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Record lows, global cooling across U.S.
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsOneNewsNow - Pete Chagnon
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

People all across the U.S. are asking a similar question: "What happened to summer?"

A check on Twitter will find a recurring tweet theme from people in New England. For example, "It's so depressing that it's the middle of July, cloudy, and barely 70 [degrees]." Another reads, "Had to wear my winter coat; it was 48 degrees this morning...in July!"
 
Marc Morano with ClimateDepot.com says all across America, record low temperatures have been broken throughout the summer. He blames that on a recent trend of global cooling that has been in place for more than seven years.
 
"The reason Climate Depot is covering this is because every heat wave, every extreme storm, everything the media tries to promote when it's the other way -- every hurricane, every drought, flood...they always blame everything on global warming," he notes. "So, all we are merely doing is pointing out some of the dramatic record low temperatures -- dramatic to the point where some meteorologists have dubbed 2009 the year without a summer."
 
Nashville, hometown of global-warming enthusiast Al Gore, has broken a record low in the month of July -- a low that was set in 1877. Morano says there is nothing to be alarmed about, and that cold and warm cycles are a part earth's natural flow.
 
Morano does note some irony in that this recent cold spell is happening while Congress is debating "cap and trade" in an effort to curb global warming.

Parade of US Officials Expected to Increase Pressure
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Yahada Lev Kay
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

 
A parade of four senior U.S. officials due in Israel this week are expected to increase pressure on Israel to agree to a construction freeze in Judea and Samaria and avoid any action against the Iranian nuclear threat.



The special U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, lands in Israel Sunday after a short visit in Damascus. He will meet with Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday and with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

Mitchell has spearheaded U.S. President Barack Obama’s efforts to pressure Israel into a construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, but Netanyahu has so far maintained that building for ‘natural increase’ must be allowed. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly told EU officials last week that Israel would soon agree to a freeze.

The U.S. State Department said Mitchell would continue to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian Authority conflict in his visit. “He wants to be clear that, you know, all sides are creating the conditions, putting themselves in position so that when we begin a formal negotiating process, we’ve put ourselves in the best position to have a successful outcome,” State department spokesman Phillip Crowley said.

On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is to land in Israel and will meet with Netanyahu. Aides said his visit would focus on Iran, and Gates is expected to tell the Israelis that Obama is serious on ending Iran’s nuclear program, and that his offer to Iran for negotiations is not open-ended.

Later in the week, U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones and White House Iranian affairs expert Dennis Ross will meet with Netanyahu. The White House said the two would “discuss the broad range of issues in our relationships with Israel and the Palestinian Authority [buildin on discussions special envoy Mitchell and Secretary Gates will have a few days earlier.”

Arrival of Four Officials Said to be "Coincidental"

American officials said the convergence of four senior officials on Israel in one week was “coincidental.”

Netanyahu also downplayed the significance of the visits on Sunday morning. “These visits are taking place as part of the ongoing relationship between Israel and the U.S.,” he said. “Even in friendly relationships there are different opinions. We want to reach understandings so we can achieve our common goals – peace, security, and development in the Middle East.”

Obama's science czar's ideas 'really scary'
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsOneNewsNow - Pete Chagnon
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Forced abortions, mandatory sterilization, global governance -- these are just some of the ideas Obama's science advisor has supported in the past.

According to a Fox News article, John Holdren -- President Obama's "science czar" -- has espoused the need for forced abortions, sterilizations, and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee population levels and protect the planet. The ideas are contained in a book he coauthored in 1977 entitled Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.
 
Ben Lieberman with The Heritage Foundation says that while Holdren does have some solid scientific credentials, he also has a very long history of making outlandish statements.
 
"Part of his solution to whatever the crisis he felt was befalling the world at the moment has been population control -- very, very heavy-handed efforts at population control, even to the point of talking about sterilizing populations against their will and so forth," he points out. "So a lot of really scary things that didn't come out in his confirmation hearing."

Lieberman adds that Holdren also supports global government -- and not just any global government, but a very heavy-handed and intrusive government. "Again, that seems to be the solution to every one of his supposed crises," Lieberman says.
 
According to Lieberman, the only thing concerned citizens can do at this point is keep a close eye on any statements coming from Holdren's office.

