Tuesday Thru Friday War News: UNIFIL Finds 20 Launch-Ready Katyushas in South Lebanon; Terrorists Fire on IDF Troops, Fire Kassam Near Karni Crossing; 21 Illegals Nabbed Being Smuggled to Jerusalem, Israel to Limit Operations in PA Cities, Israeli Arab Radio Station Promotes Terror, IDF Nabs 13 Terrorists, 10 Arabs Nabbed for Weapons Trafficking

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Sunday, Monday War News: IDF Nabs Gazan Arab Infiltrator; Israel Ready To Trust UNIFIL in Ghajar; 45 Illegals, 2 Terrorists Nabbed, IDF Easing Conditions for Arabs for Ramadan as Stonings, Stabbings Continue

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Monday War News: Jerusalem Arabs Nabbed for Conspiring With PA Police, 6 Terrorists Nabbed, Released Terrorists Laughable Disavow of Terror, Abbas: ‘No Peace Without Release of All Prisoners’ (Read Terrorists, Including Barghouti), UNIFIL and Hezbollah

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Thursday War News: Bush in Ramallah as Mortars from Gaza Fall in Negev, Terrorists Bomb American School in Gaza; UNIFIL Gives Hezbollah IDF Info; Rock Attacks Near Jerusalem, Hevron, Ramallah

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Back to the Past: Olmert Resurrects Old Demons by Inviting German Forces to UNIFIL Lebanon Border Force??

Olmert’s Request to Station German Troops in Lebanon Unwise, by Eldad Beck (Ynet)

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert couldn’t have thought of a better way to destabilize the fragile relationship built up over the past 40 years between Israel and Germany. He did so by inviting German forces to take part in the UNIFIL peace keeping forces in Lebanon. Only a person blind from birth would have failed to foresee the Greek tragedy we are now witnessing.

Officially, Germany is regarded as Israel’s greatest ally in Europe. This claim can be justified on certain levels. Namely, wide scale cooperation between the two countries exists in several areas and the current government, under the auspices of Angela Merkel, has reiterated Germany’s commitment towards Israel. read more

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UNIFIL Constricts IDF Ability to Maneuver and Take Decisive Action vs Hostiles: Egypt, Hamas, Syria, Hezbollah…

For context, click PM: Hezbollah No Longer Threat to North,
Bolton: Syria, Iran arming Hezbollah

Our World: Israel’s Encirclement, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

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Unfortunately, at this critical moment in Israel’s history, we are led by Ehud Olmert, Amir Peretz and Tzipi Livni. Although Olmert claims that he is taking every step to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, through his government’s actions in recent months, he has steadily undercut the IDF’s ability to take decisive action against Iran. read more

Parsha Vayigash 5773: Yosef, the Brothers and Distinguishing Real Teshuvah From Mere Words, Spoken or Textual

by Moshe Burt

Every so often, over the past 7 1/2 years since the expulsion of our brethren from their homes and neighborhoods in Gush Katif and the 4 Shomron towns, we read a piece on one of the news sites or receive an email voicing regret from those who either supported the expulsion or who sat on their hands and did nothing and who now would beg forgiveness from their evicted brethren in the hope of bringing peace to within Am Yisrael.

Such a paradigm piece was an Israel National News report a few years ago about how former IDF Chief Rabbi Yisrael Weiss expressed regret at having supported the expulsion, or as they call it the “disengagement.” read more

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Parsha Vayigash 5772: Yosef, the Brothers and Distinguishing Real Teshuvah From Mere Words

by Moshe Burt

Every so often, over the past 6 1/2 years since the expulsion of our brethren from their homes and neighborhoods in Gush Katif and the 4 Shomron towns, we read a piece on one of the news sites or receive an email voicing regret from those who either supported the expulsion or who sat on their hands and did nothing and who now would beg forgiveness from their evicted brethren in the hope of bringing peace to within Am Yisrael.

There was an Israel National News report last year about how former IDF Chief Rabbi Yisrael Weiss expressed regret at having supported the expulsion, or as they call it the “disengagement.” read more

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Parsha Vayigash 5771: Yosef, the Brothers and Real Teshuvah

Moshe Burt

There was an Israel National News report last week about how former IDF Chief Rabbi Yisrael Weiss expressed regret at having supported the expulsion, or as they call it the “disengagement.”

Rabbi Weiss expressed the following:

“Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, former IDF Chief Rabbi, has expressed regret over his role in the 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza and northern Samaria. At the time, Rabbi Weiss came out against refusing orders, saying that IDF soldiers who are told to expel Jews from their homes by force must do so.” read more

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Parsha Vayigash 5770: Jewish Unity, Critical but Ever Elusive

by Moshe Burt

Parsha Mikeitz records the whole affair between Yosef and the brothers when they came to Mitzrayim to buy food and were accused by the Viceroy of being spies. We learned how after hearing their story and family history, Yosef demanded that they bring their youngest brother to him and incarcerated Shimon as insurance that the brothers would indeed return with Binyamin, their youngest brother. We learn that in the middle of Parsha Mikeitz, with the imprisonment of Shimon, the brothers recognized and attributed their predicament to the sin they had committed earlier by throwing Yosef into the pit and then selling him to the Mitzriyim. Yosef heard and understood their conversation and left their presence to cry silently. (Perek 42, posukim 21-24) read more

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