Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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Rock Attack [Near Hawara, South of Shechem] Damages Vehicle

Two Wanted Terrorists Apprehended [1 Near Ramallah, 1 in Hevron]

Arabs Pelt, Damage Bus on Gush Etzion Road

Fayad: ‘We Demand the Release of All Prisoners Without Exception’

[Ministerial] Committee Approves Release of Two Prisoners With Blood on Hands

Excerpt;

“The two prisoners are Muhammad Abu Ali, who killed an IDF reservist in Hebron as well as a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel, and Said Uteba, who planted three bombs in central Israeli cities, one of which killed Tzila Galili in Petah Tikva.” read more

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Kassam Rocket Lands in Eshkol Region; None Wounded

Lebanese Monitoring Group: Hezbollah is Violating 1701, By Brenda Gazzar (Jerusalem Post)

Cabinet Approves Release of 200 PA Terrorists [As Goodwill Toward Abbas]

‘Pardoned’ Terrorist Re-Arrested for Shooting at IDF, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

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Commentary;

Caroline Glick dispels the dangerous, outrageous myth promulgated and inculcated by successive Israeli governments unto the governed that Western or UN forces “will unburden the country of the need to protect itself.” Those of us, however, who pay close attention to history recognize Israel’s founding doctrine that “international legitimacy, peace treaties, alliances and common interests only matter in the presence of the hard power of military force” is as valid today as when Ben-Gurion conceived it. MB read more

Parsha Eikev is equated in terms of one’s being attentive to the little Mitzvot; the details, the Mitzvot that one tends to overlook, to ignore, to tread one’s heels on in the mad dash, but without which the Jewish people would lack the merit which sets us apart from common man. The little mitzvot, the small details are the ones epitomized by V’Ahavtah L’re’echa Komocha — caring for your fellow Jew as for yourself.