Parsha Re’eh 5768 — When Hard-Heartedness Replaces Chesed

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By, Moshe Burt

According to Rashi, Moshe Rabbeinu begins our Parsha Re’eh by informing the B’nei Yisrael about the blessing and the curse to be pronounced to them upon their entry to Eretz Yisrael from Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval.

Moshe Rabbeinu continues his mussar saying, “Behold, I set before you … a blessing and a curse; the blessing if you heed the commandments of Hashem, and the curse, if you will not observe his commandments.(Sefer Devarim, Perek 11, posukim 26-27) read more

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The Why’s of Israel’s PR Failures

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Commentary;

Martin Sherman’s comments on the abysmal failure of Israel’s hasbara allude to the fact that a relative handful of wealthy elitists who wield power through the consolidation of much of the nation’s financial resources, as well as through the intelligencia and the judicial system in order to “to shape events here, to mold opinions and to determine what processes should be set in motion and which should not.”

This “shaping of events by the elitists” has produced side affects which have further compounded Israel’s already apparent systemic hasbara failures. read more

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Regime Posturing and Backing Down: It’s Beyond Embarrassing

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Commentary;

The repeated saber-rattling of the Olmert-Livni-Barak regime has long-since passed way beyond embarrassing. Each episode of saber-rattling, of talking the talk, is inevitably followed shortly thereafter by these incompetent, self-serving political hacks backing down out of fear, intimidation by, and subserviance to the superpower. Without a belief-based rooting, these irreligious so-called “leaders” are thus disabused of “walking the walk.”

And so what results is, as with the Lebanon conflict, a hodge-podge, hit-or-miss set of aims and goals far beneath TOTAL Victory and vanquishment of the enemy sworn to vanquish and decimate us. As this blog has repeatedly noted, the goal of the regime is to bring international forces to Gaza, as with Lebanon. And, as any thinking person knows; international “peacekeeping” forces lack total credibility based on past record. read more

Olmert: Duplicitous “Promises”, Shas: Knowingly Duped

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From the 2000 Camp David Summit: Barak’s Jerusalem Division Map

Commentary;

This author, and many others, have received this message from Pini Itzchaky, advisor to Shas Chaver Knesset Atias, in response to the ongoing email bombardment of Shas MKs demanding that they leave the Olmert regime;

The Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert: “It has been said and agreed between me and between the head of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen, that Jerusalem that is an important and emotional subject. We will not start this emotional negotiation, which could bring to failure of the talks. We postponed the TIPUL of Jerusalem until the last stage.” read more

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Another Ill-Conceived Conflict; Goal: Multinational Force, Not Victory

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Commentary;

Will a Gaza conflict be a replay of Olmert’s 2006 summer Lebanon conflict? Has Israel’s military strategy of winning a war and vanquishing an enemy sworn to our destruction, so degraded in recent years to the point of fighting a conflict with the goal being introduction of international forces with their record impairing and further degrading Israel’s military capability as well as degrading Jewish national sovereignty? MB

IDF Exit Plan: Gaza Invasion Will Bring Multinational Force, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post) read more

Very Predictable: Mazuz Bleeds for Arabs, Ignores Sderot’s Children

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Commentary;

As predicted on this blog a few days ago, electrical power cut sanctions against Gaza are to be suspended. The suspension is upon order of Attorney General Mazuz.

For context regarding Israel’s planned sactions against Gaza,
click here. MB

Atty. Gen. Mazuz Orders Power Cuts in Gaza Suspended, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)

Excerpts;

While not rejecting outright the option of power cuts to the Hamas-controlled Gaza region in response to continued enemy rocket attacks from the PA, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Monday night that the measure should be suspended. The government requires Mazuz’s approval in order to carry out the sanctions. read more

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To the Regime: Stop Apologizing for Israel’s Legitimate Right to Self-Defense

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The cloaking of sanctions against Gaza, i.e. reduction in provision of Israeli power and other supplies, by Israel’s current regime as a continuation of “disengagement” is nothing less than apologetics for Israel’s legitimate, inalienable rights as a sovereign nation to defend itself and to secure it’s people and it’s sacred national land. Any sovereign nation, on its own land, has this inherent national entitlement.

Here are pertinent quotes from the Jerusalem Post opinion piece No Security, No Power which make this fundamental point; read more

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Wednesday War News: Continuing Attacks From ‘Enemy Entity’ Gaza; Terrorist Arrests in Shechem, Throughout Yehuda, Shomron; Gun Battles in Shechem

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UPDATE: Security Cabinet Declares Gaza Strip an ‘Enemy Entity’

Ehud Barak Asks Cabinet to Declare Gaza an ‘Enemy Entity’

Excerpt;

“Move would let Israel cut off vital electricity, water and fuel supplies to the Palestinian territory. Gaza’s population, largely impoverished…, and a cutoff would deepen their hardship. Since the Hamas takeover, Israel has closed crossings with Gaza almost entirely, allowing in only humanitarian aid.”

Explosive Devices Thrown at IDF Troops in Nablus [Shechem] Refugee Camp read more

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Tuesday War News: More Kassams Fall in Negev, Sderot Classes Outside Knesset; Terrorists Arrested, Huge Cache Illegal Arms in Terrorist Hands in Yesha

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Five Kassams Land in Western Negev; No One Wounded

Related reports:

Sderot Children to Have ‘Class’ Outside Knesset

Israel Will Petition UN Secretary General to Stop Kassams on Sderot

Commentary;
Absurdity of Absurdites: The UN stopping Kassam blitz’s of Jewish children in Sderot?? MB

IDF Instructed to Resume Targeted Killings Against Islamic Jihad Leaders

Ramon: Cut Off Water, Power to Gaza

Commentary;
The first intelligent comment from Haim Ramon in years; “We cannot continue to supply water, fuel and electricity when they are trying to kill our children.” MB
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Parsha Re’eh 5767 — Collective Consequences of Lacking Chesed

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By, Moshe Burt

According to Rashi, Moshe Rabbeinu begins our Parsha Re’eh by informing the B’nei Yisrael about the blessing and the curse to be pronounced to them upon their entry to Eretz Yisrael from Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval.

Moshe Rabbeinu continues his mussar saying, “Behold, I set before you … a blessing and a curse; the blessing if you heed the commandments of Hashem, and the curse, if you will not observe his commandments.(Sefer Devarim, Perek 11, posukim 26-27) read more

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