http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/westbank/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:26:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411723/posts JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli authorities could soon use special commando units, unmanned spy planes and cellphone-jamming equipment to enforce a moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank, military officials said Sunday, deepening a showdown between the government and Jewish settlers. Enraged settlers leaders vowed to resist the plan, prompting Defense Minister Ehud Barak to warn that settlers would face the full wrath of the military if they continue to flout the 10-month construction slowdown. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the settlement slowdown last month in an attempt to restart peace talks with the Palestinians. But the Palestinians... Breitbart (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411723/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408334/posts What if, in response to intense diplomatic pressure from the world community, the United States government one day issued the following statement? “We have determined that it is in the national best interest of the United States to disengage from the state of Indiana.” WHAT? Marylou's America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408334/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:48:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398019/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/December/09-ag-1289.html Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 1, 2009 United States Transfers a Guantanamo Bay Detainee to France WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of France. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of this case. As a result of that review, the detainee was approved for transfer from Guantanamo Bay. In accordance... U.S. DOJ.gov (2 press releases) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398019/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371837/posts Major Adrian Agassi did not make the connection between the Bible, the land and the Jews when, fresh out of university, he left England for Israel in search of his roots. He was not even a practising Jew. But over the past quarter of a century, the Israeli army lawyer and then military judge at the forefront of arguably the most significant battle in the occupied West Bank – the confiscation of Palestinian land for the construction of Jewish settlements – has come to see himself as in service of a higher duty. In an unusually frank interview, which offers... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371837/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359324/posts Israel has been placed on alert for the prospect of widespread Palestinian violence throughout the West Bank. Officials said Israel's military, police and intelligence services were ordered on high alert after the military has assessed that the ruling Fatah movement, in cooperation with elements within the Palestinian Authority, were organizing civil unrest as well as ambushes on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Officials said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been pressed by senior members of Fatah to approve what was termed a "third intifada," or uprising. "Abbas doesn't have to actually approve anything," the official said. "He just has to remain... World Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359324/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345675/posts It seems Liam has trouble with Jews, perhaps more specifically Israelis. He issued a report for the show on the horrors of Israelis in the West Bank Judea and Samaria. We'll start here: Broadcast on Friday September 18, reporter Liam Bartlett starts with the wholly erroneous statement that "hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers are moving into the West Bank, building new towns on Palestinian land." The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345675/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:35:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318188/posts "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," declared United Sates President Barack Obama in his June 4 Cairo address. Really? Compared to what? Things are tough all over. The Palestinians are one of many groups displaced by the population exchanges that followed World War II, and the only ones whose great-grandchildren still have the legal status of refugees. Why are they still there? The simplest explanation is that they like it there, because they are much better off than people of similar capacities in other Arab countries. The standard tables of gross domestic product (GDP) per capital show the... Asia Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318188/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:28:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304091/posts NERIA, West Bank — In this land of endless history and ethereal beauty, several thousand Jewish settlers gathered on a dozen West Bank hills with makeshift huts and Israeli flags over several days this week to mark an invented anniversary and defy the American president, conveying to his aides visiting Jerusalem what they thought of his demand for a settlement freeze. ... “We are rebuilding the land of Israel,” Rabbi Yigael Shandorfi, leader of a religious academy at the neighboring settlement outpost of Nahliel, said during the ceremony. “Our hope is that there will be roads, electricity and water.” The... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304091/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297502/posts Last week, the New York Times published an article about “signs of hope” in the West Bank (and in the city of Nablus in particular) that refreshingly breaks with the standard narrative of Palestinian desperation and misery. The Israeli military recently closed down its checkpoint into the city, along with other checkpoints elsewhere in the territories. The economy is growing instead of contracting. Downtown is full of shoppers. Islamist scolds have backed off. Police make sure passengers have fastened their seat belts. Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297502/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290307/posts ISRAEL and the United States have reached a deal allowing the Jewish state to build about 2500 housing units already under construction in West Bank settlements. But the United States dismissed the report in Maariv as "inaccurate". US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said "the bottom line" for President Barack Obama's administration has not changed, "that all parties in the region have to honour their obligations". He was referring to obligations laid out in the 2003 internationally-agreed roadmap for Palestinian-Israeli peace that calls for an Israeli settlement freeze. The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290307/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:46:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272281/posts The population of 21 West Bank settlements was static or declined in 2007, and the population at another 74 grew by 100 people or less, according to figures compiled by The Jerusalem Post from the Central Bureau of Statistics. Palestinian workers are seen at a construction site of a new housing project in the West Bank Jewish city of Maaleh Adumim, near Jerusalem, Sunday, June 7, 2009. Photo: AP Yet the overall settlement population grew by 5.6 percent in 2007 - close to three times the growth rate in the rest of the country - primarily because of the increase... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272281/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:43:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270342/posts Do you remember Jeremiah Wright, the long-time pastor, mentor and spiritual guide to Barack Obama? Obama sat in Wright’s pews for more than a decade and was baptized into his church, as were both of his daughters. All the while Wright preached a hateful mixture of black liberation theology and America-bashing, periodically spiced up with Louis Farrakhan-style anti-Semitism. Once Wright’s rants became public and threatened to derail Obama’s presidential campaign, the candidate distanced himself from his pastor. This is “not the man I knew for 20 years,” candidate Obama explained to America during a high-profile press conference. Well, the good... