Author: moshe

Israel, From the Mediterranean to the Jordan?

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” … All parties are prepared to withdraw to varying degrees and on different preconditions. In effect, Labour and Kadima accept the two-state solution as envisioned by the Roadmap and Likud is paying lip service to it because its preconditions are unlikely to be fulfilled.”

“The desire to withdraw is driven by a widely disseminated demographic myth that the Arabs outnumber Jews west of the Jordan. Most people are unaware of a Demographic Study completed this year which concluded that there are only 1.4 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria of which it is estimated between 100,000 and 300,000 have already infiltrated into Israel. If Israel were to annex these territories, the Jews would constitute 67% of the combined population. This is a percentage that has remained constant since ’67.” read more

Hanegbi: Likud Must Examine its Errors

Excerpt:

“His comments in an Army Radio interview came in response to recent public opinion polls indicating a sharp decline in support for Likud following the establishment of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new party Kadima.”

While Hanegbi is examining Likud’s “errors” which have caused the erosion of support, he might try a little self-examination as to why he repeatedly and arrogantly evaded receiving Nadia Matar’s petitions with hundreds of thousands of names against a pa terror state. He might want to self-examine his mainly arrogant general demeanor. read more

IDF Arrests Seven Terrorists in the West Bank

Zaka: Land Mine Detonated Under IDF Vehicle

Kassam Rocket Fired at Negev; IDF Fires Artillery

Rocket Lands Near Nahal Oz Without Injuries

Terrorists Wounded by IDF Gunfire in Shechem

Bomb Attack North of Efrat

Parsha Toldos 5766 — To Rise Above the Norm
By, Moshe Burt

The Israeli political scene at present resembles a Free Agency Market. It’s talents or shall we say, bounty-hunters are for hire to the highest bidder, and represent the likes of which would make America’s sports Free Agency look lame by comparison.

Forget Major League Baseball’s rush for “Closers”(the guy to pitch the 8th and or 9th innings and hold a lead) — Wagner $43 Million for 4 years, B.J. Ryan $47 Million 5 years, etc. read more

The Effete Left’s Paradigm of Hatred for Yiddishkiet … MB

Tarred With the Brush of Extremism

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“New ideological groups, especially if characterized by religious fundamentalism and political radicalism, naturally draw public, media and academic fire. But we have to keep a sense of proportion when assessing the size of such groups and the extent of their influence.”

“That rule has not been observed with respect to religious Zionism. Instead, individual instances of extremist behavior are immediately projected onto an entire community. Every report of a voodoo-like ‘pulsa denura’ ceremony, of the construction of a hut on a remote hilltop, of the destruction of olive trees or of the violent obstruction of highway traffic immediately becomes an excuse for sweeping generalizations. In the public and academic discourse all settlers, and even all religious Zionists, are branded as deviants. In the process, the color orange is transmuted into a giant stain on the national-Zionist community as a whole.” read more

Kassam Rocket Attacks Resume; No Injuries

IDF: Fatah Has Mortar Shell Capacity

IDF: Fatah Has Mortar Shell Capacity [in YESHa]

Security Arrangements in Beilin’s Geneva Accord Stricter Than What Sharon Accepted

A few days ago, this appeared on Ynet, as well as ion other English-language News sites; Rabbi: Disengage From State.

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“A prominent Jewish messianist has called for religious Jews to disengage from the State of Israel due to the evacuation of Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip last summer.”

“In a new book entitled ‘Between Light and Darkness,’ Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, a leader of the Chabad Chassidic sect that believes its Chief Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the messiah, says religious Jews should view the secular government as an “administrative body, like the British government who controlled Israel before the country’s establishment.” read more

4 Facts About the Current State of Gush Katif Refugees

Likud Legal Advisor Kicked Out of Party for Aiding Rival Kadima

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“In a first ever move, the Likud party on Wednesday morning ostracized a senior official for aiding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new rival political party.”

“Likud Secretariat Minister Yisrael Katz, who is running for party leadership, on Wednesday morning informed veteran legal advisor Eitan Haberman he was being kicked out of the movement.”

“Haberman was distanced from the party after it became clear he was advising Sharon’s newly-established party.” read more

IDF Operation Continues in Nablus

Counter-Terrorism Efforts Yield 9 Arrests

PA Security Troops Open Fire at Undercover Counter-Terror Force

Border Police Uninjured in Firebomb Attack

IDF Surrounding Shechem Home

Shooting Attacks Against Soldiers in Jenin