Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Rav Chaim Zev Malinowitz spoke before Pesach saying that to truly feel Pesach, we need to put ourselves in a mindset of feeling the Yetziyot Mitzrayim as if we were there eating the Seder meal, the Korbon Pesach, the Matzah — the bread of affliction which was baked in haste because of the haste of departure from Mitzrayim. This author sat pondering this proposition in Shul before Ma’ariv welcoming Pesach and gave over these thoughts at the Pesach seder as well as during the day meal.
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2 Kassams Fired at Ashkelon From Gaza Strip; No Casualties
Kassam Fired From Gaza Lands Near Sderot; None Wounded
Kassam Rocket Explodes near [Sha’ar HaNegev] Regional Council Leader
IDF Braces for More Attacks [Via APC Like Used at Kerem Shalom, Like Russian Ones Israel Permits to PA] From Gaza, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpt;
Defense officials said Israel did not plan to alter an earlier decision to permit the PA in the West Bank to receive 25 APCs from Russia, despite the use of an armored vehicle in the Kerem Shalom attack. The decision to transfer the APCs was made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert several months ago following a request by Russia to supply the vehicles to Fatah forces in the West Bank to bolster PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Seven [Islamic Terrorists] Killed in IAF Strikes [on Kassam Launch Cell] in Gaza
Enemy Fired Dozens of Rockets, Shells Over Holiday
Two Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas in Western Negev; None Wounded
3 Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas in Western Negev; None Wounded
13 Soldiers Hurt in Kerem Shalom Attack
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Commentary;
This would certainly be a neat trick if Netanyahu, who would not void Oslo when he became Prime Minister in 1996 and who in fact handed 80% of Hevron to the PA, not to mention his vote in favor of expulsion of his Jewish brethren, finally has the moral courage and backbone to void and totally expunge all record of any Abbas-Olmert agreement. MB
Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
Excerpt;
Likud Chairman and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says any agreement reached between PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is null and void.
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Commentary;
It will be interesting to observe what legal appeals shenanigans Olmert attempts to avoid compliance with the State Comptroller’s ordered testimony in the investigation of the Pollard affair. MB
Lindenstrauss Issues Court Order for PM to Testify About Pollard
Full Text;
State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has issued a court order against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert which would force the premier to testify before the comptroller on the matter of Jonathan Pollard and his continued incarceration in the United States on charges of spying for Israel, Channel 2 reported on Thursday.
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‘Iran Smuggling Arms Into Gaza by Sea’, by Yaakov Katz, Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Kassam Lands in Ashkelon Industrial Area; No Casualties
IDF Foils Gaza Infiltration Attempt at Kerem Shalom Crossing, by Yaakov Katz (Jersalem Post)
Excerpts;
Shots were reportedly fired at three Palestinian gunmen who moved into the Palestinian side of the crossing. One of the gunmen was shot and killed, and one injured. The third gunman fled the scene, and was being pursued by IDF troops.
The IDF believed that the men were trying to infiltrate the Israeli side of the crossing in order to carry out an attack.
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2 More Kassam Rockets Land in Negev; No Injuries Reported
9 Rockets So Far This Morning, Including a Katyusha, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Two Short Range Rockets Fired at Sderot Area
3 More Rockets Land in Western Negev
Four Kassam Rockets Hit Israel Overnight; No Casualties or Damage
Related report; Three Late-Night ‘Kassams’ Make Total of 30 Wednesday
Kassam Rocket Wakes Up Ashkelon in Middle of Night
Some 20 Gazans Killed in IAF Strikes, by Yaakov Katz and Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
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Commentary;
The Olmert-Livni-Barak regime’s “confidence-building” appeasement concessions to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority impairs and demoralizes IDF counterterror capabilities thus setting in place yet another self-fulfilling prophesy, such as in Gaza where the regime states that “there is no defense against the rockets” which translated means that they lack the moral strength, courage and resolve to completely vanquish it’s enemy.
Ehud Olmert has been cited numerous times on this blog as stating;
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Commentary;
The Olmert-Barak-Livni regime continues to appease “Mr. Moderate(sic)”, Mahmoud Abbas while Abbas, in truth, will lavish honors on those who aided and abetted the bomber of Sbarros. How interesting that Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar notes;
A recent history of doublespeak from Abbas, which, Sa’ar said, presented different Palestinian intentions and narratives when speaking to Arab crowds and when addressing Western diplomats.
This author would love to know what Sa’ar’s perspective on “recent” is. One can measure Abbas’s history of doublespeak in terms of years, probably at least since Oslo. MB
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Three Soldiers Killed, Two Wounded in Gaza Ambush
Two Soldiers Wounded in Intense Fighting in the Gaza Strip
Two Kassam Rockets Fall in Sha’ar Hanegev Area; No Wounded
Barak Orders Renewal of Gaza Gas Supply
Two Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas in the West Negev; None Wounded
Ten Kassam Rocket Attacks [in Western Negev, Southern Ashkelon], No Injuries
Air Strikes Kill 9 Gaza Terrorists, Islamic Jihad Leader, by by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)