The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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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
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Seventh Rocket Hits Eshkol Region
[6] Rocket Attacks in Eshkol Region
Wake-up Call: [Wednesday] Morning Rocket Attacks on Western Negev
Factory Damaged [Tuesday Evening] in Kassam Attack [At Least 10 Kassam Fired]
Kassam Rocket Launch [Landed Near Sderot]
Boy in Shock as 3 Kassams Hit Negev, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
IAF Aircraft Targets Kassam Launcher in Northern Gaza Strip
IDF Arrests Six Terror Suspects [5 in Bethlehem, 1 Southwest of Hevron]
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Commentary;
Its Yud Tess Kislev today, Tuesday, the Chabad Chassidic “Rosh Hashana.” Chabad-Lubavitch throughout the world celebrate the day when their first Rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi gained his freedom from prison.
On Monday, President Bush held his final annual pre-Chanukah White House reception. In attendance, having Kashered the White House kitchen, were Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbanim.
Israel National News writer Nissan Ratzlav-Katz reports;
Three Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Minkowitz, Rabbi Binyomin Steinmetz and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, oversaw the process.
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Palestinians Fire 2 Mortar Shells at Sha’ar Hanegev Region; No Casualties
No injuries in Mortar Shell Attack near Sderot
Kassam Fired From Gaza Lands in Palestinian Territory
Nazi Flag Flies Unhindered in PA-Controlled Hevron Area, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Israel Set to Release 229 Palestinian Prisoners [“Goodwill Gesture” Amidst Bombardment]
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Commentary;
Caroline Glick is right in bemoaning Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-occupation with in the media for bringing Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit down rather than distinguishing the differences between a Likud slate top-heavy with principled, common sense candidates for Knesset and the too tired to fight, too tired to win destructo “delusional and defeatist Kadima and Labor parties.”
However, the amount of ink spilled in Glick’s attempt to portray Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit as “minor players” actually betrays the extent of Feiglin’s true strength in the party and his arrival in “the Big Leagues.” He received some 12,000 votes out of 50,000, the candidates he endorsed won 7 of the top 12 slots and 10 of the first 20 slots and 7 out of the 2nd 20 slots on the Likud list and his co-founder of Manhigut Yehudit Shmuel Sackett didn’t make a regional candidate slot despite receiving 10,000 votes in his region.
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A few years ago, just before Chanukah, a short article appeared on the INN website entitled; “Mortar Shells Filled With Chanukah Light” told about the Menorah made from some of the spent Islamic mortal shells which were launched on Neve Dekalim over the years.
Reading about this special Menorah which was lit at one of the Jerusalem hotels which temporarily housed many former Neve Dekalim residents, took me back in time to Philadelphia, in “the “old country” and to a point made by Rav Yehoshua Kaganoff about the pit in which Yosef was thrown. The point bears repeating.