Monday May 14, 2012
As this paper has reported
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel and two residents of the Ulpana outpost on Sunday submitted a petition requesting the High Court to annul its earlier order to evacuate the Ulpana by July...The petition also asked the court to freeze any action that the military or law enforcement authorities might take to destroy or evacuate the structures pending a decision by the Jerusalem District Court...The...
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Tuesday May 08, 2012
Today's news is
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Shaul Mofaz approved a last-minute deal overnight Monday to form a national unity government that would postpone early elections. The Likud and Kadima factions began emergency meetings after 2:00 a.m. to discuss developments, eventually approving the deal that will bring Netanyahu's government more political stability.
But in February, it was a bit...
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Sunday May 06, 2012
My last post discussed the prohibition by Israel's police of a parade of sheep in support of the dedmand that Jewish religious ritual be championed, if only in a symbolic march of the four-legged creatures through Jerusalem's streets.
I pointed out that Jerusalem (and other cities) permitted a "Slutwalk" and that sheep were marched through various European countries' streets.
Well, to make sure you get the full picture,...
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Friday May 04, 2012
If you were a policemen, would you know the difference between a sheep and a slut?
I am not sure about the police, but I know that the difference is that one can go on display and the other, well, cannot.
As reported in this newspaper,
Jerusalem police decided Thursday to block a right-wing march on the Temple Mount that was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, saying it would endanger the public. Some 200 activists were...
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Tuesday May 01, 2012
A product, as it were, of Betar United States, and one interested in history, the name Benzion Netanyahu was familiar to me. He had edited the shortlived but intellectually deep political-cultural periodical Betar in the early 1930s, had worked closely with Ze'ev Jabotinsky, been a leader of the Revisionist Movement in the States and was a recognized, if establishment-shunned, as a major scholar of Iberian...
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