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Gov´t Considers ´Only´ Destroying Synagogues After Withdrawal 17:44 Feb 23, '05 / 14 Adar 5765 The government is reconsidering the previous cabinet decision to demolish the homes and factories of Gush Katif residents slated for expulsion – considering selling the property to Arabs instead. The fate of the approximately 2,000 structures in Gush Katif and northern Samaria will now be reconsidered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his government. The last cabinet resolution on the matter, voted upon in June 2004, called for all buildings in Gush Katif and the northern Shomron to be demolished. However, recent inquiries by international...

There is a rapidly growing, strong opposition on the part of the Israeli public to Ariel Sharon's dictatorial Disengagement Plan. Please don't believe those supposedly accurate opinion polls that "65% of the Israeli public" want their fellow Jews violently evicted from their homes. These polls, you will notice, are never attributed to any reliable pollster by name. Most likely, they were taken in one of the many bars or pubs on Sheinkin Street in Tel Aviv. There is also much discussion about "democracy" and that any opposition to disengagement is "undemocratic". Both the Sharon government and, unfortunately, the American government...

LOTTERY TICKET TO $PLITSVILLE By JEREMY OLSHAN December 4, 2004 -- Holy matri-money! The wife of Mega Millionaire Juan Rodriguez has filed for divorce, demanding her slice of the $149 million jackpot — even before the check has been cut to her hubby. Iris Rodriguez never bothered with the expense of the divorce when Juan was worth a whole lotta nothing, neighbors and friends told The Post. She had kicked her husband out after months of bickering over how broke he was. But she had started a reconciliation with him just before he won. Now Iris sees a chance to...

IRAC: Chabad involved in anti-Arab incitement By DAN IZENBERG The Israel Religious Action Center on Wednesday called on the state prosecution to investigate alleged anti-Arab incitement by haredi elements in Safed. IRAC lawyer Einat Horowitz also urged Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz to cut off state funding to The Kiryat Chabad Association in the Holy City of Safed on the grounds that it is involved in Chabad's role in inciting against Arabs. Chabad has allegedly supported a campaign calling on Safed residents not to rent or sell homes to Arabs. IRAC charged that because of this incitement, Israeli Arabs are in physical...

President Bush has been taking some heat for having failed to respond instantly to the 2001 terrorist attacks. The movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" points out how Bush just sat in that second-grade classroom in Florida for seven minutes after he learned America was under attack. He was helping the children read "The Pet Goat." I, for one, think this criticism of the president is terribly unfair. It's as unfair as criticizing "Fahrenheit 9/11" just because the director looks like one of those 750-pound rural dimwits in bib overalls who are occasionally photographed being removed from their houses by a crane as...