Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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2 Kassams Hit Sdot Negev in Latest Barrage; No Casualties or Damage
Rocket Hits Outside Sderot Home as 6 Rockets Fired from Gaza, by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts:
Gaza terrorists continued their attacks on Israeli civilian areas on Sunday evening, firing six rockets at the western Negev. One of the Kassams hit in the yard of a Sderot home, causing slight damage to the house.
The other five rockets hit open areas in the Sdot Negev region. There were no casualties in the attacks.
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Kassam Hits Open Area in Western Negev [12:10 AM Sunday Morning]; No Casualties Reported
PM Vows to Bring ‘Total’ Quiet to South
Commentary:
Olmert’s comments; …We will respond in a serious, painful, strong and uncompromising way…. Israel has a wide range of options which can be used and these options will be utilized until total quiet is brought to the South” are laughable and more Olmert boast of which he is noted. What “painful, strong and uncompromising way?” What “wide range of options?” Air Force bombing of empty fields or smuggling tunnels dug so deeply below ground level as to be impervious to bombing??
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In our Parsha Tetzaveh, the laws regarding the annointment, the vestments and the Avodah (service) of the Kohanim are enunciated for the Jewish people.
While preparing this Parsha HaShavua, this author came across a puzzling quote in Torah Gems by Aharon Yaakov Greenberg on our Parsha.
The quote, which is cited (pg 192) relates to perek 28, parsha 15; “And you will make the breastplate of judgement with the work of an artisan…” and is attributable to someone called “Akeidah”, reads;
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Commentary:
40 Days until Pesach is a long time in terms of the ability of the Olmert-Livni-Barak troika to further damage Israel either by their actions visa vi Mahmud Abbas or by their inactions such as, leaving at least 9 terror rockets over Friday and Shabbos unanswered and going silent as Gaza terror rockets continue to bombard southern Israel rather than finishing the job of Operation Cast Lead. How long will Bibi dawdle in forming a new government and will he place people with clean hands and hearts in charge of the Defense and Foreign ministries rather than the likes of Avigdor Lieberman — the land swapper
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The Daily Double: 2 Rockets Explode in Western Negev [Sha’ar HaNegev Region Near Sderot], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
IAF Strikes Hit 7 Philadelphi [Terror Smuggling] Tunnels
Hamas Promises to Keep Smuggling in Arms, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Iran Test Runs 1st Nuclear Power Plant [in Bushehr]
Palestinian Tries to Steal Gun From Soldier Near Givat Ze’ev [Wed. Evening]
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Commentary:
No news from Gaza: Good news, or censors hard at work?? MB
Diplomats: Syria Has Put Missile Facility on Bombed Nuke Site
Abbas’s Security Forces Release 42 Hamas Detainees
22-year-old Palestinian Man with Knife Arrested [Stabbing Attack Thwarted] North of Jerusalem
Israeli Bus Pelted by Stones Near Nablus [Shechem]; Nobody Wounded
Arabs Throw Rocks at Car Near Hevron
IDF Arrests Eight Terror Suspects [Bethlehem, Hevron, Jenin and Kalkilye]
Rock Attack [on Israeli Bus] Next to El Aroub [Between Bethlehem and Hevron]
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Kassam Rocket Hits Sha’ar Hanegev Region
Kassam Hits Sderot Area; IAF Fires at Car in Gaza Strip, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Terrorists Fire at Troops [Shot Two Mortar Shells] Near Gaza
IDF Troops Arrest 3 Palestinian Terror Suspects Near Bethlehem
Israeli Says 2 Palestinians Tried to Stab Him and Steal His Car [Near Shavei Shomron]
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Commentary:
Will a new government dare to do the right thing: finish the job of Operation Cast Lead, finish-off Hamas and liberate Gilad Shalit without freeing terrorists? MB
Kassam Hits Sha’ar Hanegev [Mortar Shells Fired at Kissufim Again in PM]; None Hurt, by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Grad-Type Rocket Strikes South of Ashkelon; No Wounded Reported
Mortar Shells Hit Sourthern Israel Friday Night [Kissufim Crossing, Gabim Region]
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Commentary:
This Jerusalem Post Evelyn Gordon commentary on Israel’s February national election and its lessons was too good to pass up.
While not mentioning Moshe Feiglin, Ratzon, etc. by name, Gordon deals with the post-primary demotions and their impact on the election vote for Likud, and thus the election result. This is important in that it seems to this author that she is the first columnist seen in Israeli MSM to have recognized the impact of the Likud primary result which was not respected, but rather uprooted, and the consequences of that uprooting in the national election result. Other prominent columnists such as Caroline Glick refuse to recognize aand come to grips with the Likud primary demotions and their impact in pre-election polls and election results.
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IAF Strikes Three Arms Smuggling Tunnels Under Philadelphi Corridor [Response to Rocket Attacks]
Hamas Attacks Eshkol Region with Two Kassam Rockets
2 Rockets Launched Toward Israel
Excerpt:
“Earlier a rocket exploded on the Palestinian side of the security fence, and overnight a mortar shell fired from Gaza landed in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.”