Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Two Late-Night [Rocket] Attacks on Sderot
Terrorists Used Calm to Upgrade Launch Capabilities [17 Rockets Fired in Past 24 Hours]
Over 10 Kassams Fired at South on Monday
3 Kassams Hit West Negev; None Hurt
IDF Troops Arrest 32 Palestinian Terror Suspects
Shin Bet Arrests Ramle Woman for Terror Plans, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Suspicious-Looking Arabs with Knives Arrested at Huwara [South of Shechem]
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Commentary;
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Sunday, rejecting the overwhelming body of conclusive evidence that Beit HaShalom (Peace House) was legally and legitimately purchased by Jews, stating that the decision “allows them [the State] to do so” — to evict the more than 20 families who live there.
In the process, the regime and its MSM (mainstream media) has engaged in a continuous blood-libel again pitting Jew against Jew and dividing B’nai Yisrael against itself as with Gush Katif, as with Amona, as with the destruction of the Federman/Tor Farm and recent events at Har HaBayit.
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Palestinians Fire Volley of [7] Kassams at Eshkol Region
30 Trucks Bearing Food and Medicine to be Transferred to Gaza
One Kassam Hits Between Houses on Kibbutz
Kassams Launched Toward Western Negev
Israeli Lightly Hurt as Kassam Hits Yard of Sderot Home
IDF Troops Arrest 14 Palestinians
IDF Arrests [Tanzim] Terrorist Suspected of Making Explosive Belts in Nablus [Shechem]
2 Jerusalem Arabs [From Issawiya, East Jerusalem] Charged with Supporting Terrorism
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4 Reported Dead in Gaza Air Strike After Two Rockets Hit West Negev [on Sunday AM], by Mark Weiss (Jerusalem Post)
Two Kassam Rockets Land South of Sderot; None Wounded
Mortar Lands in Eshkol Regional Council; No Injuries Reported
Kassam Fire From Gaza on Western Negev Continues [Friday Overnight]
Update: Five Rockets Hit Ashkelon Area
Related report; ‘Grad’ Katyusha Rocket Barrage on Ashkelon, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Four Rockets Slam into Ashkelon Area [10 Kassams hit Sderot, Sha’ar Hanegev Kibbutz], by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
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There are two intriguing commentaries, each relating to a different posuk of Parsha Chaye Sarah, regarding the dialogue leading up to Avraham Aveinu’s acquisition of the Ma’arat HaMachpela for 400 shekels of silver from Efron the Hittite.
The first of the two posukim is spoken by Avraham and says, in part;
“I will have given the money for the field; take it of me …” (Breish’it, Perek 23, posuk 13)
Torah Gems on Chaye Sarah cites Rabbi A.M. Amiel;
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1 Injured in Kassam Attack [on Sderot]
Terrorists, IAF Exchange Blows in Gaza Area [IAF Hits Rocket Launchers]
Gaza Terrorists Fire Kassam Rocket Toward Israel; None Hurt
Almost 1,000 Tunnels From Egypt to Gaza – Multiple Entrances Allow for Ineffective Egyptian [Photo Op] Tunnel Closing, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Six Wanted Terrorists Arrested [in Jenin Area, in Bethlehem]
Molotov Cocktails Along Gilad Route [Between Hawara and Kedumim, South of Shechem]
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Commentary;
I’m going to speak in the 1st person here.
Aside from the dirty tricks and “stinking manuevers” which marked the campaigns of 2 of the 3 Mayoralty candidates in Beit Shemesh; what irks me is that there seems a definite connection, like links in a chain, between the winning candidate, the parties who backed him, the lengths to which they went to bring about his election (with the possible resultant exclusivity partition of Beit Shemesh/Ramat Beit Shemesh) and what the religious parties, ALL of them — including Mafdal (on a national level) — an across-the-board indictment — regarding what none of them bothered to do to save their Jewish brethren formerly from Gush Katif.
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Two More Mortars Hit Nahal Oz [Near Fuel Terminal]
Gaza Fires Four Mortars at Nahal Oz
IDF Troops Gun Down Four Terrorists Near Gaza Border [Near Kissufim Crossing] By Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Related report; Dead Arab Gunmen Had Kalashnikovs
Arabs Riot Near Jerusalem [Northeast of Ma’aleh HaChamisha]
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For Mayor;
Abutbol – 46.7
Lerner – 28.4
Vaknin – 24.9
For City Council:
UTJ – 5
B’Yachad – 3
Shas – 3
Dor Acher (Balayish) – 2
Likud – 2
Mishpacha Acat (Russians) – 2
Labor – 1
Tov – 1
Chen – 0
Shas Chareidi candidate Moshe Abutbul has apparently been swept into office as Mayor of Beit Shemesh garnering 52% of the vote to B’yachad’s Shalom Lerner with 30% and incumbent Mayor Danny Vaknin a distant 3rd with 17.7% of the vote in a campaign which degenerated into a host of dirty tricks and “stinking manuevers”, mostly by coordinated by one candidate’s campaign, in the final 72 hours before the vote and in which there were a slew of voting irregularities (i.e. torn or non-existent Shalom Lerner ballot slips at certain voting stations) on election day.