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270342/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:49:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266009/posts Jewish settlers say they remain in West Bank on God's ordersPatrick Moser Monday, June 1 12:17 am The world outcry over Israeli settlements in the West Bank is absurd since God gave this land to the Jews, says Rabbi Yaakov Savir. The Arabs, he says, should make their home elsewhere. Skip related content "This territory is Jewish territory," says Savir, a settler who runs a religious school in the Havat Gilad outpost which consists of little more than a few tin huts and weather-worn trailers, some horses and chickens and several car wrecks. "This is our home," he says, making... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266009/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:30:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262221/posts Sunday's confrontation between an armed Hamas cell and Palestinian Authority policemen in Kalkilya shows that the Islamic movement still has a military presence in the West Bank - one that it is hoping to use to topple Mahmoud Abbas's regime there. PA security officials said the two Hamas operatives who were killed in the clash, Muhammad Samman and Muhammad Yassin, headed a cell that possessed large amounts of weapons, including explosives and automatic rifles, some of which had been hidden in a basement of a mosque in the city. The weapons, according to the officials, were supposed to be used... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262221/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:33:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259712/posts U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out swinging at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday night and specifically rejected his policy for allowing building for “natural growth" in Judea and Samaria. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259712/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 11:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259403/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Federal Judge Hands Downs Sentences in Holy Land Foundation Case Holy Land Foundation and Leaders Convicted on Providing Material Support to Hamas Terrorist Organization Today, in federal court in Dallas, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five of its leaders following their convictions by a federal jury in November 2008 on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. "Today's sentences mark the culmination of many years of painstaking investigative and prosecutorial work at the federal, state and... US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259403/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:27:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258985/posts Israeli construction of E-1 will not undermine Palestinian contiguity, but were Israel to lose control of E-1, the contiguity of Israel would be severely compromised. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258985/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 13:05:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255832/posts While Barack Obama met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Max Blumenthal was dodging tear-gas canisters in the West Bank, where a two-state solution seems very, very far away. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, he warned the president that time was running out to stop a nuclear Iran. By impressing upon Obama the immediacy of the threat from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Netanyahu hoped to avoid committing to the two-state solution he and his right-wing governing partners have so far openly and forcefully opposed. While Netanyahu attempts to recalibrate the discussion toward Iran, his government... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255832/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 21:55:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241450/posts In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian Authority "military court" on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of selling land to Jews. The verdict came shortly after the PA's chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, issued yet another fatwa (religious decree) banning Muslims from selling land or houses to Jews. The death sentence is seen as an attempt by the PA leadership in Ramallah to deter Palestinians from conducting real estate transactions with Jews. It follows reports according to which Jewish individuals and organizations recently bought land and houses from Arabs... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241450/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:11:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238334/posts Netanyahu: "If Israelis can't build homes in the West Bank then Palestinians shouldn't be allowed to either" Czech PM: We'll fight EU calls to freeze Israel ties By Barak Ravid Haaretz Last update - 21:45 24/04/2009 haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080699.html Czech Prime Minister Mirel Topolanek told President Shimon Peres on Friday that his country, which holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency, would fight against calls within Europe to suspend the upgrade of relations with Israel. The visiting Czech premier's remark came one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him that Israel's relationship with the European Union should not be linked to its... IMRA/Ha'aertz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238334/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2232631/posts How the CNN & WP Legitimize murdering little chidren (by racist Arabs / Islamic bigots) on the basis of their origin - "occupation" crap   April, 2009   Regardless of the facts that most Palestinian Arabs are children or grandchildren of immigrants from surrounding middle eastern countries, the term "occupation" has been used by Arab leaders to wage genocidal wars since the 1960's, never mind that the racist attacks on Jews started long before that 1960's occupation excuse, in the 1920's in particular (with clear declarations of "driving all Jews into the sea, "Itbach al Yahud" - AKA Kill Jews, wiping... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2232631/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220905/posts While the world was harrumphing yesterday because Israel’s new foreign minister affirmed the obvious futility of the Annapolis peace conference, an axe-wielding Palestinian terrorist slaughtered a 13-year-old Jewish boy and wounded another. This disgusting crime took place at the town of Bat Ayin, a Jewish settlement a few miles southwest of Jerusalem. Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220905/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:01:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2186612/posts Israel has seized another 425 acres of West Bank Land. This will create challenges for President Obama who has promised to get quickly involved in Middle East peace. President Obama will have great difficulty working with the next government of Israel if it is led by hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu. No party has enough votes to form a government at the moment, but the right wing Likud party seems to have the best chance. The Intellectual Redneck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2186612/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:08:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160323/posts A rally held here on Tuesday in solidarity with the Gaza Strip drew about 150 protesters. Similar demonstrations in other parts of the West Bank over the past 11 days have also attracted small numbers of Palestinians. As the demonstrators in this city's central Manara Square chanted slogans condemning Israel as a "Nazi state" and calling on the Arabs to severe their ties with Israel and on Fatah and Hamas to join forces, shopkeepers did not shut their businesses to participate in the rally. Nor did many passersby heed the protesters' appeal to join the rally. At the Stars &... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160323/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2153588/posts You know, this one reminds me of a game show. I am talking about those times when the contestant should keep their 100 thousand dollars and go home, but he decides to try to double the money just one more time--even though the entire audience is screaming "don't be an ass !" When this guy opens up whats behind door number 3 on national television and it turns out he traded 100 grand for 12 dollars and a stick of bazooka Joe, he looks like the biggest ass that ever lived, the only redeeming feature is the confused look of... Camera/Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2153588/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:45:03 GMT