Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Two Kassam Rockets Hit Sha’ar Hanegev Region; None Wounded
Palestinian Killed as Smuggling Tunnel Collapses in Rafah
IDF Troops Destroy Four Kassam Rocket Launchers in Gaza
Jewish Car Stoned in Mount Hebron Area
Palestinian Shot by IDF Force [Southwest of Bethlehem] After Hurling Molotov Cocktail
Palestinian Arrested After IDF Troops Find Half-Meter-Long Knife in His Car
Palestinian Carrying Six Pipe Bombs Stopped at Hawara Checkpoint [Near Shechem]
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Our Parsha speaks about the reasons for the separate section delineated by the inverted “nuns” — “When the Aron (the Ark) would journey, Moshe said, ‘Arise Hashem, and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate you flee from before you.’ And when it rested, he would say, ‘Reside tranquilly, O, Hashem, among the myriad thousands of Israel.'” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 35-36)
Preceding these posukim are the posukim which speak about the journey of the Aron and of B’nai Yisrael from Har Sinai to their next resting place, …a three day distance…” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 33 & 34).
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Kassam Rocket Attack [4 Rockets] on Eshkol Region
Thai Worker Hurt by Shrapnel From Kassam Rocket in West Negev
IDF Kills 1 Hamas Terrorist, Wounds 2 in Gaza
Troops Open Fire on Operative [Attempting to Lay Explosive Device] Near Gaza Fence
Qureia: Latrun Also Up for “Negotiation”
IDF Removes Roadblocks [Dying for Terror Attacks] in Southern Hevron Hills
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Commentary;
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has often claimed in recent years, citing and cleaving to P.A. (sic) demographics data, that Israel must hand over lands to the Arabs out of fear that the Arabs will essentially destroy Israel by out-numbering the Jews. These claims have again and again been been found irrefutably overstated by at least 1.5 million by evidence presented by demographics experts Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, Michael Weiss and Yoram Ettinger.
But, in doing a search of YouTube videos looking for different information, this author stumbled upon this Nightline interview which took place over 20 years ago with both then MK Ehud Olmert and Rabbi Meir Kahane, z’l. In that interview, Ehud Olmert attempts to refute Rabbi Kahane by saying that the chances of the Arabs outnumbering the Jews is remote.
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Rocket Barrage [10 Kassams] Hits Negev
Kassam Rockets and Mortar Shells Pound Western Negev
Four Missile Hits Around Sderot, None Hurt
Firefighters in Kassam-Hit Locations
2 Mortar Shells Land in Hof Ashkelon Regional Council; No Injuries
3 Mortar Shells Land Near Kibbutz in Negev
Air Force Strikes Northern Gaza Terrorists
IDF Soldier Wounded From Palestinian Fire at Border Fence
Three Mortars Explode Near Nahal Oz, None Hurt
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Commentary;
Below is a YouTube video on the Six Day War.
After viewing it, compelling questions arise on this the 41st anniversary of that momentous and historic event; Is the IDF as capable now of fighting and devastating her Arab Islamic foes in war as they were then? Did we hear in those days arguments such as “nothing can be done about Kassam and mortar attacks” without endangering Israeli lives, short-range missile interception systems as a substitute for human military action, or that it is preferential to not strike terrorists for fear of harming “innocents”?
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Man Killed, Two Seriously Wounded in Mortar Attack [at Negev Kibbutz Nir Oz Factory]
Commentary;
First thought to be a Kassam rocket, it now appears to have been a mortar attack?? MB
IDF Retaliates, Hits Terrorist at Source of Mortar Attack, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Kassam Rocket Attack Kills Factory Worker
Nir Oz Mortar Attack Victim Identified, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
As Shaul Mofaz gears up to contest for the Prime Ministership, a job he is wholly unqualified for, but which he may just fall into by virtue of the Shas party’s undying love of “Almighty Cash,” Israel National News’ Hillel Fendel remembers Mofaz’s totally undignified and laughable departure from Likud within days before Sharon’s strokes and resultant incapcitation and vegetation, which proved out to be no blessing for him (Mofaz).
So too, this blog recalls here and here Mofaz’s dead-of-the-night jump to Kadima in December, 2005, even as he sent an appeal letter to Likud voters to support him in their primary while having one foot out of the Likud door. MB