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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126605.html The settlers camp remains pure By Zvi Bar'el 8 November, 2009 "Not all of the settlers are Teitels," shout the settlers from their bunkers. "We must not smear an entire community because of one killer," chants their chorus, closing ranks whenever one of "their own," alone or in collaboration, killer or hilltop youth, deviates...
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians turned out in Hebron on Sunday to urge Mahmoud Abbas to run again for the presidency following his announcement that he did not want a second term in the job.
Here’s a peek of things that may be to come, courtesy of Dallas. The A-train commuter railway is more than a year away from rolling into Lewisville, but plans are already in the works for the city’s first transit-oriented development. Hebron 121 Station will be part of a 427-acre city reinvestment zone on the northeast corner of [...]
Mirrored from Jews sans Frontieres. You need to watch both vids to 'get it'... Much more info here or below. Send a letter to the NY Mets (see end of post). New York, NY, November 4, 2009 – Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball's New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner...
Danny Williams in 2009 , on the sale of NB Power which will reduce the provincial debt by 40%: "They've agreed to sell away their future." Danny Williams, in 2008 , on his own plans for the energy corporation owned by the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador: This particular government wants to strengthen Hydro , wants to make it a very valuable corporation: a corporation that...
The traditional location of the tomb of Jacob’s beloved wife is located on the north side of Bethlehem, next to the main highway that has run from Jerusalem to Hebron for thousands of years now. The photo below gives a good idea of what the monument looked like in the early 1900s. It’s quite picturesque. The traditional Tomb of Rachel, early 1900s Today, it’s a little harder to get...
Brenda Kidwell Zenni was in a coma following 2008 heart bypass surgery when her son, Kahlil Lowry, was killed Halloween Day while crossing a Hebron roadway. She spent the rest of her life telling her family and friends she also would die Oct. 31.
Adalah NY 4 November 2009 Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. In a letter [...]
Earlier this year while I was reporting from the West Bank, I visited the historic Palestinian city of Hebron where a craft that dates back to the times of the Phoenicians may be headed for extinction. Pottery, glass and ceramic making are ancient industries in Hebron, Palestine. The city's leather, stone, glass and ceramic goods [...]
Israel on Monday released six lawmakers of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, who are residents of East Jerusalem and the West Bank and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Hamas sources said. The sources said that the six Hamas lawmakers, two residents of east Jerusalem, three from Hebron and one from Bethlehem, were released from Israeli prisons as they ended their 42-month...
1. DoubleTapper posts about an IDF soldier with real courage. She wants to continue soldiering on despite her cancer . 2. Joe Settler compares Jewish settlements to Arab settlements in the Southern Hebron Hills, and makes a suggestion... 3. Not Brisker Yehsivish has a video tribute honoring Rav Yaakov Horowitz .. 4. Betarim in North America brings a first hand account of Yitzchak Rabin's real heroism,...
This week’s Explorator mentions several articles that may be of interest to readers here: Evidence for tsunami events at Caesarea: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026093728.htm Rethinking the ‘odds’ of the Talpiot Tomb: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/tomb357926.shtnl Feature on mapping Iraq’s archaeological sites: http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=40707...