politics,” the former U.S. Sec. State Henry Kissinger reportedly said.In the case of 31-year old Ehud Goldwasser and 26-year old Eldad Regev, the quip becomes especially poignant.Analysts are scratching their heads wondering at the exchange. Granted, pundits admit, Israel doesn’t leave its dead and wounded on the battlefield.

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Iran continues to test fire missiles ostensibly capable of reaching Israeli and European targets. More tests of the Shab 3 rocket were carried out Thursday, according to Tehran Television.General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force, claimed on Iranian television that a Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile had been tested, which is capable of traveling longer distances,

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On Wednesday three people were killed and scores wounded when Hussam Duwiyat, 30, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Zur Baher, stole a huge tractor from the construction site where he was working and drove it into a bus and a number of cars on busy Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem, just past the teeming Machne Yehuda outdoor produce market.. An 20-year old soldier on leave from basic

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The countryside of Northern California is awash in brushfires. Acrid smoke is filling the air destroying natural beautify and wildlife. Eyes are reportedly tearing from San Francisco to Mendocino.On a recent trip to California one was struck by the beauty of the redwood forests, the raw jagged beautiful coastline and the consistent bark of sea lions from their perch on an outcropping near

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The problem with Israel’s leaders is they believe graft and corruption are normal.This was an analysis recently in the Haaretz newspaper. According to this analysis Prime Minister Ehud Olmert didn’t think he was doing anything wrong, or at least anything that other politicians haven’t done. The old wink and nod way of running the country. Haaretz thought that the pressure on Olmert, the three

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When touring China, the Chinese media were all over "Western bias" when depicting the events in Tibet. According to the Chinese, CNN chose a portion of a frame showing Chinese police beating Tibetian demonstrators. The Chinese then showed a longer shot of the frame that showed a line of demonstrators hurling stones and rocks at the police.This is brought up to demonstrate that the "bias" doesn't

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On Friday, the police will again question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Meanwhile the Israeli police have said they’ll allow Olmert’s friend Moshe Talansky to leave Israel this week, shortly after he finishes his last round of questioning. However the prosecutor’s office has petitioned the court to prevent Talansky from leaving the country.Police sources leaked the latest results of Talansky

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Grad rockets raced the ten miles from Gaza to Ashkelon and ploughed into a shopping center Wednesday night. Fifteen people were wounded, ten remain hospitalized. This just as U.S. President George W. Bush began a four-day visit to Israel. According to Israel Defense officials Hamas now has the ability to hit almost anywhere in a radius from Gaza out about 20 or thirty miles. The official said

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In Israel Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. has a special meaning. In Israel nearly everyone has someone or knows someone or knows a family who has lost someone in battle, or through a terrorist attack.Unlike some other countries, who treat Memorial Day as a chance for a picnic, in Israel radio and TV stations are devoted solely to Memorial Day.

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“There is no solution,” said Chaim (not his real name), the manager of a huge charitable foundation representing substantial American’s interests in Israel. “The Arabs don’t want peace, only time to catch their breath and get ready for the next attack. They won’t be happy until Israel is destroyed.”Sixteen Israeli citizens have been killed this year in terror attacks. That makes 1,634 since

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Beijing is not a city one takes lightly. The boundaries of the city were drawn seemingly arbitrarily. One can drive for hours, be in the middle of farmland, and still be in Beijing. But at the epicenter is the Forbidden City which houses the Imperial Palace, and other buildings of the ancient empires. Anyone who has seen “The Last Emperor” has seen the Forbidden City.City ordinance during the

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Pedestrians Beware! Should be a sign posted every ten meters in China. From the hamlets to the major metropolis, a person on foot is about as safe as a quail during hunting season. China has many advantages over other countries when it comes to transportation. A train ride taking over fifty-hours from one part of the country to another costs about $50. A ten-hour bus ride between cities might

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Traveling in China as an Israeli is a strange experience. Usually when traveling at some tourist location, be it a guest house, a hotel elevator, or walking the Great Wall of China, the question always arises: “Where are you from?.”Whenever an Israeli answers, “Israel,” there is usually always a reaction. Sometimes the conversation zooms away onto the other travelers trips to Israel, or wish to

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China is a country of stark contrasts. From peasants hand-farming postage stamp sized vegetable patches to billionaires relaxing in chauffer driven Rolls-Royce sedans. Even villages with putrid communal outhouses have satellite dishes parked in front of the shaky wooden shacks. China is a “capitalist” country, a ‘boom like the 1980’s in the USA,’ one analyst said; but the heavy hand of the party

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The news from Tibet was disquieting. According to some local sources one hundred Tibetans have been killed in the riots. However news is hard to come by, and precise facts even harder. Local Chinese don’t have access to CNN and other foreign broadcasts, those services are only provided to expensive foreign tourist hotels. Foreign news sources put the total at closer to 700. Some sources say that

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While the Iranian-supplied Grad missiles fall on Ashkelon, and the IDF fights to protect Israeli citizens, Jerusalem-Magazine is on the road. First stop was Bangkok. The last time we were in Bangkok was a decade ago. The old airport was small and intimate. Walking down the corridors one looked out onto narrow canals with simple boats manned by peasants in baggy pants and bamboo hats, with the

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