Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Column One, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“The report’s concentration on the personal failures of the three men serves mainly to strengthen the Left’s push to place all the blame for the war’s dismal outcome on the personal incompetence of Israel’s leaders. This it does by deliberately ignoring the ideological and cognitive failure of the government and the Israeli establishment as a whole. It was this failure that led to the war and to its dismal outcome.”
Homesh: ‘A Settlement Renewal Point’, by Matthew Wagner (Jerusalem Post)
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With the Israeli public’s morale at an all-time low, now is the time to launch a new bid for increased settlement activity in Judea and Samaria, with Homesh as a rallying point, Benny Katzover, former chairman of the Samaria Regional Council and a founder of Gush Emunim, said Thursday.
A huge demonstration at Homesh, one of four northern Samaria settlements evacuated during disengagement in August 2005, was being planned for this summer, when high schools and yeshivot are on vacation, said Katzover. He said he was lending his rich experience in settlement activism to the younger generation of settlement leaders.
‘I Have Set Before You Life and Death’, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
“Due mainly to our own government’s continued silence – the world has come to view bombarding Israeli towns with missiles as unexceptionable behavior.”
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The events of the past two weeks alone are enough to understand why many people thought that this year’s Independence Day took place under a cloud.
Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson suspended himself due to a criminal investigation for embezzlement; the state comptroller published a blistering report about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s influence-
peddling in his former role as industry minister; the attorney-general considered opening two additional criminal cases against Olmert; the Knesset extended President Moshe Katsav’s leave due to a draft indictment for rape; and the Winograd Committee published its damning interim report on the failures of last summer’s Lebanon War.
Explosive Thrown at IDF Soldiers in Nablus [Shechem]
Aksa Threatens to Attack Targets Abroad
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“The Fatah-affiliated group said in a statement that its members would act against the US and any other country cooperating in the boycott.”
Arabs Uproot Sde Boaz Vines Again, Attack Jews
2 Palestinians Arrested on Suspicions They Uprooted Seedlings
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“The purpose of the moat would be to force weapons smugglers to tunnel deeper and longer, which would be more difficult and make it easier for the IDF to detect.”
Special Knesset Session: Likud, Labor, UTJ Say Olmert Must Go, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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How Does the Regime Divide, Conquer, Expel and Persecute Jews?
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“Yaakov Cohen of United Torah Judaism said the present government has no Divine Providence or luck, because it abandoned the home front during and since the war:
“…The government has failed in all aspects. It has no Divine help – and the reason is because it abandoned the children and the needy. The Prime Minister’s decision are not made based on what is good for the people, but rather on what his strategic public relations consultants say…”
New Aid Package Falls Short, by “G. Katif” (Israel National News)
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500,000 Million NIS for Former GK Residents a Start, But There’s A LONG WAY to Go
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Gush Katif expellees trying to pick up the pieces.
Recently, it was reported that the Israeli government approved 500 million additional shekels in compensation for Gush Katif expellees. There were several reports in the press detailing the distribution of monies to individual families.
According to a recent pamphlet compiled by involved Knesset members, the amounts of money to be given to expelled families have been exaggerated in the press.
Court Awards Amona Brutality Victim $61,500
For Related reports on Police Violence and Brutality at Amona, click here.
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A Netanya district court judge has awarded 250,000 shekels ($61,500) to a victim of police brutality at the demolition of houses in Amona last year. The award was given by default after the state prosecutor did not present a defense.
Daniel Maman, who was expelled almost two years from the Gush Katif community of Netzer Hazani, filed the suit after mounted police clubbed him and continued to hit him after he fell to the ground. He suffered a crushed jaw and bruises on most of his body.
Israeli Envoy: Syrian Build-up – the Strongest Since 1973 War
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“‘We see Syria developing a very serious threat on the northern border,’ Ambassador Sallai Meridor told journalists in Washington on Wednesday. He said the threat is manifest in military activity, training, great investments in military equipment – and the build-up of a large arsenal of Scud missiles.”
“‘We are concerned that they might think that with a large arsenal of rockets that can reach everywhere in Israel, they have the capacity… to threaten us.'”
Ex-CIA Chief: I Prevented Pollard Deal in 1998, by Gil Ronen
Malcolm: What About Jonathan Pollard?
How Former CIA Chief Foiled Pollard’s Release, Yitzhak Benhorin (Ynet)
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Former CIA chief George Tenet claims, in a new book, that he was the person who prevented the release of Jonathan Pollard during the Wye Plantation talks in October of 1998. The talks, between then-Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu and then-head of the Palestinian Authority Yasir Arafat, were brokered by President Bill Clinton and focused on an Israeli withdrawal from most of the biblical city of Hevron.
Kadima Rebellion Against Olmert Gathers Pace, By Gil Hoffman and Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post)
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An effort inside Kadima to overthrow the party’s chairman, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, began to snowball Tuesday as more and more MKs said privately that Olmert would soon have no choice but to resign.
Amid reports that Olmert himself does not know whether he will survive, his main Kadima rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, is expected to make a statement about Olmert in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting that could decide whether the opposition to the prime minister will escalate into full-scale rebellion.