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1. Breaking News: Anti-Tank Missile Strikes Civillian Bus
by Gavriel Queenann and Chana Ya'ar
This is a breaking news story. For more information please check Israel National News.
A 13-year-old boy was critically injured Thursday afternoon when Arab terrorists opened fire at a bus traveling in southern Israel near the Nahal Oz crossing.
A second person -- the driver of the bus -- was wounded in the leg. The bus, which serves the Sdot Negev Regional Council, had just left the council offices and was traveling east at the time. According to one report, the terrorists were aiming at an IDF patrol.
Magen Dovid Adom medics raced to the scene and stabilized the boy's condition before he was airlifted to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, where he is currently receiving treatment.
Although police initially identified the weapon as a medium anti-tank missile, other reports indicate it may have been a mortar attack.
Residents of local Gaza Belt area communities have been ordered by IDF Home Front Command to enter their bomb shelters out of concern there will be more rocket and mortar fire. Among those ordered into the shelters was government Minister Professor Daniel Hershkowitz (Jewish Home).
Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF high command to respond to the attack "immediately." He added that he holds the Hamas terrorist organization "complete responsible for all attacks emanating from Gaza," which the group rules with an iron fist.
The attack came in the wake of overnight air strikes by IDF warplanes on three terrorist smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza, and an infiltration tunnel in northern Gaza. The IDF confirmed direct hits on all targets and said that all planes returned safely to base.
Yesterday, a senior Hamas military commander was killed in a an airstrike that destroyed a car in Port Sudan. Sudan emphatically blamed Israel for the attack. Israeli officials had no comment.
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by Gavriel Queenann and Chana Ya'ar
This is a breaking news story. For more information please check Israel National News.
A 13-year-old boy was critically injured Thursday afternoon when Arab terrorists opened fire at a bus traveling in southern Israel near the Nahal Oz crossing.
A second person -- the driver of the bus -- was wounded in the leg. The bus, which serves the Sdot Negev Regional Council, had just left the council offices and was traveling east at the time. According to one report, the terrorists were aiming at an IDF patrol.
Magen Dovid Adom medics raced to the scene and stabilized the boy's condition before he was airlifted to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, where he is currently receiving treatment.
Although police initially identified the weapon as a medium anti-tank missile, other reports indicate it may have been a mortar attack.
Residents of local Gaza Belt area communities have been ordered by IDF Home Front Command to enter their bomb shelters out of concern there will be more rocket and mortar fire. Among those ordered into the shelters was government Minister Professor Daniel Hershkowitz (Jewish Home).
Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF high command to respond to the attack "immediately." He added that he holds the Hamas terrorist organization "complete responsible for all attacks emanating from Gaza," which the group rules with an iron fist.
The attack came in the wake of overnight air strikes by IDF warplanes on three terrorist smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza, and an infiltration tunnel in northern Gaza. The IDF confirmed direct hits on all targets and said that all planes returned safely to base.
Yesterday, a senior Hamas military commander was killed in a an airstrike that destroyed a car in Port Sudan. Sudan emphatically blamed Israel for the attack. Israeli officials had no comment.
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2. Gag Order Removed: Hamas Cell in Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel
Five residents of an eastern Jerusalem village are in custody and have been indicted for involvement in Hamas terrorism – including a bomb that wounded a sanitation worker.
The police and Shabak arrested, in February of this year, five residents of an eastern Jerusalem village for membership in Hamas and planning terrorist attacks. At least one of them has admitted having prepared a bomb that wounded a city sanitation worker.
The five are residents of Sur Baher, which was captured by Jordanian forces in 1948 and became a part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan until the Six Day War in 1967. It is adjacent to Talpiot, Har Homa and Ramat Rachel.
They have been indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist organization, contact with a foreign agent, conspiring to aid an enemy, and attempting to manufacture weapons. They are accused of having met with Hamas officials, planning shooting attacks, and preparing a car-bomb to be placed in a Jerusalem mall.
The five, between 22 and 30 years old, conspired together for the past two years regarding their desires and plans to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. They were arrested in the midst of planning an attack similar to that in Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav, in which eight students were gunned down.