Jewish rabbis gathered in the Jewish settlements to reject President Obama's plan for Israel
Jul 27th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

Religious leaders in Israel gathered in Judea and Samaria, often referred to as the West Bank, to reject the demand by the Obama Administration to stop all building in Jewish settlements and, in fact, the demand to evacuate these Jewish communities and they urged Israeli Defense Force soldiers to refuse to follow evacuation orders given by the Israeli government. The rabbis called on the Israeli government to call off any removal of Jewish families and their homes from the area of Judea and Samaria because it is a violation of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible and that each soldier must accept the words of God rather than the anti-Semitic order to uproot Jews from the land of Israel.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The demand by the Obama Administration to stop building in Judea and Samaria and to evacuate this God-given land, will lead to a second Jewish state in Israel according to Bible prophecy.

The Obama Administration seems to believe that the Jewish settlements are an impediment to a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Obama and his foreign affairs team have made it clear that their must be no building in the Jewish settlements and that they want these settlements evacuated.

The end times scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy reveals that the Jews would return to the land of their forefathers in fulfillment of the promise that God made to the Jewish people referring to this land (Ezekiel 36:8-12 and 37:7-10). However, these same passages of prophecy speak of a second Jewish state in this land in the last days (Ezekiel 37:15-23). One of these Jewish states will be called Israel - the other will be called Judah. The state called Israel is in place right now and the continuing efforts to force Jews off of this God-given land in Judea and Samaria, will eventually force the Jews to form a second Jewish state which, in fact, is now under discussion and in the planning stages.

Rest assured, Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Jewish leaders upset over Obama reversal on undivided Jerusalem
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsWND
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Anti-Israel

American Jewish leaders are up in arms over recent U.S demands against Jewish construction in Jerusalem, pointing out that during the presidential campaign President Obama repeatedly told Jewish audiences that Jerusalem must remain undivided. 

"I believe that on the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of Iran Obama intentionally misled both Jewish and Christian supporters of Israel," Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told WND. 

"He said as a candidate in 2008 that he supports an undivided Jerusalem and will never permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, and now we see that these claims were simply false," said Klein. 

Pessach Lerner, executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, told WND, "The Jewish community, in fact, the American community, has the right to expect that what they are told before an election will be what is acted upon after an election. 

"Add to this the rights of a sovereign country, an ally, the only democratic state in the Middle East – and we find it very disturbing that the current U.S. administration is dictating to the state of Israel where it can and cannot build in Jerusalem," Lerner said. 

During last year's presidential campaign, Obama numerous times told Jewish audiences he supports an undivided Jerusalem. 

Replying to a 2008 questionnaire that asked about "the likely final status of Jerusalem,'' Obama wrote: "The United States cannot dictate the terms of a final status agreement. … Jerusalem will remain Israel's capital, and no one should want or expect it to be re-divided.'' 

In June 2008, Obama delivered a major speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, in which he stated that if elected "Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided." 

Immediately following the speech, WND reported Obama flip-flopped during a CNN appearance, explaining he meant Jerusalem shouldn't be physically divided with a partition. 

"Well, obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations," he said in response to a question about whether Palestinians have a legitimate claim to the city. 

Obama said "as a practical matter, it would be very difficult to execute" a division of the city. "And I think that it is smart for us to, to work through a system in which everybody has access to the extraordinary religious sites in Old Jerusalem but that Israel has a legitimate claim on that city." 

The State Department last weekend summoned Israel's ambassador to Washington to demand a Jewish construction project in eastern Jerusalem be immediately halted, it has been confirmed. 

The Obama administration has called for a halt to Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank in line with Palestinian claims on eastern Jerusalem as a future capital, even though the city was never a part of any Palestinian entity. 

The construction project at the center of attention, financed by Miami Beach philanthropist Irving Moskowitz, is located just yards from Israel's national police headquarters and other government ministries. It is a few blocks from the country's prestigious Hebrew University, underscoring the centrality of the Jewish real estate being condemned by the U.S. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly rejected the State Department demand, telling a cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem was not a matter up for discussion. 

"Imagine what would happen if someone were to suggest Jews could not live in or purchase property in certain neighborhoods in London, New York, Paris or Rome," he said. 

"The international community would certainly raise protest. Likewise, we cannot accept such a ruling on East Jerusalem," Netanyahu told ministers. 

In a statement released to WND yesterday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, long considered one of the most powerful Jewish groups in the U.S., took strong issue with the U.S. demand against Jewish construction in Jerusalem. 

"We find disturbing the objections raised to the proposed construction of residential units on property that was legally purchased and approved by the appropriate authorities. The area in question houses major Israeli governmental agencies, including the national police headquarters." 

"The U.S. has in the past and recently raised objections to the removal of illegal structures built by Arabs in eastern Jerusalem even though they were built in violation of zoning and other requirements often on usurped land," read the statement. 

The Jewish organization's statement pointed out Moskowitz's housing project formerly was the house of the infamous mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who spent the war years in Berlin as a close ally of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, aiding and abetting the Nazi extermination of Jews. 

