Dubai Firm to Give Up Stake in U.S. Ports
There is a huge fraudulent BUT here. Barak of IRIS explains.
For context, read these posts …
Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Dubai Firm to Give Up Stake in U.S. Ports
There is a huge fraudulent BUT here. Barak of IRIS explains.
For context, read these posts …
In our Parsha Tetzaveh, the laws regarding the annointment, the vestments and the Avodah (service) of the Kohanim are enunciated for the Jewish people. But wait! Stop the music. Something seems amiss.
Our Parsha, unlike any other place throughout Torah (including Sefer Devarim where Moshe himself speaks to the Jewish people in one continuous Mussar shmooze reviewing the laws and the events of the 40 years in BaMidbar and where each of the Parshiyot are distinguished only by the sections Halachas enunciated) from the time of his birth through Vezos HaBeracha, omits any mention of Moshe Rabbeinu.
Olmert to ‘Post’: Israel to Have Final Borders by 2010
Excerpts;
“Israel’s permanent borders will be set within the next four years, a period during which construction will also begin in the controversial E1 section between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.”
“Olmert also said he had no intention of meeting Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas after the elections.”
Halutz Contradicts Ezra at Amona Investigation
Contradiction Between Testimonies of Ezra and Halutz
Excerpts;
“Chief of General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, appeared before the Amona investigative committee on Wednesday. ‘In no way did I understand that the Amona evacuation was similar to the Gaza evacuation,’ he said.”
“‘The Gaza evacuation was an operation conducted against legal settlements, while Amona was about enforcing the law and order against illegal construction. Therefore I see no room to compare the two events at their base level,’ said Halutz.”
Olmert: Kadima Has Already Won the Election Campaign
Excerpt;
“‘The question of who will win has already been decided. Now the question is if we will be strong and big enough in order to do everything we need to do. We thus need as many seats as possible,’ Olmert said as a conference of immigrants in Rishon Letzion.”
Commentary;
Ehud Olmert’s pre-mature pronouncement of victory reminds this author of “Red” Auerbach, the former coach of basketball’s Boston Celtics when the established a long-running dynasty in the NBA. It seems that whenever the Celtics seemingly had a lock on winning the game in it’s late going, Auerbach would light his victory cigar. And much to this author’s dismay, anger and dislike of “Red” Auerbach, he was seldom, if ever wrong.
Legal Aid Society Director Released
Full Text;
“Shmuel Meidad, head of the Honenu legal aid society, was released from police custody tonight, following his arrest from his Hevron home and subsequent interrogation this [Wednesday] afternoon.”
“The investigating officer laid out the suspicions against Meidad during the interrogation, claiming that the Honenu director was involved in an illegal gathering and endangered life on a public thoroughfare in August of 2005. The police then said that Meidad had to deposit his personal weapon with them as a result of the suspicions against him. Meidad denied the occurrence of any such event and noted that he was never previously questioned regarding such suspicions.”
List of Aid Efforts For Evictees From Gaza and N. Samaria
For additional recent information on the Gush Katif refugees as well as pictures, click here.
Shteinitz Calls on Mazuz to Examine Suspicious Police Behavior
Full Text;
“The chairman of the Knesset committee tasked to examine the events during the eviction of nine families in Amona, MK Yuval Shteinitz, has called on Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to examine actions by police that raise suspicions of premeditated violations. Specifically, MK Shteinitz noted that the policemen were not wearing identifying badges, as regulations require, and that they ignored recommendations that female officers be deployed to evacuate female protestors.”