Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
PA Rockets Hit Sderot Homes, Three Civilians Badly Injured
Air Force Strikes Open Fields at Gaza
Mother, Son Wounded by Kassam in Sderot
Not Clear if Direct Hit on Sderot home Seriously Wounding Woman Will Change Policy, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Peretz Makes No Decision to Defend the South
U.S. Assures PA That Iarael Won’t Invade Gaza
2 More Kassams Fired From Gaza, No Injuries Reported
PM: ‘We’re Ready to Invite Arab Leaders Without Preconditions’ (Jerusalem Post Staff)
Olmert: “‘If Hamas agrees to abide by the Quartet’s conditions we will agree to sit with them around the negotiating table'”
Full Text:
“We are ready to come and to invite” Arab leaders “without preconditions from us or their side,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters Tuesday after arriving in Petra for talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, expressing Israel’s readiness to discuss the Arab peace initiative and find ways to implement the plan.
Our World: Tolerating Hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
For related reports, click here and here.
“After Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski attacked the US and EU boycott, ….Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stuttered that Israel’s connection to Jerusalem is “indivisible.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said nothing.”
Excerpts;
This week, the EU supplemented its NGOs’ work to divide the capital by announcing its boycott of Wednesday’s Knesset ceremony celebrating Jerusalem’s liberation. The US also loudly absented itself from the ceremony.
Molotov Cocktail Attack Near Hevron
Peretz Makes No Decision to Defend the South
Related report: U.S. Assures PA That Iarael Won’t Invade Gaza
Three Mortar Shells Fired at Western Negev
[With Israeli Gov’t Approval] 450 Trained Fatah Men Admitted Through Rafiah
IDF Fires at Two Palestinians Seen Approaching Gaza Fence
Palestinians Fire Mortars at IDF Troops
Israeli Wounded by Stones Thrown South of Hebron
IDF Forces Drawn into Palestinian Infighting
IDF Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian in Jenin
Call this a “Best of.” The points included in this Parsha HaShevua are timely and bare repeating.
Our Parsha Bamidbar, once getting past the numbers crunching of the census, speaks of Degalim: the flags of the Sh’vatim (Tribes), as a paradigm of Unity whch is inclusive of diversity within the various components, all of which play essential roles within a collective unity. Within a unity, there is room for integration and cooperation of diverse individual and group attributes, skills, strong points and actions when channeled toward the common goals of Unity, i.e. the common goals of B’nai Yisrael.
Air Show at Tabuk Reminds Israelis Not to Rely on US Assurances of Deployment limits on Weapons to Saudis, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Commentary;
Remember the US sale of F-15S fighter-jets to Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s? Look at where the Saudis have deployed them; in the Saudi base of Tabuk, located just over 150 kilometers from Israel’s port city of Eilat.
The US, it seems, has NEVER once protested that the deployment violates U.S. export terms of 1978.
Yesterday, to quote from IMRA archives;
Itzik Criticized for Inviting Ambassadors to Jerusalem Anniversary
by Barak Ravid and Shachar Ilan (Haaretz)
Excerpts;
After several leading foreign ambassadors refused an invitation to a Knesset event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification, some Knesset members criticized Speaker Dalia Itzik for having invited them in the first place.
“Not a single country recognizes the unification of Jerusalem,” noted Labor MK Colette Avital, who heads the house’s Jerusalem caucus. “It was clear that the ambassadors would not come, so [Itzik] should not have invited them, thereby causing this embarrassment.”
Kassam Rocket Sets Fire to Wheat Field; None Hurt
IDF Arrests 4 Islamic Activists Near Jenin
Police Catch Islamic Jihad Member, 3 More Suspects
Palestinians Attack IDF Bulldozer Near Gaza Fence
Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Car; None Hurt
Palestinians With Knives Detained in Hebron
Kassam Rocket Misses Sderot, Lands in Northern Gaza
[Arab] Rock Throwing Attacks Hit Bus, Car
IDF Troops Arrest 10 Palestinian Fugitives
Palestinian Shot Trying to Steal Guard’s Weapon [Security Guard in Barkon Ind. Park]
Lupolianski Blasts Envoys for Jerusalem Day Boycott, by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)
Mayor Blasts Diplomats for Shunning Jerusalem Day Event
US, Europe to Shun Jerusalem Day Celebrations
Temple Mount Activists: Rejection of Jerusalem is Result of Weak Government [for 40 Years]
Excerpts;
“Anyone who doesn’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel does not recognize the state of Israel,” Lupolianski said in a statement.
He added that Israel needed to send out an unequivocal message to the world, and not capitulate on this issue.
Another Tack: No Elevator for Tzipi, by Sarah Honig (Jerusalem Post)
“In essence Tzipi is everything Olmert is – only lots worse.”
Excerpts;
Tzipi didn’t make her way up the Likud hierarchy via the sluggish party headquarters elevator. So much more politically adept than her father, and unencumbered by his articles of faith, she soared to the top through expedient attachment to the highfliers’ coattails.
An unremarkable backbencher, she conveniently became Ariel Sharon’s earliest pro-disengagement groupie. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Her effective speaking style – unfailingly sanctimonious and fortified by yuppie business-like, authoritative-sounding cadences – served him well. Concomitantly, the spotlight he offered her catapulted anonymous Tzipi to prominence ahead of all those crowding into the Likud’s groaning rusty elevator.