Religionspolis

Khaled Abu Toameh skriver om hur Hamas "religionspolis" ser till att ingen går för lätt klädd på stränderna i Gaza. En kvinnlig palestinsk journalist berättar om hur hon nästan blev arresterad för att hons skrattade offentligt och var fel klädd på stranden.
"A Palestinian female journalist complained over the weekend that Hamas policemen attempted to arrest her under the pretext that she came to a Gaza beach dressed immodestly and was seen laughing in public.
The journalist, Asma al-Ghul, said that the policemen instead confiscated her passport. Since the incident, she added, she has been afraid to leave her home, especially after receiving death threats from anonymous callers."

En Likudminister Ze'ev B. Begin skriver att palestinierna inte eftersträvar en tvåstatslösning utan en tvåstegslösning. Först en palestinsk stat vid sidan av Israel sedan en palestinsk/arabisk stat från Jordan till Medelhavet.
"The necessary conclusion therefore is that the moderate organization for the liberation of Palestine from Jewish sovereignty is not interested in the "two- state solution" but rather in a "two-stage solution." In the first stage, an Arab state is to be established alongside Israel and in the second stage, following the resettlement of refugees within Israel, one Arab state is to be established, stretching from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea. "
"Although the Arab Peace Initiative includes two articles explicitly dealing with the "right of return," it should be recognized that the resettlement of refugees in Israel is not the goal but the instrument. All signs indicate that the goal is the cancelation of Israel as a sovereign state in Palestine, and that this is the source of the PLO's adamant refusal to accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Hence, even Israel's withdrawal to the 1949 armistice demarcation line - even that which runs through Jerusalem - and even its agreement to assume responsibility for the plight of the refugees and resettle thousands of them in Israel, will not bring about the termination of the struggle, but will rather lead to the next chapter of prolonged hostility. "

Larry Derfner skriver om hur en liten men högljudd grupp judar förföljer de messianska församlingarna i Arad och Ber Sheva.
'Watch out, missionaries!'
'Within the law'
"Members of the Arad congregation, which numbers about 50, say they've had their tires slashed dozens of times. They've been surrounded, threatened and cursed by Gur Hassidim in the market, on the streets or in their homes for about five years. In all this time they can only recall one arrest of a suspect, and he was released immediately. I tried three times, in person and by phone, to speak to Yuval Paz, Arad's police chief, and he was never available, nor did he call me back. "