Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Increase in Kassam Attacks Saturday Night
Sderot: Kassams Force Schools to Close [13 Kassams Over Shabbos]
IDF Strikes Hamas Targets, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Second Airstrike in Gaza Against Rocket Launchers
Summary of Events in Gaza (Saturday)
IAF Strike Kills Palestinian in Jabalya
Kassam Hits Kibbutz in Western Negev, No Wounded
Anti-Tank Missile Shot at IDF in Gaza; No Wounded
No Solution to Rocket Attacks, by Eitan Haber (Ynet)
Commentary;
The poster-boy, the apologist for the secular Israeli left has again spoken the absurdities for which he is famous. Nothing can be done?
What are we; poor, defenseless herds of scared Jews??
The truth of the matter is that this regime and its police and military are inordinately too busy bullying, arresting and persecuting Jews when it ought to be doing what a Jewish nation ought to be doing; fighting, defeating and decimating it’s national enemies who are intent on our destruction and nothing less.
Five PA Infiltrators Captured, Explosives Found
Top IDF Officer: Goal of Gaza Ops is to ‘Make Hamas Pay’
Excerpt;
“Nine Kassams were fired at Israel on Friday. Two scored a direct hit on a home, lightly wounding several people.”
Cut Off Their Power, Gilad Sharon (Ynet)
Excerpts;
“Cutting off the power supply in the Gaza Strip in response to acts of terror is what is required. It is of course impossible to live without electricity nowadays.”
Commentary;
Many are calling for cutting off electricity and other services from Gaza, thus letting them rot. But can we give the son of the Prime Minister of Expulsion any credence at all??? MB
Kassam Rocket Strikes Synagogue in Sderot; 1 Hurt
2 Kassam Rockets Strike Western Negev; No Wounded
The Growing Hamas-Al-Qaeda Connection – Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi (IMRA)
Weekly Commentary: Imperative to Prevent Spread Of Palestinian Chaos to West Bank, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
IAF Hits man Trying to Launch Kassam From Gaza
Six Killed as IAF Hammers Hamas Targets in Gaza Strip
Shin Bet Uncovers Plot to Kill Olmert, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Doctors Without Borders: “We would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time.”
Excerpts;
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago.
Two Wounded in Kassam Hits on Sderot [By 3 P.M., at least 13 Kassam Hits]
Constant Terror in Sderot, by Masha Rifkin (Jerusalem Post)
IDF Tanks Enter Gaza, Remain Near Fence
Netanyahu: Cut Off the Water and Power Supply to the Gaza Strip
Minister Ezra Says to Cut Electricity to Gaza [the First Semi-Intelligent Comment by Ezra in Years]
Report: Kassam Hits Four-Story Apartment in Sderot
Six Rockets Hit in the Past Hour
Kassams Land Near Kerem Shalom, No Injuries
Security Cabinet Authorizes ‘Harsh’ [sic] Response to Kassams
Report: IAF Air Strike Hits Hamas Vehicle in Gaza
Rockets Hit Western Negev, Cause Power Outage
Kassam Knocks Out Power in Parts of Sderot
PA Rockets Hit Sderot Homes, Three Civilians Badly Injured
Air Force Strikes Open Fields at Gaza
Mother, Son Wounded by Kassam in Sderot
Not Clear if Direct Hit on Sderot home Seriously Wounding Woman Will Change Policy, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Peretz Makes No Decision to Defend the South
U.S. Assures PA That Iarael Won’t Invade Gaza
2 More Kassams Fired From Gaza, No Injuries Reported
PM: ‘We’re Ready to Invite Arab Leaders Without Preconditions’ (Jerusalem Post Staff)
Olmert: “‘If Hamas agrees to abide by the Quartet’s conditions we will agree to sit with them around the negotiating table'”
Full Text:
“We are ready to come and to invite” Arab leaders “without preconditions from us or their side,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters Tuesday after arriving in Petra for talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, expressing Israel’s readiness to discuss the Arab peace initiative and find ways to implement the plan.
Our World: Tolerating Hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
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“After Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski attacked the US and EU boycott, ….Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stuttered that Israel’s connection to Jerusalem is “indivisible.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said nothing.”
Excerpts;
This week, the EU supplemented its NGOs’ work to divide the capital by announcing its boycott of Wednesday’s Knesset ceremony celebrating Jerusalem’s liberation. The US also loudly absented itself from the ceremony.