Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Kassam Rocket Strikes Synagogue in Sderot; 1 Hurt
2 Kassam Rockets Strike Western Negev; No Wounded
The Growing Hamas-Al-Qaeda Connection – Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi (IMRA)
Weekly Commentary: Imperative to Prevent Spread Of Palestinian Chaos to West Bank, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
IAF Hits man Trying to Launch Kassam From Gaza
Six Killed as IAF Hammers Hamas Targets in Gaza Strip
Shin Bet Uncovers Plot to Kill Olmert, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Doctors Without Borders: “We would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time.”
Excerpts;
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago.
Two Wounded in Kassam Hits on Sderot [By 3 P.M., at least 13 Kassam Hits]
Constant Terror in Sderot, by Masha Rifkin (Jerusalem Post)
IDF Tanks Enter Gaza, Remain Near Fence
Netanyahu: Cut Off the Water and Power Supply to the Gaza Strip
Minister Ezra Says to Cut Electricity to Gaza [the First Semi-Intelligent Comment by Ezra in Years]
Report: Kassam Hits Four-Story Apartment in Sderot
Six Rockets Hit in the Past Hour
Kassams Land Near Kerem Shalom, No Injuries
Security Cabinet Authorizes ‘Harsh’ [sic] Response to Kassams
Report: IAF Air Strike Hits Hamas Vehicle in Gaza
Rockets Hit Western Negev, Cause Power Outage
Kassam Knocks Out Power in Parts of Sderot
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;