The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Emergency Level Raised [Result of Kassam Bombardment]
Third Wave of Kassam Rockets [Launched Towards Ashkelon]
Second Wave of Kassams [at Ashkelon, Netivot and Sderot; Four Rockets Landed]
Kassam Barrage on Negev [Kassams in Ashkelon Fell in a Factory, House]
Kassam Launched [The Rocket Fell Near Miflasim]
Israel Cancels Plan to Open Gaza Crossings Due to Hamas Attacks, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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The White House numbers;
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Commentary;
President Bush officially leaves office and turns the mantle of the US Presidency over to Barrack Hussein Obama on the 21th of January.
In the meantime, efforts aimed at Presidential clemency are being redoubled on Jonathan Pollard’s behalf.
Please note: The legal term is not “pardon” as pardon denotes expungement of charges or conviction. The correct terminology is to ask for clemency — to commutation of prison sentence to time served and Jonathan’s release from incarceration.
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Gaza Terrorists Resume Rocket Fire [4 Kassams] on Negev After Brief Hiatus
Repeating Failure in Gaza [Hamas Doubled Kassam Range, Failed Aim in Gaza: “International Community” to Intervene in Gaza to Protect Israel from Terrorism], by Caroline Glick (The Jerusalem Post)
FM Livni to Meet with Egyptian President Mubarak [“Livni Implies Israel Not Concerned by Weapons Smuggling, etc.” — Dr. Aaron Lerner] (Communicated by the Foreign Minister’s Bureau)
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Palestinians Fire Kassam Rocket at Western Negev; Several Suffer Shock
ISA Chief: Hamas’ Rocket Range Extends to Be’er Sheva, Yavneh, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)
Several in Shock as Kassams Continue [14 Kassam Rockets, 1 Mortar Shell]
Arabs [Sniper] Fire at Fence Workers Near Kissufim
2 Rockets Explode in Western Negev, Without Casualties
Rocket Attack Towards Kibbutz Alumim
Stones Thrown at Bus [North of Hevron], No Injuries Reported
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In previous years, this author has written about Yosef’s being thrown in a bor (pit) seething with snakes and scorpions — yet emerging unscathed, his being sold and ensuing journey to Mitzrayim and his slavery, his imprisonment and his liberation and ascendency to the position of Viceroy, second only to Pharoh. And this author wrote a vort based on Jay Shapiro’s book “Almost Midrash.” Shapiro encorporated the story of Yosef into a fictional story entitled “Duaf of Memphis” and this author dealt with the contrast of Yosef in Mitzrayim, the years after Yosef and the other brothers were niftar, the ensuing long period of cruel bondage; and persecution and the dialogue of Page 13 A & B of Gemora Megillah Esther (the dialogue between Achashveirosh and Haman resulting in the evil decree against the Jews). The point of the Torah Vort at that time was that with longevity in Shushan and throughout Achashveirosh’s Empire, as in Mitzrayim, the Jews were disparaged as either useless or too powerful. In both cases, the antagonists conveniently forgot about Yosef and the Jews got comfortable, complacent, sought to own property and saw where they were at the time as home and forgetting and losing track of who and what they are.
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Four Rockets on Sderot [Motsei Shabbos; At Least 14 rockets During Shabbos]
[Islamic Stoning] Attacks on Highway 5 [Leading to Tel Aviv]
Fire from Gaza: 11 Rockets, 16 Shells
12 Mortar Shells Pound Israel; Youth Clubhouse Hit [by Mortar Shell] in Strike, None Hurt
2 Kassam Rockets Land South of Ashkelon [Shabbos Afternoon]; None Wounded
[6th] Kassam Rocket Strikes Western Negev; No Wounded Reported
1 Kassam, 2 Mortars Strike Open Area Near Ashkol Region; None Hurt
Two Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas in Western Negev; None Wounded
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Third Rocket Attack, Islamic Jihad Responsible [???]
Gaza Terrorists Add Gunfire to Missile Fire
Kassams Continue: 2 Rockets Land in Eshkol Region; No Casualties
Two Kassams, Mortar Shell Fired
IDF Troops Arrest Seven Wanted Palestinians [Near Shechem, Kalkilya, Jenin]
IDF soldier, Israeli Woman Lightly Wounded by Stones Hurled [Near Bethlehem, Shechem]
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Commentary;
Jerusalem Post writer Evelyn Gordon, while not mentioning Moshe Feiglin, Manhigut Yehudit and their specific post-primary travails at Benjamin Netanyahu’s hands in her commentary, takes the Likud Leader to task for not backing the democratic achievement of Likud primary voters, but rather [her word] undermining it.
More precisely, this author will go so far as to categorize Bibi’s cutting, pasting and switching the Likud Knesset list after the Primaries as negation of the achievements of his party and of Likud voters. Further, Gordon unfairly praises Bibi for achievements made by the party in hammering together the primary process — achievements made not because of Netanyahu, but despite him. MB
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Kassam Rocket Launch [7th Rocket of Thursday Landed Near Kibbutz Sa’ad]
3 Kassams Land in Negev, No Injuries or Damage
10 Cars Damaged as Kassam Rocket Lands Next to Sderot Shopping Parade
Terror from the Skies in Sderot: 3 Wounded in Shopping Center, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)
IAF Strike on Northern Gaza Terror Cell Misses Target
Terrorists Fire Two Kassam Rockets at Area South of Ashkelon; No Wounded
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Commentary;
Isn’t there something blatantly and absurdly anti-democratic about travelling ballot boxes being driven around in rented cars, lacking polling place judges, therefore with the ability to tamper with ballots for lack of supervisory oversight and only going to those who Bibi knows support him?
It seems obvious that Netanyahu has made a mockery of the primary and of the will of Likud party voters. Bibi’s latest maneuver has reduced the Likud primary to nothing more than a second delegitimized Referendum vote. MB