Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Two Killed by Terrorists in Nahal Oz, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
OC Southern Command: Large Scale Attack Thwarted
IDF: Nahal Oz Attack Was Kidnapping Attempt
Top IDF officer: Gaza Infiltrators Intended to Kidnap Soldiers, by Avi Issacharoff (Haaretz — Courtesy of IMRA)
IDF Warns of More Kidnap Attempts, by Yaakov Katz and Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)
IAF Hits Nahal Oz Terrorist in Vehicle
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For context on the confiscation of weapons issued to Yesha residents, click here.
MK Schneller: Armed Citizens ‘First Response to Terror Attacks’
Full Text;
MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) is set to convene a secondary committee on issues concerning Judea and Samaria following an Israel Radio report that the IDF had collected hundreds of weapons from settlers in the Binyamin region.
“Citizens who carry guns are the first response to terror attacks,” Schneller told Israel Radio on Wednesday, adding that if the justification for the move was political, “it is stupid and will lead to anarchy.”
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Commentary;
Marzel’s got a point about the possibility of Arabs infiltrating the base. This author has never seen a picture of Itamar Ben-Gvir before, but the higher media profile Marzel is definitely known. So if young soldiers can’t visually distinguish Marzel from other soldiers “coming for an exercise,” its a sad commentary on the awareness of most Israelis. Marzel and Ben-Gvir did the IDF a great service. But the IDF wears pie on its face.
Hopefully, the guards will receive better training in the future, rather than having to spend days in the slammer as is commonly meted out to soldiers who make this type of mistake of non-recognition which is later publicized in the media. Hopefully, young soldiers will learn to be attentive to the faces of national personalities. MB
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Elite IDF Soldier Killed [Two Others Wounded] as Troops are Ambushed in the Gaza Strip
Soldier killed in Gaza is 21-year-old Staff Sgt. Bisan Sayef
IDF Soldiers Attacked Near Nachal Oz [in Negev]
IDF Operates Against Terrorists Near Former Gush Katif Towns, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
IDF Kills One Gaza Terrorist; Arrests Ten, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
For those who had any doubts about the Shas party’s lack of spiritual connection to Jerusalem or anything not directly connected to Shas pockets, their latest spokesman, Communications Minister Ariel Attias has already kissed off Yehuda and the Shomron as what Shas “was not created for,” now dispells all doubts;
“If there is progress in the negotiations about the [whole] country, and not just Jerusalem, that would cause the party to leave the government.”
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Commentary;
It is reported that the IDF has been collecting military-issued weapons in possession of residents of Binyamin region in Yesha, “including weapons that were in the possession of IDF officers.”
About this, Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA wrote the following;
In the next days we will know if this move is the action of some low level person in the IDF or a cynical move being directed from the Olmert team to turn the screws on the settlers to help make their lives more miserable in the hopes that they will get the message and start packing.
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Kassam Rocket Fired From Gaza Lands in Western Negev; None Hurt
Border Police Bust Israeli-Arab Smuggling Illegals
IDF Troops Arrest 17 Palestinian Fugitives in Night-Time Ops
Murder Suspected in Tel Aviv: 30-Year-Old Man Found With Throat Slit
Related report; Hamas: We Killed a Zionist Settler in Occupied Tel Aviv
Commentary;
Truth or Hamas opportunism? Will we ever know? MB
4 Israeli Cars Damaged After Pelted by Stones Near Kalkilya
Erekat: Olmert to Grant Amnesty to 10,000 Arab Illegal Aliens, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
Despite the increasing blatancy of the Olmert Regime’s division of Jerusalem, Shas remains in the government. Quite frankly, one must doubt that they would even make good their most recent empty “threat” to leave the government over bakeries selling and restaurants serviing Hametz during Pesach. The Shas party and its leadership have shown themselves to be a shallow, external appearing “religious” party, totally lacking ANY Jewish principles or values. One Gentile blogger looking at Shas’ hypocrisy has a point; They are pathetic. MB
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Three Kassam Rockets Launched From Gaza Into Israel Overnight
IDF Kills 4 Terrorists in Gaza Strip
IDF, Terrorists Clash in Northern Gaza
Three Mortar Shells Fired from Gaza Land in Western Negev; No Casualties
IDF Arrests 10 Wanted Terrorists [in and Near Kalkilya, in Bethlehem, and in Halhul west of Hevron]
IDF Discovers Two Explosive Devices Near Nablus [Shechem]; None Wounded
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As our Parsha Metzora is normally, in most years, the twilight side of a Torah doubleheader parsha, a few points of discussion from last week, the individual’s Tzara’as extrapolated onto national ills needs further examination.
Last week, the Parsha Shevua on Parsha Tazria spoke to the unity which is the very essence of the Kohan.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin in “Growth Through Torah” (page 253) cites the Rabbi of Alexander who cites as the reason why, when one suspected an affliction with Tzara’as, that he must go to Aharon, the Kohen and
not to a scholar, a Talmud Chacham;