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Raymond
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On Jan 6, 9:47�pm, Middle Class Warrior
<middle_class_warri...@verizon.net> wrote:
> How many Israelis does it take to secure a president?
RE: How many Israelis does it take to secure a president?
One good Rabbi with a pair of sawtoothed pinking shears.
Oy Vey ---- A klog iz mir! - Woe is me! Er hot nit zorg. - He
hasn't got a worry. Our Real Government Is in Israel
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_israel.htm
> More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit
>
> Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
> Monday January 7, 2008
> The Guardian
>
> Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to deploy more than 10,000 police
> officers in a vast security operation ahead of the arrival this week of
> George Bush, the first US president to visit in a decade. Graffiti are
> being cleaned off walls, road markings are being repainted and hundreds
> of American flags are being put up across the city. The floodlights
> which illuminate the stone ramparts of the Old City will stay on for an
> extra two hours every night, until 2am, to give the president the chance
> to catch the view.
>
> Hundreds of hotel rooms across Jerusalem have been booked for Bush's
> group, as well as for the media and even Israeli officials, who fear
> they might not be able to make it home in the evenings.
>
> Bush, who arrives on Wednesday for his first visit as president, will
> stay at the King David hotel. Eight truckloads of equipment have already
> arrived in advance of his two-night stay. All the hotel's rooms will be
> taken by his entourage - tourists have had their bookings cancelled.
>
> The security precautions, dubbed Operation Clear Skies by the Israeli
> security services, are immense. Roads around the hotel will be blocked,
> despite the huge traffic jams that will entail. A force of 10,500 police
> and security staff will be deployed and Bush will be flown in to the
> hotel by helicopter from the airport near Tel Aviv. "There will be so
> much security nobody will be able to get anywhere near the president,"
> said Micky Rosenfield, Israel's police spokesman.
>
> Yesterday an American militant linked to al-Qaida, Adam Gadahn, released
> an Arabic language internet video calling for attacks on Bush during his
> Middle East visit. In Jerusalem some protests are expected from
> rightwing groups, particularly from a vocal organisation that lobbies
> for the release of Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed in the US in 1986
> for spying for Israel. Pollard's supporters have taken out adverts on
> Jerusalem buses in Hebrew and English that read "Bush, free your
> captive". The president is pictured alongside Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas
> leader, and Hassan Nasrullah, the Hizbullah leader. Beneath them are
> pictures of Pollard alongside three Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas
> and Hizbullah last year.
>
> Separately yesterday, the crisis afflicting Gaza worsened when
> Palestinian officials said they would now have to cut off electricity
> for eight hours every day, because Israel has sharply cut fuel supplies.
> Israel says the cut in supplies is to stop militants firing rockets into
> its territory.
>
> Kanan Obeid, chairman of the Gazan energy authority, said the strip,
> home to 1.5 million Palestinians, had only 35% of the power it needed
> because of fuel shortages. The power plant is to shut down one of its
> two gas turbines, reducing output further. Water and sewerage systems
> are now particularly vulnerable.
>
> Three Palestinians, civilians according to local officials, were killed
> in Israeli raids in Gaza yesterday. Several Israel soldiers were injured
> in the fighting.
<middle_class_warri...@verizon.net> wrote:
> How many Israelis does it take to secure a president?
RE: How many Israelis does it take to secure a president?
One good Rabbi with a pair of sawtoothed pinking shears.
Oy Vey ---- A klog iz mir! - Woe is me! Er hot nit zorg. - He
hasn't got a worry. Our Real Government Is in Israel
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_israel.htm
> More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit
>
> Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
> Monday January 7, 2008
> The Guardian
>
> Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to deploy more than 10,000 police
> officers in a vast security operation ahead of the arrival this week of
> George Bush, the first US president to visit in a decade. Graffiti are
> being cleaned off walls, road markings are being repainted and hundreds
> of American flags are being put up across the city. The floodlights
> which illuminate the stone ramparts of the Old City will stay on for an
> extra two hours every night, until 2am, to give the president the chance
> to catch the view.
>
> Hundreds of hotel rooms across Jerusalem have been booked for Bush's
> group, as well as for the media and even Israeli officials, who fear
> they might not be able to make it home in the evenings.
>
> Bush, who arrives on Wednesday for his first visit as president, will
> stay at the King David hotel. Eight truckloads of equipment have already
> arrived in advance of his two-night stay. All the hotel's rooms will be
> taken by his entourage - tourists have had their bookings cancelled.
>
> The security precautions, dubbed Operation Clear Skies by the Israeli
> security services, are immense. Roads around the hotel will be blocked,
> despite the huge traffic jams that will entail. A force of 10,500 police
> and security staff will be deployed and Bush will be flown in to the
> hotel by helicopter from the airport near Tel Aviv. "There will be so
> much security nobody will be able to get anywhere near the president,"
> said Micky Rosenfield, Israel's police spokesman.
>
> Yesterday an American militant linked to al-Qaida, Adam Gadahn, released
> an Arabic language internet video calling for attacks on Bush during his
> Middle East visit. In Jerusalem some protests are expected from
> rightwing groups, particularly from a vocal organisation that lobbies
> for the release of Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed in the US in 1986
> for spying for Israel. Pollard's supporters have taken out adverts on
> Jerusalem buses in Hebrew and English that read "Bush, free your
> captive". The president is pictured alongside Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas
> leader, and Hassan Nasrullah, the Hizbullah leader. Beneath them are
> pictures of Pollard alongside three Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas
> and Hizbullah last year.
>
> Separately yesterday, the crisis afflicting Gaza worsened when
> Palestinian officials said they would now have to cut off electricity
> for eight hours every day, because Israel has sharply cut fuel supplies.
> Israel says the cut in supplies is to stop militants firing rockets into
> its territory.
>
> Kanan Obeid, chairman of the Gazan energy authority, said the strip,
> home to 1.5 million Palestinians, had only 35% of the power it needed
> because of fuel shortages. The power plant is to shut down one of its
> two gas turbines, reducing output further. Water and sewerage systems
> are now particularly vulnerable.
>
> Three Palestinians, civilians according to local officials, were killed
> in Israeli raids in Gaza yesterday. Several Israel soldiers were injured
> in the fighting.
