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April 15, 2011| 4 Nissan 9 5771
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Vol. 7, Iss. 15
CHAG SAMEACH V'KASHER HAPPY AND KOSHER PASSOVER HOLIDAY
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As Terror Attacks from Gaza Intensify, Israeli Army Undeterred in Humanitarian Efforts
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Senior Israeli Military Advisor Discusses Mid-East Developments
3,656 supply trucks entered Gaza in March During the first quarter of 2011, more than three times the amount of aggregates entered Gaza than the total amount that entered in all of 2010.
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Israeli Gov’t Releases Letters 50 Years After Eichmann Trial
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Col. (res.) David Hacham, Senior Advisor to Israeli Ministry of Defense: “Israel is not going to let its hands be tied when Israeli lives are endangered.” BY DANIEL PEREZ
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Gaza Missile Hits Israeli School Bus, Two Hurt Page 10
IDF Soldiers next to the attacked bus ISSN: 2155-434X
It’s a side of Israeli-Palestinian relations that the international news media rarely shows. Although Hamas missiles continue to rain down on Israeli civilians on a daily basis, efforts to aid Gaza’s civilian population, supplying them with basic necessities, have continued. hese goods - food and medical supplies mostly - are evidently not considered a priority by Gaza’s terrorist leadership, which in any event is anxious to exploit any Palestinian deaths as ammunition in its propaganda campaign against Israel. Reports from other news services paint a very different picture. A recent report by Reuters dated April 12 maintains that “Israel kept a commercial crossing with Hamasruled Gaza shut for a seventh day Tuesday although a truce had stopped cross-border fighting, and a UN official said he was ‘extremely worried’ essential supplies may run out.” The Reuters article went on to say that “The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which provides aid to
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more than two thirds of Gaza's population of 1.5 million, said 172 truckloads of oil, sugar and flour were waiting to cross into the impoverished coastal territory.” The crossings in question were closed over a week ago during a violent flare-up when Hamas terrorists fired an anti-tank rocket at a school bus, leaving an Israeli teenager severely wounded. Of course, had the Hamas operation been more successful, the dozens of children who had just disembarked the clearly-marked bright yellow bus would have been murdered. Israel returned fire with a series of air raids on terrorist targets, killing 19, according to reports. The attack on the school bus in southern Israel was dismissed even by the “moderate” Palestinian Authority, run by Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party. A video released this week by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) shows the aptly-named Omar Al Ghoul, an advisor to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, accusing Israel of making too big a deal of
acham has served as an advisor to every Defense Minister since Yitzhak Mordechai in the mid-90’s, up to today, with the position currently being held (for the second time) by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He got his start in the IDF’s intelligence wing, performing what he refers to as “strategic research.” Last Erev Shabbat, Col. Hacham sat down to lunch with the senior editorial
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Col. (res.) David Hacham, the top advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Defense for Arab Affairs, paid a visit to the United States last week. He spent several days in meetings with the press, in which he discussed the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, as well as Israel’s perspective on the current political upheaval that has overtaken the Arab world.
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