THE ISRAEL REPORT July/August 1999

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• The Facts of the Pollard Case
  This information page has been revised in order to help clarify some of the more complex issues of the Pollard case.
  
  
• ISRAEL AND THE END OF DAYS
  God, the Creator of the universe, said much about the Jewish people. He made covenants with them, and told them that if they broke those covenants. They would suffer plagues, diseases, famines and ultimately, they would be tossed out of their land.
  
  
• U.N. Security Council - RESOLUTION 242
  "It calls for respect and acknowledgment of the sovereignty of every state in the area. Since Israel never denied the sovereignty of its neighbouring countries, this language obviously requires those countries to acknowledge Israel's sovereignty."
  
  
• A public secret: The rescue of the Quara Jews
  (July 30) -- An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this summer's operation to bring home the remaining Jews from the Gondar region of Ethiopia --
  
  
• MA'ALEH HAR HAZEITIM OR RAS EL-AMUD: THE TRUE STORY
  Imagine. In America it would be called racism, anti-Semitism. In Israel its called Ras el-Amud.
  
  
• The Barak Conundrum
  Prime Minister Ehud Barak has done a stunning job getting to where he is today. He won a landslide victory over an incumbent nicknamed "The Magician." Then, with a shrunken Labor Party behind him and a bewildering array of mutually incompatible parties facing him, he put together a bulging coalition of 75 MKs.

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