Al-Husseini was also linked to the 1929 massacre of Jews in Jerusalem and Hebron and to other acts of incitement that resulted in deaths and destruction in what was then called Palestine. Some Palestinians have expressed a desire to preserve the building in question as a tribute to Husseini. 

Historically, there was never any separation between eastern and western Jerusalem. The terminology came after Jordan occupied the eastern section of the city, including the Temple Mount, from 1947 until it used the territory to attack the Jewish state in 1967. Israel reunited Jerusalem when it won the 1967 Six Day War. 

While the U.S. strongly protests any Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem, it has been actively aiding Palestinians building illegally on Jewish-owned land in eastern sections of the city, WND has exposed.

India launches nuclear submarine
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsBBC News
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

India has launched its first nuclear-powered submarine, becoming only the sixth country in the world to do so.

The 6,000 tonne Arihant was launched by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a ceremony on the south-east coast.

It was built entirely in India with Russian assistance and a second one is due to be constructed shortly.

It will undergo trials over the next few years before being deployed and will be able to launch missiles at targets 700km (437 miles) away.

Until now, only the US, Russia, France, Britain and China had the capability to build nuclear submarines.

'China threat'

Launching the INS Arihant, Mr Singh said India had no aggressive designs on anyone.

India has relied mainly on Russian-built submarines until now

But the sea was becoming increasingly relevant to India's security concerns, he added.

"It is incumbent upon us to take all measures necessary to safeguard our country and to keep pace with technological advancements worldwide," he told the ceremony in the port city of Visakhapatnam.

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says until now India has been able to launch ballistic missiles only from the air and from land.

Nuclear submarines will add a third dimension to its defence capability.

When it is eventually deployed, the top-secret Arihant will be able to carry 100 sailors on board.

It will be able to stay under water for long periods and thereby increase its chances of remaining undetected.

Gaza inches closer to Sharia Law
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily newsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines

The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is inching ever closer to being ruled by Sharia Law, much like Afghanistan was ruled by the Taliban prior to the US-led invasion of that country.

London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Sunday that representatives of several Hamas government ministries, as well as senior Gaza police officials, had recently gotten together and formulated a "General Moral List" that is expected to be authorized and implemented in phases.

The effects of that decision were seen earlier this month when a Gaza court ruled that female lawyers must wear traditional head coverings and dresses when practicing law.

That ruling followed independent reports over the past few months that Muslim morality squads had increased their activity in Gaza, particularly on the beaches, where they were forcing female bathers to cover their heads.

The same squads have also been inspecting vehicles to make sure unmarried couples are not traveling alone together.

When Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, its leaders promised they would not impose the group's strict Islamic views on the residents of the coastal strip.

Gates: We see eye-to-eye on Iran
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday in Jerusalem, and the two discussed a comprehensive range of bilateral, diplomatic, defense and strategic issues, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.

A large part of the discussion was devoted to Iran, with Gates saying that the US and Israel saw eye-to-eye on the Iranian nuclear threat, and reiterating that US engagement with Teheran would not be open-ended, said the PMO.

Netanyahu stressed Israel's concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions and the need to utilize all available means to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon, continued the statement.

Earlier Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Gates that Israel had not ruled out any means of dealing with Iran's nuclear threat, and was taking "no option off the table."

"This is our position. We mean it," Barak added.

Speaking alongside Gates at a joint press conference in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, the defense minister's declaration indicated that a military strike by Israel was still a possibility, though Barak also said he hoped diplomacy would succeed, while urging the US to set a short deadline and prepare hard-biting financial sanctions against Iran.

"Israel remains in its basic position that no options should be removed from the table, even though priority at this stage should be given to diplomacy," he said.

At the same time, Barak did not ignore the predicted implications of an Israeli offensive against Teheran. "We are not blind, whatever we do can have implications on our neighbors and others, we are trying to take that into account," he said.

Gates's visit to Israel was seen in part as an attempt to dissuade Israel from taking military action against Teheran and to buy time for US diplomacy to bear fruit. However, Barak's no-options-off-table comment - repeated three times - may indicate Gates made no visible headway in that goal.

Acknowledging Israel's concerns, Gates said the US administration's attempt to engage Iran diplomatically was "not an open-ended offer" and that the US was aware Iran might try to "run out the clock."

Gates said the Obama administration wanted an answer from the Iranians before the UN General Assembly convention, scheduled for the end of September. "I think that the president is certainly anticipating or hoping for some kind of response this fall, perhaps by the time of the UN General Assembly," he said.

He said sanctions were a possibility if diplomacy fails, while also mentioning plans for a loosely defined "defense umbrella" meant to protect US allies in the region.