One of the five has confessed to preparing a pipe bomb that was supposed to have been placed at a major Gilo hitch-hiking stop. He ultimately decided to throw it into the bushes, where it was found last month by an Arab sanitation worker who was wounded in the hand by the force of its explosion.
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by Hillel Fendel
Five residents of an eastern Jerusalem village are in custody and have been indicted for involvement in Hamas terrorism – including a bomb that wounded a sanitation worker.
The police and Shabak arrested, in February of this year, five residents of an eastern Jerusalem village for membership in Hamas and planning terrorist attacks. At least one of them has admitted having prepared a bomb that wounded a city sanitation worker.
The five are residents of Sur Baher, which was captured by Jordanian forces in 1948 and became a part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan until the Six Day War in 1967. It is adjacent to Talpiot, Har Homa and Ramat Rachel.
They have been indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist organization, contact with a foreign agent, conspiring to aid an enemy, and attempting to manufacture weapons. They are accused of having met with Hamas officials, planning shooting attacks, and preparing a car-bomb to be placed in a Jerusalem mall.
The five, between 22 and 30 years old, conspired together for the past two years regarding their desires and plans to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. They were arrested in the midst of planning an attack similar to that in Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav, in which eight students were gunned down.
One of the five has confessed to preparing a pipe bomb that was supposed to have been placed at a major Gilo hitch-hiking stop. He ultimately decided to throw it into the bushes, where it was found last month by an Arab sanitation worker who was wounded in the hand by the force of its explosion.
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3. Netanyahu, Land of Israel Faithful in Germany
by Hillel Fendel
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is in Germany today, hoping to ward off European endorsement for a unilaterally-declared PLO state.
His alternative plan is almost equally worrisome to the nationalist camp - members of which are also in Germany, meeting with Freedom Party leaders.
German officials said that on the table in today's talks between Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel include ideas to break the stalemate in the negotiations between Israel and the PA, as well as the upheaval in parts of the Arab world.
Israel fears that the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers — the United Nations, European Union, Russia and United States — will endorse the PLO state initiative when they convene in Germany later this month. The UN General Assembly is likely to vote on the matter when it convenes this September.
Netanyahu's Alternative...
It is assumed that Netanyahu will present Merkel with an alternative plan of his own to get the negotiations going again. However, because it is based on Netanyahu's support for a PA state – albeit demilitarized and recognizant of Israel as the Jewish national home – it has aroused great opposition among Israel's nationalist camp.
"...Will Lead to Islamic Caliphate"
In fact, a delegation of Land of Israel faithful paid a visit of their own to Europe this week, warning that Netanyahu's plan would actually do nothing less than bring about "a second Holocaust upon the Jewish people, destroy Western culture, and lead to an Islamic conquest of the European continent."
The delegation includes Prof. Hillel Weiss of Bar Ilan University, Rabbi Shalom Wolpe of Chabad, and the Shomron Regional Council's David HaIvri. They were invited by and met with European freedom parties fighting against Islam, and spoke in Berlin, Cologne, and in Antwerp to Members of Parliament, party heads and public representatives.
Their message was that the division of the Land of Israel and Jerusalem will lead to the rise of a Muslim Caliphate and to the victory of jihad. They also emphasized that, reminiscent of the early days of the Hitler regime, many European countries cooperate with Iran in its nuclear program and with massive support for its economy, a "phony" embargo notwithstanding.
The European hosts read aloud a declaration at a ceremony in the city of Genselkirschen. Selected quotes: "We, the leaders of the Freedom Parties all over Europe, fear for the fate, the character and the ancient culture of the continent because of the Muslim waves of conquest enveloping it - and first and foremost, because of the moral corruption that has overtaken the weak leaders of Europe and the European Union… We warn against political, economic and military cooperation… with terror states and terror organizations, instead of [the countries] fulfilling their obligation to ban them and fight against them.
"This conduct is connected to the demands and the heavy pressure by the European Union on the State of Israel while abandoning its security, in order to recognize a sovereign Palestinian state and while allocating inexhaustible resources to the Palestinian state and its leadership.
