Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Five Kassams Fired From Gaza; No Wounded Reported
Censor Bans Reporting Exact Sites of Rocket Attacks
Excerpt;
“IDF censors have banned the immediate reporting of exact locations of rocket attacks because the latest missiles are more accurate and contain more destructive warheads than Kassams.”
Over 70 Trucks Laden With Humanitarian Aid [and Whatever Other Smuggled Contraband] Cross Into Gaza
Three Kassam rockets Launched From Gaza Hit Israel; No Casualties
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Commentary;
The repeated saber-rattling of the Olmert-Livni-Barak regime has long-since passed way beyond embarrassing. Each episode of saber-rattling, of talking the talk, is inevitably followed shortly thereafter by these incompetent, self-serving political hacks backing down out of fear, intimidation by, and subserviance to the superpower. Without a belief-based rooting, these irreligious so-called “leaders” are thus disabused of “walking the walk.”
And so what results is, as with the Lebanon conflict, a hodge-podge, hit-or-miss set of aims and goals far beneath TOTAL Victory and vanquishment of the enemy sworn to vanquish and decimate us. As this blog has repeatedly noted, the goal of the regime is to bring international forces to Gaza, as with Lebanon. And, as any thinking person knows; international “peacekeeping” forces lack total credibility based on past record.
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IDF Kills Gaza Islamic Jihad Commander
IDF Strikes Kassam Squad in North Gaza
IDF in Khan Yunis, Three Terrorists Hit
Two Kassam Rockets Land in Western Negev; No Casualties or Damage Reported
IDF Troops Clash with Gunmen in Central Gaza
2 Kassam Rockets Fired at Sderot
Two Kassam Rockets Hit Ashkelon Area; None Wounded
Police Stop Islamic Work on Temple Mount
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Officers blocked workers from continuing unauthorized “surfacing work,” said Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco. “It is our duty to ensure that the status quo is maintained on the Temple Mount.” He said Wakf officials had planned to carry out the work as a result of the tensions in east Jerusalem over the recent violence in the Gaza Strip and that the unusual police intervention sparked opposition on the holy site.
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Commentary;
This author finds the logic of government officials and that of many Israelis incredible in it’s abject and profane absurdity.
That officials such as Pensioners’ Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, the former intelligence official who rolled over on Janathan Pollard (one of the main reasons why Pollard remains incarcerated), can consider rolling back time to the days of UN Mandates which are breakable by the Arabs is insane and absurd.
If one has selective amnesia concerning the broken UN Emergency force mandate which was put in place as a result of Sinai campaign, one surely ought to be able to intellectualize the realization of the flawed Lebanon peacekeeping mission under whose noses Hezbollah has amassed 30,000 rockets and scream bloody murder at a regime which defines victory in a way which is not victory and who sets goals of “winning,” be it in Lebanon or in Gaza, as the one-sided placement of multi-national forces. MB
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Two Kassams, Two Mortars Launched From Gaza; No Casualties
Israel Opens Crossings to Allow Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
Miracle in Sderot: Kassam Destroys Empty House
Peretz: IDF Should Fire at Homes Wsed to Launch Rockets
Commentary;
Big talk from citizen Peretz. Where was this doctrine when he was defewnse minister? And why should Israel then leave itself defenseless “against rockets launched from schools?” MB
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Commentary;
A number of years ago when the legal aide organization Honenu came into existence, their front page showed the picture of a screaming, hysterical woman and the words, “If You’re Alive, You Must be Guilty!”
That simple picture, despite growth of Honenu’s legal services on behalf of Jews who have been incarcerated and imprisoned for defending themselves against Arab terror or for oppposition to regime in power, Arab lynch mobs or perceived imminent body threat to their being, remains indelibly sealed in this author’s minds-eye.
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Grad Attacks [on Ashkelon] Continue
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“Grad missile slammed into the seventh floor of an apartment building in central Ashkelon on Monday morning. Another two Grads hit the city, one landing near a kindergarten. 16 people were treated for shock after the morning attack.”
150 Teacher Soldiers Sent to Ashkelon [to Assist in the Schools During Emergencies.]
Four Rocket Attacks, No Injuries
IDF Fires at Kassam Launchers in Gaza
Two Rockets Land in Sderot; House Hit, None Wounded
IDF Troops Complete First Stage of Operation Hot Winter, leave Gaza
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Our Parsha Pekudei begins; “These are the accounts of the Mishkan (the Sanctuary), the Mishkan of testimony, which were drawn up on Moshe’s orders …” (Shemos, Perek 38, posuk 21 — Metsudah Linear Chumash, page 579).
In short, Pekudei is the accountant’s parsha, the parsha of crunching the numbers.
The Sefer L’lmod U’Lamed (Parsha Pekudei, pages 97-98) asks what the primary reason was for Moshe’s detailed accounting of the costs of the construction of the Mishkan. The Sages tell that “there were apparently some who suspected that Moshe might have keep some … contributions for his own use.” (L’lmod U’Lamed, page 98).
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Commentary;
Just short of two weeks ago, this blog questioned the Olmert Regime’s apparent goals, third party insertion of multinational forces rather than total victory — eradication of rocket attacks, weapons smuggling and terror, in a Gaza conflict with the Hamas sector of the Pa. Why the phraseology; Hamas sector of the Pa? Because, in the final analysis, all segments of the Pa. are unified as to the same end — the destruction and eradication of the Jews.
Further indications that this is so is found both in Dr. Aaron Lerner’s commentary below and Calev Ben David’s piece, “Deja` Vu for Olmert?” as well as the related article and commentary below.
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Attacks Widen: Netivot [Hit by Improved Kassam-type Rocket], Psagot and Jerusalem [Gilo] Under Fire, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
IAF Hits 7 Targets in Overnight Strikes
Six IDF Attacks [on Weapons Factories, Warehouses] in Gaza Since Midnight
Terrorist Hit by IDF Fire While Trying to Plant Bomb near Gaza Fence
Barak: Israel Must Prepare for Possible Gaza Escalation
Excerpt;
“‘We will continue our action with all our strength and we need to prepare for escalation, because a broad ground operation is real and tangible,’ Barak told Israel Radio.”