The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Expellees Receive Power-Struggle Eviction Notices, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Commentary;
It seems like some of the former Gush Katif families have had to endure the ongoing long-term abuse of being caught between a disdainful regime and Israelis whose only ethic is to gouge, shake down and victimize their fellows.
It would not be surprising if we were to find out that both the regime and Kibbutz Carmiya were in cahoots persecuting these families and making their lives intolerable.
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PM: Israel Can’t Hold West Bank Forever (Jerusalem Post)
Commentary;
Olmert continues to promulgate the oft-proven false, bogus PA demographic stats to cover his disdain for Yehuda and Jewish history and our Divine Legacy — the Land of Israel. For previous related blog posts bursting the regime’s demographics dud, click here. MB
Excerpts;
Anyone who believes that Israel can maintain its current hold on all the West Bank is “living in a dream,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday, reiterating that Israel “needs to withdraw.”
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For previous blog posts regarding both the Winograd Report and the State Comptroller’s Report, click here and here.
Crybabies Don’t Win Wars, by Ron Ben-Yishai (Ynet)
IDF more concerned with avoiding casualties than completing missions
Excerpts;
One of the more widespread myths reinforced following the Second Lebanon War praised the remarkable performance of low-ranking combat soldiers and ground force commanders.
We were told that major- generals, brigade commanders, and some division commanders did not perform well – but most battalion commanders, platoon commanders, company commanders and their subordinates fought like lions and defeated Hizbullah fighters in every encounter.
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Iran to Fund Syrian Arms Deals, by Roee Nahmias (Ynet)
Excerpts;
Tehran will help Syria fund future arms deals with North Korea and Russia, set up military plants there and back Syria on the Lebanon issue.
Iran will transfer a billion dollars to Syria for the purchase of 400 advanced T-72 Russian tanks, 18 MiG-31 warplanes, eight Sukhoi fighter jets and eight Mikoyan helicopters.
In addition, Iran will help Syria set up a mid-range missile manufacturing plant and equip the Syrian army with Iranian-made armored vehicles and tanks.
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Commentary;
In a recent previous quote, this blog asked this question regarding the Comptroller’s report on the unpreparedness of the Home Front Command during last summer’s Lebanon conflict; Are there two Home Front Commands; one for the north which is being remediated, and one for the south which is being TOTALLY NEGLECTED?
The news report below provides evidence that this might indeed be the case. MB
Sderot Residents Protest Transfer of Shelters
Full Text;
Several Sderot residents barricaded themselves inside a mobile secure room on Friday in protest of a Defense Ministry decision to transfer the rooms from Sderot to the North.
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For recent blog posts related to the prisoner release, click here and here.
256 Freed Security Prisoners Start Arriving at Beitunya, by Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
256 Palestinian security prisoners started arriving at the Beitunya checkpoint, between Givat Ze’ev and Ramallah, at about 10 a.m. Friday morning after being released from Ketziot Prison in the western Negev.
Head of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, Brigadier General Yoav Mordehai, met with senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh and Palestinian Authority Minister for Prisoners Affairs Ashraf Ajrami at the checkpoint, ahead of the prisoners’ arrival.
One Suffers Shock as Kassam Lands in Sderot [Friday Morning]
Terror Rocket Hits Sderot, Two Women in Shock (Update)
Kassam Rocket Lands in Sderot; Several People Suffer Shock
Palestinians Open Fire at IDF; 7 Fugitives Caught
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.