Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
IDF Arrested Erez Attack Suspect in September
IDF Troops Shoot, Wound Armed Palestinian in Gaza
Kassam Rocket Attack Follows Monday’s IDF Strike on Terrorists
Halutz Says IDF Must Stay in Gaza’s Philadelphi Route
IDF Discovered More Than 100 Smuggling Tunnels
Two Arrested With Knives in Hevron
IAF Targets Kassam Rocket Launchers
Nine Fugitives Arrested Overnight in West Bank
Two Palestinians Caught Carrying Knives in West Bank
Lieberman Cedes Demands on Behalf of “National Responsibility”, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
“It’s All About Iran.” Give us a break. Once again, another corrupt politician renegs on every promise made to voters in exchange for power, in the hopes that Kadima stays in power long enough to kill Likud so that Yisrael Beiteinu replaces it and Lieberman becomes Prime Minister. Once again, what Caroline Glick wrote recently is instructive as to the Lieberman strategy;
State Won’t Disclose Letter on War Probe, by Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post)
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The state on Sunday rejected a request to release the contents of a letter written by Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in which Mazuz allegedly told Olmert he should appoint a state commission of inquiry to investigate the government’s handling of the war against Lebanon last summer.
The request was filed last week by the Movement for Quality Government, one of two watchdog organizations demanding that the government-appointed Winograd Committee of Examination into the government’s handling of the second Lebanese war be dismissed and replaced by a state commission of inquiry, whose members are appointed by the president of the Supreme Court.
Scales of Justice Viewed As Unbalanced
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A nationalist organization has noted that Israeli courts have issued two different opinions on street-blocking protests, with a more severe judgment handed down to nationalist supporters. The “Headquarters of Cities” group publicized two recent decisions, one which ordered right-wing demonstrators to be held in custody until the end of judicial proceedings while left-wing protestors were ordered to work for a period of time in public service.
Spiraling Out of Control, by By Ksenia Svetlova (Jerusalem Post)
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From the veranda of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, the call for the Maghreb (evening) prayer permeates the warm Jerusalem fall air. A thousand different voices repeat the ancient formula from all across the town, although the loudest call without a doubt comes from Al-Aksa’s four minarets.
Soon, if the plan announced last week by Jordanian King Abdullah II becomes a reality, a fifth minaret will be added. The Hashemite monarch’s announcement last week seems to have detonated a small bomb in both Arab and Jewish worlds, causing contradictory reactions and not a little antagonism.
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On Friday The Jerusalem Post led its front page with a story which should have sent shivers down all our spines – not because it reported any disaster but because it exposed the symptoms of a potential, if not inevitable disaster.
Right on the border with Gaza – hardly a peaceful demarcation line – Post correspondent Anshel Pfeffer discovered no less than 17 armored combat vehicles left unattended, with quantities of ammunition and electronic equipment. Our reporter actually started one of the vehicles and began driving it. No guard so much as inquired about the movement.
Cabinet Passes Lieberman’s Bill by Vote of 12-11, by Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post)
Caroline Glick’s words bear repeating;
“The greatest deficit of Israel’s governing system is not its instability, but its uneven checks and balances between the three arms of government. Second, Israel’s most urgent problem today is not its malfunctioning political system, but its incompetent political leadership.”
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The cabinet approved on Sunday Israel Beitenu’s governmental reform bill by a vote of 12-11. Israel Beiteinu has demanded coalition support for the legislation as a condition for joining the government.
IDF Captures Terrorist near Shechem
Large Bomb Found Near Jenin, Israeli Injured in Rock Attack
Two More Kassam Rocket Attacks, No Injuries
Kassams Land in West Negev; No Injuries Reported
Eitan, Yishai: Israel Must Return to Philadelphi
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“Eitan said that the Gaza Strip was “a problem” and called for the return of the Philadelphi route, the strip of land that was now under full control of Egyptian border guards and constantly being used by Palestinians as a way of smuggling weapons from Egypt to Gaza via tunnels.
Column One: What Lieberman Wants, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“We haven’t the time to think about the growing threats to our country because we are wholly engaged in a vacuous debate about electoral reform.
Lieberman argues that his plan must go through, and that getting it through justifies joining the Olmert government because today Israel’s greatest problem is its governmental instability. This assertion is wrong for two reasons. First, the greatest deficit of Israel’s governing system is not its instability, but its uneven checks and balances between the three arms of government. Second, Israel’s most urgent problem today is not its malfunctioning political system, but its incompetent political leadership.”