The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Commentary;
PM’s Office Director General Raanan Dinor:
“Abandon… providing protection to every citizen …. Instead…, the money… can be used for active operations, such as attacks against rocket launchers.”
Does this mean real attacks on rocket launchers, wherever they may be and even behind human shield? Or does it mean more “hit them very, very hard” = hitting empty fields? We probably know the answer to that one. MB
US has Evidence of Syria Arms Transfers [to Hezbollah, Other Terror Groups]
For previous pertinent blog posts regarding Olmert’s Syrian moves, click here, here, and here.
Israel-Syria Pact ’85 Percent Done’, by Yaakov Lappin (Ynet)
Full Text;
Israel and Syria agree on “85 percent” of the issues which need to be resolved before a peace treaty can be signed between the two countries, a top Syrian advisor to President Basher Assad said, according to a former senior Israeli diplomat.
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Barak of IRIS has once again come through big-time regarding two of the three biggest threats facing Israel. These threats are not Hamas, not Abbas, not Hezbollah, not Syria, not even Irans’s Ahmadinejad.
Barak deals with two of the three biggest threats facing Israel in two links; one dealing with the State Comptroller’s report and the impact of corruption and protexia on Home Front unpreparedness during the Lebanon conflict and the other which impacts on bribery and appeasement of and submission, by way of huge funds transfers and release of terrorists, to enemies sworn to our destruction.
Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Sderot; No Wounded
UPDATE: [Third] Kassam Damages Buildings in Sderot
Light Injuries in Rocket Attack in Sderot, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
17% of [Terrorist] Prisoners Resume Terror Activity [Upon Release], by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)
Related report: 256 Prisoners [Terrorists] to be Released [on Friday]
For previous related blog posts, click here.
Kassam Rocket Lands in Sderot; 4 Lightly Wounded
Commentary;
Will today’s state comptroller’s report have teeth, clout?? Will it trigger the Knesset State Control Committee’s empowerment by law to order the appointment of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Lebanon conflict?
The regime’s “senior defense officials said Tuesday that the country was prepared, ‘more than ever,’ for another war.” * They claim that;
“The IDF is prepared for a war today better than it was last year,” declared one defense official. “Combat units are trained and the Home Front Command is better prepared today to deal with a missile onslaught than it was last summer.”
Commentary:
Caroline Glick characterizes the regime’s latest appeasement and surrender as a joke on Us. Anyone with a grain of intelligence and independence of though would have to agree.
By regime, this author means an entire politcal governing generation, with exceptions only counted on one hand; rotten, dishonest appeasors and corrupt to their very core.
The purest example of the latest appeasement and surrender is Olmert’s demand of Abbas that he not talk to Hamas. Anyone who really thinks that Abbas will refrain from any further contact with Hamas now that Olmert has given in to all of his demands, then I”ve got a bridge to sell you cheap!! For further proof of the emptiness of Olmert’s demand of Abbas to stay away from Hamas, click on these two eye-opening pieces from Barak of IRIS, here and here. MB
Ramon Proposes Small-Scale [Withdrawal from 70%] Realignment Plan, by Ronny Sofer (Ynet)
For context, click on these previous posts; here and here.
Full Text:
Vice Premier Haim Ramon has initiated a new, smaller-scale realignment plan that would see Israel withdrawing from 70 percent of the West Bank territory and evacuating settlements, mainly isolated ones.
Ramon told Ynet that the new plan, which was first reported on Channel 10 Monday evening, “is still in its initial stages,” and that it represented his views, not those of the prime minister.
One Lightly Wounded in Negev Mortar Attack
Three Kassams Land in Western Negev; None Hurt
Kassam Rocket Hits Power Cable South of Ashkelon
IDF Nabs Palestinian Fugitive Northwest of Jenin
Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Bus [Close to Hebron]
Terrorist Charged in Hatuel Murder
Kassam Rocket [1 of 3 Kassams Fired] Hits House in Sderot; None Wounded
Kassam Update: 4 Rockets, Several People in Shock
Sderot Home Suffers Heavy Damage as PA-Gaza Steps Up Attacks, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
A few years ago, Rav Aba Wagensberg spoke out in a shiur that Sefer Devarim represents Moshe Rabbeinu’s Mussar to B’nai Yisrael as the time of his death drew near.
He explained that near the end of Sefer BaMidbar, we began to see indications, via the story of Zelafchad’s daughters, Reuven and Gad’s desire to settle east of the Jordan, etc., that the B’nai Yisrael finally desired to accept Moshe Rabbeinu’s teachings and his Mussar which was meant to bring about the perfection of the Jewish people in emulation of the ways of Hashem as they were about to enter Eretz Yisrael.