Scandal-Ridden, Desperate Olmert: Ready to Speak to Hamas??

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PM: ‘We’re Ready to Invite Arab Leaders Without Preconditions’ (Jerusalem Post Staff)

Olmert: “‘If Hamas agrees to abide by the Quartet’s conditions we will agree to sit with them around the negotiating table'”

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“We are ready to come and to invite” Arab leaders “without preconditions from us or their side,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters Tuesday after arriving in Petra for talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, expressing Israel’s readiness to discuss the Arab peace initiative and find ways to implement the plan. read more

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Jerusalem and the Legal Hypocrisy of Illegal ARAB Construction

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Our World: Tolerating Hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

For related reports, click here and here.

“After Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski attacked the US and EU boycott, ….Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stuttered that Israel’s connection to Jerusalem is “indivisible.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said nothing.”

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This week, the EU supplemented its NGOs’ work to divide the capital by announcing its boycott of Wednesday’s Knesset ceremony celebrating Jerusalem’s liberation. The US also loudly absented itself from the ceremony. read more

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Tuesday War News

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Molotov Cocktail Attack Near Hevron

Peretz Makes No Decision to Defend the South

Related report: U.S. Assures PA That Iarael Won’t Invade Gaza

Kassam Falls in Sderot

Three Mortar Shells Fired at Western Negev

[With Israeli Gov’t Approval] 450 Trained Fatah Men Admitted Through Rafiah

IDF Fires at Two Palestinians Seen Approaching Gaza Fence

Palestinians Fire Mortars at IDF Troops

Israeli Wounded by Stones Thrown South of Hebron

Attack, Arrest in Hevron

IDF Forces Drawn into Palestinian Infighting

IDF Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian in Jenin read more

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Parsha Bamidbar 5767: Only in Unity is There Strength to Blunt Tyranny

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by, Moshe Burt

Call this a “Best of.” The points included in this Parsha HaShevua are timely and bare repeating.

Our Parsha Bamidbar, once getting past the numbers crunching of the census, speaks of Degalim: the flags of the Sh’vatim (Tribes), as a paradigm of Unity whch is inclusive of diversity within the various components, all of which play essential roles within a collective unity. Within a unity, there is room for integration and cooperation of diverse individual and group attributes, skills, strong points and actions when channeled toward the common goals of Unity, i.e. the common goals of B’nai Yisrael. read more

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Saudi F-15S Fighter-Jets Deployed 150 Km from Eilat: Credibility of US Committments and Assurances Useless

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Air Show at Tabuk Reminds Israelis Not to Rely on US Assurances of Deployment limits on Weapons to Saudis, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

Commentary;

Remember the US sale of F-15S fighter-jets to Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s? Look at where the Saudis have deployed them; in the Saudi base of Tabuk, located just over 150 kilometers from Israel’s port city of Eilat.

The US, it seems, has NEVER once protested that the deployment violates U.S. export terms of 1978.

Yesterday, to quote from IMRA archives; read more

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Inviting Foreign Envoys to Jerusalem Thing: Most Constructive Act of Dalia Itzik’s Political Career

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Itzik Criticized for Inviting Ambassadors to Jerusalem Anniversary
by Barak Ravid and Shachar Ilan (Haaretz)

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After several leading foreign ambassadors refused an invitation to a Knesset event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification, some Knesset members criticized Speaker Dalia Itzik for having invited them in the first place.

“Not a single country recognizes the unification of Jerusalem,” noted Labor MK Colette Avital, who heads the house’s Jerusalem caucus. “It was clear that the ambassadors would not come, so [Itzik] should not have invited them, thereby causing this embarrassment.” read more

Monday War News

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Kassam Rocket Sets Fire to Wheat Field; None Hurt

IDF Arrests 4 Islamic Activists Near Jenin

Israeli Car Stoned Near Jenin

Police Catch Islamic Jihad Member, 3 More Suspects

Palestinians Attack IDF Bulldozer Near Gaza Fence

Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Car; None Hurt

Palestinians With Knives Detained in Hebron

Kassam Rocket Misses Sderot, Lands in Northern Gaza

[Arab] Rock Throwing Attacks Hit Bus, Car

IDF Troops Arrest 10 Palestinian Fugitives

Palestinian Shot Trying to Steal Guard’s Weapon [Security Guard in Barkon Ind. Park] read more

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US, EU Planned Absence from Jerusalem Day; Part of Long-Term Effort to Delegitimize Israel??

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Lupolianski Blasts Envoys for Jerusalem Day Boycott, by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)

Related reports:

Mayor Blasts Diplomats for Shunning Jerusalem Day Event

US, Europe to Shun Jerusalem Day Celebrations

Temple Mount Activists: Rejection of Jerusalem is Result of Weak Government [for 40 Years]

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“Anyone who doesn’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel does not recognize the state of Israel,” Lupolianski said in a statement.

He added that Israel needed to send out an unequivocal message to the world, and not capitulate on this issue. read more

Tzipi Livni: All of Olmert’s Mediocrity and More

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Another Tack: No Elevator for Tzipi, by Sarah Honig (Jerusalem Post)

“In essence Tzipi is everything Olmert is – only lots worse.”

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Tzipi didn’t make her way up the Likud hierarchy via the sluggish party headquarters elevator. So much more politically adept than her father, and unencumbered by his articles of faith, she soared to the top through expedient attachment to the highfliers’ coattails.

An unremarkable backbencher, she conveniently became Ariel Sharon’s earliest pro-disengagement groupie. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Her effective speaking style – unfailingly sanctimonious and fortified by yuppie business-like, authoritative-sounding cadences – served him well. Concomitantly, the spotlight he offered her catapulted anonymous Tzipi to prominence ahead of all those crowding into the Likud’s groaning rusty elevator. read more

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