The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Kassam Rocket, Two Mortar Shells Fall in Western Negev; No Casualties
Mortar Shell Lands Near Sufa Crossing; No Injuries
Olmert: As Far as I’m Concerned, Gazans Can Keep Walking
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Olmert: “…Let all of Gaza walk on foot and not have fuel for their cars, because they have a murderous regime that won’t let people in southern Israel live their lives. We won’t let there be a humanitarian crisis that will affect hospitals”.
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Commentary;
In reading Natan Sharansky’s words excerpted below, particularly where he cites Yassir Arafat at Camp David in 2000 as declaring “that since Jerusalem belonged to all Arabs and Muslims, he had no right to make the decision about the relinquishment alone – and therefore needed to consult the Arab and Muslim League,” this author reflected back on a citation in the sefer “Torah Gems”, by Aharon Yaakov Greenberg (Vol. 2, page 103).
On Shemos, chapter 14, verse 10; “Behold the Egyptians travelled after them…” and the B’nai Yisrael saw the immense Egyptian force moving toward them — as one, R’Menachem Mendl of Kotzk comments;
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Abominable leftist author A.B. Yehoshua apparently lines up solidly behind Haaretz editor David Landau’s yearning for a “rape” of the Jewish state. MB
A.B. Yehoshua: Bush Should Recall Ambassador Until Outposts Dismantled, by Menachem Gantz (Ynet)
“Israeli novelist says Israel deceiving international community into focusing solely on illegal outposts, thus legitimizing settlement enterprise”
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In a scathing op-ed published in the Italian daily La Stampa, Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua said George W. Bush should recall the US ambassador to Israel until the Jewish state dismantles all illegal outposts in the West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.
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Kassam Rocket Lands Near Erez Crossing; No Casualties or Damage Reported
Related report; Dichter: We Must Stop Attacks From Gaza at All Cost
Excerpt;
“Barak… referred to Dichter’s statments as ‘panic-driven talk the likes of which I had never heard in the government before…'”
Two Kassam Rockets Fired at Sderot; No Casualties or Damage Reported
Gaza: More Pinpoint Raids, No Major Operation
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Commentary;
Caroline Glick, in her column excerpted below, corroborates the math presented here and adds one more factor; the possiblility of 11 Kadima rebels who could constitute “the final hammer blow” which destroys Olmert’s regime and forces new elections.
The big question is; do Israeli politicians have the overriding courage to drive new elections even though, for many, it could mean lost seats? When will the term political courage become more than a laughable oxymoron on the Israeli political scene? MB
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Commentary;
The absurdity of the report below yet again highlights the sorry state of affairs in Israel’s governance and national sovereignty; PA murderers who killed Jews on Jewish land held “in PA custody, effectively confined to their place of employment” = PA revolving-door. MB
Olmert Government Prevents Capture of Hikers’ Killers, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
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Israel has acceded to a Palestinian Authority request not to demand the murderers of hikers David Rubin and Achikam Amichai, according to a Channel 2 report.
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8 Kassam Rockets Fired at Israel
Excerpt;
“One lands near Sderot kindergarten, hits water pipe; one lands in Ashkelon’s industrial area, a third near Zikim.”
Barak Orders Lockdown of Gaza, Hamas
Have the IDF, Government Learned, Integrated Lebanon’s Lessons?
Make Gazans Choose, by Gilad Sharon (Ynet)
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“As usual with this government and the person who heads it, it chose to do a little of this and a little of that: Partial humanitarian pressure…, and limited military activity…. But as we know, a little of this and a little of that is not enough of both.”
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Commentary;
Michael Freund puts Olmert’s word “disgrace” in real perspective. The question is; who is a disgrace? The youth who love and cleave to Hashem’s legacy to B’nai Yisrael — the Land of Israel? Or an etrogized power-abusive Prime Minister lacking elective mandate and who races to place the nation in dire, mortal and territorial peril in order to evade legal judgement for his own dereliction of leadership (Lebanon conflict) and his personal, political corruption, graft and moral turpitude? MB
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Sderot: Power is Out, Residents Burn Tires
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“Since morning, the Gaza enemy has fired about 40 rockets at Israel.”
Total Aid From Donors for Palestinians Increases to $7.6 Billion
Commentary;
More and more billions to buy more phoney “humanitarian aid” contraband. MB
Kassam Rocket Barrage [15 Rockets] Pounds Sderot
Related report; MK Rivlin: Shell Gaza Civilians
Kibbutz Kuilding Damaged as 7 Mortar Shells hit Western Negev