This Blog’s Election Endorsement …

This author has been going through a deep internal battle and deliberation as to who to vote for on Tuesday.

This internal battle has been regarding commitment to Likud via Moshe Feiglin vs first, the National Union, but more powerfully in recent days, between voting for Likud or voting Hazit.

Even given my deep level of commitment to Moshe and to Manhigut Yehudit and the Torah way which they stand for, and on account of what I am perceiving (B’Ezrat Hashem correctly) as an extremely well organized campaign where some 63,000 plus have verbally or in writing committed to Baruch and that Hazit “will have observers at all of the Kalpiot (voting stations) to make sure ballots are not thrown out “, I have just called the Hazit number and have committed my vote to Baruch Marzel. read more

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UTJ Hints: Will Join Kadima Government = Approval of Uprooting More Jews; Rav Eliyahu: Vote for Kadima Forbidden …

Olmert: Only Pro-Uprooting Parties in My Government

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In an attempt to win votes back, Kadima’s prime ministerial candidate, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, announced last night that any party that refuses to accept the concept of “inward-turning” – the name he has given his plan to carry out further unilateral withdrawals – will not be invited to join the government he expects to form. Olmert thus hopes to play on the desires of Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu voters, and, to a lesser extent, those of the hareidi-religious United Judaism Party (UTJ), to see their parties in the government. read more

And, Is Shas Any Better??

Electionscape: Shas is Kadima’s Must-Have Party

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Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s latest pronouncement, made in an interview to a haredi newspaper over the weekend, that “whoever votes Kadima [forward in English] goes backwards to hell” can easily be explained away as yet another in a long series of ridiculous quotes from the sage’s wisdom.

What is interesting is that Yosef’s words seemed to contradict those of Shas Chairman MK Eli Yishai, who has been telling reporters over the last few days that the problem with a Kadima government was Ehud Olmert’s new pullback plan. read more

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Overnight War News …

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A Matched Set: Disturbing Analysis of Olmert’s Retreat Plan …

Ha’aretz English Edition Fails to Run Shavit’s 2nd Article Against Retreat Plan, by Dr. Aaron Lerner

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Ari Shavit’s March 14 article, “Olmert’s arrogance”, (repeated below), is probably the most eloquent – and disturbing – attack by any Israeli against Acting PM Olmert’s retreat plan.

So when Shavit’s column in the Friday 24 March Hebrew edition of Haaretz carried a follow-up debate between Shavit and Haim Ramon, it was only natural to expect the folks in charge of the English edition to dutifully translate and publish the article – even if
it provided strong ammunition against their own support for retreat to the ’67 lines. read more

“Operating”: According to Shaul Mofaz …

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Text: Mofaz Defines “Operating” so IDF Can Also Retreat from West Bank, by Dr. Aaron Lerner

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Question: Will the army remain in the evacuated area?

Mofaz: We will continue operating in the area under every possible situation. We are still operating in Gaza, though not on the ground. We need to reserve the right to operate in all senses of the word. Judea and Samaria is different from Gaza. We pulled the Army out of Gaza, since it was one dense urban area, and staying there would have been difficult. Judea and Samaria is different. But to tell you that once we leave we will return to every place – I don’t know. read more

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The Old, Bogus “Protocols”; Would Bibi’s Secular Hasbara Better Reverse Bogus Anti-Semitic Myths?

Column One: The Jewish Threat, by Caroline Glick

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On the eve of Israel’s elections, Israelis should be deeply concerned about the state of our relations with the United States.

Last week the London Review of Books published a long article under the heading “The Israel Lobby.” The article was authored by two prominent American international relations and political science professors: Stephen Walt, the academic dean at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago. read more

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War News Over Shabbos, Motsei Shabbos …

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Voters: Thinking Logically Vs. “Disengagement” …

Weekly Commentary: Thinking Through Retreat, by Aaron Lerner Date: 23 March 2006

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What happens if Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert succeeds next week in getting enough votes to put together a stable “retreat coalition”?

According to Olmert, once Israel determines that the absence of a Palestinian partner renders the Roadmap irrelevant (a determination that can be made in 60 seconds) his team would negotiate and implement an Israeli retreat from most of the West Bank.

These talks would take place both within Israeli society and with various foreign countries out of an interest in imbuing the retreat line international recognition. read more

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Olmert Regime: Yet Again; Deception, Lies, Smoke and Mirrors to Gush Katif Refugees …

Another Blow to Gush Katif Expellees

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Some 60 families – still in Jerusalem hotels after their eviction from Gush Katif 7 months ago – are to be thrown out in three weeks, even though their future living arrangements are not guaranteed.

We were all set to receive the keys to our new caravillas in Ein Tzurim,” said David Banjo, formerly of N’vei Dekalim, “when all of a sudden, we saw that the contracts they placed before us were different than the ones we had seen a week before. In addition to all the uncertainty and instability we have been living with for seven months, now we have to face deception by a government body. It is simply too much.” read more

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