Author: moshe

Another right on the mark article from Rachel Saperstein, formerly of Neve Dekalim;

As We View Our Soldiers…

Excerpts:

“There is a good deal of worry about our children. Children who once viewed our soldiers with reverence now see the soldier as an enemy who can readily throw them out of their homes. You can no longer trust a soldier, or a policeman, or a member of the Knesset, or a prime minister. Each engenders fear. One is left with a sense of helplessness.”

” … I am traumatized and my body shakes as I relive, every night, my expulsion by the Israeli army and the Israeli police.” read more

IDF and Hizbullah Exchange Fire; No Troops Wounded

Soldiers Fire at Suspicious Images Along Northern Border

IDF Soldiers Arrest 23 Wanted Palestinians in the West Bank

IDF Artillery Fires at Mortar-Launch Area in Gaza

IDF Artillery Responds to Mortar Fire From Gaza

Mortar Lands North of Gaza Strip; None Wounded

Army Hits Launching Sites

Excerpts:

“IDF directs artillery fire at Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks on Israeli targets.””

Escalation in the South? IDF forces struck at Qassam rocket launching sites and access roads in the northern Gaza Strip Thursday morning, after Qassam rockets were fired at the southern town of Sderot.” read more

Caretaker Government Begins on Thursday

Excerpts;

“This will clear the way for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to appoint his allies to vacant ministerial posts, requiring only cabinet approval, no longer required to seek Knesset approval as well. ”

“The caretaker government is expected to continue running national affairs until the March elections.”

Israel Faces Joint Hizbollah-Al Qaeda Threat in Lebanon

IDF Cracks Down in West Bank; PA Arrests Jihad Men

Explosion Rocks Southern Gaza Strip, Eight Wounded

IAF Guns Down Terrorist in First Raid since Netanya Bombing

Arabs Clash in Gaza, One Woman Killed

Arabs Weakening Electric Poles So They Will Fall on Jews

Parsha Vayeitzei: Distinguishing Good from Evil — Revisited.
By Moshe Burt

In view of events of 3 1/2 months ago as well as the current election campaign, this author reflected back on last year’s word on Parsha Vayeitzei.

In last week’s parsha Toldos, we learned about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”, one who was “totally honest, a man of great integrity”, who was master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery, but he did not allow this character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise.” read more

Prediction: T.O. Time — Kadima’s Self-Destruct Getting Closer! Taking this latest disgruntled free agent is a big step along the way. It’s gonna be fun watching this bunch of infants self-destruct. MB

Police Recommend Indicting Hanegbi; A-G to Decide

Excerpts;

“The Israel Police recommended to the state prosecutor’s office on Wednesday that interim Likud party Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi be indicted for making illegal political appointments when he was environment minister from 2001 to 2003.” read more

A Time to Reach Out

Jonathan Rosenblum wrote this article mere days after the Expulsion began. The words seem still relevant for the Callous Indifference of the Israeli Gov’t and segments of Israel’s population regarding the Gush Katif and Shomron Refugees 3 plus Months Later. MB

Excerpts:

“In the long span of Jewish history, the uprooting of 8,500 Jews from Gaza will not rank as one of the worst tragedies, though it was unique in that those doing the uprooting were themselves Jews. This was not 1492 and the expulsion from Spain or the Holocaust. And the attempts by some in the settler community to appropriate symbols of those earlier tragedies – yellow Jewish stars, concentration camp uniforms – and by implication, and sometimes explicitly, to cast the soldiers executing the evacuation orders in the role of Hitler’s S.S. troops, only infuriated secular Israelis.” read more

3 Arrests Made During the Night

PA Residents Apprehended by Police in the Galilee Region

Rightists Around World Upset at Landau

Excerpts;

“Landau explained that he decided to quit because he had no chance of winning and because Netanyahu offered him a series of commitments that reassured him that he would be loyal to right-wing ideology if elected prime minister. Netanyahu and Landau, who studied together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present their 17-point agreement in a press conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.”

“In the deal, Netanyahu promised never to withdraw unilaterally from settlements, to bring any major decision to a Likud faction vote or a national referendum and to appoint Landau to head a ministerial committee that would help Gush Katif evacuees. Netanyahu would not commit to keeping the Likud out of a government led by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but Landau said he believed Netanyahu would keep the Likud in the opposition if it loses the March 28 election.” read more

PM Aides: Orders for Attack Came From Syria

Excerpt;

“Jerusalem points finger at Damascus for providing safe haven for Islamic Jihad terror activities, group responsible for Monday’s Netanya bombing; U.S. State Department calls on Assad to close down group’s Damascus headquarters.”

NSC Urges Israelis to Evacuate Sinai Immediately

Islamic Jihad Goes Underground

Excerpt;

“Islamic Jihad terrorists have gone underground and are operating in small cells which makes it difficult to arrest them, security officials said Tuesday morning.” read more