Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas and Phenomenon of Israeli Governance: MKs Glued to Seats for Power and the Money, At Jewish Peril

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Wanted: Military Commanders, Governmental Leaders Worthy of IDF Warriors

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Commentary;

Olmert was apparently too busy [presumably giving away more of Eretz Yisrael or freeing more Islamic terrorists to kill more Jews] to have the decency to attend the commendations ceremony to honor the valor and heroism of the IDF soldiers who saved his and his cronies cookies from complete rout by Hezbollah. Glick’s title, “Of Men and Mice”, indeed!

For more on two of the four heroes receiving commendations posthumously, click here. MB

Our World: Of Men and Mice, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post) read more

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The Dissimilarity of Feiglin to Olmert and Barak

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Caroline Glick, who has written so well about the imperative for political and governmental change in Israel, has a problem.

Her problem seems to be an inability to take a leap of faith, a leap towards emunah in Our Creator, the leap which she, herself, again and again and again in her previous writings deems essential, imperative to Israel’s continued security and well-being.

Time and again, Ms. Glick regales us with prose like this;

Rather than direct our attention at Olmert, Israelis must turn our attention to his enablers. Yisrael Beiteinu head and Minister of Non-Existent Strategy Avigdor Lieberman and his buddy, Shas leader and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Something or Other Eli Yishai, as well as Shas’s religious leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef should become the objects of public pressure. They must be made to understand that if they desire a political future of any kind, they must abandon Olmert and allow the nation to elect a new government. read more

Olmert’s 4-Pronged Attack on Jewish History, Connection With and Control of Eretz Israel

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Commentary;

Once again Caroline Glick nails the bullseye. But it’s a pity that the masses of Yosef Q. Israeli are either too lazy, too scared or too intimidated to rise and do something about it. MB

Our World: The Olmert Government’s assault on Zionism, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“The Olmert government is actively facilitating the destruction of the cultural, religious and physical heritage on which Jewish identity… is founded.”

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Jewish history throughout the ages has proven incontrovertibly that … assertion of Jewish rights and control over the Land of Israel and the affirmation of Jewish national identity, is the solution to most of the problems that have beset the Jews… In the Land of Israel, as a nation of free men and women willing and able to assert and defend ourselves, the Jewish people flourish on every level. read more

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Lebanon and the Consequences of Lack of a Thorough, Thought-Through Military Plan

Think Again: The Sages and Winograd, by Jonathan Rosenblum (Jerusalem Post)

Commentary;

With Chag Shavuot coming tonight, Jonathan Rosenblum’s column adds a spiritual dimension to our current national crises.

There was a time in recent history, in Israel’s previous wars, where the IDF had the capacity to plan ahead, to plan not only the battle at hand, but to see the implications of the battle at hand and to plan two or three steps ahead and yet to improvise — or in NFL terminology; to “audible at the line of scrimmage.” read more

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Jerusalem and the Legal Hypocrisy of Illegal ARAB Construction

Our World: Tolerating Hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

For related reports, click here and here.

“After Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski attacked the US and EU boycott, ….Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stuttered that Israel’s connection to Jerusalem is “indivisible.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said nothing.”

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This week, the EU supplemented its NGOs’ work to divide the capital by announcing its boycott of Wednesday’s Knesset ceremony celebrating Jerusalem’s liberation. The US also loudly absented itself from the ceremony. read more

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Israel’s Media: Delusion of the Jews Based on Enemy Propaganda

Column one: What is Israel’s Problem?, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“All a person has to do is take a look at Palestinian ‘educational’ television, where Mickey Mouse exhorts kindergarteners to become mass murderers, destroy Israel… to know that Palestinian society seeks Israel’s destruction and Islamic global supremacy.”

“Former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon expressed his view… ‘We argue over what the solution is, but we still haven’t agreed on what the problem is…. This obvious predicament has rarely been mentioned. It certainly has not informed the policies of Israel’s governments.'” read more

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Winograd Committee: Deliberately Covered Over of Ideological and Cognitive Failure of Regime, Israeli Establishment Leading to Lebanon Outcome

Column One, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“The report’s concentration on the personal failures of the three men serves mainly to strengthen the Left’s push to place all the blame for the war’s dismal outcome on the personal incompetence of Israel’s leaders. This it does by deliberately ignoring the ideological and cognitive failure of the government and the Israeli establishment as a whole. It was this failure that led to the war and to its dismal outcome.” read more

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A Commission Born in Sin: Olmert’s Handpicked Committee

Our World: What Commissions Cannot Do, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“Ma’ariv reported protocols of cabinet meetings in the weeks which preceded the 2000 withdrawal where then IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz and then IDF OC Northern Command Gabi Ashkenazi begged Barak not to go through with the withdrawal precisely because the Hezbollah buildup and aggression were so predictable.”

Related report: Summary of the Winograd Committee Interim Report

Excerpts;

When thousands of IDF reservists were released from service at the end of last summer’s war they were angry and demanded an accounting from the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government and from the IDF’s General Staff. The reservists rightly felt that they and the country had been betrayed by failed political and military leaders who chose the wrong strategy, prosecuted it incompetently, and led the IDF and the nation to an ignominious defeat that could have been a victory if they had been less incompetent, arrogant and foolish. read more

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The Israeli Police: Public Servants Who Perceive Themselves as Above Law and Morality

Our World: More Than a Few Rotten Apples, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

For context, click here.

Excerpts:

“The mafia brings people into the police and they act as [the mafia’s] servants…The people in the police are afraid of nothing. A person who can take a half-a-million shekels inside a police station and not report it is someone who couldn’t care less and fears nothing. A police like this cannot endure.”

Thus spoke retired district judge Vardi Zeiler Sunday morning. Zeiler’s indictment of the police came as he presented the findings of the state commission he led which investigated allegations of police and prosecutorial mishandling of organized crime investigations and of police collusion with the Perinian crime family. read more

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