The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Kassam Rocket Hits Sha’ar Hanegev Region
Kassam Hits Sderot Area; IAF Fires at Car in Gaza Strip, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Terrorists Fire at Troops [Shot Two Mortar Shells] Near Gaza
IDF Troops Arrest 3 Palestinian Terror Suspects Near Bethlehem
Israeli Says 2 Palestinians Tried to Stab Him and Steal His Car [Near Shavei Shomron]
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Commentary:
Will a new government dare to do the right thing: finish the job of Operation Cast Lead, finish-off Hamas and liberate Gilad Shalit without freeing terrorists? MB
Kassam Hits Sha’ar Hanegev [Mortar Shells Fired at Kissufim Again in PM]; None Hurt, by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Grad-Type Rocket Strikes South of Ashkelon; No Wounded Reported
Mortar Shells Hit Sourthern Israel Friday Night [Kissufim Crossing, Gabim Region]
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Commentary:
This Jerusalem Post Evelyn Gordon commentary on Israel’s February national election and its lessons was too good to pass up.
While not mentioning Moshe Feiglin, Ratzon, etc. by name, Gordon deals with the post-primary demotions and their impact on the election vote for Likud, and thus the election result. This is important in that it seems to this author that she is the first columnist seen in Israeli MSM to have recognized the impact of the Likud primary result which was not respected, but rather uprooted, and the consequences of that uprooting in the national election result. Other prominent columnists such as Caroline Glick refuse to recognize aand come to grips with the Likud primary demotions and their impact in pre-election polls and election results.
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IAF Strikes Three Arms Smuggling Tunnels Under Philadelphi Corridor [Response to Rocket Attacks]
Hamas Attacks Eshkol Region with Two Kassam Rockets
2 Rockets Launched Toward Israel
Excerpt:
“Earlier a rocket exploded on the Palestinian side of the security fence, and overnight a mortar shell fired from Gaza landed in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.”
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Gaza Terrorists Fire Rocket Attack at Negev Kibbutz [in Sha’ar HaNegev Region], Again, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
IAF Strikes 2 Gaza Targets…, by Shmulik Hadad (Ynet)
Related report:IDF Attacks Hamas Position, Tunnels
The IDF hit a Hamas outpost and seven smuggling tunnels on Tuesday night. The strikes took place in Khan Yunis and along the Gaza-Egypt border.
The strikes were a response to rocket attacks on southern Israel. No casualties were reported.
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Caroline Glick provides an analysis, either self-perceived or perceived by Bibi as to the factors and dilemmas that Netanyahu faces in forming a government following last Tuesday’s national elections.
As one reads her complete commentary, or the excerpted commentary here, it becomes obvious that Glick is, as Bibi is, totally preoccupied and fixated on what the U.S. government thinks, what the EU thinks, what the UN thinks — at Israel’s dire security, sovereign and spiritual peril. As Olmert has, and Sharon before him and as every previous Israeli government has since the State’s modern-day inception, Bibi quakes in his shoes, his knees knock and sweat beads form above his upper lip over what America, the EU or the UN thinks. Glick, as his apologist, is for Bibi what Uri Dan was for Sharon while posturing as if she were the 2nd coming of Adir Zik, z”l. Bibi and Glick are on the page here, just as they were when Bibi made his colossal blunder of dropping Moshe Feiglin from 20th to 36th on the Likud’s election list. MB
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Hamas Ups the Stakes, Attacks Near Kibbutz Yavneh [Friday Rocket Attack Northeast of Ashkelon and Ashdod], by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israel National News)
Excerpt;
“Terrorists also fired two Kassam rockets and a mortar shell on Gaza belt communities during the Sabbath.”
Olmert: No Shalit, No Open Crossings, by Ronnie Sofer
Erekat: Demand for Shalit is Blackmail
Excerpt:
Senior Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat accusing outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of “blackmail” on Saturday. Olmert had stated that Israel would not agree to a temporary truce with Hamas prior to the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
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Parsha Yithro concludes with the high moment to date in world history; The Asseret HaDibrot (The 10 Statements) on the 6th day of the month of Sivan.
How does it transpire that Yithro, Moshe Rabbeinu’s Father-in-Law, a former member of Pharaoh’s ruling circle, one who had tried every avodah zora before finding Hashem; merit that the format for law enforcement and justice in the B’nai Yisrael would flow from him?
In questioning that very point, there are numerous pertinent citings regarding Yithro in Yishai Chasidah’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Jewish Personalities (pages 306-309).
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Commentary:
Will Olmert and Livni get away with imposing a “deal” on the new Israeli government including release of 1,000 terrorists, to return to kill and maim more Jews, in exchange for Gilad Schalit? Meanwhile, “Dumb and Dumber” keep talking appeasement of terror as the violations mount to the current “ceasefire.” MB
Two Kassams Launched at Sderot
Kassam Lands in Eshkol Region; No Casualties or Damage
Israel: Gaza Crossings Will Wait for Gilad Shalit’s Return [Olmert’s Spokesman Mark Regev: No Deal Has Been Finalized], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)