Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Israel Considers Giving Fatah Military Support, Commentary by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

Excerpt;
“‘Sometimes the army needs to show determination, to put pressure on extremists, to put pressure on these terrorists, in order for the
Palestinians to understand this is not something that is tolerable, that this is something that also affects their life,’ said Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister.”

Dr. Lerner’s Commentary;
“How about instead: ‘since others are not stopping those attacking Israel, our army has to stop them. The IDF isn’t trying to kill Palestinians for PR – its trying to kill people who are actively engaged in trying to murder Israelis.’” read more

Increase in Kassam Attacks Saturday Night

Sderot: Kassams Force Schools to Close [13 Kassams Over Shabbos]

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IDF Strikes Hamas Targets, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Second Airstrike in Gaza Against Rocket Launchers

Summary of Events in Gaza (Saturday)

IAF Strike Kills Palestinian in Jabalya

Kassam Hits Kibbutz in Western Negev, No Wounded

Anti-Tank Missile Shot at IDF in Gaza; No Wounded

Three Kassams Hit Sderot; No Reports of Wounded

Two Schools in West Negev Closed After Kassam Hit read more

No Solution to Rocket Attacks, by Eitan Haber (Ynet)

Commentary;

The poster-boy, the apologist for the secular Israeli left has again spoken the absurdities for which he is famous. Nothing can be done?
What are we; poor, defenseless herds of scared Jews??

The truth of the matter is that this regime and its police and military are inordinately too busy bullying, arresting and persecuting Jews when it ought to be doing what a Jewish nation ought to be doing; fighting, defeating and decimating it’s national enemies who are intent on our destruction and nothing less. read more

Five PA Infiltrators Captured, Explosives Found

Top IDF Officer: Goal of Gaza Ops is to ‘Make Hamas Pay’

Excerpt;
“Nine Kassams were fired at Israel on Friday. Two scored a direct hit on a home, lightly wounding several people.”

Cut Off Their Power, Gilad Sharon (Ynet)

Excerpts;
“Cutting off the power supply in the Gaza Strip in response to acts of terror is what is required. It is of course impossible to live without electricity nowadays.”

Commentary;
Many are calling for cutting off electricity and other services from Gaza, thus letting them rot. But can we give the son of the Prime Minister of Expulsion any credence at all??? MB read more

Kassam Rocket Strikes Synagogue in Sderot; 1 Hurt

2 Kassam Rockets Strike Western Negev; No Wounded

The Growing Hamas-Al-Qaeda Connection – Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi (IMRA)

Weekly Commentary: Imperative to Prevent Spread Of Palestinian Chaos to West Bank, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

IAF Hits man Trying to Launch Kassam From Gaza

Six Killed as IAF Hammers Hamas Targets in Gaza Strip

IDF Targets Hamas Terrorist HQ in Gaza City

IDF Confirms Attack on Rafah

Next Target May be Ashkelon, Defense Officials Warn read more

Shin Bet Uncovers Plot to Kill Olmert, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

Doctors Without Borders: “We would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time.”

Excerpts;

A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago. read more