IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Several members of the Iraqi parliament called on President Jalal Talabani on Friday to apologize for shaking hands with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at Socialist International Conference in Greece on Tuesday. Al Sadr Front MP Ahmad Al Massoudi accused President Talabani of violating the Iraqi law saying the handshake was a slap in the face for the Iraqi people. Ali A Adeeb, Al Dawa party, said the handshake was unacceptable calling on President Talabani to apologize.
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Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent people with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had "returned" to Islam over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is to blame. If the protestations of the government and the police that nothing could have prevented Dwayat from using his bulldozer to murder three people sound...
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After MRI reveals woman killed during Ashkelon robbery was strangled, High Court instructs Jerusalem hospital to release body for burial, despite demand made by State Prosecutor's Office that it undergo autopsy. Zaka chairman: This is a great victory to the MRI method The High Court of Justice has instructed a Jerusalem hospital to release the body of Ziona Samin, the murdered wife of a prominent rabbi, so it can be buried. In this ruling, the judges rejected a demand by the State Prosecutor's Office that the body undergo an autopsy, after an MRI revealed that she had been strangled. The...
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<p>Israel's new electric car initiative was presented to a US congressional committee this week in hopes of garnering investment in a project that could ease financial troubles caused by rising oil prices.</p>
<p>Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi, who has teamed with Renaul/Nissan to introduce electric cars to Israel on a massive scale in the coming years, told the congressional Committee on Energy Independence that investing in the Israeli initiative will be good for America in several ways.</p>
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday instructed the IDF to begin the process of issuing demolition orders against the homes of Ala Abu Dhaim of Jebl Mukaber - who killed eight religious seminary students in March - and Husam Taysir Dwayat of Sur Bahir, who killed three Israelis on Wednesday. On Thursday, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz had informed the government that according to the law, Israel may demolish terrorists' homes within areas of Israeli sovereignty, but doing so could raise "significant legal problems." The statement was included in a legal opinion submitted to the government following consultations between the army and...
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Happy 4th of July and what better way to celebrate our victory over tyranny than to look at the tyranny the world faced under Hitler and continues to face under Iran. In this episode of Covert Radio, I interview John Rothmann, who has a great new book out, called Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. This book took John and his co-author David Dalin, nearly 40 years to write. They chronicle the true story of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the modern father of radical Islam-- a mufti appointed by the British in Palestine and who...
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to prepare to demolish the home of the Palestinian who killed three Israelis in Jerusalem. The order follows advice by Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz that the proposed demolition could create legal difficulties, but would not be illegal. An Israeli rights group has said such a move would be collective punishment. B'tselem says it has written to Mr Mazuz demanding that he prevent the attacker's home from being demolished. The group argues that the demolition would, as collective punishment, be illegal under international humanitarian law. Hussam Dwayat went on the rampage at the...
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When Israel announced it was in negotiations with Syria, Abbas countered with his intended talks with Abbas. Neither the US or Israel objected. A week ago, Israel agreed to a "lull" with Hamas for stated reasons which were incomprehensible. Perhaps the real reason was to enable the reconciliation between them. Two days ago I reported that Shlomo Brom who is very connected to leftist government circles argued that because of the split, Israel must negotiate with Hamas. Even more telling, Peres recently said at an official dinner ""There is no chance of reaching an agreement between Israel and the PA,"...
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Strange as it may seem, some people on the left want Israel to reconquer Gaza while many on the right like myself are not in favour of it. For my part I see the existence of Hamas as ensuring that such a deal won't be concluded and that makes me happy.. That is not to say that I think there should be a "lull". Far from it. I strongly support increased pressure on Gaza and the assassination of its leaders until the rockets stop. As for the "lull" itself it now appears it was just an excuse not to invade....
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Column One: Anatomy of a massacre By CAROLINE GLICK Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent people with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had "returned" to Islam over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is to blame. Rescue workers approach the wreckage of a car on Jaffa Road shortly after a bulldozer...
