Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Shem Mishmuel brings a Rashi which discusses the unusual loshen — regalim (the word usually used to denote festivals) used in our Parsha Balak where Hashem brings the donkey to speak to Bila’am expressing; “What have I done to you, that you hit me these three times.” [1]
Shem Mishmuel brings Rashi quoting Chazal which notes: “These three times — it was a hint that he [Bila’am] wanted to uproot the Jewish nation, who celebrate three pilgrim festivals each year.” [2]
Just look at who Israel’s cabinet is funding with tax transfers and proposing to hold summit talks with;
Egypt’s Intel Chief Decided Hamas Takeover Served Cairo’s Interests (IMRA)
Excerpts;
Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman, Masha’al said Dahlan and his allies were working with Al Qaida-aligned groups to undermine Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The source quoted Masha’al as saying that Fatah was allowing Al Qaida to infiltrate the Sinai Peninsula to facilitate attacks on the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
Hamas: IDF Arrested ‘Kassam’ Founder Overnight
Excerpt;
“Aruri was released in March after serving 15 years in an Israeli prison.”
IDF Arrests Hamas Operative Near Ramallah
Senior Hamas Terrorist, Fatah Terrorists Arrested, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
Senior Hamas Terror-Operative Arrested, by IDF Spokesperson’s Office (IMRA)
Firefighters Battle 21 Blazes in Galilee
Excerpt;
“Police suspect that some of the fires may have been the result of [Arab??] arson.”
Two Years Later, Gush Katif Evacuees Still Need Housing, by Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)
This blogger received the email below from Dror Vanunu of Katifund regarding the current status of the expelled former Gush Katif residents;
For the past weeks we are witnessing the emergence of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their sowing of violence, despair and hatred among their own people.
From the ruins of our destroyed homes and synagogues they spit out their anger and cruelty to annihilate the State of Israel.
Commentary;
The well-meaning opinion writer below is engaging in wishful thinking and grabbing at straws — undoubtedly NOT something that the Freedom for Jonathan Pollard movement wants to be involved or associated with.
The writer himself revisits history in noting that Peres was [unelected] prime minister at the time of Pollard’s capture and encarceration.
Peres has a documented record of not letting the truth; his failures, i.e. his relationship with Arafat, his manipulation of Oslo upon the Jewish people, and the resultant abandonment of sizeable parts of Jewish land to the Arabs. He has never once admitted or been contrite for the error, the total folly of his ways, despite all of the loss of Jewish lives and the injuring and maiming of countless numbers of Jews.
Police Instructed to Use Force in [Amona] House Demolitions (Israeljustice.com)
Excerpts;
Israeli police underwent special training for an assault on thousands of protesters during the demolition of nine homes in a Jewish community in the West Bank in 2006.
A senior Israeli police officer testified that 1,300 troops were told to club, trample and gas protesters, most of them teenagers, who sought to block the demolition of nine unlicensed Jewish homes in Amona in February 2005 [2006]. The troops, who trained for up to four days, used clubs and horses to injure 300 protesters, some of them seriously, despite the assessment that resistance would be passive.
Report: IAF Training for Possible Strike Against Iran, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
IDF Arrests Three Terrorism Suspects [in Shechem]
Hamas ‘Preventing Gaza Rocket Attacks’
Excerpt;
“A Palestinian Authority Arab source told the paper Hamas does not want to fire missiles at Israel because it fears the Israeli response.”
Today’s gay march in Jerusalem was, B’H a bust. While litigants from both sides spent most of Wednesday and Thursday wrapped in Supreme Court petition arguments, there were many more police and many more religious counter-demonstrators than there were fruity marchers. And the Big Deal; it came down to a march of a several hundred yards. One of Ryan Howard’s well-struck blasts travels further than the length of the parade.
Haaretz reported on the parade route;
Fuad’s Stark Testimony (Opinion: Jerusalem Post)
Related report: Dichter to ‘Post’: Kadima Must Be Ready to Replace Olmert
“The ministers, evidently, were still caught up in the trauma of the IDF’s prolonged stay in south Lebanon’s security zone… Returning to the same areas would, at the very least, have constituted an admission of error and necessitated overcoming high psychological hurdles – both moves that the politicians involved feared taking upon themselves.”