The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Rocket Barrage [10 Kassams] Hits Negev
Kassam Rockets and Mortar Shells Pound Western Negev
Four Missile Hits Around Sderot, None Hurt
Firefighters in Kassam-Hit Locations
2 Mortar Shells Land in Hof Ashkelon Regional Council; No Injuries
3 Mortar Shells Land Near Kibbutz in Negev
Air Force Strikes Northern Gaza Terrorists
IDF Soldier Wounded From Palestinian Fire at Border Fence
Three Mortars Explode Near Nahal Oz, None Hurt
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Commentary;
Below is a YouTube video on the Six Day War.
After viewing it, compelling questions arise on this the 41st anniversary of that momentous and historic event; Is the IDF as capable now of fighting and devastating her Arab Islamic foes in war as they were then? Did we hear in those days arguments such as “nothing can be done about Kassam and mortar attacks” without endangering Israeli lives, short-range missile interception systems as a substitute for human military action, or that it is preferential to not strike terrorists for fear of harming “innocents”?
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Man Killed, Two Seriously Wounded in Mortar Attack [at Negev Kibbutz Nir Oz Factory]
Commentary;
First thought to be a Kassam rocket, it now appears to have been a mortar attack?? MB
IDF Retaliates, Hits Terrorist at Source of Mortar Attack, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Kassam Rocket Attack Kills Factory Worker
Nir Oz Mortar Attack Victim Identified, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
As Shaul Mofaz gears up to contest for the Prime Ministership, a job he is wholly unqualified for, but which he may just fall into by virtue of the Shas party’s undying love of “Almighty Cash,” Israel National News’ Hillel Fendel remembers Mofaz’s totally undignified and laughable departure from Likud within days before Sharon’s strokes and resultant incapcitation and vegetation, which proved out to be no blessing for him (Mofaz).
So too, this blog recalls here and here Mofaz’s dead-of-the-night jump to Kadima in December, 2005, even as he sent an appeal letter to Likud voters to support him in their primary while having one foot out of the Likud door. MB
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5 Hurt in Kassam Barrage from Gaza
Kassam Rocket, 3 Mortar Shells Land in West Negev; No Casualties
IDF Attacks Terrorist in Kassam Launch Squad in Southern Gaza Strip
Kassam Rocket Strikes Open Area in Western Negev; No Wounded Reported
Mortar Attack was Katyusha Rocket
Remains of Five Soldiers [Killed in Lebanon Conflict] Identified
Arab Rock Throwings East of Tel Aviv
IDF Troops Extract 5 Jewish Worshippers from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus [Shechem]
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Commentary;
Jonathan Tobin’s piece on former Prisoner of Zion and Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky carries an important lesson for Israelis, a lesson in identity — seen as synonymous with an overriding national unity which was once axiomatic to a vast majority Israelis and to world Jewry, which with the evolution of elitism, protexia, political graft and self-aggrandizement as national institutions in Israeli leadership and governance, needs to be relearned, reabsorbed and reapplied by the Jews.
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Kassam, Mortar Shell Land Near Border Fence; No Injuries Reported
IDF Faces ‘New Threat’ [Discovery of 30 Anti-Aircraft Missiles in Sinai] From Gaza
2 Rockets Land in Ashkelon Coast Regional Council; No Injuries Reported
Gazans Fire Rocket, Mortar at Israel
IDF Arrests Seven Palestinian Terror Suspects in Southern Gaza
Rocket Lands Outside Netivot; None Wounded
IDF Attacks Rocket Launching Cell
3 Gaza Terrorists Wounded, Hamas Continues Rocket Attacks, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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With Shavu’ot always being during the week of Shabbos Parsha Naso, there are various common threads between Shabbos Parsha Naso and Chag HaShavu’ot. There is the thread of national unity projected by the Kohanim as expressed in the Birchat Kohanim, the thread of diversity and unique expression within the 12 repetitions of the same offering brought by the Sh’vatim at the inauguration of the Mishkan and the thread regarding the importance of caring for the Ger Tzeddik.