The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Commentary;
More familiar hot air refrains, delaying tactics to avoid taking serious action. Been there, done that! We’ve heard it all before; countless times before. Barak’s comments to the residents of Ashkelon can be best summed up by the old American TV mortgage loan commercial which opens with an aged mortgage officer answering phone calls from anxious applicants with a no sense shared urgency response; “Any day now, any day now.”
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IDF Troops Fire Live Rounds, Tear Gas at Stone-Throwers in Gaza
Rocket Lands in Western Negev; Causes No Casualties or Damage
‘Kassam’ a Grad-Missile, Lands in Netivot
Kassam Strikes Open Area in Western Negev; No Wounded Reported
IDF Intelligence Chief: Ashdod Next on Attack List
Air Force Kills Two Terrorists in Gaza City Strike
IDF Continues To Arrest Wanted Terrorists [19 Nabbed Wednesday Night]
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Commentary;
Hours after President Bush arrived in Israel, a Grad Missile slamed into Chutzot Mall in Ashkelon injuring 15, including a Mother and Daughter and a Doctor and assistant who were seriously injured. And while some speak about Bush’s trip here as modern-day Megillat Esther replay and a Nationalist politician assails Israel’s avoidance of all-out effort to eliminate terror and terror weapon smuggling in Gaza as as avoiding war to please gentiles, it seems that the reality of the matter is that the Bush visit is nothing but a smokescreen to deflect attention from the Olmert, Livni, Barak, Ramon regime’s deliberate, conscious, dogged efforts to eradicate all connection and consciousness between Israel and Israelis, and all Jewish law, tradition, spirituality, history and The Land of Israel.
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IDF Hits Back in Gaza, Kill 2-5 Terrorists, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
IDF Officer Lightly Wounded in Gaza, Continues to Fight
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“The commander of the Givati Brigade suffered light shrapnel injuries in battles with Arab terrorists in southern Gaza Wednesday morning. He refused to be evacuated and is continuing to fight with his troops.”
Update from Gaza: Three Terrorists Dead, Eight Wounded
Bush Touches Down at Ben Gurion Airport
IDF Scales Back Ops for Bush Visit, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
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Commentary:
In one of the more absurd statements heard among the daily stream of absurdities uttered by the likes of Ehud Olmert,Shimon Peres, etc., ADL’s Abe Foxman has noted this belated revelation which we have known for at least two decades : (MB)
ADL’s Foxman: Mainstream Media Turning against Israel
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abe Foxman said Tuesday afternoon that mainstream media are turning against Israel. One of the guests at the three-day Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, he told Voice of Israel government radio, “Painting Israel as the cause of the nakba [catastrophe] has taken root in the mainstream.”
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IDF Attacks Kassam-Firing Cell in Gaza
Two Kassam Rockets Land South of Ashkelon
Palestinian Killed in IAF Gaza Air Strike
PA Terrorists in Gaza Kill Seventy-Year-Old Israeli Woman [in Rocket Attack on Moshav], by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
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Palestinians Fire 2 Rockets at Ashkelon
2 Grad Rockets Land in Ashkelon; One Woman Treated for Shock
Rocket Nearly Hits [Ashkelon] School; Woman Treated for Shock
Rocket Hits Ashkelon, Several Suffer Shock
A Number of Mortar Shells Fired Into Israel; No Casualties
Hamas Rocket Nearly Hits Busload of Students in Sderot, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Kassam Attack on Sderot, 1 Woman Suffers Trauma
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Rashi asks a critical question on the very first posuk of our Parsha;
“Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying.” (Parsha Behar, Vayikra Perek 25, posuk 1) He asks why the laws of Shemittoh are singled out as having been given at Sinai. Were not all of the Mitzvot said at Sinai?” He answers that just as all of the Mitzvot; their general rules and their specifics were taught at Sinai, so too were the general rules and specifics regarding Shemittoh taught at Sinai. Rashi then reasons that the posuk comes to teach us that every utterance said to Moshe, they were all from Sinai.
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Commentary;
Undoubtedly, almost everyone has heard by now about the alleged connection between Ehud Olmert and one Morris Talansky, aka “the laundryman,” a noted Long Island philanthropist and fund-raiser for Israeli charities.
While this blog has chosen not to play pundit and conjecture as to whether this “alleged” scandal will finally be the one to take the “teflon etrog” Ehud Olmert down, the Ynet piece below ought to surely get a lot of working-stiff Yosef Q. Israelis living at or near poverty-level fired up, and not only at Olmert but at the luxury with which senior Israeli politcos, such as President Shimon Peres or Ehud Barak or Bibi Netanyahu too, are treated (in exchange for what?) on someone else’s tab. MB
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Gaza Terrorists are Firing Iranian-Made Mortars
IDF: No Warning Possible on Mortar Attacks
1 Hamas [Suicide Bomb] Terrorist Dead, 1 Seriously Injured [Near Security Barrier] in Gaza
Two People Lightly Wounded as Two Kassam Rockets Hit Sderot
Dichter: Hezbollah is in Control of Lebanon
Commentary;
This should tell you all that you need to know about the validity of “international ‘peacekeepers'” placed in Lebanon at Israeli insistence after the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict, or their placement in any other zone of conflict between Islamics and Jews. MB