Bibi’s Tzomet Ploy Apparently Failed; Eitam Next in Attempt to Push Feiglin Down?
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Commentary;
Readers may wonder why this blog has stuck pretty much to three topics in recent days; Bibi, Likud and Feiglin, Jonathan Pollard and the daily Gaza (and Yehuda, Shomron) war news.
The reason is basically because these three issues most closely focus in on the ongoing political/spiritual (or lack thereof) war between the forces of darkness, apathy and stagnation and the forces of light and Jewish self-pride and spirituality for the minds, hearts and souls
of masses of Israelis.
Wednesday War News: Waves of Kassams, Mortars Rain on South, Security Cabinet Meets, Plans Cancelled to Open Gaza Crossings; IDF Nabs 5 Terrorists
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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)
Reminder: 28 Days and Counting — Call White House for Jonathan Pollard!
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The White House numbers;
In Israel 077-566-4305
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.
Tuesday War News: Short-Lived Gaza Cease-Fire Ends with 7 Rocket Bombardment; 3 Terrorists Nabbed in Jenin, Hevron
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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)
Sunday War News 2: 14 Kassams, Mortars and Several in Shock, Diskin: Hamas Can Reach Be’er Sheva, Yavneh, Sniper Fire Near Kissufim; Rock Attacks Near Tekoa, North of Hevron
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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
Parsha Mikeitz/Shabbos Chanukah 5769: The Miracle Cure of Yosef’s Marriage
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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.
Shabbos War News: Islamic Terror Rockets, Mortars Blister Southern Israel into Motsei Shabbos, Stonings Spread to Highway 5 to Tel Aviv
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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
Friday War News: Sniper Fire Added to Kassams, Mortars from Gaza; 7 Terrorists Nabbed, Rock Attacks in at Least 3 Places
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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]
Bibi’s Denigration of Democracy in Likud
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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