Israel Happenings!

Israel training troops for unconventional warfare August 30, 2010, worldtribune.com

Israel's military, preparing for regional war, has been enhancing its skills to fight during a nonconventional weapons attack. The Israel army has been expanding a unit trained to fight amid a biological, chemical or nuclear strike. The Army has established a center to prepare troops as part of the Combat Engineering Corps. Read More 

Canada: Book Demonizing Israel in School Libraries August 27, 2010, IsraelNN.com The school board in Toronto, Canada, has decided to support a novel that portrays IDF soldiers and Judea and Samaria residents in a negative way. "The Shepherd's Granddaughter" is a novel published in 2008 by Canadian author Anne Laurel Carter. The story tells the tale of a young Arab girl living in Judea and Samaria who wants to be a shepherd like her grandfather. In her quest to become a shepherd, she encounters violent Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria as well as violent Israeli soldiers, who poison some of her sheep, bulldoze her house, shoot and kill her dog, prevent her family from harvesting their olives, and beat and jail her father and uncle.  Read More 

Palestinians Indicted for Selling Jewish Products August 19, 2010, israeltoday.co.il- The Palestinian Authority of "moderate" leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad on Tuesday decided to indict four Palestinian Arabs accused of selling Jewish-made products in their stores.   Read More

There is a Media War on the Flotilla Clash. Click here to view video of what really happened on the Mavi Marmara. Decide for yourself if Israeli soldiers were the aggressors of the attack or victims of an angry mob.