"The formation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state and the division of Jerusalem will lead to a second Holocaust on the Jewish People and will constitute the greatest victory for fundamentalist Islam, and this is what will give it the momentum to conquer the rest of the world…
"We stand behind the position of our friends, residents of Judea and Samaria, as guardians of the Jewish People to defend their forefathers’ inheritance against any foe or attacker, and await together with them our joint victory over the evil and darkness spreading throughout the world."
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by Hillel Fendel
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is in Germany today, hoping to ward off European endorsement for a unilaterally-declared PLO state.
His alternative plan is almost equally worrisome to the nationalist camp - members of which are also in Germany, meeting with Freedom Party leaders.
German officials said that on the table in today's talks between Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel include ideas to break the stalemate in the negotiations between Israel and the PA, as well as the upheaval in parts of the Arab world.
Israel fears that the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers — the United Nations, European Union, Russia and United States — will endorse the PLO state initiative when they convene in Germany later this month. The UN General Assembly is likely to vote on the matter when it convenes this September.
Netanyahu's Alternative...
It is assumed that Netanyahu will present Merkel with an alternative plan of his own to get the negotiations going again. However, because it is based on Netanyahu's support for a PA state – albeit demilitarized and recognizant of Israel as the Jewish national home – it has aroused great opposition among Israel's nationalist camp.
"...Will Lead to Islamic Caliphate"
In fact, a delegation of Land of Israel faithful paid a visit of their own to Europe this week, warning that Netanyahu's plan would actually do nothing less than bring about "a second Holocaust upon the Jewish people, destroy Western culture, and lead to an Islamic conquest of the European continent."
The delegation includes Prof. Hillel Weiss of Bar Ilan University, Rabbi Shalom Wolpe of Chabad, and the Shomron Regional Council's David HaIvri. They were invited by and met with European freedom parties fighting against Islam, and spoke in Berlin, Cologne, and in Antwerp to Members of Parliament, party heads and public representatives.
Their message was that the division of the Land of Israel and Jerusalem will lead to the rise of a Muslim Caliphate and to the victory of jihad. They also emphasized that, reminiscent of the early days of the Hitler regime, many European countries cooperate with Iran in its nuclear program and with massive support for its economy, a "phony" embargo notwithstanding.
The European hosts read aloud a declaration at a ceremony in the city of Genselkirschen. Selected quotes: "We, the leaders of the Freedom Parties all over Europe, fear for the fate, the character and the ancient culture of the continent because of the Muslim waves of conquest enveloping it - and first and foremost, because of the moral corruption that has overtaken the weak leaders of Europe and the European Union… We warn against political, economic and military cooperation… with terror states and terror organizations, instead of [the countries] fulfilling their obligation to ban them and fight against them.
"This conduct is connected to the demands and the heavy pressure by the European Union on the State of Israel while abandoning its security, in order to recognize a sovereign Palestinian state and while allocating inexhaustible resources to the Palestinian state and its leadership.
"The formation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state and the division of Jerusalem will lead to a second Holocaust on the Jewish People and will constitute the greatest victory for fundamentalist Islam, and this is what will give it the momentum to conquer the rest of the world…
"We stand behind the position of our friends, residents of Judea and Samaria, as guardians of the Jewish People to defend their forefathers’ inheritance against any foe or attacker, and await together with them our joint victory over the evil and darkness spreading throughout the world."
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4. US Envoy Wants UN to Jettison Goldstone Report
by Gavriel Queenann
US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Wednesday she wanted a controversial report on Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza to "disappear," Reuters reports.
"I'm not sure it can be amended," Rice said during a Congressional hearing. "What we want to see is for it to disappear and no longer be a subject of discussion and debate in the Human Rights Council or the General Assembly or beyond."
"We see no need," Rice said, "for the Goldstone report to be considered and now that its principal author has said what he said, frankly, our view is reinforced that this should go away and that's what we'll work to do."
Rice reiterated the United States repudiated the Goldstone report as "deeply flawed" when it was first released. Rice said the United States did not see any evidence Israel intentionally targeted civilians or committed war crimes at the time. She added Israel had shown an ability to investigate concerns about the conflict itself, "quite in contrast with Hamas."
