Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Gaza: IAF Air Strike Hits Hamas Training Center
IDF Strikes Hamas Post in Khan Younis
Palestinian Arrested in Possession of Explosives
2 Kassams Land Near Sderot, No Injuries
3 Kassam Rockets Land in Western Negev; No Injuries Reported
Kassam Rocket Hits Kibbutz, No Injuries
Friday Morning Kassams Burn Wheat Field
55 Illegal Entrants Arrested in Bnei Brak
Palestinians Open Fire on Troops South of Jenin
Troops Arrest Six Terror Suspects in West Bank
Israel To Sign $4 Billion Deal to Buy PA Gas
Related report:
FM Livni’s Office: Israel Wants to Conclude $4 Billion Purchase of Gaza Gas ASAP
Commentary:
This blog wrote about the Consequences of lack of a thorough, thought-through military plan. The same holds true for foreign, economic and enegy policy, i.e. negotiating with and ceding parts of Divine sovereign Jewish land to an enemy who craves our destruction. This gas deal with the PA is obviously fuel blackmail waiting to happen — turning off the pump to force further concessions. But Olmert, Livni and the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, as with their predessessors, lack the ability to think two or three steps ahead. MB
Molotov Cocktail Attacks in Hevron, Judea
Molotov Cocktail Attack in Shomron
Soldiers Arrest Terrorists in Shechem
Two Kassams Fired into Sderot; None Wounded
Kassam Rocket Strikes Western Negev; No Wounded
Report: IDF Targets Hamas Building in Gaza City
Kassam Fired at Sderot; None Wounded, Cars Damaged
2 Kassams, 1 Explodes Near Sderot Mayor’s Home
Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Sderot; None Wounded
IDF Arrests Senior Hamas Members in West Bank
2 IDF Soldiers Lightly Wounded at Dugit Ruins in Gush Katif
Over the Holiday: 5 Rockets, 2 IAF Strikes
IAF Bombs Money-Changing Offices that Funded Hamas
Related report: IDF Targets Businesses Transferring Funds to Terror Organizations
Two Kassams Fired Near Ashkelon and Sderot
Three Terror Rockets Hit Southern Israel
Arabs Shoot, Throw Bombs at IDF; Six Arrested
Think Again: The Sages and Winograd, by Jonathan Rosenblum (Jerusalem Post)
Commentary;
With Chag Shavuot coming tonight, Jonathan Rosenblum’s column adds a spiritual dimension to our current national crises.
There was a time in recent history, in Israel’s previous wars, where the IDF had the capacity to plan ahead, to plan not only the battle at hand, but to see the implications of the battle at hand and to plan two or three steps ahead and yet to improvise — or in NFL terminology; to “audible at the line of scrimmage.”
3 Kassams Hit West Negev; No Casualties Reported
Israel Braces for Rockets on Ashkelon and Beersheba
Sneh: There are No Quick and Easy Solutions
Excerpt;
“Sneh stated, ‘We are fighting this war with our heads, not our hearts, and we are doing all that needs to be done, everything in their proper proportions.’”We’ll Attack Israel from West Bank
With Shavuot always being during the week of Shabbos Parsha Naso, there are various common threads between Shabbos Parsha Naso Chag HaShavuos. One such thread is the importance of caring for the Ger Tzeddik.
Near the beginning of Parsha Naso, Hashem speaks to Moshe telling him to speak to the B’nai Yisrael as follows; “… A man or woman who commits any of man’s sins, by committing treachery toward Hashem.” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 5, posuk 6) Rav Zelig Pliskin, in his sefer “Growth Through Torah,” attributes to Sforno comments to the effect that “… this refers to one who steals from a convert to Judaism.”
Kassam Rockets Land in Sderot Commercial Center
Kassam Lands in West Negev; No Casualties or Damage
Greenhouses Damaged by Rocket Attack in West Negev
Al-Aksa Rerror Suspect Arrested in Nablus
Palestinians: Two Killed in IAF Strike in Jebalya
IAF Guns Down Four Jihad Operatives
3 Kassam Rockets Hit West Negev; No Casualties
Related story: More IAF Air Strikes in Gaza, More Kassam Attacks on Sderot
BS”D
The Sefer Torah Recyling Network, headed by Moshe Burt of Bet Shemesh, has been zocheh to place another Sefer Torah, this time in Yishuv Adura in Har Hevron.
For context on Me’ir Sheetrit, click here.
Excerpts;
At the weekly Cabinet meeting, Housing and Construction Minister Meir Sheetrit denounced an offer by Russian-born Israeli business tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak to provide fortification for 1,300 housing units in Sderot, calling the idea “ridiculous.”
Minister Sheetrit had equally disparaging words for complaints by residents of the rocket-battered city who have accused the government of neglecting to repair, upgrade and increase the number of bomb shelters in the western Negev town.