Anglicans for Israel

by Melanie Phillips
Apparently, there’s been a ‘breakthrough’ in talks between Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas over a PA unity government. The Jerusalem Post reports:
[Khalid] Mashaal [the Hamas leader-in-exile] had reportedly agreed to a unity government based on the prisoners’ document; allowing PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas a two-year period to negotiate with Israel along the following principles […]

From JTA:
Natan Sharansky is quitting Israeli politics.
Sources close to the Soviet refusenik-turned-Likud lawmaker said Wednesday he would step down from the Knesset in coming days.
He is expected to take up a full-time position at the Shalem Center, a conservative Jerusalem think tank.
Sharansky was one of the best-known Jewish dissidents in the former Soviet […]

by William E. Grim, FrontPage Magazine and ChristianActionForIsrael.org
I’m not Jewish. Nobody in my family died in the Holocaust. For me, anti-Semitism has always been one of those phenomena that doesn’t really register on my radar, like tribal genocide in Rwanda, a horrible thing that happens to someone else. But I live in a small town […]

From David Meir-Levi to the editors of the New York Times:
Sam Bahour’s “We Can’t Go Home Again” (NY Times, 10/7/06) is a masterful attempt at de-contextualization. His successful investment in the Palestinian economy is most highly to be praised. But when he critiques Israel for keeping close watch on its borders, he fails […]

Britain’s Sun newspaper reports that a Muslim police officer was excused from guarding the Israeli Embassy in London:
THE decision to excuse a Muslim cop from guarding the Israeli Embassy was last night branded “the beginning of the end for British policing”.
PC Alexander Omar Basha told chiefs he was unable to carry out duties at […]

Hamas is rejecting a possible exchange of up to a thousand prisoners for the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, yet the US and EU are desperate to find an excuse to start funding the Palestinian Authority again.
From The Media Line:
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Gheit told Al Arabiyya television on Monday that an Egyptian-brokered deal […]