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Ignoring leftist Attorney General Manny Mazuz's gratuitous advice that demolishing terrorists' homes, while legal, could "raise significant legal problems," Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the IDF to begin the process of issuing demolition orders against the homes of terrorists Ala Abu Dhaim of Jebl Mukaber - who murdered eight students in March at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav - and Husam Taysir Dwayat of Sur Bahir, who murdered three Israelis on Wednesday. On Thursday, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz had informed the government that according to the law, Israel may demolish terrorists' homes within areas of Israeli sovereignty, but doing so could raise...
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Joy Johnson, Torture Dem, Iraqi Human Shield and Anti-Israel Activist Joy Johnson, half the Durham Rape\Torture couple, who participated in caging and abusing a man and woman, is notorious for her role as Vice Chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party and vice chairwoman of the Young Democrats. But she is also a veteran left wing activist who went to Iraq as a human shield with the Iraq Peace Team and an anti-Israel activist who went to Israel with the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions to protest against the demolition of the homes of terrorists. Joy Johnson and her husband...
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Leftard Jews pay Bloody Jiyza for Jewish Genocide This is depraved. Why wouldn't a Muslim kill Jews and insure a solid financial future for his family. This is impossible to fathom and clearly represents how broken Israel is. They have laid down. More Jewish Victims of the Bleeding Heart Idiots Steve Plaut (hat tip David) 1. For many years the Israeli Far Left and the Israeli media (pardon me for repeating myself - they are largely the same people) have had a bugaboo over the matter of "Vidu Hariga" or "Making sure they are dead." In confrontations with terrorist infiltrators,...
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You would think that this story is right out of science fiction. But the facts appear to be that the US Democrat-controlled Congress intends to destroy the Republican middle class with $11 per gallon gasoline.
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I typed the keywords "Palestinian contributions" (but without the quotes) into the Google News Search and got 519 hits containing those two words. Browsing through some of the hits, I noticed that wherever the word "contributions" appeared, it was in reference to contributions made TO the Palestinians. I couldn't find any listing Palestinian "contributions" in the sense of the Palestinians being the contributors. So, I thought I'd narrow the search: I typed "Palestinian contributions" using quotes, which forces Google to return only those documents that contain those exact words. This was what I got: Your search -- "Palestinian contributions" --...
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The threats, counterthreats, and counter-counterthreats between Israel, Iran and the United States have reached new levels of hysteria in recent days. Israel openly threatens to attack Iran's nuclear program, Iran threatens to shut down oil-shipping lanes, and the commander of the U.S. fleet in the Persian Gulf, Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, says this would be an "act of war" requiring an American military response. That was the backdrop yesterday as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced the cameras in the Pentagon briefing room. Mullen, just back from a trip to Israel that further raised speculation...
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The recent leaks to the U.S. news media (New York Times and ABC News) have created a wrong impression and sent a false message that an Israeli attack on Iran is imminent. Far from the truth. No decision to attack Iran has been made in Israel. Certainly no date has been fixed. Israel will decide, if at all, to disrupt Iran's nuclear program only as a last resort after international diplomacy fails. More importantly, such a decision will be taken only after serious consultation with the American administration. Coordinating its actions with America is the key factor in all Israeli...
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Less than a year ago, diplomats in the Middle East were taking bets on the likelihood of a US military attack on Iran, with some assessing it at higher than 50 per cent. Those odds subsided after the National Intelligence Estimate, the co-ordinated view of US intelligence agencies, concluded in December that Iran had halted its weapons programme in 2003. But now the betting is back on. As Tehran has accelerated its uranium enrichment programme instead of suspending it, speculation has mounted that Israel is preparing to do the job itself, possibly even before the US presidential elections in November....
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McCain or Obama With the U.S presidential elections finally arriving in November, many people are still undecided on who to elect to the White House.Many Jews and Israelis have claimed that they will vote for the candidate who is better for Israel; lacking citizenship, my family cannot vote in the upcoming elections. If given the opportunity however, John McCain would win the support of each of my family members. Our support for McCain does not stem from his own policies and statements regarding Israel, but rather from his opponents background and personal ties throughout his entire life.The issue we find...
