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Knesset committee approves bill prohibiting use of Holocaust terms
A Knesset committee has approved a law that would prohibit the use of Holocaust and Nazi terms and symbols.
Teen injured in school bus bombing in dire condition
The condition of an Israeli teenager injured in a Palestinian rocket attack on a school bus has worsened. Daniel Viflic\’s condition was downgraded Tuesday to extremely critical and life threatening, according to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
WikiLeaks: Israel kept Gaza economy ‘on brink’
Israel told the United States in 2008 that it planned to keep Gaza\’s economy \”on the brink of collapse,\” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.
Olmert offers civilian service plan as military draft alternative; U.S. to train Palestinian troops
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A Question of Blood
The circus of Palestinian victimhood has struck its tent temporarily in Jenin, and gone to church instead in Bethlehem. The Jenin story has petered out because the world, in general, now knows that there was no massacre in Jenin. The world now knows that of the two estimates of the death toll in the fighting which took place in the Jenin refugee camp, one was true and one was false. The Palestinians originally claimed that 500 to 1,000 people had been massacred by the Zionist entity. The Israel Defense Forces estimate was that the death toll was in the dozens, not in the hundreds, and that the majority of those killed in the fighting were gunmen, who had booby-trapped a civilian neighborhood in the hopes of killing as many Israeli soldiers as possible.