Author: moshe
Mofaz Likud Departure Farce Recalled
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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
Tuesday War News: Kassam, Katyusha, Mortar Attacks From Gaza, IDF Hits Kassam Launch Squad in South Gaza; Remains of Lebanon Conflict Soldiers ID’ed; Jenin Bombs Uncovered, Arabs Toss Rocks Near Tel Aviv, Troops Rescue 5 Jews From Kever Yosef, Bomb Tossed at IDF, 14 Terrorists Nabbed, Shin Bet, Police Foil Murder, Kidnap Attempt
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5 Hurt in Kassam Barrage from Gaza
Kassam Rocket, 3 Mortar Shells Land in West Negev; No Casualties
IDF Attacks Terrorist in Kassam Launch Squad in Southern Gaza Strip
Kassam Rocket Strikes Open Area in Western Negev; No Wounded Reported
Mortar Attack was Katyusha Rocket
Remains of Five Soldiers [Killed in Lebanon Conflict] Identified
Arab Rock Throwings East of Tel Aviv
IDF Troops Extract 5 Jewish Worshippers from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus [Shechem]
Identity = The Will to Win
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Commentary;
Jonathan Tobin’s piece on former Prisoner of Zion and Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky carries an important lesson for Israelis, a lesson in identity — seen as synonymous with an overriding national unity which was once axiomatic to a vast majority Israelis and to world Jewry, which with the evolution of elitism, protexia, political graft and self-aggrandizement as national institutions in Israeli leadership and governance, needs to be relearned, reabsorbed and reapplied by the Jews.
Monday War News: Terrorists Attack in 3 Places in Gaza; Rock Attacks in Yesha, the Golan, 5 Terroists Nabbed, Police Catch Escaped Infiltrators
Sunday War News: Kassams, Mortars From Gaza, IDF Nabs 7 Gaza Terrorists, IDF Hits Gaza Rocket Cell, Givati Soldier Moderately Wounded; Arabs Attack Shvut Ami
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Kassam, Mortar Shell Land Near Border Fence; No Injuries Reported
IDF Faces ‘New Threat’ [Discovery of 30 Anti-Aircraft Missiles in Sinai] From Gaza
2 Rockets Land in Ashkelon Coast Regional Council; No Injuries Reported
Gazans Fire Rocket, Mortar at Israel
IDF Arrests Seven Palestinian Terror Suspects in Southern Gaza
Rocket Lands Outside Netivot; None Wounded
IDF Attacks Rocket Launching Cell
3 Gaza Terrorists Wounded, Hamas Continues Rocket Attacks, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Shavu’ot/Parsha Naso 5768 – Threads of Unity Between Shabbos, Shavu’ot
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With Shavu’ot always being during the week of Shabbos Parsha Naso, there are various common threads between Shabbos Parsha Naso and Chag HaShavu’ot. There is the thread of national unity projected by the Kohanim as expressed in the Birchat Kohanim, the thread of diversity and unique expression within the 12 repetitions of the same offering brought by the Sh’vatim at the inauguration of the Mishkan and the thread regarding the importance of caring for the Ger Tzeddik.
Shabbos War News: 8 Kassams Land Over Shabbos, Terrorist Killed in Work Acccident, Egyptians Find Rocket, Explosive Caches in Sinai
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Egyptians Say They Found Two Weapons Caches [Missiles, Explosives on Way to Gaza]
Kassam Rocket Lands in Shaar Hanegev Regional Council, No Injuries
Two Wounded in Kassam Attack in Negev
[Work Accident] Hamas Operative Killed in Gaza City While Handling Explosives
Friday War News: Kassam in West Negev, 2 Mortars Hit Ashkelon Beach, 60 Gaza Arabs Nabbed, 10,000 at Sufa Crossing as IDF on High Alert
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Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; No Injuries Reported
Palestinians: IDF Wounds Seven During Sufa Crossing Protest
Excerpt;
“More than 10,000 Palestinians waving Hamas flags approached the crossing.”
IDF on High Alert After Hamas Calls for Protest March to Sufa Crossing
‘Other Guy’s Sovereignty’ vs Right of National Defense
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There was a time, during modern-day Israel’s first 40 years, when national defense was first and foremost priority. There were the pre-emptive attacks of the Six Day War, Sharon’s Suez crossing of the Yom Kippur War, there was the IAF bombing raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor.
The opinion article below penned by Shlomo Slonim, the James G. McDonald Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, poses a classic example of how, in the name of distorted Western morality, the sanctity of an aggressor nation’s sovereignty has come to override and place as subserviant the national defense of the aggrieved nation.