Annual Controller’s Report: Watch ‘Em Squirm

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Comptroller’s Report Takes Gov’t to Task (Jerusalem Post)

Related reports:

The IDF Dragged Its Feet in Confronting Terror Tunnels’, By Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

Comptroller’s Report Criticizes Disengagement, Before and After

Disengagement Cost ‘Miscalculated’, By Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)

Sderot Council: Report Shows We’ve Been Abandoned (Israel National News)

Kassam Problem Subject to Budget Constraints, IDF Says (Ynet)

Peretz: If We Had Means to Deal With Kassams, Things Would Look Different, by Hanan Greenberg (YNET) read more

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Freedom of Movement for ‘Pals'(sic)? Israel: Self-Respecting Nation or Banana Republic?

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Benchmarks for a Bloodbath, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)

Excerpts;

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not purposely trying to destroy all of Israel’s hard-won security gains of the last five years. But if she were, she could hardly have improved on her new benchmark proposal. The proposal comprises two parallel sets of “benchmarks”: steps (mainly Israeli) to increase Palestinian freedom of movement, and steps (mainly Palestinian) to combat Palestinian terror. However, it does not make either track conditional on the other. Thus should Israel accept the proposal, it would be pledging to fulfill its own side of the bargain regardless of whether the Palestinians honored theirs. And since increased freedom of movement for Palestinians includes increased freedom of movement for terrorists, that essentially means an Israeli pledge to facilitate terrorist operations even if the Palestinian Authority makes no compensatory effort to thwart such operations. read more

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Thursday War News

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Kalkilya: Rocks Thrown at Israeli Car; No Wounded

Fatah Operative Arrested in Kalkilya

IDF Arrests Two Palestinians in Gaza

IDF Arrests 15 Terror Suspects in West Bank

IDF Soldier Lightly Wounded in Nablus Operation

3 Kassams Land in Sderot; No Wounded or Damage

Updated and related reports:

Kassam Rocket Attack, 1 Injured (Update)

6-Year-Old Jumps From Window From Fear of Kassam

Terrorists near Shechem Wound IDF Soldier

PA, Israeli Security: 15 Smuggler Tunnels [Still in Use]

IDF Arrests 2 Islamic Jihad Militants Near Jenin read more

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Do the Jews of Israel Have the Fortitude, Staying Power to Defeat Complacency; to Force Olmert Regime From Power?

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Commentary;

Do the Jews, at long last, have the gumption, guts and fortitude to do what must be done; what they didn’t do before the expulsion, after the Lebanon conflict and throughout the existence of the Olmert regime? Namely, take to the streets enmass, 24/7 until Olmert and his partners in corruption; Peretz, Livni, Peres and more are removed and stripped of ALL governing power. MB

Olmert, You’re Fired, by Ariana Melamed

For the sake of this country, public must show leaders the way out… read more

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Amona-Gate: Six Missing Minutes of Police Briefing Footage

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Six Minutes of Footage Missing In Video on Amona

Additional Coverage:

Police Suspected of Fabricating Evidence in Attack on Jews

Excerpts;

Six minutes of footage are missing in a video on a briefing of police officers that was belatedly turned over to the Israel Policy Center, the center’s director Yitzhak Klein said. “It appeared that the material was extracted from a larger body of material,” he said. “We requested the raw footage, but the police said that this is all the footage they have.” read more

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Wednesday War News

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IDF Nabs 6 Palestinian Terror Suspects in West Bank

IDF Force Shoots Suspicious Palestinian by Border Fence

UN Sec’y Gen. Ban: Illegal Arms Regularly Reach Hezbollah Via Syrian Border

Kassam Lands in Open Territories in West Negev

Related reports and editorial:

Waiting for Disaster

IDF Warns: Improved Kassams in Sderot

Weapons Big Attraction at Gaza Used Car Markets

Rocket or Mortar Shell Injured Sheep

IAF Attacks Kassam Rocket Cell

Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Woman

Tel Aviv House Damaged in Grenade Attack read more

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Winograd Findings on One Foot;

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Arrogance, by Liat Collins (Jerusalem Post)

“THESE LEADERS were guilty of the same sin as their predecessors in 1973: … Haconceptzia – “The Concept” – a narrow security rationale that held that the Arabs had no capacity to wage war.”

“In the summer of 2006 contingency plans existed but were not implemented, and the country went to war led by Olmert, Peretz and Halutz, all trusting Halutz’s overriding belief that air power would determine the outcome, what has become known as Haconceptzia ha’avirit – facts on the burning ground be damned.” read more

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Tuesday War News

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Hamas Threatens to Kill Shalit if IDF Enters Gaza

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“MK Yisrael Katz called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to declare that if Hamas harms Schalit, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his friends in the Hamas government will be assassinated.”

10 Palestinians Arrested During House Demolition in East Jerusalem

Kassam Rocket Fired at Sderot

Kassam Strikes West Negev; No Wounded or Damage

Terrorists Firebomb Soldiers; No Injuries

IDF Troops Arrest 28 Palestinians in West Bank

1 Wounded as IAF Strikes Car in Gaza read more

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Parsha Behar 5767; Shemittoh — Reinforcing the Bond Between Jew and HIS Land

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by Moshe Burt

Rashi asks a critical question on the very first posuk of our Parsha;
“Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying.” (Parsha Behar, Vayikra Perek 25, posuk 1) He asks why the laws of Shemittoh are singled out as having been given at Sinai. Were not all of the Mitzvot said at Sinai?” He answers that just as all of the Mitzvot; their general rules and their specifics were taught at Sinai, so too were the general rules and specifics regarding Shemittoh taught at Sinai. Rashi then reasons that the posuk comes to teach us that every utterance said to Moshe, they were all from Sinai. read more

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