Israel’s plans for cutting up Jerusalem

Israel’s plans for Jerusalem will create a large Jewish city but will have harsh consequences for the Palestinians, on both sides of the barrier
IN THE twilight of a Bethlehem evening, Jerusalem shimmers on a distant hilltop like the Wizard of Oz’s Emerald City, its floodlit walls giving it a surrealist glow. Except that these are [...]

It’s the roadblocks, stupid

..Israelis and Palestinians involved in the talks on borders, an issue considered to be relatively “easy,” say there is a big gap between the reports on the talks’ progress and the reality around the negotiating table. It seems Olmert’s representatives expect Mahmoud Abbas to allocate to Israel larger pieces of territory than those Ehud Barak [...]

Police arrest rabbi for ‘inciting Palestinians’ in East Jerusalem

Israel Police on Thursday arrested Arik Ascherman, the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, for “inciting Palestinians to oppose the police” in East Jerusalem.Heated tensions between residents of the Silwan village in East Jerusalem and the Israel Police erupted over excavation works that have recently began in the village.
The excavations are being carried out [...]

Police arrest rabbi for ‘inciting Palestinians’ in East Jerusalem

Israel Police on Thursday arrested Arik Ascherman, the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, for “inciting Palestinians to oppose the police” in East Jerusalem.
Heated tensions between residents of the Silwan village in East Jerusalem and the Israel Police erupted over excavation works that have recently began in the village. The excavations are being carried [...]

Soldiers (not innocent students) killed at settler center

The Israeli electronic and print media on Saturday revealed that the bulk of the eight Israeli Yeshiva (Talmudic religious school) “students” killed or injured in an attack on the headquarters of the Jewish settlement movement in Jerusalem on Thursday were actually paramilitary soldiers.
Israeli spokespersons claimed immediately after the attack that the lone attacker, a Palestinian [...]

Settlers vow revenge over Jerusalem massacre

Israel’s far-right settler movement has set itself on a renewed collision course with the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, declaring that last week’s massacre in a Jewish religious school had targeted them directly and vowing to build a new illegal outpost in the West Bank for every one of the killed students.
Amid a sense [...]

Canada’s top court rules out ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ in passports

OTTAWA - A Canadian Jew has lost his court battle to have his birthplace, Jerusalem, recognized as part of Israel on his Canadian passport.

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal by Eliyahu Veffer, who wanted his passport to show that he was born in “Jerusalem, Israel,” rather than “Jerusalem.”
Veffer [...]

J’lem city hall: State blocks new housing over Green Line

The government is holding up construction of hundreds of apartments in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem due to the negotiations with the Palestinians, according to Jerusalem city manager Yair Ma’ayan. However, Ma’ayan told the Knesset Economics Committee yesterday, the municipality is still managing to move forward on plans for building some 10,000 other apartments in Jewish [...]

Source: U.S. agrees to delay talks on J’lem, Abbas rejects agreement

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Olmert and Abbas are to meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening to continue their regular meetings, if the weather permits. So far these meetings have been accompanied by conflicting statements from the two leaders’ respective aides regarding the talks about Jerusalem. Olmert said Sunday that Abbas had consented to hold off discussing Jerusalem until the end [...]

The Watchman International - Prepare the way for the Lord

The calling on the ministry of The Watchman International (TWI) is to “Prepare the way for the Lord.”
“A voice of one calling: ‘In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough [...]