Rice also defended US participation in the UN Human Rights Council before the lawmakers, saying it was better for the United States to stay engaged and resist anti-Israel bias on the council, "rather than turn our backs."
Her comments follow an opinion piece in the Washington Post written by retired South African Judge Richard Goldstone last Friday in which he said, "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."
In the piece Goldstone recanted the accusation Israel had deliberately targeted civillians, "While the investigations published by the Israeli military and recognized in the U.N. committee’s report have established the validity of some incidents that we investigated in cases involving individual soldiers, they also indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy."
Israel has called on the United Nations to cancel the 2009 report to the UN Human Rights Council by South African jurist Richard Goldstone which accused both Israel and the terror group Hamas of war crimes in Gaza.
Asked by lawmakers about a possible unilateral Palestinian Authority move for UN recognition of an independent PA state, Rice said, "you can pass a resolution but that does not a viable state create."
"A viable state can only be established through direct negotiations between the parties," she emphasized.
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by Gavriel Queenann
US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Wednesday she wanted a controversial report on Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza to "disappear," Reuters reports.
"I'm not sure it can be amended," Rice said during a Congressional hearing. "What we want to see is for it to disappear and no longer be a subject of discussion and debate in the Human Rights Council or the General Assembly or beyond."
"We see no need," Rice said, "for the Goldstone report to be considered and now that its principal author has said what he said, frankly, our view is reinforced that this should go away and that's what we'll work to do."
Rice reiterated the United States repudiated the Goldstone report as "deeply flawed" when it was first released. Rice said the United States did not see any evidence Israel intentionally targeted civilians or committed war crimes at the time. She added Israel had shown an ability to investigate concerns about the conflict itself, "quite in contrast with Hamas."
Rice also defended US participation in the UN Human Rights Council before the lawmakers, saying it was better for the United States to stay engaged and resist anti-Israel bias on the council, "rather than turn our backs."
Her comments follow an opinion piece in the Washington Post written by retired South African Judge Richard Goldstone last Friday in which he said, "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."
In the piece Goldstone recanted the accusation Israel had deliberately targeted civillians, "While the investigations published by the Israeli military and recognized in the U.N. committee’s report have established the validity of some incidents that we investigated in cases involving individual soldiers, they also indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy."
Israel has called on the United Nations to cancel the 2009 report to the UN Human Rights Council by South African jurist Richard Goldstone which accused both Israel and the terror group Hamas of war crimes in Gaza.
Asked by lawmakers about a possible unilateral Palestinian Authority move for UN recognition of an independent PA state, Rice said, "you can pass a resolution but that does not a viable state create."
"A viable state can only be established through direct negotiations between the parties," she emphasized.
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5. 11 US Senators Vow Support for Israel
by Chana Ya'ar
While the U.S. Congress braces for a battle over the nation's budget -- even as the countdown begins towards an impending government shutdown Friday night -- 11 GOP senators have vowed continued financial support for Israel.
The freshman senators all signed a letter spearheaded by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, reaffirming their support for Israel's foreign aid, Politico reports. The letter was delivered to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Wednesday. Security-related funding to Israel stands at more than $3 billion annually.
"As we work to reduce wasteful government spending we recognize that providing for the national defense is a constitutional responsibility of the federal government," the letter said. "Therefore we must continue to prioritize the safety of our nation and the security of our allies, including Israel."
The senators also made reference to the recent upheavals that have swept the Middle East, toppling at least two longtime governments -- Egypt and Tunisia -- and threatening to bring down several others as well. Many have been violent.
"Given the uncertainty of these events, and in light of the ongoing threats from Hizbullah, Hamas and a nuclear Iran, we believe that U.S. security assistance to Israel will continue to be a key national security interest," the letter went on.
Only two freshman GOP senators withheld their signatures from the letter: Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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by Chana Ya'ar
While the U.S. Congress braces for a battle over the nation's budget -- even as the countdown begins towards an impending government shutdown Friday night -- 11 GOP senators have vowed continued financial support for Israel.
The freshman senators all signed a letter spearheaded by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, reaffirming their support for Israel's foreign aid, Politico reports. The letter was delivered to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Wednesday. Security-related funding to Israel stands at more than $3 billion annually.
