2. The rag sheet confirms
Yesterday, I reported in Resistance News that police volunteers are quitting because of General Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plot. Today (2005_03_11), al-Ha'aretz runs the same story, under the heading, "Group of police volunteers says it won't participate in evacuation of settlements":
A group of police volunteers has declared it will not participate directly or indirectly in the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
The volunteers - from Sadeh Ilan, Mitzpeh Netofa and Hazorim in the Lower Galilee - have also informed their commanders they will not fill in for regular forces sent to the Strip and West Bank to oversee the disengagement plan.
"We fear that in the not-too-distant future, it will emerge that we were part of a system that lent its hand to implementing patently illegal orders... and we won't be able to say we didn't know," the volunteers wrote in a letter to their commanders.
3. "Gov't to Begin Stranglehold on Yesha", reports Arutz 7
The piece starts with:
While Interior Minister Pines instructs regional Yesha bodies to cease all allocations to the Yesha Council, the Cabinet is expected to decide Sunday to adopt the Sasson anti-outpost report in toto.
Nor does the rest of the analysis gives any reason to rejoice; to be informed, read it anyway.
4. The vicious hand of the malicious press
Hardly a day passed without Resistance News quoting from articles inciting the people of Israel against the Yesha pioneers. Being that I quote only from reports in English, I can just imagine how the Hebrew press must be inciting. Today, Arutz 7 quotes a confession from the Israeli press itself, that indeed this type of incitement has been going on; the opening paragraph reads:
Top Journalist Confesses: Media Pushed Disengagement
Respected Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea admits that most of the Israeli media has acted more like the "guard dog" of the disengagement plan than that of democracy.
Writing in the most recent edition of the monthly media publication "The Seventh Eye," Barnea stated that Israeli journalists made a mistake that must now be acknowledged.
"There is no argument that the tone in the Israeli media is pro-disengagement," Barnea wrote. "Were the media just supportive, or also enlisted [in its favor]?"
Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews in Yesha and reacted with indifference.
Resistance News, 2005_03_11
See note at article's end.
1. Police brutality
Excerpts from JPost
2. The rag sheet confirms
Yesterday, I reported in Resistance News that police volunteers are quitting because of General Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plot. Today (2005_03_11), al-Ha'aretz runs the same story, under the heading, "Group of police volunteers says it won't participate in evacuation of settlements":
3. "Gov't to Begin Stranglehold on Yesha", reports Arutz 7
The piece starts with:
Nor does the rest of the analysis gives any reason to rejoice; to be informed, read it anyway.
4. The vicious hand of the malicious press
Hardly a day passed without Resistance News quoting from articles inciting the people of Israel against the Yesha pioneers. Being that I quote only from reports in English, I can just imagine how the Hebrew press must be inciting. Today, Arutz 7 quotes a confession from the Israeli press itself, that indeed this type of incitement has been going on; the opening paragraph reads:
Writing in the most recent edition of the monthly media publication "The Seventh Eye," Barnea stated that Israeli journalists made a mistake that must now be acknowledged.
"There is no argument that the tone in the Israeli media is pro-disengagement," Barnea wrote. "Were the media just supportive, or also enlisted [in its favor]?"
Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews in Yesha and reacted with indifference.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at March 11, 2005 08:15 AM