The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Mortar Shells, Rockets Fired at Western Negev
IDF Denies Gaza “Strike”; Terrorist’s Home Explodes [Explosion Was a “Work Accident”]
IDF Forces Kill 2 Terrorists [Carrying Kalashnikov Assault Rifles and Placing Bomb Next to Security Barrier], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
IDF Forces Kill Palestinian Gunman Near Border Fence With Gaza
Rock Throwing Near Maale Levona
IDF Arrests 3 in Overnight Raids
Woman Lightly Injured as Palestinians Throw Rocks at Car [Near Bethlehem]
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Commentary;
There are a few recent themes which stick out like sore thumbs and which beg comment.
There is the piece by Stewart Weiss, a director of a Jewish Outreach Center in Ra’anana, applying to today the virtues of Civil Disobediance, which date back to anti-slavery abolitionist Henry David Thoreau of 1840s and 1850s America.
Weiss cites Thoreau in asserting;
When the government does not act, then the citizens must step forward and do what is necessary.
In opposition to the United States’ support of slavery, he [Thoreau] refused to pay taxes in 1846. He spent a night in jail and remarked,
“Under a government which imprisons anyone unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” His subsequent essays on civil disobedience provided an antidote for helpless citizens who feel they lead lives “of quiet desperation.”
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Three [Gaza] Terrorists Eliminated in Two IDF Strikes
Security Cabinet Communique: Reapproves its 5 March Decision [Holding Off on Gaza Action], by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Rock Attack in Judea [Near Bethlehem]; Two Lightly Hurt
IDF Troops Arrest Palestinian in Possession of Knife in Kalkilya Area
Israeli Cars Damaged When Pelted With Stones in Ramallah Area
Two Israeli Buses Damaged in… Stoning Incidents [Near Ramallah, Hevron]
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IDF Strikes Terrorists, Sufa Crossing Closed
Security Cabinet Rules Out Gaza Operation for Time Being, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Related report; IDF General in Reserves:’Do-Nothing Approach Will Destroy Hamas, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Excerpt;
General Yoram Yair: “Our problem is that we don’t have a long-term policy…”
IDF Tank Fire Kills One Terrorist [near Khan Yunis]
Mortar Shell Lands in Western Negev Kibbutz [Nir Oz], Lightly Wounding One Person
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Additional Mortars from Gaza [on Targets in the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council]
Kassam Lands in Negev [in Open Spaces in Sdot Negev Regional Council]; No Injuries Reported
Palestinians: IDF Air Strike Kills Three Hamas Operatives [After 18 Mortar Shells Fired]
Excerpt;
“Shortly after noontime, at least 18 mortar shells fired by Palestinian gunmen… landed in open areas throughout the Gaza periphery, and no wounded were reported.”
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Two Kassam Rockets Hit Sha’ar Hanegev Region; None Wounded
Palestinian Killed as Smuggling Tunnel Collapses in Rafah
IDF Troops Destroy Four Kassam Rocket Launchers in Gaza
Jewish Car Stoned in Mount Hebron Area
Palestinian Shot by IDF Force [Southwest of Bethlehem] After Hurling Molotov Cocktail
Palestinian Arrested After IDF Troops Find Half-Meter-Long Knife in His Car
Palestinian Carrying Six Pipe Bombs Stopped at Hawara Checkpoint [Near Shechem]
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Our Parsha speaks about the reasons for the separate section delineated by the inverted “nuns” — “When the Aron (the Ark) would journey, Moshe said, ‘Arise Hashem, and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate you flee from before you.’ And when it rested, he would say, ‘Reside tranquilly, O, Hashem, among the myriad thousands of Israel.'” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 35-36)
Preceding these posukim are the posukim which speak about the journey of the Aron and of B’nai Yisrael from Har Sinai to their next resting place, …a three day distance…” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 10, posukim 33 & 34).
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Kassam Rocket Attack [4 Rockets] on Eshkol Region
Thai Worker Hurt by Shrapnel From Kassam Rocket in West Negev
IDF Kills 1 Hamas Terrorist, Wounds 2 in Gaza
Troops Open Fire on Operative [Attempting to Lay Explosive Device] Near Gaza Fence
Qureia: Latrun Also Up for “Negotiation”
IDF Removes Roadblocks [Dying for Terror Attacks] in Southern Hevron Hills
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Commentary;
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has often claimed in recent years, citing and cleaving to P.A. (sic) demographics data, that Israel must hand over lands to the Arabs out of fear that the Arabs will essentially destroy Israel by out-numbering the Jews. These claims have again and again been been found irrefutably overstated by at least 1.5 million by evidence presented by demographics experts Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, Michael Weiss and Yoram Ettinger.
But, in doing a search of YouTube videos looking for different information, this author stumbled upon this Nightline interview which took place over 20 years ago with both then MK Ehud Olmert and Rabbi Meir Kahane, z’l. In that interview, Ehud Olmert attempts to refute Rabbi Kahane by saying that the chances of the Arabs outnumbering the Jews is remote.