Wednesday War News…

Report: IDF Performs Security Checks in South Lebanon

Excerpt;
“IDF soldiers arrived in three jeeps and a tank, stationing themselves on a main road where they stopped cars and checked the drivers…. and had performed a similar operation on Tuesday.”

Palestinians Throw Stones at Bus in Hebron

IDF Arrests Al-Aksa Fugitive Near Ramallah

Troops Allowed to Shoot Hizbullah Stone-Throwers

Excerpts;
“The chief of staff told cabinet ministers that according to the IDF directive, troops were permitted to fire in the air and then at the legs of those hurling stones in their direction.”
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The Dangerous Delusions Israel’s Leaders: Why the IDF Was Unprepared…

The Real Reason that the IDF was Unprepared By Shmuel Katz (Jerusalem Post)

“But perhaps the worst blow to Israel’s security was the notion that giving the Arabs chunks of territory – and that unilaterally – would be a large step forward on the way to peace. That notion was exemplified by the abandonment of the Gaza Strip. This prospect was at once embraced by our media, which preached the defeatists’ slogan of ‘Land for Peace.’

As if to prove the provenance of peace, Ariel Sharon invited Egypt – in a careless breach of its peace treaty with Israel – to send troops into Sinai and thence to the border with Gaza, the so-called Philadelphi corridor.” read more

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What an Incompetent, Illiterate Defense Minster Wrought…

DM Peretz: PA Continues Attacks, Hizbullah Continues Arming, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)

Commentary;

Amir Peretz, easily THE most incompetent minister of defense in Israel’s modern history. If his handling of the war left any doubt of this fact, the excerpts below should more than squelch any doubts.
Read what
Barak of IRIS has to say about our OJT defense minister and what his illiteracy has wrought. MB

“MK Esterina Tratman suggested that Israel destroy PA infrastructure and ‘cut off all oxygen so that they cry ‘Mercy.’ Why should they have electricity if Shalit has not been returned? Where is our strength? Where is our logic?’ she asked.” read more

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Tuesday Night War News…

Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Israeli Car by Ramallah [Near Kfar Hizma, South of Ramallah]

Excerpt;
“No one was hurt, and the car was undamaged. IDF forces were sweeping the area.”

Israeli Lightly Wounded by Rocks in Hebron

Tunnels Uncovered Along Gaza’s Border with Egypt

Excerpts;

“Two underground tunnels along the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt were dug to smuggle weapons and other contraband. The tunnels was dug 25 meters underground and reached Egypt.

Since Israel pulled out of Gaza last summer, turning over control of the border to Egypt and the Palestinians, cross-border smuggling of weapons and explosives has increased considerably, the IDF says.” read more

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Yom Kippur 5767: Unity, Brachot and the Jews; Kohanim to Mankind — Revisited…

Yom Kippur 5767: Unity, Brachot and the Jews; Kohanim to Mankind — Revisited

By Moshe Burt

The Mussaf portion of any prayers; Yom Tov, Rosh Chodesh, Shabbos represent the essence, the main point of that day.

On Yom Kippur, the essence of the service, the ikar is the avodah of the Kohen Godol. So much so is this the case that the Mussaf service centers around the order of the Kohen Godol’s service in the Kodosh Kodoshim (the Holy of Holies in the Beit HaMikdash). The service includes all of the preparations which the Kohen Godol makes prior to the service, the clothing he must wear at each step of the avodah, the number of times that the Kohen must bathe himself prior to each change of clothing and before each step of his service, the drawing of lots determining which goat is for Hashem and which for The Mountain of Azazel (the goat designated by lot to bear the burden of death to rectify B’nai Yisrael’s sins) and more. And by virtue of our being Hashem’s “most favored nation”, The Kohen Godol is to the Jews a paradigm of Hashem’s blueprint of what the Jews are to represent to the other nations of Mankind. read more

Once Again, Arabs Travel Freely, Jews Restricted, This Time in the Old City…

Restrictions on Old City Jews During Ramadan, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

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With the onset of Ramadan (Moslem holy month) celebrations, the police have instructed Jews living on a main Old City thoroughfare not to traverse it between 8 and 10 PM in the coming weeks.

The Jews living in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City – 800 in number – were informed by the Jerusalem Police that they must not leave their homes without prior coordination during the evening hours. This, because of the expected large number of Moslem celebrants – including many hostile ones – returning from the Temple Mount at that time each night. read more

Amazing What the Israeli Foreign Ministry Can Do When it Wants to! Disgraceful How it Ignores Pollard!

Received this email from a friend in the US;

Subject: [bsaje] Isn’t it amazing what the Israeli Foreign Ministry can do when it wants to? Disgraceful how it ignores Pollard!

Israeli Spends Rosh Hashanah Eve in a US Jail

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An Israeli tourist who planned to spend the two-day Rosh Hashanah holiday with friends in the Washington, D.C. area was surprised when Maryland police placed him under arrest for photographing the Fort McHenry Tunnel along Interstate 95.

The interested tourist stopped for a few moments to photograph the tunnel but he apparently attracted the attention of a local resident who phoned police, reporting a man “looking suspicious — taking photos of the tunnel.” read more

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Tuesday War News…

Hizbullah Moving Rockets to Palestinian Camps, by Aaron Klein (World News Daily)

Excerpt;

Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.

The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority’s most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hizbullah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted ‘unusual activity’ in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons. read more

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Regime Still Not Fulfilling It’s Responsibilities to the Jews It Evicted…

Gov’t Yet to Begin Homebuilding for Some Gaza Evacuees

Absurd Statement of the Day;

“Sela administration head Zvia Shimon confirmed that construction has yet to begin on a single permanent house. However, Shimon questioned the timing of this report ‘since much progress had been made in recent months.'”

Full Text;

Twenty-three Gush Katif evacuee community leaders gathered on the eve of the New Year holiday for an urgent consultation, in light of what they claim is government “foot-dragging” in advancing permanent sites for their communities. read more

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As in Chevron, Israel’s Police: You Stand at Kotel as Long as We Allow and You Do As We Say, or Else…

Man Arrested for Blowing Shofar at Western Wall, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Commentary;

What does it take to get Jews fed up and fired up. Must this author keep repetitiously relating about the regime’s repeated harrassments and intimidations?

As with Chevron and other Jewish Holy Sites, Israel’s Police and Military: You Stand at Kotel as Long as We Allow and You Do As We Say, or Else…

Jews: Will you stand still while the Olmert regime decides that it’s illegal to blow Shofar at the Kotel? Just what does it take to get your backs up? MB read more

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