A very deep and emotional concern for homes in Samaria and other locations was covered recently at IsraelNationalTV.com (Arutz 7) – “Struggle & Confrontation at Yitzhar; Day of pride for Israel in New York. Defense Minister Barak heads to America.” Very sad and difficult to watch Israeli on Israeli events like the following:

Learn more about Israeli ”Outposts” and “Settlements” in the following small selection of reports and op-ed pieces:

• Arutz 7:  U.S. Support – Only with Construction Freeze
• BritanniaRadio  Manhigut Yehudit:  DESTROYING OUTPOSTS INCREASES IRANIAN THREAT 
• Doc’s Talk  Settlements – A reminder to Hillary Clinton by Eli Hertz
• Earthtimes:  Netanyahu: US settlement freeze demand ‘unreasonable’ – Summary
• FoxNews  Israel: We Won’t Bow to US Settlement Requests
• Israpundit What settlement freeze commitments?” by Ted Belman
• Jerusalem Post:  PM won’t freeze settlement construction for natural growth & “Israeli officials: Washington never threatened punitive steps” by Hilary Leila Kreiger and Herb Keinon
• Update: Jewish Current Issues:  “A Reader’s Guide to Israeli “Settlement Activity“” as posted by Rich Richman:

“…One thing is certain. Everyone in the Middle East understands the military/defensive value of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. They fully understand there that the beef the Palestinians have with the settlements is precisely that the settlements deny the Palestinians access to the summits that look down on Jerusalem, and the rest of Israel’s eastern border….” Read the whole thing

• John Batchelor Show May 31, Hour 6:  MP3 An interview with Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily about upcoming Israeli national disaster exercises; West Bank settlements demand by Obama vs. Israeli reaction about the Settlements, indicating that ”All of the understandings reached with the Bush Admin are worthless”, thus going back on these agreements denying ‘natural growth’; also discussed Arab peace initiative
• meforum  Lords of the Land The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar New York: Nation Books, 2007. 531 pp. $30. Reviewed by Moshe Dann
• Red State  Moe Lane – “Breaking: Mahmoud Abbas claims USA committed to ending West Bank settlements.  Is this correct, Mr. President?”
• Update: Washington Times “EDITORIAL: Middle East fertility wars   Jewish babies threaten the peace process“

“What does Hillary Rodham Clinton have against Jewish babies? Last week, the secretary of state issued a demarche to Tel Aviv stating that Washington “wants to see a stop to [West Bank] settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.” The euphemism “natural growth” refers to children. About 9,600 babies were born in West Bank settlements in 2007, and the State Department views these bundles of joy as a threat to its precious peace process” Read the Editorial

• Update: Women in Green, June 1st:  “Upcoming Activities“

“… The battle against the destruction of 26 outposts is the battle for Jerusalem and the survival of Israel as a Jewish State.
   Those who push today for the destruction of the so-called “illegal outposts” are really not interested in the outposts, but rather want to see the destruction of the entire settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria and the division of Jerusalem in order to create, in its stead, a Palestinian state, a crafty formula for the final solution to the state of Israel. … For Zion’s Sake we will not be silent!
With love for Israel,
Nadia Matar, Women in Green
Yehudit Katzover, the Committee for a Jewish Shdema” Read the rest

• WorldNetDaily Aaron Klein: “Obama promises Arabs Jerusalem will be theirs  Official: President said Palestinian state with holy city capital ‘in American interest’”