"As we work to reduce wasteful government spending we recognize that providing for the national defense is a constitutional responsibility of the federal government," the letter said. "Therefore we must continue to prioritize the safety of our nation and the security of our allies, including Israel."
The senators also made reference to the recent upheavals that have swept the Middle East, toppling at least two longtime governments -- Egypt and Tunisia -- and threatening to bring down several others as well. Many have been violent.
"Given the uncertainty of these events, and in light of the ongoing threats from Hizbullah, Hamas and a nuclear Iran, we believe that U.S. security assistance to Israel will continue to be a key national security interest," the letter went on.
Only two freshman GOP senators withheld their signatures from the letter: Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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6. President Peres Says Israel Willing To Cede Golan to Syria
by Gavriel Queenann
Never one to miss an opportunity to push his personal initiatives irrespective of positions taken by Israel's government, President Shimon Peres on Tuesday said Israel was ready to "change the situation in the Golan Heights."
In an interview with CNN during his visit to Washington, Peres said Israel has always desired peace with Damascus and that all former prime ministers have been willing to give up the former Syrian territory in exchange for a deal.
However, the Syrian government must choose between peace with Israel and continuing to 'service Hizbullah and Iran," Peres said.
But Israel's current government has taken the position that the Golan Heights are not on the table.
During a tour of the Golan Heights in 2009 Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "We are here to state unequivocally: A Likud-led government will stay on the Golan Heights."
Peres is well-known for the secret diplomacy he undertook to lay the framework for the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Capitulation has traditionally led to Israeli deaths. In the five years following the Oslo agreement 279 Israelis were killed in 92 terror attacks - a number greater than the deaths in the fifteen years preceding the Accords.
That trend repeated itself after Ariel Sharon agreed to the United States' so-called Road Map for middle east peace. Between 2000 and 2007 more than 1,000 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks.
Channel 10 reporter Nadav Eyal revealed a Wikileaks document indicating Peres secretly regards Olso as having been a 'mistake,' “Netanyahu commented that Shimon Peres had admitted to him that the Oslo process had been based on a mistaken economic premise, and as a result European and US assistance to the Palestinians had gone to create a bloated bureaucracy, with PA employees looking to the international community to meet their payroll.”
Israel's government has not responded to Peres' remarks.
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by Gavriel Queenann
Never one to miss an opportunity to push his personal initiatives irrespective of positions taken by Israel's government, President Shimon Peres on Tuesday said Israel was ready to "change the situation in the Golan Heights."
In an interview with CNN during his visit to Washington, Peres said Israel has always desired peace with Damascus and that all former prime ministers have been willing to give up the former Syrian territory in exchange for a deal.
However, the Syrian government must choose between peace with Israel and continuing to 'service Hizbullah and Iran," Peres said.
But Israel's current government has taken the position that the Golan Heights are not on the table.
During a tour of the Golan Heights in 2009 Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "We are here to state unequivocally: A Likud-led government will stay on the Golan Heights."
Peres is well-known for the secret diplomacy he undertook to lay the framework for the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Capitulation has traditionally led to Israeli deaths. In the five years following the Oslo agreement 279 Israelis were killed in 92 terror attacks - a number greater than the deaths in the fifteen years preceding the Accords.
That trend repeated itself after Ariel Sharon agreed to the United States' so-called Road Map for middle east peace. Between 2000 and 2007 more than 1,000 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks.
Channel 10 reporter Nadav Eyal revealed a Wikileaks document indicating Peres secretly regards Olso as having been a 'mistake,' “Netanyahu commented that Shimon Peres had admitted to him that the Oslo process had been based on a mistaken economic premise, and as a result European and US assistance to the Palestinians had gone to create a bloated bureaucracy, with PA employees looking to the international community to meet their payroll.”
Israel's government has not responded to Peres' remarks.
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7. Settlement Head: Ha'aretz Distorts My Words for Headline
by Hillel Fendel
A top headline in Ha'aretz today blares the "news" that a top leader in the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria agrees that Jews will agree to leave their homes for a fair price.
