Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
The Lessons of Joseph’s Tomb, by Arlene Kushner (Israel National News)
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“The memory of what was done to Joseph’s Tomb is especially bitter in the face of current fallacious and deliberately inflammatory Islamic claims that we are threatening their holy sites by re-building a bridge to the Mughrabi Gate on the Temple Mount. While all work is being done outside of the Mount, their inciteful cry is that Israeli efforts threaten the Al-Aksa Mosque.”
Paz-Pines: Olmert Weakening Rule of Law, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post]
Excerpts;
Labor leadership candidate Ophir Paz-Pines launched his campaign on Wednesday by accusing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of being corrupt, Defense Minister Amir Peretz of causing damage and his party of being “addicted to power.”
“Olmert saying that he had no agenda was one of the worst things a prime minister has ever said, especially at a time when mothers are sending their children to war,” Paz-Pines said, referring to a statement Olmert made in September.
IDF Troops Arrest Hamas Fugitive in Hebron
Police Arrest Illegals in Gadera
Police to Restrict Access to Temple Mount Again
Arabs Attack Israeli Vehicles [South of Shechem]
Two Molotov Cocktails Thrown at Car Near Nablus [Shechem]
Bomb thrown at IDF in Hebron; none wounded
Report: IAF Fighter Helicopters Fly Low Over Gaza
IDF Shoots, Wounds [Suspicious] Palestinian Near Gaza Fence
Rock Attack in Hebron Hills, Damage but No Injuries
Bowing to the Enemy, by Paula R. Stern (Israel National News)
“There can be no future for the ghetto Jew. With our backs to the wall and the enemy at the gates, the ghetto was a haven, a place in which our only hope was to survive today. There was no tomorrow in the ghetto, no future beyond the moment.”
If we Jews learn only one lesson about our relations with other religions and nations from the Holocaust, it must be that there can be no future for the ghetto Jew. With our backs to the wall and the enemy at the gates, the ghetto was a haven, a place in which our only hope was to survive today. There was no tomorrow in the ghetto, no future beyond the moment.
Sinai, Jerusalem Attacks Prevented
IDF Troops Arrest Tanzim Fugitive in Ramallah
Molotovs Hurled at Jeep, Car in Judea and Samaria
Molotov Cocktail Hurled at Israeli Car; None Hurt
“Massive” Rock Attack South of Jerusalem
Rocks Damage Israeli Car Near Shechem
IDF Detonates Hezbollah Bunker Near Security Fence
Report: Lebanese Army Fires at Low-Flying IAF Planes
IDF Blows Up Hezbollah Border Tunnel
Fatah Terrorist Branch Fired Three Rockets, No Injuries
Related Report: Kassam hits West Negev; Another Reported in Ashkelon
Safeguarding Jerusalem, by Yehuda Ben Meir (Haaretz)
Excerpts;
It’s become very clear that the clash over the construction work near the Mugrabi Gate is not a struggle against the archaeological excavations or the construction of a bridge, but part of a broader campaign for the control of Jerusalem. After all, this construction work has no connection to the Al-Aqsa Mosque nor any effect on it.
Indeed, even among some of the Arab MKs – those same leaders mobilizing the war and the incitement against the construction – there were those who admitted, some through winks and nods and others more directly, that whether the work really threatens the mosque does not matter. In their view, Israel has no sovereignty in the Old City and has no right to carry out any sort of construction work in the Temple Mount environs.
Our World: More Than a Few Rotten Apples, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
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Excerpts:
“The mafia brings people into the police and they act as [the mafia’s] servants…The people in the police are afraid of nothing. A person who can take a half-a-million shekels inside a police station and not report it is someone who couldn’t care less and fears nothing. A police like this cannot endure.”
Thus spoke retired district judge Vardi Zeiler Sunday morning. Zeiler’s indictment of the police came as he presented the findings of the state commission he led which investigated allegations of police and prosecutorial mishandling of organized crime investigations and of police collusion with the Perinian crime family.
MENL: Egypt Becomes Leading Source of Fatah Weapons
IDF: Arms Being Smuggled to Hezbollah on Weekly Basis
TA on High Security Alert Following Infiltration
Related Story: Security Forces Prevent Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv
Anti-Tank Missile Fired at IDF Near Gaza Fence
Palestinians Shoot Israeli Near Fence in Ramallah
Stabbing Attack Foiled in Gush Etzion
Terrorists Shoot at IDF [Near Shechem], No Injuries
It seems to this author that each Parsha in Torah carries with it a major theme, attribute or mido.
The two previous Parshiyot; Yithro and Mishpatim speak about related attributes; intent and honesty and our Parsha, Terumah addresses motivation.
In previous years, the Parsha sheet for Parsha Teruma dealt with man’s motivations equating them with what drives the athlete in the beginning, or as we baseball fans say, in the “Big Inning”. And as has been done regarding other Parshiyot, this year another revisit of the motivation of men seems appropriate.
Happy Apartheid Week, by David Wilder (Israel National News)
For context, read this related post.
“In all actuality, they* don’t give a damn about the 10,000 Jews expelled from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Their plea has nothing to do with humanity. The reason behind their unusual demand is totally political… As published in Haaretz newspaper, ‘the current neglect of the evacuees from Gush Katif [Gaza’s main settlement bloc] is likely to erode the state’s legitimacy should it decide to carry out a similar process in the future.'”