Daily Archives: August 11, 2005

SHOMRIM CATCH THE CAR THIEF OF CROWN HEIGHTS

On Thursday At 7:30 in the evening a suspicious person was walking around the neighborhood known to Shomrim as “The Guy Who Breaks into Cars” and was looking into cars.

Members followed the perp around for some time and 7 members stopped what they were doing and immediately began to fallow this man around waiting for him to strike. They followed him throughout the area and set a perimeter around the block of Crown St. between Brooklyn Ave. and New York Ave. where the perp was sitting on the front steps of 404 crown waiting for the street to go quiet so he can make his move but little did he know that there were members of Shomrim watching his every move from every corner of the block while a member snuck up from porch to porch till he got to 400 Crown where he waited for the perp to get into the car then called the back up to move in one member opened the car and shocked the perp and the guy said he was just looking for bread (yeah right!).

After a few minutes the police turned up with not much to do beside arrest the perp and say “thank you, it’s a pleasure working with you” later on the police revealed to us that the suspect was wanted and had 18 prior arrests, and had just been released from jail this morning.

If you see anything suspicious don’t hesitate to call Shomrim at (718) 774-3333

New Bagel Shop in Crown Heights

Early last week a new bagel shop (Bunch-O-Bagels) opened for business. Located on Troy Avenue between Carroll Street and Crown Street.

This place used to be a major hangout (the old barber shop) where allot of mischief would originate.

We should expect better service, a larger variety of bagels, sandwiches and more, in a more comfortable setting.

I wish them much success and please don’t make me wait 20 minutes for a bagel, (although I am not holding my breath with that).

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The New York Times Q&A: The Gaza Withdrawal

What are Israel’s plans for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip?

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Likud Party-led government are proceeding with plans to unilaterally withdraw all troops and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. The process of removing settlers is scheduled to begin in mid-August and will take up to a month, experts say. Israel has controlled the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since it won the territory during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Six-Day War. However, sections of Gaza and the West Bank are now under Palestinian control.

Which settlements will be evacuated?

All of the 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza, and four–Ganim, Kadim, Homesh, and Sanur–of some 125 settlements in the West Bank. In all, about 7,000 to 9,000 settlers will be moved, says Geoffrey Aronson, director of research and publications and an expert on Israeli settlements at the Foundation for Middle East Peace in Washington.

Jewish Groups In Bind On Subway Profiling

Notion of race-based searches has centrist groups stymied in replay of Guantanamo silence.

As civil libertarians head to court to halt police searches of subway commuters, insisting it will lead to racial profiling, Jewish organizations here are struggling to reconcile their strong support of civil rights and civil liberties with concern about preventing terror attacks.

While illegal, some say racial profiling — among the tactics regularly used in Israel — is a necessary evil if police are to concentrate limited resources on apprehending terror suspects.

And major Jewish groups, seldom shy about weighing in on matters of the moment, have been publicly silent in the debate.

“It’s a very complicated question and can’t be dismissed, or accepted, out of hand,” said Marc Stern, legal affairs expert for the American Jewish Congress.

Bus Attack Highlighting Links
Of Israeli Extremists and Americans

Last week’s terrorist killing of four Israeli Arabs has cast light on a network of ties linking mainstream American Jewish groups to an extremist fringe in Israel that nurtured the Jewish gunman.

The killer, Eden Natan-Zada, was a 19-year-old Israeli army conscript who had gone AWOL with his weapon after refusing to participate in the upcoming evacuation of Gaza. His attack on a busload of Israeli Arabs was described by top Israeli officials as a terrorist act aimed at inciting Arab-Jewish violence and derailing the Gaza withdrawal.

Israel’s defense minister this week told a Knesset committee that at least nine other soldiers were AWOL with their weapons, and defense sources told the daily Ha’aretz that several of the missing soldiers appeared to match Natan-Zada’s psycho-social “profile.”

Jewish group denounces video on Auschwitz