Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Hamas Diverts Cement for Cemetery to Build Smuggling Tunnels [Israel Halts Cement Shipments]
Hamas Accused of Using Mosques to Spread Hatred [So What Else is New?]
Teenage Terrorist [Who Planted a Number of Explosive Devices in Gush Etzion] Caught in Beit Omer
IDF Arrests Four Terror Suspects in Yesha
Drunk Arab Youth Stabbed 2 Border Police Officers in Jerusalem [in Talpiot]
Border Police Arrests Top Palestinian [Terrorist] Fugitive Next to Bethlehem
The third posuk of our Parsha reads;
“Tzedek, Tzedek tierdof…” Righteousness, righteousness (also rendered Justice, Justice) you shall pursue that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord, your G’d gives you.” (Sefer Devarim, Perek 16, posuk 20)
This posuk follows immediately after the opening of our Parsha in which Moshe Rabbeinu urges the B’nai Yisrael;
“Judges and officers shall you appoint in all of your cities — which Hashem …gives you — for your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement. You shall not pervert judgement, you shall not respect persons, neither take a bribe, for a bribe binds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.” (Sefer Devarim, Perek 16, p’sukim 18-19)
IDF Arrests Seven Terror Suspects in Yesha [Near Shechem, Ramallah and Kalkilya Areas]
Firebomb Attack Near Bethlehem
Israeli Car Damaged in Molotov Cocktail Attack South of Jerusalem [3 Molotovs Thrown]
Soldier Lightly Hurt as Palestinians Stone His Car Near Hebron
Molotov Cocktail Hurled at Israeli Car [Near Village of Tzurif in Bethlehem Area]
IDF Arrests Seven Arab Terror Suspects
Two Wounded in Terror Attack [in Binyamin Region]
Two Israelis Lightly Hurt in… Shooting [Between the Towns of Eli and Ma’aleh Levona]
Commentary:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently promised not to repeat the “mistake” of 2005’s expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif and the 4 Shomron Towns. Israel National News reports:
Promising not to surrender communities in Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister said there will be no unilateral expulsions.
But one must wonder, for a change, whether Netanyahu speaketh with forked tongue. For Israel National News also reports that his own Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman, head of the committee which selects Judges for the High Court, appears to be party to a “deal” to facilitate appointment of a leftist, pro-Expulsion judge to Israel’s Supreme Court:
Mortar Shell Fired at Western Negev
Gaza Terrorists Fire at Soldiers Near Karni Crossing
2 Mortar Shells Fired at Erez Crossing [Fell on Gaza Side of Perimeter Fence]
IAF Hits [Smuggling] Tunnel in Response to Kassam [and 2 Mortar Shells]
Arab Arrested for Raping Israeli Woman
IDF Arrests Eight Terror Suspects [in Kalkilyah, Ramallah, and Hevron]
IDF Arrests Six Terror Suspects [in Arab Towns in Jenin Region]
Kassam From Gaza Explodes in West Negev
IDF Arrests Four Terror Suspects in Yesha
Arabs Suspected of Arson of Galilee Factory
PA Arabs Stone Car in Samaria [Near Shechem]
Jewish Worshipers Attacked [at Tomb of Shimon HaTzaddik] in Jerusalem
IDF Sabbath Violations in Homesh [Removed Jewish Youths]
Related report: [More Regime Mind Games?] IDF: Sabbath Evacuation [of Homesh] Was for Security Concerns
According to Rashi, Moshe Rabbeinu begins our Parsha R’ei by informing the B’nei Yisrael about the blessing and the curse to be pronounced to them upon their entry to Eretz Yisrael from Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval.
Moshe Rabbeinu continues his mussar saying:
“Behold, I set before you … a blessing and a curse; the blessing if you heed the commandments of Hashem, and the curse, if you will not observe his commandments.(Sefer Devarim, Perek 11, posukim 26-27)
Toward the end of the parsha, we are informed:
Related report: Hezbollah Stockpiles 40,000 Rockets Near Israel Border
IDF Arrests Terror Suspect Near Bethlehem
IDF Stops Arab With Knife Near Kalkilya
Arabs Throw Rocks at Israeli Car [Near Kalkilya]
IDF Arrests Thirteen Arab Terror Suspects
Arab Caught in Hevron [at Ma’arat HaMachpela] With Large Knife
Received this email from Mattot Arim today and am urging everyone reading this to contact Shas Minister Eli Yishai and Shas Chavrei Knesset to nix Ehud Barak’s apparent attempt in the coming days to demolish this home in Gush Etzion:
From: mattot.arim@gmail.com :
URGENT: The home of a reserve commando officer who has risked his life for all of us many times, his pregnant wife and their baby daughter Shaked may be destroyed tomorrow, the next day or Wednesday –in Gush Etzion — because the Labor Party Convention is convening Wednesday. It is customary for the head of the party (currently Ehud Barak) to decimate an outpost a day or two before this periodic political event, because some of the Labor Party’s functionaries are radical leftwingers who truly delight in settler-bashing.
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