The US was contributing financially and technically to fortifying Israel's missile defense program, Gates added, reiterating a pledge that Israel would maintain its technological advantage over its enemies.

"We will continue to ensure that Israel has the most advanced weapons for its national defense," he said.

Egypt charges 26 'Hizbullah spies'
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines

Egypt charges 26 'Hizbullah spies' | Jerusalem Post

Egypt's prosecutor general on Sunday officially indicted 26 suspects, including two Lebanese and five Palestinians, on suspicion of spying for Hizbullah, as well as plotting terrorist attacks and aiding Gaza gunmen.

Egyptian security officials had been working on the case, now known in the press as "the Hizbullah Cell," since April when they said they uncovered plots Hizbullah plots to destabilize Egypt.

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah at the time rejected the accusations of intending to harm Egypt's security, but did admit to sending an agent to supervise arms shipments to Hamas in Gaza.

Prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud referred the suspects, who also include a Sudanese, to trial in the State Security Emergency Court, a special tribunal where trials are swift and verdicts cannot be appealed.

He also called for the immediate arrest of senior Hezbollah official, Mohammed Qabalan, and three Egyptians who are all still large.

A Hezbollah spokesman, contacted by The Associated Press, declined to comment and a Lebanese judicial official said that Lebanese authorities have not yet received any formal Egyptian request for Qabalan's arrest or extradition.

A date for the trial has not yet been set.

The suspects' lawyer, Montasser al-Zayat, said the espionage charges can be punishable by death.

The prosecutor Mahmoud said 18 of the suspects were providing Hizbullah with information since 2005 about Suez Canal schedules, security details as well as information about tourist destinations in Sinai and their travel routes.

The suspects included two working in the Suez Canal shipping industry and Egyptians living on the border with Gaza.

The Lebanese in the group, the statement said, provided the cell with money and technical expertise to collect information and acquire explosives "for activities to destabilize security and public order."

At least three of the suspects were also charged with digging tunnels under Egypt's border with Gaza with the intention of smuggling people and goods. Others are charged with providing safe houses for militants smuggled across the border.

This is the first time Egypt has charged people involved in the smuggling trade with Gaza.

Since the Islamic militant group Hamas wrestled control of Gaza from rival Palestinian faction Fatah, Egypt and Israel have imposed an economic and travel lockdown on the seaside territory.

Although Egypt has allowed in a trickle of mostly medical aid, the tunnels have been the main economic lifeline for Gazans.

Egypt's state security prosecutors also accused five members of its own outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group of belonging to the "Hizbullah Cell." The Brotherhood had expressed support for Hezbollah's proclaimed assistance to the Gaza, saying it is the duty of Muslims to help the Palestinians fight Israel.

Civil Sore
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsNews Week - Mohammed Herzallah
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process;The Nation Of Israel

The real fight among Palestinians isn't between Hamas and Fatah; it's between Fatah and Fatah.

Every once in a while, a kidnapping or a firefight reminds the world that the two parties governing the Palestinians really don't get along. Hamas won the parliamentary election in 2006 and seized control of Gaza in 2007. But Fatah, the party of Yasir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, still controls the West Bank. Their squabbles—over control of fiefdoms like patronage networks and the police—have made headlines about the so-called crisis in Palestinian leadership in the past.

But that fracas is obscuring the truly epic fight brewing among Palestinians. It's not between Hamas and Fatah, it's between Fatah and Fatah. The original liberation group—and the only Palestinian party that Israel (and the United States) will work with—is breaking apart, and it could set back Middle East peace by decades.

A power struggle inside Fatah has been brewing for years. Arafat's death in 2004 left a power vacuum that Abbas has been struggling to fill. His failure to maintain Palestinian unity has sapped his support and respect inside his own movement. Seeing the president's weakness, certain Fatah leaders based abroad—those critical of the 1993 Oslo accords that created the Palestinian Authority and returned PLO officials to the West Bank and Gaza—are trying to wrest power from him. But while the PLO's political decisions (including foreign policy) are technically supposed to be cleared with some Fatah leaders abroad, Abbas in reality has cut them out of the loop. Resentment has been festering.

Things came to a head last week when Farouk Qaddumi, the secretary general of Fatah's central committee—and the head of the PLO's political department—accused Abbas and his former national security adviser, Mohammed Dahlan, of conspiring with Israel to assassinate Arafat. Qaddumi, the most senior Fatah leader still in exile, is the only surviving member of the five-man team that founded the group in Kuwait in 1959. At his press conference last Tuesday, he produced a transcript he claims to have obtained from Arafat before his death in 2004. It says that, in an undated meeting between Abbas and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the men discussed the possibility of killing Arafat and some senior Hamas officials.