Ha'aretz says it is publishing today, and will continue to do so tomorrow, selections from the "Israeli file" of Wikileaks. As its entrée today, its headline quoted Danny Dayan, head of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, as saying that "settlers will agree to be evacuated in exchange for a fair price."
Deeper inside the story appears a more accurate version of the quote. "I am an economist," Dayan actually said, "and I know that there are people who will agree if the price is fair."
Dayan explained to Arutz-7 today, "Here's a scoop: The laws of economics apply in Judea and Samaria too. It is a fact that the more the State of Israel bribes Yesha residents with more money, the more there will be some people who are baited into cooperating with the economic expulsion. I have said this dozens of times in open forums; you don't have to go to Wikileaks for this, it's enough to use Google."
"The main thing I said [at the meeting with American officials cited by Wikileaks] and on many other occasions," Dayan said today, "is that even if they offer bribes up to the sky, the number of people who will agree to accept it will be negligible – but that, Haaretz didn't say."
"Only via ugly manipulation of my words and cutting off my sentences in the middle was Ha'aretz able to create a top headline at my expense," Dayan said.
"Apparently I'm doing something good on behalf of Jewish settlement and against the establishment of an Arab state in the western part of the Land of Israel if it was important to Ha'aretz to place me in their gunsights and press the trigger," Dayan added.
Danny Dayan, 56, made Aliyah as a child from South America. Not religiously observant, he joined the Land of Israel movement after growing up in Tel Aviv. His brother Aryeh was once a reporter for Ha'aretz, and his cousin Ilana Dayan is a popular broadcaster on IDF Army Radio.
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by Hillel Fendel
A top headline in Ha'aretz today blares the "news" that a top leader in the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria agrees that Jews will agree to leave their homes for a fair price.
Ha'aretz says it is publishing today, and will continue to do so tomorrow, selections from the "Israeli file" of Wikileaks. As its entrée today, its headline quoted Danny Dayan, head of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, as saying that "settlers will agree to be evacuated in exchange for a fair price."
Deeper inside the story appears a more accurate version of the quote. "I am an economist," Dayan actually said, "and I know that there are people who will agree if the price is fair."
Dayan explained to Arutz-7 today, "Here's a scoop: The laws of economics apply in Judea and Samaria too. It is a fact that the more the State of Israel bribes Yesha residents with more money, the more there will be some people who are baited into cooperating with the economic expulsion. I have said this dozens of times in open forums; you don't have to go to Wikileaks for this, it's enough to use Google."
"The main thing I said [at the meeting with American officials cited by Wikileaks] and on many other occasions," Dayan said today, "is that even if they offer bribes up to the sky, the number of people who will agree to accept it will be negligible – but that, Haaretz didn't say."
"Only via ugly manipulation of my words and cutting off my sentences in the middle was Ha'aretz able to create a top headline at my expense," Dayan said.
"Apparently I'm doing something good on behalf of Jewish settlement and against the establishment of an Arab state in the western part of the Land of Israel if it was important to Ha'aretz to place me in their gunsights and press the trigger," Dayan added.
Danny Dayan, 56, made Aliyah as a child from South America. Not religiously observant, he joined the Land of Israel movement after growing up in Tel Aviv. His brother Aryeh was once a reporter for Ha'aretz, and his cousin Ilana Dayan is a popular broadcaster on IDF Army Radio.
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8. Hamas Commander Killed In Sudan Attack
by Gavriel Queenann
One of the 2 men killed in today's airstrike on a car in Port Sudan was a senior Hamas military commander, Al Arabiya reports.
The foreign media has largely placed responsibility for the attack at Israel's feet based on initial speculation the car was carrying weapons intended for Hamas in Gaza.
Sudan's foreign minister Ali Karti said Khartoum reserved the right to react to the aggression. "This is absolutely an Israeli attack," he told reporters.
Karti said Israel undertook the attack in order to scupper Sudan's chances of being removed from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism. Washington this year initiated the process to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terror after a peaceful January referendum in which the country's south voted to secede.
One of the two people killed in the strike was a Sudanese citizen who had no ties to Islamists or the government, Karti said, omitting any reference to the other occupant.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor declined to comment on Israel's alleged involvement in the attack.
