The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Kassam Rocket Lands in Sdot Negev Region; None Wounded
IAF Strike in Northern Gaza Wounds 4
IDF: Gunmen Hit in Gaza Strike Part of Kassam Cell Targeted Saturday
Two Kassam Rockets Fall in Open Areas in Eshkol Region; No Casualties
Kassam Rocket Fire From Gaza, No Injuires
Three Mortar Shells Fired From Gaza
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According to Army Radio, some reports claimed that the two had escaped their cells and were spotted walking the streets of Hebron.
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Commentary;
Near the end of Caroline Glick’s article below, she suggests three things that Israel do to express a power game; Use of her economic leverage by virtue of technological prowess, impressing on the Germans and the other Europeans that Israel possesses considerable military power (despite the Lebanon fiasco of two years ago) and will use it to defeat its enemies and exposition of “Europe’s humanitarian and pro-peace rhetoric as a hypocritical sham” meant to cover over both their long-engrained disdain, if not outright hatred for Jews, as well economic and diplomatic appeasement of the Islamic world.
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Commentary;
The Mercaz HaRav pogrom has had a profound impact on the Rabbanim.
One may recall that many in the community mistook the terrorist’s gunshots for firecrackers.
On Sunday, Rav Kanievsky issued p’sak banning employment of Arabs.
Now the Chief Ashkenaz and S’fardi Rabbis have issued a ban on firecrackers. Perhaps now, if Israelis bother to listen to Rabbis (highly doubtful), we may hear less of those booms around Ramat Beit Shemesh which sound very much like gunfire or Kassams. MB
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Commentary;
Here’s a Rabbinic decision which is long overdue. It’s a shame that it apparently took a tragedy, the terror attack at Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, to bring about the decision to Rabbinically ban employment of Arab workers by Jews.
One can only hope that practical application of the ban spreads from Yeshivas, restaurants and stores to the building and construction trades.
One can only hope that Rav Kanievsky, who issued the decision, is supported and not over-ruled in Hareidi circles and that the decision and its application are supported steadfastly in the inevitable future ensuing legal battles with the leftist Israeli “justice system” which are sure to arise. MB
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In writing a vort on Purim, this author thinks back to a theme addressed in an earlier Siyum on Mesechta Megillah from three years ago as well as another recurring theme on this blog.
The Jew separates and distinguishes himself from the rest of the nations through the Mitzvah of Bris Milah, even though many of our contemporary Jewish brothers would distance themselves from, or stand in denial of their Yiddishkeit. But many among our Jewish brethren would deny Hashem’s control of the world and seek to tailor Torah and their Jewishness to fit the ways of the nations rather than accepting Hashem’s reishut (command) over the world.
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[2] Rocket, [2] Mortar Shell Attacks on Shabbat
IAF Kills 3 Terrorists in Gaza
IDF Detonates 2 [Islamic Planted] Explosive Devices Near Gaza Fence
IAF Bombs Terrorist Cell on its Way to Fire Rockets at Israel
[Friday PM] Terrorists Fire 7 Kassams at West Negev
Gazan Uses Humanitarian Permit to Evade Police
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“He was later apprehended in the northern Israel town of Nazareth.”
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Commentary;
It may be that Binyamin Netanyahu “could fix” “the situation in the western Negev” but, in reality, he’s not one iota better than Olmert.
The last lines in Gil Hoffman’s are telling;
He [Netanyahu] said that all of Jerusalem must remain in Israeli hands, to prevent it from falling to Hamas and to keep it safe for people from around the world.
“To prevent it from falling to Hamas and to keep it safe for people from around the world” — not a word about the holiness of Jerusalem. There is nothing in what Bibi said relating to Jerusalem as our eternal heart, that Jerusalem, that Har Habayit is the very seed and root of the Jewish people.
