ISRAELI POLITICAL

Israel Releases Terrorists: Include 170 Bombers and Shooters

Tuesday, May 31, 2005
AG Mazuz: Treat road blockers worse than convicted terrorist murderers
by Aaron Lerner

Israel Radio reported today that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz criticized
the Ministry of Education for allowing teenagers being held for blocking
roads in protest of the disengagement to take matriculation exams behind bars.

Is Israel's Existence The Greatest Crime
By Sarah Honig
The Jerusalem Post - May. 26, 2005

Arabs may hate us unabatingly and viscerally, but they study us and ape our national rites. Take our sirens and our standing at mournful attention to commemorate Holocaust martyrs and fallen soldiers. Palestinians lifted these lock, stock and solemnity. On May 15, the Gregorian date of our Independence Day, they sounded sirens, ceased all activity, obeyed a moment's silence and stood at attention - all to deplore the existence of the Jewish state, the very one toward which their head honchos assure the world (in English) that they harbor peaceful intentions.

The Fatal Myth of Peace
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Back in September 1976, I asked Defense Minister Shimon Peres’ political adviser, Asher Ben-Natan, “What is Israel’s major problem?” He replied: “We can’t lie as well as the Arabs.” Mr. Ben-Natan’s reply actually reveals the basic cause of Israel’s malaise: the failure or inability of Israel’s ruling elites to tell the truth about the one issue on which Arabs allegedly excel Jews in mendacity—the issue of peace.

"Bush Totally Mooted Sharon´s Plan to Retain Settlement Blocs"
IsraelNationalNews.com - May 30, 2005 / 21 Iyar 5765

The head of ex-PM Y. Shamir's Bureau says that Bush has voided of all significance Ariel Sharon's promise of U.S. recognition of Israel's right to keep large population centers in Judea and Samaria. The spokesman is Yossi Ben-Aharon - a long-time Foreign Service official and currently a writer and commentator on current events.

Column One: Arik and the Tooth Fairy
by Caroline GlickThe Jerusalem Post - May. 26, 2005

MK Yuval Steinitz, the chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, compares Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to enable the Egyptian military to deploy its forces in the Sinai Peninsula to the decision by the ancient Greeks to allow the Trojan horse to enter their city.

Glick: Imprisoned Pollard is Bad For US, Israel and US Jewry
Arutz Sheva - May 24, 2005 / 15 Iyar 5765

Jonathan Pollard's continued imprisonment is bad for Israel, America and US Jewry, according to Caroline Glick, Senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. Pollard is into his 20th year of a life sentence for passing intelligence information to Israel.

Washington Sees Gaza Withdrawal as Stage One of Rapid Israeli Rollback
DEBKAfile Special Report from Washington
May 26, 2005, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)

26 May: The Bush administration has always shied from getting confrontational with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. Eager to see the Gaza and northern Samaria "disengagement" get underway, Washington backed the pullouts with all the diplomatic means and media spin at its disposal.

AIPAC Fooled by Sharon?
Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com - May 26, 2005

When PM Sharon told AIPAC this week, "Population centers in [Yesha] will remain an integral part of Israel and be contiguous to Israel in any final status agreement," what exactly did he mean? Mr. Sharon's audience of 5,000 cheered this statement, as well as others he made in his speech. But he was being purposefully vague.

THE RISE OF AFSI VERSUS THE DOOM OF AIPAC
by Dr. Yehuda Tzoref
IsraelNationalNews.com -May 25, '05 / 16 Iyar 5765

Whether AIPAC represents the majority of American Jewry, that’s questionable, however AIPAC’s open support for Sharon’s planned destruction of the Jewish province of Gush Katif is a shameful display of inexcusable depravity. For Sharon’s policy is a reprehensible disengagement from the basic values of democracy, humanism and Jewish morals.

SACRIFICIAL PHOENIX
By Sarah Honig
The Jerusalem Post - May 11, 2005

Yad Mordechai, Nitzanim, Kfar Etzion and Kfar Darom share much in common. All were lost to invading Arab forces during the vicious existential war imposed on the newborn Jewish state in 1948. All were eventually won back, all resettled and reclaimed from the utter ruin to which unbridled hate reduced them.

A TRIAL FOR THE TRUTH: MK Eldad
by Emanuel A. Winston
IsraelNationalNews.com - May 05, 2005

What a brilliant chess move! By all means, put Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad on trial for recommending civil disobedience in the face of Prime Minister Ariel (Arik) Sharon's illegal, perverse orders to evict 9,000 Jewish men, women and children from their homes.