Tuesday War News: Kassams Return to Sderot; Jewish Vehicle Stoned Near Hevron, 9 Terrorists Nabbed, Egypt Nabs Schalit Kidnapping Suspect, Arab Stonings Near Kedumim, in Negev
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Kassam Rocket Hits Storeroom in Backyard of Sderot Home
Israeli Vehicle Damaged in Stoning South of Hebron
IDF Arrests 9 Terror Suspects [in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hevron]
Egypt Holds Suspect in Schalit Kidnapping
Samarian Rock Attacks [Between Arab town of Funduk and Kedumim]
Rock Attack [by Bedouins on Freight Train] in Nevatim [in Negev]
Sunday, Monday War News: Gaza Terrorists Fire on IDF, Terrorist Killed in Smuggling Tunnel Collapse, Explosives Go Off Near Beit Hanoun; Jewish Bus Stoned Near Hevron, 11 Arab Youths Nabbed Vandalizing Jewish Graves, Terrorist Nabbed Near Hevron, Alleged Israeli Spies Flee Lebanon to Israel
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Terrorists Fire on Soldiers Near Gaza Border
Palestinian Killed [in Work Accident] as Smuggling Tunnel Collapses
Arabs Set Off Explosives [Near Fence at Beit Hanoun] in Northern Gaza
Israeli Bus Pelted by Stones While Traveling Near Hebron
Alleged Lebanese Spies [for Israel] Flee to Israel, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Jerusalem Police Nab 11 [Arab] Minors Suspected of Vandalizing Jewish Graves
Parsha Bamidbar 5769: Unity, and Diversity Within Unity
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As has been this author’s norm of late, the Parsha HaShevua for the next Shabbos is prepared on the previous Motsei Shabbos. And so, when preparing the Parsha HaShevua for last week’s parshiyot Behar and Bechukotai, this author did not have the benefit of a vort written by Moshe Feiglin entitled “The Easy Way to Heaven on Earth”, easily the most concise and to-the-point vort I’ve seen on on the Blessings and Curses enunciated in parsha Bechukotai.
Feiglin’s words seem in accord with a vort Rav Malinowitz spoke last year on Shabbos Bechukotai regarding the Tochocha, the rebuke about the perils of complacency, i.e. such things as always bringing something new; a new perspective, a new understanding regarding how the commentators and commentaries view any given point of Torah. And thet seem, as well, in accord with a vort this past Shabbos by Rav Malinowitz where he speaks of always learning, always growing and reaching beyond the bare minimum of doing mitzvot.
Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Zaki Makes Bibi’s Case With Obama
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Commentary:
IMRA’s (Independent Media Review Analysis) Dr. Aaron Lerner cites this MEMRI report in which Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki is cited; If Israel leaves Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria it will collapse. The full direct quote from Zaki states:
“With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices they made – just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse. It will regress of its own accord. Then we will move forward.”
Did Pope Plan Chief Islamic Judge Tamimi’s Notre Dame Institute Outburst?
Commentary;
On Tuesday, this blog posted a piece about Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi Metzger’s announcement which indicated that the ‘Pope Agreed Vatican to Stop Missionizing Jews.’
And this blog posed the question;
If the Pope walked out of the festivities at Notre Dame Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem after Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi’s unscheduled, unsolicited verbal attack upon Israel, just why did Army Radio report that the Pope shook Tamimi’s hand on the way out?
Friday War News: Arab Attacks Jew Near Beit Horon, At least 2 Rock Attacks in Hevron, 2 Arab Terrorists Nabbed
Wednesday, Thursday War News: Gaza Kassam and Mortar Hit Eshkol Region as Israel Opens 3 Gaza Crossings, Gaza Smugglers Nabbed by Egypt; Bus, Auto Stoned, Terrorist Nabbed Near Ramallah
Tuesday War News: Molotovs, Stonings and Police, IDF Arrests, Weapons Confiscations
Chief Rabbi Metzger: ‘Pope Agreed Vatican to Stop Missionizing Jews’
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Commentary:
This blog will not comment beyond this link to Pope Benedict XVI’s alleged past membership in Hitler Youth despite denials of same by a Vatican spokesman and assertions of reluctance to join by another spokesman.
But Israel’s Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi Metzger’s making a spectacle of himself with his headline announcement that the ‘Pope agreed that the Vatican would stop missionizing Jews’ is as phony an agreement as the document signed by freed, swapped terrorists that they would never again involve themselves in terrorism. And we know how quickly those signed documents of freed terrorists are discarded and how quickly many or most freed Islamic terrorists return to their terrorist deeds blowing up, injuring, maiming and killing more Jews.