Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Three Kassam Rockets Land in Sderot Area; None Wounded
Fourth Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded
3 Kassam Rockets Land in West Negev; No Casualties or Damage Reported
Terrorists Again Attack at Patriarchs’ Cave [Ma’arat HaMachpelah]
IDF Arrests 24 Wanted Terrorists [in Tulkarem, Ramallah]
Army Arrests Two Hamas Legislators [Near Ramallah, Bethlehem]
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In last week’s Parsha Toldos, we learned about Rivka, who rose above an evil environment while internalizing it’s insights and was thus well positioned to urge Yaakov to claim the Bracha, and about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”. We learn that Yaakov was “totally honest, a man of great integrity”, who was master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery, but he did not allow this character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise.” These traits surely seemed inculcated to Yaakov from Rivka Imeinu’s nurturing.
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Manhigut Yehudit’s Moshe Feiglin devoted an entire piece, The Druze Got the Picture, to the recent pogrom perpetrated by the Druse in the Galilee village of Peki’in and the true, underlying reasons for the attacks.
No, it’s not about a cellular phone antenna. And it’s not about either a real or perceived Internet slur by a Christian of his Druse schoolmate. It’s about larger Druse perceptions, as Feiglin put it;
The Israeli culture of betrayal… the atmosphere of betrayal mocks them. ‘The Israelis are here only temporarily, they bow down to any and every display of Arab nationalism, they have betrayed their own identity and their own land. Deep down, the Israelis think that the Arab claims on the Land are just…. Even though you have established a covenant of blood with them, you do not merit the same respect that the Arabs receive from the Israelis. The Israelis despise themselves. So how do you expect them to relate to those who join them? They call the Arabs who help them ‘stinkers,’ not allies. Do you really think that they will not betray you as well?”
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Two Kassams Fired at Western Negev; No Casualties or Damage Reported
Kassam Hit Causes Fire in Kibbutz Dairy
Six Cows Killed by Kassam Rocket
Kassams Land Near Sderot; IDF Strikes Launchers
Barak, Backed by Justice Minister, To Cut Power to Gaza
Judea: Rock Attack on Car, Soldier Lightly Wounded
Rock Attacks on Israeli Cars Near Hevron
Givati Nabs Knife-Wielding Arab
Arabs Vandalize Jewish Olive Trees and Vineyards
Two Youths From Majd el-Kurum Suspected of Throwing Rocks at Police Car
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2 Kassam Rockets Land in Sderot; No Injuries
15 Mortars Fired at Israel on Sabbath
IDF Troops Shoot Two Palestinians Near Gaza Security Fence
Bomb Detonates Near the Security Fence, Damaging it; No Casualties
IDF Fires at Man Trying to Infiltrate Israel on Lebanon Border
IDF Nabs Second Lebanese Man Who Infiltrated Israel
Six Arabs Arrested for Rape of Jewish Girl
Shots Fired at IDF Troops on Patrol [Balata Refugee Camp] in Nablus [Shechem]
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Commentary;
The commentary below by Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA cites Jewish law simply and succinctly but in a way in which Israel’s leaders have never had the psychological stength, assuredness and connection to Hashem and Torah to assert.
This appalling concession by successive Israeli governments subsequent to the Six Day War; the acceptance and toleration of humans’, of Islamics’ having free access to the Holy of Holies – a place only entered once a year by the High Priest on Yom Kippur to pray for forgiveness for the people’s sins, is a desecration of Hashem’s name of massive, unimaginable proportions. And it is a concession which no other sovereign nation, no other people would have such a collectively low self-esteem as to make.
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Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev, No Injuries
IDF Arrests Nine Wanted Terrorists [in Shechem]
Commentary;
Once again, the regime’s censors are hard at work spinning all as peaches and cream after bogus “PA (sic) pledge” to ‘disband terrorist groups’ before statehood.
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Commentary;
Forgetting for a moment the halachic and social ramifications of expelling Jewish brothren from their homes, neighbrhoods, Shuls and workplaces (none of which Ben Eliezer makes reference to), when Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer states; “I admit and confess… we erred, we made a very big mistake,” can one logically view this statement and wonder why Ben Eliezer’s apparent logic doesn’t seem to extend current dealings with Abbas and to dealing with the Annapolis conference?
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Commentary;
With the omission of one little word, IDF Chief Gabi Ashkenazi queered an entire pledge. And it’s little wonder. For the inclusion of this one little word in Ashkenazi’s proclamation, in the presence of President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, etc., would have undoubtedly resulted in his termination.
“We will continue to do whatever we can to ensure that Jerusalem will forever remain the capital of Israel.”
That one little word which denotes and sums up Divine Jewish legacy and exclusivity is >undivided. MB
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2 Kassams Strike Open Areas in West Negev; No Wounded Reported
2 Kassam Rockets Land in Sderot
Two Kassams Land Near Sderot; No Casualties or Damage Reported
IAF Head: Terrorists Use Public as Human Shield
Excerpts;
The blame lies with terrorists, he said, ‘who continue to do everything possible in order to assimilate into the civilian population and use it as a human shield.”
Approximately half of the terrorists who are killed are killed in IAF attacks, he said. The terrorists often fire rockets from school courtyards and other public areas.