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Sarah Palin... COOPER: Has she been unfairly painted here? COOPER: Dana, I want to play for you.. what she said about the whole blood libel thing... COOPER: I mean, she -- she seems unwilling to -- to apologize or back off about -- of anything... DANA LOESCH... We have a Tea Party organizer that received a death threat because of all -- you want to talk about rhetoric -- because of all of the things that are being said about conservatives and being said about Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin.... BELCHER: Dana, I just can't -- I can't let her...

"The leftist media want to portray us as crazy. But the people I meet in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are always encouraging. 'Because of where you are, I can sleep at night in peace and quiet,' they say."

ERUSALEM, Jan. 3 - Jewish settlers launched a new round of protests today and warned that large numbers of Israeli soldiers could refuse to carry out orders remove settlers from the Gaza Strip later this year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who wants to carry out the Gaza withdrawal this summer, said the government would prosecute soldiers who disobeyed orders. "I don't think that a soldier can refuse an order," Mr. Sharon told a group of young Jewish adults visiting from overseas. "I see no justification for refusal, not by soldiers, nor by political leaders, nor by rabbis." "The law will...

Residents of a small Jewish settlement said Sunday they've struck a deal to move to a village inside Israel, giving a boost to the government's contentious Gaza pullout plan by becoming the first community to agree to be evacuated. Peat Sadeh, a tiny, upscale farming village tucked into the southwest corner of Gaza about a mile from the Mediterranean Sea, raised the ire of hard-line settler leaders, who are mounting a campaign against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to remove all 21 settlements from Gaza and four from a part of the West Bank next year. Sharon's hard-line coalition government...

To: President Bush Dear President Bush, We, the citizens of the United States of America, demand that the US Government fully recognize the legality of the Israeli communities situated in the West Bank and Gaza. The following declarations in support of the Jewish communities situated in the West Bank and must be made prior to the upcoming November elections. Settlements are Not Illegal! 1. The settlements are not located in "occupied territory." The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory in the region of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly...

Mar. 4, 2003 Mortar fired at Jewish community in Gaza strip By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF A mortar shell exploded inside a Jewish community in the southern Gaza strip a short while ago. There were no injuries, reports Israel radio.

Cleveland [TN] man defends Israeli West Bank town International group of volunteers seeks to thwart terrorist attacksHere is an article that just ran in the Chattanooga Times Free Press about one of the group here in Cleveland.By Randall Higgins Cleveland Bureau CLEVELAND, Tenn. A Cleveland man has joined an international group of volunteers to defend Israeli settlements from terrorist attacks. Joel Swafford, who is not Jewish, is a member of a volunteer group called the Jewish Legion. Mr. Swafford, 34, works with a dog specially trained for tracking and bomb detection. "It is something he has really wanted to do,...

Yesha Population Keeps Growing The Jewish population of Judea, Samaria and Gaza has grown in the past two years - the years of the Oslo War - by 12%. Not including the areas officially annexed to the capital city of Jerusalem, the Yesha settlement enterprise now numbers some 220,000 pioneers. The largest town is Maaleh Adumim, with close to 27,000 inhabitants, followed by Beitar Illit and Ariel. Some 30 babies are born in Beitar Illit every week, and 50 new classes were opened there this school-year. The Binyamin Regional Council gained 620 new families this past summer.