Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Kassam Rocket Launch [7th Rocket of Thursday Landed Near Kibbutz Sa’ad]
3 Kassams Land in Negev, No Injuries or Damage
10 Cars Damaged as Kassam Rocket Lands Next to Sderot Shopping Parade
Terror from the Skies in Sderot: 3 Wounded in Shopping Center, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)
IAF Strike on Northern Gaza Terror Cell Misses Target
Terrorists Fire Two Kassam Rockets at Area South of Ashkelon; No Wounded
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Commentary;
Isn’t there something blatantly and absurdly anti-democratic about travelling ballot boxes being driven around in rented cars, lacking polling place judges, therefore with the ability to tamper with ballots for lack of supervisory oversight and only going to those who Bibi knows support him?
It seems obvious that Netanyahu has made a mockery of the primary and of the will of Likud party voters. Bibi’s latest maneuver has reduced the Likud primary to nothing more than a second delegitimized Referendum vote. MB
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Seventh Rocket Hits Eshkol Region
[6] Rocket Attacks in Eshkol Region
Wake-up Call: [Wednesday] Morning Rocket Attacks on Western Negev
Factory Damaged [Tuesday Evening] in Kassam Attack [At Least 10 Kassam Fired]
Kassam Rocket Launch [Landed Near Sderot]
Boy in Shock as 3 Kassams Hit Negev, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
IAF Aircraft Targets Kassam Launcher in Northern Gaza Strip
IDF Arrests Six Terror Suspects [5 in Bethlehem, 1 Southwest of Hevron]
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Commentary;
Its Yud Tess Kislev today, Tuesday, the Chabad Chassidic “Rosh Hashana.” Chabad-Lubavitch throughout the world celebrate the day when their first Rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi gained his freedom from prison.
On Monday, President Bush held his final annual pre-Chanukah White House reception. In attendance, having Kashered the White House kitchen, were Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbanim.
Israel National News writer Nissan Ratzlav-Katz reports;
Three Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Minkowitz, Rabbi Binyomin Steinmetz and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, oversaw the process.
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Palestinians Fire 2 Mortar Shells at Sha’ar Hanegev Region; No Casualties
No injuries in Mortar Shell Attack near Sderot
Kassam Fired From Gaza Lands in Palestinian Territory
Nazi Flag Flies Unhindered in PA-Controlled Hevron Area, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Israel Set to Release 229 Palestinian Prisoners [“Goodwill Gesture” Amidst Bombardment]
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Commentary;
Caroline Glick is right in bemoaning Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-occupation with in the media for bringing Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit down rather than distinguishing the differences between a Likud slate top-heavy with principled, common sense candidates for Knesset and the too tired to fight, too tired to win destructo “delusional and defeatist Kadima and Labor parties.”
However, the amount of ink spilled in Glick’s attempt to portray Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit as “minor players” actually betrays the extent of Feiglin’s true strength in the party and his arrival in “the Big Leagues.” He received some 12,000 votes out of 50,000, the candidates he endorsed won 7 of the top 12 slots and 10 of the first 20 slots and 7 out of the 2nd 20 slots on the Likud list and his co-founder of Manhigut Yehudit Shmuel Sackett didn’t make a regional candidate slot despite receiving 10,000 votes in his region.
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A few years ago, just before Chanukah, a short article appeared on the INN website entitled; “Mortar Shells Filled With Chanukah Light” told about the Menorah made from some of the spent Islamic mortal shells which were launched on Neve Dekalim over the years.
Reading about this special Menorah which was lit at one of the Jerusalem hotels which temporarily housed many former Neve Dekalim residents, took me back in time to Philadelphia, in “the “old country” and to a point made by Rav Yehoshua Kaganoff about the pit in which Yosef was thrown. The point bears repeating.
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Commentary;
While Bibi is preoccupied, above all else, with dumping Feiglin and other principled Likud Candidates lower and lower on Likud’s list and making his latest absurd revisions, there is a two front war going on — the Arab/Islamic external war to annihilate us, as shown below, and the Bibi, Olmert, Livni, Barak war on Torah and Yiddishkiet. Bibi is showing himself easily as incompetent and unqualified to lead, if not more so, than are the Kadima/Labor troika. MB
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Commentary;
In last week’s Parsha Vayeitzei, Yaakov tells his wives Rachel and Leah;
…Your father mocked me and changed my wage a hundred times, but Hashem did not permit him to harm me.” (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 31, posuk 7)
And like Lavan, Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has subjected Moshe Feiglin, Manhigut Yehudit and Likud voters to repeated Lavan-like changes to the rules, both before primary day and now after.
Feiglin: The Voters have Spoken [And Again the Voter’s Will is Disrespected by Likud]