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Guest Blog: Obama blames America for terror against Israel? A friend of mine, Jack Harvey, sent in the following guest blog about Obama's shaky Israel policies. For those of us who are watching the American elections closely, an interesting hint of the difference between the two candidates' views on Israel emerged recently. Ben Smith, blogging at Politico, points to two recent letters from American legislators to President Bush supporting Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas rockets. One letter was signed by Senator John McCain and 76 other Senators—almost the entire Senate, practically speaking. It makes the case for Israel...
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Obama vs. McCain, Part 2 While fellow blogger Joe supports McCain, I don't. I think McCain is just an extension of horrible policies currently enacted in the US. If it were up to me, I would just elect Bill Clinton President for another eight years. He could balance the budget and fix the economy again. But that is illegal, so Obama it is. For domestic US issues, there is no question in my mind that Obama is better. This is an Israel blog, however, so I am not going to discuss those issues. I am going to discuss Obama and...
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WASHINGTON: Opening up a third front would pose a challenge for the U.S. military already deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, says a top U.S. military chief amid concerns Israel may attack Iran. "From the U.S. military perspective, opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us," the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen told a press conference. "That doesn''t mean we don''t have capacity or reserve. But that would really be very challenging and also the consequences of that sometimes are very difficult to predict." Israel has said it will stop Tehran developing a nuclear...
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Iran is likely to launch ballistic missiles against Israel and the United States and the NATO alliance should prepare for it, was the warning issued earlier this week by Admiral James Winnefeld, commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In recent years, the missile boats of the Sixth Fleet practiced intercepting Shahab-3 missiles from Iran aimed at Israel, along with the Arrow batteries of the air force and U.S. and Israeli batteries of Patriot missiles.
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Sur Baher, Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - As Israeli officials were mulling Israel's response to what is being described as a terror attack in the heart of Jerusalem, Arab residents of the man's Jerusalem neighborhood -- and his widow -- were still in shock and disbelief on Thursday. The incident highlighted the delicate balance between Israeli Jews and Arabs who share the city. Husam Taysir Dwayat, 30, an Arab resident of Jerusalem, drove a front-end loader down a busy main street of Jerusalem on Wednesday, crushing cars in his path, ramming a bus until it overturned and setting off a stampede of...
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Iran is likely to launch ballistic missiles against Israel and the United States and the NATO alliance should prepare for it, was the warning issued earlier this week by Admiral James Winnefeld, commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In recent years, the missile boats of the Sixth Fleet practiced intercepting Shahab-3 missiles from Iran aimed at Israel, along with the Arrow batteries of the air force and U.S. and Israeli batteries of Patriot missiles. In an article entitled "Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief" in the U.S. Naval Institute's monthly Proceedings, Admiral Winnefeld describes the...
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Cartonist Yaakov Kirschen comments "I'm just back from 10 days in America, where I found that my uneasiness about Obama was shared by lots of folks that I met. But given the circles I was moving in I was picking up the vibes of the post midlife crisis crowd."
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The warning by the senior US military commander Adm Mike Mullen that an attack on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for US forces must lessen the chances of the US taking part in any strike against Iran. But the admiral, who is chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and who has just visited Israel, spoke of Israel's vulnerability to "very real threats". So the possibility remains that Israel might undertake an operation against Iran by itself. Recent large-scale Israeli air force exercises have strengthened this possibility, according to military observers. Nor does Adm Mullen's intervention resolve the ambiguity of...
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The price of oil soared over $145 today, fuelled by concerns of an attack on Iran by Israel or the US. Investors are worried that continuing tension could push Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz - a route so strategically important that oil prices could rise even higher if traffic is blocked.
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Should be a no-brainer, but just in case, here’s a recommendation for Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person In The World Award tonight. Husam Taysir Dwayat. He’s the terrorist who killed three people and wounded 66 during his bulldozer rampage in Jerusalem today. Certainly that’s the caliber of person Olbermann’s award is designed to recognize?
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Israel Border Police officials on Thursday ordered the family of an Arab terrorist who used his bulldozer to crush and maim Israelis on a main Jerusalem thoroughfare a day earlier to take down a mourning tent they had set up for the deceased killer. Husam Dwayat was himself killed by an off-duty Israeli soldier who leapt atop the rampaging bulldozer as it plowed into pedestrians, cars and public buses on central Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street on Wednesday.
