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.
Evidence Mounts on Bogus Terror Disavowal of Released Prisoners
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More Evidence That Freed Terrorists Hold Weapons (Israel National News)
For context on this report, click here.
Excerpt;
Newsweek magazine has added more evidence that Fatah terrorists released last week by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert still have access to their weapons, in violation of terms of the release. Newsweek reporter Kevin Peraino wrote, “I found [Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades] boss Zacharia Zubeidi, sitting under a carob tree, chain smoking L&Ms, and otherwise doing nothing. ‘We’re just like the rest of the army. We have no duties.’… Despite the fact that Aqsa militants in the West Bank made an elaborate show earlier this week of turning in their Kalashnikovs and pledging to support for Abbas, Zubeidi made it clear that he still has access to his old weapons.”
Tuesday (Tisha B’av) War News: Arrests, Cluster Bombs, IAF Raid
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IAF Missile Hits Gaza City Building
IDF Arrests 15 Wanted Terrorists
71 PA Arab Illegals Arrested and Released
3 Cluster Bombs Land Near Kissufim
IDF: Hezbollah Can’t Hit Tel Aviv
Excerpt;
“A senior IDF official…. said, Hezbollah’s military capabilities are greater than they were during the Second Lebanon War.”
For context regarding Hezbollah’s capabilities, click here.
Monday War News: Mortars from Gaza, Rocks, Arrests; Hezbollah Bluster?
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Rock Attack on Ambulance [Near Beit Omer, Between Gush Etzion and Hevron]
Kassam Attack in Western Negev [Rocket Landed in Carmiya]
Rock Attacks Near Ramallah, Shechem
IDF Arrests Seven Wanted Terrorists [in Judea, Samaria: in Ramallah, Hevron, Jenin, Bethlehem]
Parsha Va’etchanan — Consolation After Expulsion, After the Cruelty, Disdain of Israel’s Leaders?
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The Haftorah for our Parsha begins, “Nachamu, Nachamu Ami yomar Elokeichem” — “Comfort, comfort my people — says your G’d.” (Yishaiya, 40:1) This sentiment seems to be silent, but yet a theme of Parsha Va’etchanan.
In the beginning of Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu recalls for the B’nai Yisrael how he entreated Hashem for permission to cross the Jordan River but that his request was denied. Instead, he was consoled by viewing the Land from Mount Pisgah. (L’lmod Ul’Lamed – Parsha Va’etchanan, page 161)
Olmert’s Arrogance and Disdain: ‘We Won’t Fortify Ourselves to Death’
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Commentary:
As was previously posted on this blog, Olmert suddenly is talking offensively, rather than defensive protection of the citizens he governs. While he is very correct regarding the use of the term evacuation — in the context of causing a permanent retreat from a place, but what Olmert apparently means is forcing the citizens and children of Sderot, Ashkelon and other bordering locations to cower in their unreinforced homes and in their unprotected schools and ganim and in uninhabitable “bomb shelters” while Olmert commands the IDF to spend millions in bombing empty fields rather than bombing locations where the terrorists use human shield to protect themselves, their Kassams and other weapons and ammo.
Just How Secure is the Northern Border Now?
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IDF: Hezbollah Moving Rockets Inside South Lebanese Villages
(Associated Press)
Commentary;
This report gives additional details on today’s earlier post regarding camouflaging of rockets and launchers in villages.
Another Olmert pillar, that of the security of the Northern border post Lebanon conflict, goes up in flames. MB
Full Text;
Hezbollah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in south Lebanon among civilians in villages in an apparent attempt to avoid detection by Israel and UN troops, IDF officials said Sunday.
Olmert, Abbas Prisoner Release: Signal that Fatah, Hamas War a Scam?
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Barak of IRIS questions how it’s possible that Olmert’s “gesture” toward Abbas of releasing 255 prisoners ‘without blood on their hands’ could have included 30 members of Hamas and two members of the Islamic Jihad.
Was the entire “war” between Fatah and Hamas a fraud perpetrated on us not only by the PA, but with the knowing complicity of Ehud Olmert?
According to the guidelines approved earlier in the week by a special Israeli governmental committee headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the prisoners released do not have any “blood on their hands”.
Sunday War News: Attacks from 3 Directions, Iranian Denial, Hezbollah Camouflage
IAF Kills Two Islamic Jihad Operatives
Kassam Rocket Hits Sderot; 1 Person Lightly Hurt
UPDATE: Second Terror Rocket Hit Elementary School
Terrorists Killed Firing Kassam Rockets, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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“Arabs fired two Kassam rockets at the Negev city of Sderot Sunday afternoon, and a woman sustained shrapnel wounds. The Israel Air Force responded quickly by firing at the rocket launchers. Palestinian Authority sources reported that two Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed in the retaliation.