The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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This author sat pondering the title for this Parsha HaShevua and cannot come up with a more appropo title that the one used in previous years.
The third posuk of our Parsha reads; “Tzedek, Tzedek tierdof…” Righteousness, righteousness (also rendered Justice, Justice) you shall pursue that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord, your G’d gives you.” (Sefer Devarim, Perek 16, posuk 20)
This posuk follows immediately after the opening of our Parsha;
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This primary day, like any other election day in Israel, has had it’s misrepresentations, false charges and deceit — nearly all of it coming from the Netanyahu camp and from the leftist media which eats all up.
Netanyahu Supporters: Kadima Supports Feiglin
Netanyahu Aides Say Kadima Officials Backing Feiglin Likud Bid
Imagine the hypocrisy of the above charges at the very moment that the Netanyahu campaign headquarters in Jerusalem occupies the 2nd floor of a building which has a Jews for Jesus center in its lobby. That’s a real great message to give voters?
2 Kassams Fired at West Negev; No One Hurt
3 Mortar Shells Fired at Kisufim, Land in Open Area
Kassam Rocket Strikes Western Negev; None Wounded
Army Discovers Suicide Belt in Gaza
Gaza: Hamas, Islamic Jihad Gunmen Clash With IDF [in Southern Gaza], by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
Two More Gunmen Reported Hurt as Gaza Ops Intensify
IDF, IAF Operate in Khan Younis
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Israel’s political leaders seem not to have learned very much since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Newly crowned defense minister Ehud Barak refuses protection for the homefront in light of the serious Syrian threat, just as Israel didn’t mobilize and call up it’s military reserves upon prior warnings of impending war — lest it be seen as provocative, aggressive presumably by American satellite intelligence of the time.
The Jerusalem Posts’ report on Barak’s avoidance of distributing gas masks states;
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The callous insensitivity of Ehud Olmert for the Jews of Israel is outrageous and becoming apparent, even outside Israel. The article below is by no means a one-time aberration. For a few examples in the long litany of such instances, click here, here, here, here and more recently; here and here. MB
View From America: Ehud Olmert’s Bunker Mentality, Jonathan Tobin (Jerusalem Post)
Prof. Mooli Lahad of Tel Hai College; “The houses are fixed, but the question remains as to whether the souls of those who suffered through the bombardment and the displacement it caused are repaired.”
3 Kassam Rockets Land Outside Sderot; None Hurt
3 Palestinians Arrested for Molotov Cocktails
Stones Thrown at Israeli Woman Near Ramallah
4 More Palestinian Fugitives Arrested Near Nablus [Shechem]
Weaponry and Drug Smuggler Caught in Samaria
3 PA Fugitives Arrested Overnight
‘Hezbollah Buying Land North of Litani’
Excerpt;
“At 16 kilometers from the border, the lands allegedly purchased are within rocket range of Israeli cities.”
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The two articles below, while reporting Barak’s assertions that any “separation” from land is 3-5 years away and dependent upon functionality of Kassam interception system, give short-shrift to the reality of the fallibility of any such system; i.e. in a massive attack, missiles will penetrate the system no matter what the level of functionality.
Beyond stating the obvious, that relinquishment or handing over of Jewish Land is based on the bogus demographics cover for severing Israeli connection for Jewish law, history, traditions and roots, it is axiomatic that Abba Eban’s famous Auschwitz borders pronouncement is at least as true now as it was when he made it in the UN. MB
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Gaza: IDF Fires on Gunmen Placing Bomb Near Fence
Hamas: New Naval Coast Guard Unit Formed [to Contest with Israel’s Navy?]
Terrorists Say They Dispatched “Quiet” [Israeli Arab] Jerusalem Attacker
Follow-up to Friday’s report.
Rocks Thrown at Israeli Bus Near Bethlehem
Bomb Thrown at IDF Troops [in Shechem]; None Wounded
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Commentary;
Benjamin Netanyahu, the current leader of the Likud party, and candidate for Likud leadership in Tuesday’s primary, is attempting to employ bogus scare tactics against his main competition, perhaps only competition, Manhigut Yehudit’s Moshe Feiglin.
But check out how Moshe Feiglin responds to Netanyahu’s outrageously bogus and chutzpadik charges and strategy in these videos.
Remember, this is the same Bibi who garnered but 19 Knesset seats in losing big to Ehud Barak in the 1999 election which led to Barak’s in-the-dead-of-night withdrawal under fire from South Lebanon which laid the seeds for last summer’s capture of IDF soldiers and the Lebanon conflict with Hezbollah. This is the same Bibi who did still worse in garnering 12 Knesset seats while being pummelled in the March, 2006 elections by Ehud Olmert who tied the Lebanon conflict to convergence as northern Israel suffered bombardment of hundreds of Katyushas and thus suffered the devastating, strategic and discrediting loss of the Lebanon conflict and resultant infringements upon Jewish sovereignty and self-defense by 3rd party military forces.