Author: moshe

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Israel Still Seeks Truce After 50 Projectiles [Mortar Shells, Kassam and Katyusha rockets] Pound Negev, by Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)

IDF: We Prevented Major Gaza Border Terror Attack

Excerpt;

Gaza militants were planning to use the heavy barrage as a diversion in order to carry out a massive attack at the border fence between Israel and the Strip.

A heavy vehicle approached IDF troops stationed at the Gaza border fence at an alarming speed, the IDF described the attempted attack. The soldiers opened fire and forced the vehicle to stop. The IDF said that it was the soldiers’ quick response that likely prevented a serious attack. read more

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Mortar Shells, Rockets Fired at Western Negev

IDF Denies Gaza “Strike”; Terrorist’s Home Explodes [Explosion Was a “Work Accident”]

IDF Forces Kill 2 Terrorists [Carrying Kalashnikov Assault Rifles and Placing Bomb Next to Security Barrier], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)

IDF Forces Kill Palestinian Gunman Near Border Fence With Gaza

Rock Throwing Near Maale Levona

IDF Arrests 3 in Overnight Raids

Woman Lightly Injured as Palestinians Throw Rocks at Car [Near Bethlehem] read more

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Commentary;

There are a few recent themes which stick out like sore thumbs and which beg comment.

There is the piece by Stewart Weiss, a director of a Jewish Outreach Center in Ra’anana, applying to today the virtues of Civil Disobediance, which date back to anti-slavery abolitionist Henry David Thoreau of 1840s and 1850s America.

Weiss cites Thoreau in asserting;

When the government does not act, then the citizens must step forward and do what is necessary.

In opposition to the United States’ support of slavery, he [Thoreau] refused to pay taxes in 1846. He spent a night in jail and remarked,
“Under a government which imprisons anyone unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” His subsequent essays on civil disobedience provided an antidote for helpless citizens who feel they lead lives “of quiet desperation.” read more

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Three [Gaza] Terrorists Eliminated in Two IDF Strikes

Security Cabinet Communique: Reapproves its 5 March Decision [Holding Off on Gaza Action], by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

Rock Attack in Judea [Near Bethlehem]; Two Lightly Hurt

IDF Troops Arrest Palestinian in Possession of Knife in Kalkilya Area

Israeli Cars Damaged When Pelted With Stones in Ramallah Area

Two Israeli Buses Damaged in… Stoning Incidents [Near Ramallah, Hevron]

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IDF Strikes Terrorists, Sufa Crossing Closed

Security Cabinet Rules Out Gaza Operation for Time Being, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)

Related report; IDF General in Reserves:’Do-Nothing Approach Will Destroy Hamas, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Excerpt;
General Yoram Yair: “Our problem is that we don’t have a long-term policy…”

IDF Tank Fire Kills One Terrorist [near Khan Yunis]

Mortar Shell Lands in Western Negev Kibbutz [Nir Oz], Lightly Wounding One Person read more

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Additional Mortars from Gaza [on Targets in the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council]

Kassam Lands in Negev [in Open Spaces in Sdot Negev Regional Council]; No Injuries Reported

Palestinians: IDF Air Strike Kills Three Hamas Operatives [After 18 Mortar Shells Fired]

Excerpt;
“Shortly after noontime, at least 18 mortar shells fired by Palestinian gunmen… landed in open areas throughout the Gaza periphery, and no wounded were reported.”

Kassam Rocket Misses Target, Lands in Desert read more

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Two Kassam Rockets Hit Sha’ar Hanegev Region; None Wounded

Palestinian Killed as Smuggling Tunnel Collapses in Rafah

IDF Troops Destroy Four Kassam Rocket Launchers in Gaza

Jewish Car Stoned in Mount Hebron Area

Palestinian Shot by IDF Force [Southwest of Bethlehem] After Hurling Molotov Cocktail

Palestinian Arrested After IDF Troops Find Half-Meter-Long Knife in His Car

Palestinian Carrying Six Pipe Bombs Stopped at Hawara Checkpoint [Near Shechem]

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by, Moshe Burt

Our Parsha speaks about the reasons for the separate section delineated by the inverted “nuns” — “When the Aron (the Ark) would journey, Moshe said, ‘Arise Hashem, and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate you flee from before you.’ And when it rested, he would say, ‘Reside tranquilly, O, Hashem, among the myriad thousands of Israel.'” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 35-36)

Preceding these posukim are the posukim which speak about the journey of the Aron and of B’nai Yisrael from Har Sinai to their next resting place, …a three day distance…” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 33 & 34). read more