Identity = The Will to Win

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A big part of the problem, not of the solution!

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. read more

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Monday War News: Terrorists Attack in 3 Places in Gaza; Rock Attacks in Yesha, the Golan, 5 Terroists Nabbed, Police Catch Escaped Infiltrators

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Sunday War News: Kassams, Mortars From Gaza, IDF Nabs 7 Gaza Terrorists, IDF Hits Gaza Rocket Cell, Givati Soldier Moderately Wounded; Arabs Attack Shvut Ami

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Shavu’ot/Parsha Naso 5768 – Threads of Unity Between Shabbos, Shavu’ot

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by Moshe Burt

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. read more

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Shabbos War News: 8 Kassams Land Over Shabbos, Terrorist Killed in Work Acccident, Egyptians Find Rocket, Explosive Caches in Sinai

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Friday War News: Kassam in West Negev, 2 Mortars Hit Ashkelon Beach, 60 Gaza Arabs Nabbed, 10,000 at Sufa Crossing as IDF on High Alert

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‘Other Guy’s Sovereignty’ vs Right of National Defense

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His Corrupt Arrogance

There was a time, during modern-day Israel’s first 40 years, when national defense was first and foremost priority. There were the pre-emptive attacks of the Six Day War, Sharon’s Suez crossing of the Yom Kippur War, there was the IAF bombing raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor.

The opinion article below penned by Shlomo Slonim, the James G. McDonald Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, poses a classic example of how, in the name of distorted Western morality, the sanctity of an aggressor nation’s sovereignty has come to override and place as subserviant the national defense of the aggrieved nation. read more

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Thursday Night War News: More Rockets, Mortar Attack, Sderot Girls Hurt Running for Shelter on “Color Red” Warning; Rock Attacks Near Shechem

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Thursday War News: US Thinks More Syrian Nuke Sites; Gaza Rockets, Mortars Fall in Negev, Near Ashkelon, Mortar Hits Sha’ar Hanegev Home; 6 Islamic Terrorsists Nabbed

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Barak News Conference: Jig Up for Olmert, or Another Fade-Away Promise?

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Commentary;

Labor Party leader Ehud Barak promised the party that he would call for Olmert’s resignation in the period prior to the final Winograd report. But then he backtracked and Olmert remained.

It is interesting, in light of the above, that while he claims that Labor will quit the coalition of Olmert does not resign, he commits to no timetable as to an Olmert resignation or leave of absence.

The question is, are Barak’s threats shallow and meaningless, or will he carry through? read more

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