Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Israel To Sign $4 Billion Deal to Buy PA Gas

Related report:
FM Livni’s Office: Israel Wants to Conclude $4 Billion Purchase of Gaza Gas ASAP

Commentary:

This blog wrote about the Consequences of lack of a thorough, thought-through military plan. The same holds true for foreign, economic and enegy policy, i.e. negotiating with and ceding parts of Divine sovereign Jewish land to an enemy who craves our destruction. This gas deal with the PA is obviously fuel blackmail waiting to happen — turning off the pump to force further concessions. But Olmert, Livni and the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, as with their predessessors, lack the ability to think two or three steps ahead. MB read more

Molotov Cocktail Attacks in Hevron, Judea

Molotov Cocktail Attack in Shomron

Soldiers Arrest Terrorists in Shechem

Two Kassams Fired into Sderot; None Wounded

Kassam Rocket Strikes Western Negev; No Wounded

Report: IDF Targets Hamas Building in Gaza City

Kassam Fired at Sderot; None Wounded, Cars Damaged

2 Kassams, 1 Explodes Near Sderot Mayor’s Home

Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Sderot; None Wounded

IDF Arrests Senior Hamas Members in West Bank

Related reports:

IDF Arrests PA Mayors and More, Kassams Continue read more

2 IDF Soldiers Lightly Wounded at Dugit Ruins in Gush Katif

Over the Holiday: 5 Rockets, 2 IAF Strikes

IAF Bombs Money-Changing Offices that Funded Hamas

Related report: IDF Targets Businesses Transferring Funds to Terror Organizations

Two Kassams Fired Near Ashkelon and Sderot

Three Terror Rockets Hit Southern Israel

Arabs Shoot, Throw Bombs at IDF; Six Arrested

Erev Shavuot War News: Arab Kassam Blitz Extends to Ashkelon

Two Kassams hit Ashkelon; IAF strikes Hamas camps

Three More Kassams as Sderot Prepares for Funeral read more

Think Again: The Sages and Winograd, by Jonathan Rosenblum (Jerusalem Post)

Commentary;

With Chag Shavuot coming tonight, Jonathan Rosenblum’s column adds a spiritual dimension to our current national crises.

There was a time in recent history, in Israel’s previous wars, where the IDF had the capacity to plan ahead, to plan not only the battle at hand, but to see the implications of the battle at hand and to plan two or three steps ahead and yet to improvise — or in NFL terminology; to “audible at the line of scrimmage.” read more