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Husam Taysir Dwayat, the 30-year-old east Jerusalem man who carried out Wednesday's terrorist attack in the capital, was "a murderer and not a terrorist," according to his family's attorney, Shimon Kukush. Dwayat "went berserk and ran over everyone in his vicinity," Kukush told Israel Radio, pointing out that "We're talking about the center of Jerusalem, and Arab residents could have been there as well. He could have killed anyone and there is no evidence that it was terrorism." According to Kukush, Dwayat's family was "hurting and aching" over their son's action and condemns the killing of innocents. He insisted that...
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and the top U.S. military commander warned Israel Wednesday against bombing Iran, suggesting the U.S. doesn't want to get involved in a third war. "This is a very unstable part of the world and I don't need it to be more unstable," Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs chairman, said at a briefing............"
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The basic duty of every state is to guarantee its security and protect its citizens, and the loyalty of citizens to their state constitutes an essential pillar in maintaining a mechanism that would safeguard our home. Therefore, no country in the world allows its citizens to travel to enemy states without a permit; moreover, no country allows those who act in a way that raises reasonable suspicion of undermining national security to be elected to Parliament. Israel, a state that is still fighting for its existence and liberty and which has a unique and complex character because of hostility abroad...
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The Jerusalem Terrorist Attack and the Wages of the Left's War on Israeli Security Contrary to many of the headlines you'll see, it wasn't a cop who stopped Hosam Dwayyat's rampage through Jerusalem carried out on behalf of a terrorist group named after Hizbullah terrorist leader Imad Mughniyeh. The cop was in the way. The man who stopped the was Jerusalem rampage was an off duty soldier named Moshe Plesser, a product of a Hesder Yeshiva who protested the Gush Katif Disengagement and was almost kept out of the IDF and the Golani brigade for it. He did it while...
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Hours after three people were killed when a terrorist in a bulldozer went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the attacker’s east Jerusalem home must be destroyed. Olmert held consultations in his office following the attack, and Jerusalem officials said that the prime minister was expected to discuss the possibility of destroying the terrorist’s home with Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann. He is also set to discuss taking away National Insurance Institute (NII) rights from the terrorist’s family. Following the attack, U.S. President George W. Bush phoned Olmert and offered his condolences to the Israeli...
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On Sunday the Israeli cabinet voted 22-3 in favor of a “prisoner” swap with Hezbollah. Israel, on its side of the bargain, won’t be receiving any prisoners but instead the corpses of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, the two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in 2006, along with partial, inadequate information on Ron Arad, the airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986. Hezbollah, for its part, gets five live terrorists including child-killer Samir Kuntar, dozens of corpses of terrorists, information on four Iranian diplomats who were detained by Christian Phalange forces in Lebanon in 1982, and live Palestinian terrorists whose number...
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There are those who try, as they attempt to make sense of the Middle East, especially that presented by the kaleidoscopic confusions of Lebanon, to mold in opposition to the obvious villains, out of the clayey others who oppose them, figures who may then appear, in the fervid Western imagination (just as fervid, when that Western imagination is attempting to deal with those who first gave rise to the phrase "fervid Oriental imagination"), as heroes. For example, in Iraq it was always assumed that those Shi'a Arabs who had bravely opposed Saddam Hussein, or been related to those who had...
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TEL AVIV — Israel has signaled the U.S. and other allies that air operations to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities are not imminent. Israeli leaders have sent messages to several Western countries that ruled out an attack on Teheran in 2008. Israel told the governments of Britain, France and the United States that the Jewish state would allow for yet another diplomatic effort to halt Iran's uranium enrichment program. "There has been alarm in some capitals that Israel will attack Iran over the next few months or even weeks," an Israeli official said. The official said the government of Israeli Prime...
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The 30-year-old man from the Palestinian village of Sur Baher, now part of East Jerusalem, had worked in construction with Israeli companies for 15 years. He drove the digger into the side of a crowded bus in the city, before an off-duty police officer and solider shot him dead. Though he had since married and had two young children, his family told a tale of a young man who may have soured after having his heart broken by a young Russian Jewish woman.