Abbas, Dahlan, and other Qaddumi rivals say Qaddumi fabricated the document. They issued a statement calling it the "hysterical" product of a "sick mind"; they also announced an emergency meeting to discuss disciplinary action against him. They even suspended Al-Jazeera's operations in the West Bank because of its coverage of the topic. But the alleged transcript has worried Palestinians about the stability of their leadership, and with good reason: next month is Fatah's sixth-ever General Congress, a summit to clarify principles and assign leadership roles. For Palestinian Authority officials, everything is at stake.

Qaddumi had hoped to use the conclave—the first in 20 years—to reify and remind Abbas of his power. But in a sly preemptive move, Abbas scheduled the meeting inside the West Bank, where Qaddumi has refused to set foot in protest of Oslo. (He claims holding Fatah's convention in the "arms" of the occupation will undermine its legitimacy and compromise its outcome.) That means Qaddumi—and his supporters still in exile—can't compete for seats on the 21-member central committee or the 100-member revolutionary council. If the Diaspora holdouts have trouble influencing Palestinian politics now, they'll be out of business when Abbas controls both the government and the political body.

If the Fatah rivalry looks like one between insiders (who run the Palestinian Authority) and outsiders, another important divide has risen up in recent years: between those who support Abbas's unbending position on Hamas and those who want unity. The Qaddumi episode was indicative of the first struggle. But the second one bubbles up from time to time. In 2007, for example, top presidential aide Hani al-Hasan was dismissed when he told Al-Jazeera that the government was conspiring with Americans and Israelis to destroy Hamas.

Although al-Hasan was dismissed from his post, he represents an increasingly popular position inside of Fatah, as its members realize that the conflict with Hamas undermines the Palestinian cause. Even if Qaddumi can't win back any power, he can make the locals second-guess their leader—and his uncompromising position on Hamas. By putting the credibility and legitimacy of the Palestinian presidency in doubt, unresolved rivalries within Fatah could empower Hamas and steer it toward a position of dominance in Palestinian politics. If that happens, no amount of exhortation from world powers—even Israel's closest friends—will persuade Israel to deal with the Palestinians. What looks like petty internecine politics could be the nail in the coffin of Palestinian statehood.

11 New Yesha Outposts ‘in Defiance of International Pressure’
Jul 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Yehudah Lev Kay
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Nationalist activists in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) plan on establishing 11 new outposts on Monday and Tuesday this week. They say the move is in defiance of international pressure to freeze construction in Yesha, and hearkens to Zionist history in 1946, when Jews set up 11 outposts in the Negev in defiance of the British Mandate.

“The nations of the world don’t want us here,” say flyers publicizing the 11 new outposts. “We will answer by strengthening our ties to the Land of Israel and building new communities.” The flyers urge activists to participate in founding the new neighborhoods.

The 11 new neighborhoods are to be established as follows:

Inbalim (Bells)– next to Maaleh Michmash in Binyamin
Oz Yonatan (Jonathan’s Might)– near Kochav Yaakov in Binyamin
Givat Egoz (Nut Hill) – near Talmon in Binyamin
Tzurya (The Rock of G-d) – near Avnei Hefetz in Samaria
Mitzpe Avichai (Avichai’s Lookout) – near Kiryat Arba/Hevron
Netzer (Stem) – near Efrat in Gush Etzion
Reches Sela (Boulder Cliff) – south of Shechem in Samaria
Gat Yosef (Joseph’s Winepress) – south of Shechem in Samaria
Nofei Yarden (Jordan Horizons) – near Shilo in Samaria
Maalot Hevron (Hevron Heights) – near Hevron
Havat HaRo'im (Shepherds' Farm) – near Susya in Judea

“We call on the entire public to come and support the new communities,” said Daphna Ronen, a member of the Land of Israel Faithful, which is organizing the new outposts. “We are sending a strong message to the people of Israel and the people of the world that we love the land and we are here to stay.”

The 11 outposts are meant to mirror the 11 Negev communities Zionist activists set up in 1946 in defiance of the British Mandate, which had recommended earlier in the year that most of the Negev be partitioned to an Arab state. Overnight, the activists managed to change the situation on the ground in the Negev, and the UN ultimately recommended in 1948 that the Negev be included as part of the Jewish state. Most of the 11 are now flourishing communities.

“Just as then, so it is now,” the flyer reads. “Building new communities throughout Judea and Samaria is the only way we can return the State of Israel to being independent, flourishing and growing, protect our national interests, and stand up to international pressure.”