Tuesday War News: 2 Kassams Fired at Negev, Only Israeli Action — Closing Crossings; IDF Nabs 4 Terrorists, Israeli Bus Stoned Near Ramallah, 7 Shuafat Arabs Nabbed for Kidnapping
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Palestinians Fire Second Kassam Rocket at Western Negev; No Wounded
Kassam Rocket Lands Near Sha’ar Hanegev Kibbutz; No Casualties
Gaza Crossings to Remain Closed Tuesday Following Kassam Attacks
IDF Arrests 4 Wanted Palestinians [Terrorists] Overnight [in Tulkarm, Ramallah and Hevron]
Palestinians Stone Israeli Bus Near Ramallah; No Wounded
Seven Shuafat Residents Arrested on Suspicion of Kidnapping
Jerusalem Arabs Arrested for Kidnapping Children
These two reports are related to the earlier report.
Beware of Uzi Dayan; Remember Rabin on Golan Heights
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Commentary;
Before getting all excited about Uzi Dayan, the suddenly turned hawk who just joined Likud, one would do well to take a history lesson from Mordechai Ben-Menachem’s citing of Yitzchak Rabin’s 1992 prime ministerial campaign pronouncement and by reading the link text in it’s totality;
When Yitzhak Rabin ran for election as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1992, he publicly declared at a giant election rally just two weeks before the election, “Whosoever gives up the Golan Heights, abandons the security of the State of Israel.”
Monday War News: Jerusalem Arabs Nabbed for Conspiring With PA Police, 6 Terrorists Nabbed, Released Terrorists Laughable Disavow of Terror, Abbas: ‘No Peace Without Release of All Prisoners’ (Read Terrorists, Including Barghouti), UNIFIL and Hezbollah
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Jerusalem Arabs Arrested For Connection to PA Police
IDF Troops Arrest Six Palestinian Fugitives
Terrorists Sign Promise Not To Return to Violence [What a Laugh!]
[Mahmud Abbas:]’There’ll be No Peace Without the Release of All Our Prisoners’
UNIFIL Doesn’t Enter Villages Where Hezbollah Operates, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Sunday War News: Arabs Toss Rocks, Molotovs at Jewish Vehicles in Ramallah, Rantis, Youth Injured, 2 Terrorists Nabbed, Police Force Raids Islamic Movement Offices
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Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktails at Israeli Vehicle [in Ramallah]; No Injuries Reported
Arabs Throw Fire Bomb at Car in Samaria [at Rantis]
Stone-Throwing Arabs Injured Youth in Samaria
IDF Arrests 2 Palestinian Terror Suspects in… Operations
Large Police Force Raids Offices of Islamic Movement [in Umm el-Fahm, Galilee]
Excerpts;
The force reportedly confiscated computers, documents, money, a safe as well as books and leaflets allegedly containing incitement against the state.
The Shin Bet said that the material gathered in the raid indicated that “Al Aksa” was involved in transferring monetary and logistical aid for Hamas’s Jerusalem activities.
Parsha Re’eh 5768 — When Hard-Heartedness Replaces Chesed
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By, Moshe Burt
According to Rashi, Moshe Rabbeinu begins our Parsha Re’eh by informing the B’nei Yisrael about the blessing and the curse to be pronounced to them upon their entry to Eretz Yisrael from Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval.
Moshe Rabbeinu continues his mussar saying, “Behold, I set before you … a blessing and a curse; the blessing if you heed the commandments of Hashem, and the curse, if you will not observe his commandments.(Sefer Devarim, Perek 11, posukim 26-27)
Shabbos War News: Two Kassams Hit Negev, Israel Backs Down on Gaza “Peace Boats”; Rocks Hurled at IDF in Hevron, 2 Terrorists Nabbed With Explosives in Shechem
The Foreign Ministry and the Re-Branding of Israel; Again?
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On Wednesday evening, I was among 200 bloggers in Israel who attended Nefesh b’Nefesh’s first annual Bloggers Conference held at NBN offices in Givat Shaul.
There was nothing much new to come out of the various panel discussions, Q & As beyond the opportunities for face-to-face, in-person networking amongst bloggers. But the deli and salads were great.
For me, the comments at the conference compelled a re-focusing on old-fashioned proven methods of SEO — swapping blogroll links and blog comments with other bloggers in Jewish blogosphere.
Speaking of Israel’s National “Brand”
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Commentary;
Yep, that’s me, making the point that needs to be made to the Foreign Ministry, and indeed every ministry and functionary of Israeli governance again and again and again until it sinks irrevocably into their consciousness; “But we ARE a Jewish state.”
A hat tip goes to Batya Medad for taking this shot.
And I ought to give a plug to Batya’s husband Yisrael Medad who has had a distinguished career serving B’nai Yisrael and Yishuv Eretz Yisrael.
This post expands on two areas of the Brand managment presentation made by a representative of the Foreign Ministry at Nefesh b’Nefesh’s Blogger’s Conference.