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Is it because Dick Morris never leaves the building? Last week or so the papers (NY Times) reported that Fox News, while still number one, was losing ground to its rivals, like CNN. I was not astonished. The news at Fox is straight, the anchors are terrific and the hosts are equally good, but, so far as guests, why do they all have to be Dick Morris? Dick Morris for breakfast, lunch and dinner and often for a late-night snack. This is no knock on that man, he is smart, but is that all we have in this country? Surely...
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The consequences of a military attack on Iran to thwart its nuclear intentions could have a devastating economic impact. NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel warned on the July 1 “NBC Nightly News” an attack by Israel could send oil prices soaring – sending gas prices into territories never imagined.
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Two Iraqi lawmakers and a military officer on Wednesday claim that Hezbollah fighters have trained Shiite militiamen in southern Iraq before slipping into Iran to continue the training there. According to the Iraqi officials, the training ended three months ago. But they said the Hezbollah were also involved in planning some daring attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces. The most prominent was the attack at a provincial compound in Karbala in January 2007 which killed five Americans.
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Iran warned Wednesday of a fierce response and radically higher oil prices if the country was attacked, but also signalled possible progress in its five-year nuclear standoff with the West. "Iran, if there were any kind of activity of any sort, is not going to be quiet and would react fiercely," Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said here when asked what Tehran would do in the event of an attack. He added that oil prices, which have been driven to record levels partly because of fear about the loss of Iran's 4.0-million-barrel-a-day output, would rise radically if Israel or...
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Moshe Plesser, the off-duty soldier who shot and killed the terrorist on Wednesday, was riding his bike down Jaffa Road when he spotted the overturned bus and a massive bulldozer tearing through the streets of Jerusalem. Understanding that the Arab driver behind the wheel was in the midst of a terror rampage, Plesser, on a furlough from the Golani Brigade's elite Egoz unit, threw his bike to the side of the road and began chasing after the bulldozer. Speaking with reporters several hours after the attack, Plesser recalled the sequence of events that led to his courageous action on Wednesday....
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HERZLIYA, Israel – Israel should use force to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, urged a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in an exclusive interview with WND. The comments from Meir Amit, one of the most esteemed figures in the Israeli intelligence establishment, are significant since, until now, he has refused to support an attack against Iran. "I am in favor of using the power of force against Iran, because if we let things go as they are we will find ourselves in a very dangerous situation," Amit said. "We have good intelligence, and we shall decide what...
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Three people were killed and 66 were wounded - one moderately and the rest lightly - on Wednesday afternoon when a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem. The attack, at the junction of Jaffa Road and Sarei Yisrael St., set off a panic in the area and left a large swath of damage in the heart of the capital. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets in panic as medics treated the wounded. A car was dragged several meters by the bulldozer before being crushed under the vehicle. The parents of a baby...
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A policeman was being hailed as a hero Wednesday after he climbed up on the cab of the bulldozer driven by a terrorist and shot him dead. The terrorist - an Arab resident of East Jerusalem - had smashed the bulldozer into a series of vehicles, including a commuter bus-- (excerpted)
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A driver slammed his bulldozer into a crowded bus in Jerusalem Wednesday, killing at least two people. At least 30 people were wounded before police killed the driver, authorities said. The impact pushed the bus onto its side on Jaffa Road, in the western part of Jerusalem. The bulldozer driver then plowed into several cars before police shot him. The rampage lasted about four to five minutes. CNN's Ben Wedeman said that there had been intense construction work taking place nearby on a monorail project and that it was completely normal to see a bulldozer driving down the street in...
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A worker in Jerusalem has gone berserk (?) in Jerusalem with a piece of construction equipment. Reporting says at least 2 dead and 14 injured.
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Stopping IranBy Jamie WeinsteinNorth Star Writers Group | 7/2/2008 Twenty-seven years ago this month, the Israeli Air Force launched a surprise attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor. The mission was complex. Israel had to fly over hostile territory, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, undetected in order to reach the Iraqi reactor. Once there, they had to destroy Osirak and get out. There was good reason to believe that not all of the pilots that left Israel that day would return home. But they did return home after destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. The chance of a "second holocaust" was averted. While...
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