The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Commentary;
For those who had any doubts about the Shas party’s lack of spiritual connection to Jerusalem or anything not directly connected to Shas pockets, their latest spokesman, Communications Minister Ariel Attias has already kissed off Yehuda and the Shomron as what Shas “was not created for,” now dispells all doubts;
“If there is progress in the negotiations about the [whole] country, and not just Jerusalem, that would cause the party to leave the government.”
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Commentary;
It is reported that the IDF has been collecting military-issued weapons in possession of residents of Binyamin region in Yesha, “including weapons that were in the possession of IDF officers.”
About this, Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA wrote the following;
In the next days we will know if this move is the action of some low level person in the IDF or a cynical move being directed from the Olmert team to turn the screws on the settlers to help make their lives more miserable in the hopes that they will get the message and start packing.
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Kassam Rocket Fired From Gaza Lands in Western Negev; None Hurt
Border Police Bust Israeli-Arab Smuggling Illegals
IDF Troops Arrest 17 Palestinian Fugitives in Night-Time Ops
Murder Suspected in Tel Aviv: 30-Year-Old Man Found With Throat Slit
Related report; Hamas: We Killed a Zionist Settler in Occupied Tel Aviv
Commentary;
Truth or Hamas opportunism? Will we ever know? MB
4 Israeli Cars Damaged After Pelted by Stones Near Kalkilya
Erekat: Olmert to Grant Amnesty to 10,000 Arab Illegal Aliens, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
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Commentary;
Despite the increasing blatancy of the Olmert Regime’s division of Jerusalem, Shas remains in the government. Quite frankly, one must doubt that they would even make good their most recent empty “threat” to leave the government over bakeries selling and restaurants serviing Hametz during Pesach. The Shas party and its leadership have shown themselves to be a shallow, external appearing “religious” party, totally lacking ANY Jewish principles or values. One Gentile blogger looking at Shas’ hypocrisy has a point; They are pathetic. MB
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Three Kassam Rockets Launched From Gaza Into Israel Overnight
IDF Kills 4 Terrorists in Gaza Strip
IDF, Terrorists Clash in Northern Gaza
Three Mortar Shells Fired from Gaza Land in Western Negev; No Casualties
IDF Arrests 10 Wanted Terrorists [in and Near Kalkilya, in Bethlehem, and in Halhul west of Hevron]
IDF Discovers Two Explosive Devices Near Nablus [Shechem]; None Wounded
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As our Parsha Metzora is normally, in most years, the twilight side of a Torah doubleheader parsha, a few points of discussion from last week, the individual’s Tzara’as extrapolated onto national ills needs further examination.
Last week, the Parsha Shevua on Parsha Tazria spoke to the unity which is the very essence of the Kohan.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin in “Growth Through Torah” (page 253) cites the Rabbi of Alexander who cites as the reason why, when one suspected an affliction with Tzara’as, that he must go to Aharon, the Kohen and
not to a scholar, a Talmud Chacham;
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Commentary;
Once again, we watch the “revolving door” door of the PA prison system at work, as with the recent report of the escape of two killers of the Jewish hikers near Hevron who were later claimed by PA prison authorities as having been given furlough.
It will be fascinating to watch how the PA explains away this escape — 12 terrorists roaming free to murder and maim more Jews. When will Olmert, Barak, Livni and Ramon come to grasp and take responsibility for the consequences of their equivocation and “goodwill” appeasement of a merciless, murderous enemy? When will Israel again take sole responsiblity for defense of the Jewish people? MB
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[Work Accident?] Gaza Man Killed in Possible Kassam Misfire
Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Ashkelon [Four Mortar Shells Fired]
Grad Rocket Launched at Ashkelon; No Casualties
Gazans Fire Anti-Tank Missile at Troops Patrolling Border Fence; None Hurt
Israeli Car Damaged in Hebron Stone-Throwing
IDF Sappers Detonate 2 Bombs in Jenin
IDF Troops Arrest Terror Suspect Near Bethlehem
IDF Officer Lightly Wounded by Palestinian Gunfire near Jenin
Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktail at Israeli Vehicle [Near Kalkilya]; No Injuries Reported
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Commentary;
Former MK Uzi Landau speaks about the long-term risks, militarily and psychologically of substituting fortification for concerted, conclusive military action to end daily terror emanating from Gaza. MB
The Risks of Fortification, by Uzi Landau (Ynet)
“No sensible person can comprehend the gap between young Israel’s aggressive policy and the weakness demonstrated by the strong, well-established Israel, 60 years later.”
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I was on a solidarity trip to Sderot and the Gaza vicinity communities, when in one of the Kassam ridden kibbutzim I met Assaf – a local resident and a father of four. Two of his daughters, he said, were currently serving in the IDF, so when the Color Red alert sounds, he knows they are safe.
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Palestinians Open Fire at Agriculturists Near Gaza Border [Kibbutz Ein Ahshlosha]
IDF Kills Three Gaza Terrorists [Near the City of Khan Yunis]
Ten Checkpoints Removed as Goodwill, PA and Rice Not Satisfied, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
Related report; IDF officer: If There’s Terrorism Against Settlers Roadblocks will be Reinstated [Rabin 1994: “If they’re bad boys…” ]