The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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IDF: Chemicals Were Disguised as EU Aid, by Talia Dekel (Jerusalem Post)
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“The IDF and Shin Bet uncovered 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate [for the manufacturing of explosives and Kassam rockets] hidden in sacks that were disguised as aid from the European Union…. Another example of how the terror organizations exploit the humanitarian aid that is delivered to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip with Israel’s approval”
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Commentary;
That a bodyguard of the PA’s senior negotiator Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) was a terrorist is no great surprise. And it’s also no surprise that a Fatah security team, assigned during meetings with Mahmoud Abbas in August, to protect Ehud Olmert, “whose members he [Olmert] armed, pardoned and funded,” plotted, but were foiled in an attempted attack on the Israeli Prime Minister.
But this blog joins Barak of IRIS in expressing total consternation that the Bush entourage and security team would sanction coordination with with Al Aksa Brigades terrorists, in the guise of security, is shocking and apalling. Why, the attempted assassins of Olmert who got off with two months in PA jail may well be part of Bush’s security detail. One therefore must express all due trepidation for the President’s security during his upcoming trip here. MB
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Commentary;
Just as Olmert boasted that the summer 2006 Lebanon debacle was a boon for “convergence, realignment, consolidation” or whatever other synonyms he chose on whatever day, Dr. Aaron Lerner’s weekly commentary decries Olmert’s recent Annapolis boasts. Olmert’s latest so-called “peace” efforts “presenting Israeli withdrawals as a gain rather than sacrifice” and his bogus assertions that “Israel has no choice but to accept a final status deal at any price” are part of the regime’s destructo “diplomacy” which only further emboldens the murderous Islamic enemy. MB
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IAF Kills Hamas Gunman, Wounds 5 Others Near Gaza Security Fence
Kassam Rocket Lands in Open Field South of Ashkelon; None Wounded
Israel Allows Palestinian Authority to Import 50 APCs From Russia
Two Young Jewish Hikers Murdered in Judea
Police: Initial Report of Shooting Near Halhoul Bridge
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“Two hikers seriously wounded with shots to the head, and a third hiker, a woman, whose condition is unclear. The third hiker may have been the one who reported the attack.”
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Commentary;
This blog has hammered home again and again the shame of the evolving cycle of Israel’s governance in abandoning soldiers on fields of battle, such as with Jonathan Pollard, failure to rescue or even attempt to gain obtain sufficient intelligence to plan rescue of the kidnapped soldiers and it’s abandonment in 2000 (under cover of darkness) of the very South Lebanese allies who fought against terror alongside IDf soldiers.
What Evelyn Gordon relates in her column excerpted below could be extended to Israel’s American legislative allies who continually have their wings clipped. There is a litany of instances of American legislators taking very pro-Israel positions only to have their legs taken out from under them by a leftist Israeli regime. Examples in point are the US Joint Chiefs of Staff map of Israel’s defensible borders which Olmert withholds from distribution to Israelis as well as Israel’s recent possible failure to facilitate receipt by US House or Senate committees of videos of Egyptian officials caught in the act of aiding arms smuggling to terrorists in Gaza. In this later, recent case, American legislative allies may have been denied a major weapon to deny Eygpt military assistance. MB
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Commentary;
What ever happened to “not talking while under fire?” It must have gone the way of the definition of “blood on their hands.” MB
PM, Abbas to Discuss Settlements, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
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“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are scheduled to meet in Jerusalem on Thursday for the first time since the Annapolis peace conference in an effort to move forward negotiations…”
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Two Rocket Attacks near Ashkelon
AF Missile Strike Kills Central Gaza’s Islamic Jihad leader, by Itamar Sharon (Jerusalem Post)
Report: Barak, Mubarak Agree on Shalit Deal [Barghouti Said to be Included in Deal]
Gaza: Seven Terrorists Killed, 10 Wounded
Kassam Rocket Lands in Open Field South of Ashkelon; None Wounded
Kassam Rocket Launched into Western Negev, Causing No Casualties
IDF Kills Three Hamas Gunmen During Operation in Southern Gaza Strip
Kassam, Two Shells Fired From Gaza Into Western Negev; No Casualties
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Commentary;
Barak of IRIS takes Kadima ministers to task yet again for proposing to change the ‘rigid standards’ of murder to exclude those who mastermind terrorist operations. And recent polls indicate that a majority, as high as 2/3rds of the Israeli public stands opposed to such definitional change, even in a deal for the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, held hostage in gaza for 1 1/2 years.
Unfortunately, despite the monumental blunders and follies of two successive regimes, Israelis lack the backbone to do anything about either the current regime or the Israeli system of protexia government. The result of this spineless complacency may well be that Shalit freed in exchange for Marwan Barghouti and future considerations (more injured, maimed or dead Jews) MB
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Commentary;
What can one expect when an evil regime follows upon the precedents set in Gush Katif, the Shomron, Hevron’s Shalhevet neighborhood, Amona, etc.?
What this attack shows is that the Israeli government is as callous toward its Yemenite citizens now as they’ve been during the entire 60 years that these people have lived in the land. And it shows the indifference of most Israelis toward the plight of these residents, just as they were mainly indifferent to the former residents of Gush Katif. Further, it matters little on which side of the so-called “Greenline” one lives. Scary indeed! MB
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Commentary;
Will Olmert be able to avoid passing this constant reminder of his, and successive regime’s deliberate dereliction of governance? MB
Jerusalem City Council to Dedicate Pollard Square (IMRA)
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On Monday, January 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, the Jerusalem City Council, led by Representative Mina Fenton (NRP), has scheduled a renaming ceremony to take place at Kikar Pariz (Paris Square) in Jerusalem – a public square situated midway between the American Consulate and the Prime Minister’s Residence – to rename it in honor of Jonathan Pollard.