Sudanese officials have offered different versions on how the strike was carried out. Police say a missile struck the car near the port city, but a state government official blamed the bombing on a foreign aircraft that flew in from the Red Sea. Sudanese military officials insist the attack was carried out by two Apache attack helicopters.
In 2009 Sudanese officials said an unknown aircraft had killed scores near Sheiitah, which many observers attributed to Israel based on reports the convoy had been carrying Iranian arms intended for Hamas in Gaza.
"We operate in every area where terrorist infrastructures can be struck," then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said without formally taking responsibility for the 2009 strike. "We are operating in locations near and far, and attack in a way that strengthens and increases deterrence. There is no point in elaborating. Everyone can use their imagination. Whoever needs to know, knows.”
Intelligence sources at the time intimated Israel had used Hermes 450 drones, which are controlled via satellite and can hover over a target for 24 hours. Why Israel would deploy Apache attack helicopters for such a mission instead of drones remains unclear considering the logistical challenges involved. Sudan is 971 nautical miles from Israel (a round trip of 1942 nmi) while the Apache has ferry range (maximum distance flown) of 1180 nmi.
Such a mission would require a refeuling point and puts the Apache crew in harms way. While Israel's Saar-5 class corvettes do have the capacity to stage one helicopter for missions, there is no readily appaerent reason Israel would commit two corvettes and two attack helicopters to an attack that could be carried out remotely with a single drone.
Egypt, which recently became involved Sudanese politics when it announced its intention to recognize South Sudan and is exerting pressure on its neighbors to the south in negotiations over Nile water rights, has a squadron of 34 Apache attack helicopters.
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by Gavriel Queenann
One of the 2 men killed in today's airstrike on a car in Port Sudan was a senior Hamas military commander, Al Arabiya reports.
The foreign media has largely placed responsibility for the attack at Israel's feet based on initial speculation the car was carrying weapons intended for Hamas in Gaza.
Sudan's foreign minister Ali Karti said Khartoum reserved the right to react to the aggression. "This is absolutely an Israeli attack," he told reporters.
Karti said Israel undertook the attack in order to scupper Sudan's chances of being removed from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism. Washington this year initiated the process to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terror after a peaceful January referendum in which the country's south voted to secede.
One of the two people killed in the strike was a Sudanese citizen who had no ties to Islamists or the government, Karti said, omitting any reference to the other occupant.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor declined to comment on Israel's alleged involvement in the attack.
Sudanese officials have offered different versions on how the strike was carried out. Police say a missile struck the car near the port city, but a state government official blamed the bombing on a foreign aircraft that flew in from the Red Sea. Sudanese military officials insist the attack was carried out by two Apache attack helicopters.
In 2009 Sudanese officials said an unknown aircraft had killed scores near Sheiitah, which many observers attributed to Israel based on reports the convoy had been carrying Iranian arms intended for Hamas in Gaza.
"We operate in every area where terrorist infrastructures can be struck," then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said without formally taking responsibility for the 2009 strike. "We are operating in locations near and far, and attack in a way that strengthens and increases deterrence. There is no point in elaborating. Everyone can use their imagination. Whoever needs to know, knows.”
Intelligence sources at the time intimated Israel had used Hermes 450 drones, which are controlled via satellite and can hover over a target for 24 hours. Why Israel would deploy Apache attack helicopters for such a mission instead of drones remains unclear considering the logistical challenges involved. Sudan is 971 nautical miles from Israel (a round trip of 1942 nmi) while the Apache has ferry range (maximum distance flown) of 1180 nmi.
Such a mission would require a refeuling point and puts the Apache crew in harms way. While Israel's Saar-5 class corvettes do have the capacity to stage one helicopter for missions, there is no readily appaerent reason Israel would commit two corvettes and two attack helicopters to an attack that could be carried out remotely with a single drone.
Egypt, which recently became involved Sudanese politics when it announced its intention to recognize South Sudan and is exerting pressure on its neighbors to the south in negotiations over Nile water rights, has a squadron of 34 Apache attack helicopters.
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