Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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It never ceases to amaze this author how, on the eve of an Olmert, Abbas meeting, this time on Monday in Yericho, things suddenly become peaceful — no Kassams launched from Gaza, no IAF raids, no arrests, no snipping or stoning attacks on roads in Yehuda and Shomron, no infiltrations into Israel, no explosive devices thrown at IDF soldiers near Shechem; nothing, absolute quiet since Saturday night.

As Olmert is about to offer further “gestures (sic)” = appeasement or further surrender to Abbas by way of opening Israel’s borders including; read more

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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

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Five Weekend Rockets From Gaza, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)

Palestinians Launch Rocket at Sderot; None Hurt

Report: IAF Kills Two Islamic Jihad Operatives

Islamic Jihad Terrorist in Weapons-Laden Vehicle Killed

Related report: IDF: IAF Attack Targeted Container Carrying Car Bomb

Gazans Infiltrate Through Fence Friday

Alert Lifted After Infiltrators Nabbed [Arrests Made in Tira, Bat Yam]

Explosive Devices Thrown at Troops in Nablus [Shechem]

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Five Weekend Rockets From Gaza, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)

Palestinians Launch Rocket at Sderot; None Hurt

Report: IAF Kills Two Islamic Jihad Operatives

Islamic Jihad Terrorist in Weapons-Laden Vehicle Killed

Related report: IDF: IAF Attack Targeted Container Carrying Car Bomb

Gazans Infiltrate Through Fence Friday

Alert Lifted After Infiltrators Nabbed [Arrests Made in Tira, Bat Yam]

Explosive Devices Thrown at Troops in Nablus [Shechem]

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Quite a few people have told me over this campaign that they can’t perceive of Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit winning this or any Likud primary.

There are comments like; He’s too unknown, He has no legislative background or experience, Manhigut Yehudit is too small a movement, he could never win national election — that Likud would end up with less seats in Knesset than now, even single-digit numbers.

But, guess what people; victory seems waiting for us on Primary Day. It’s like “the Tugger“ used to say; “Ya Gotta Believe!” read more

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Demographic threat? Nonsense, By David Rubin (Jerusalem Post)

“The demographic argument of those who advocate Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, whether unilateral or negotiated…, ignores both the steady high birthrates of the Jewish population in Judea and Samaria and the ongoing and increasing emigration of the Arab population from those areas. The media rarely notes that the reports of massive Arab population growth have been deliberately exaggerated…”

Full Text; read more

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3 Kassam Rockets Fall on Sderot; No One Hurt

Related reports:

Man Wounded in Sderot Kassam Attack

Kassam Rocket Strike Western Negev; None Wounded

Citizens Retaliate with Rocket-Powered Eggs on Gaza

Excerpt;

“Tel Aviv residents… drove to the area Thursday and fired rocket-powered eggs and vegetables on northern Gaza…. Intention ‘to draw attention to what is going on.’ The group used a home-made launcher loaded with organic food.”

Commentary;

But what about if we fire rocket-powered chazir at them? MB read more

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Commentary;

Peace Now’s war on Chareidi property owners in the Modiin development of Matityahu East [Kiryat Sefer] moves ever closer to a show-down, or possibly the more appropriate term may be a smack-down, in the High court.

And so the question asked in earlier posts on this blog seems more and more pertinent; Will the Chareidim Leave the Beis Medrash for Their Brothers in Kiryat Sefer? And more importantly, will will lovers of the Land of Israel from non-Chareidi sectors unite as brothers to defend the Divine Right of ALL Jews to own homes and live in any part of Eretz Yisrael? MB read more

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Kassam Attack Near Yad Mordechai

4 Kassams Land in Western Negev, No Injuries

Terrorist Killed in Gaza

Terrorists Using Popular Computer Game for Training

Three Hamas Terrorists Arrested in Jerusalem

100 Illegals Arrested, Ten Employers Investigated

Troops Open Fire at Fugitive Near Nablus [Shechem]

Palestinian Shot After Trying to Attack Soldiers [Near Ramallah]

Related report:

PA Arab Escapee Shot After Attacking Israeli Troops

Update: Would-be Attacker Dies in Ramallah Hospital

IDF Comes Under Fire in Nablus, Jenin; None Hurt read more

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Hillel Kook, aka Peter Bergson

Commentary;

Theres’s no question that worldwide, unified Jewish action will help in the battle against Ahmadinejad’s Iraqi nuclearization. But, ultimately, the only thing which will eradicate it, or set it back years or decades is an Osirak-style Israeli attack. But since the Olmert regime considers itself inadequate and “too tired” to properly defend the Jewish nation, we are therefore left with halfway measures. MB read more