The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
An Evening Bright With Hope in Homesh, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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The site of the destroyed Samaria community of Homesh came alive Monday night with dancing and singing and plans for the future.
The musician “Yirmiyahu” provided melodies and musings in what participants called a “Woodstock with separate seating” atmosphere. Fireworks augmented light provided by a generator that was recently hidden in the abandoned infrastructure.
Welcome to Settler Nation. Now, Obey!, by Bradley Burston Haaretz
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Spring is here, and the radical settler movement has a message for you: We’re in charge. Resistance is futile. We know what’s good for you. Learn to take your medicine. Here’s the way it should be, and sooner or later, that’s the way it will be.
This week, we’re gathering at Homesh, they inform the People Israel. Homesh, one of the four Samaria [northern West Bank settlements] evacuated and destroyed during the 2005 disengagement that also saw the end of all settlement in the Gaza Strip.
Arab Caught With Improvised Grenade Near Shechem
Molotov Cocktail, Rocks Thrown at Israeli Vehicles
2 Palestinians Arrested for Transporting Weapons
IDF Arrests 10 Palestinians in West Bank [Judea and Samaria] Operations
Taxi Driver Suspects Passenger is Terrorist
Al Aksa Warns of Attacks following Homesh March
Explosives Detonated in Northern Gaza Strip [Near the Security Fence]
Commentary;
Sometime on Monday afternoon, groups of religious and nationalist teenagers and young adults will attempt to enter and reestablish the town of Homesh, one of 4 Shomron towns where Jews were expelled in August of 2005 as part of the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif.
This author questions a strategy of making this move as a singular action comprised of a few thousand people rather than a part of a wider action involving tens or hundreds of thousands or more; including numerous diversions and whether this action should itself be a diversion for a wider action, perhaps aimed at government change or at spreading the police too thin and thus shutting down the country.
‘Palestinian Passengers Allowed in Israeli Cars’
Police Arrests 36 Illegal Palestinian Residents
Molotov Cocktails Thrown at IDF Near Nablus [Shechem]
Wanted Terrorist Arrested in Shomron
Two Kassams Fired at Israel, None Wounded
Kassam Rocket Landed in Palestinian Side of Gaza Strip Fence
Molotov Cocktail Attack in Hevron
Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau spoke about anti-Semitism before the recent Jerusalem Conference. He cited the saying of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Gemora with a question and with his observations;
“A law: It is known that Esau hates Jacob” – and asked, “Why the unusual phraseology? What type of law can this be? It sounds very fatalistic, as if nothing can change it.” Rabbi Lau then explained, in the name of some commentators, that the phenomenon of anti-Semitism described by Rabbi Shimon is “akin to a law taught to Moses at Sinai, which also uses this word ‘law.’ It is something that has no explanation and is not in dispute, such as the fact that tefillin must be black and square. It is the same with anti-Semitism: you can look for reasons for it, but in the end, it’s just an axiom. This hatred is a given, permanent phenomenon.”
Commentary;
Moshe Feiglin’s assessment one year ago of the State of the IDF apparently remains unchanged and as on-target as ever.
Report: Two Battalions Guarding Homesh from Jews
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IsraelNN has been informed that two IDF battalions have been taken away from activity in the Golan Heights and stationed in the evacuated community of Homesh in northern Samaria. The battalions were apparently brought there as part of the IDF’s preparations for the planned resettlement of Homesh by Jews this coming Monday.
Update: Elisheva Federman Released
Police Arrest Wife of Right-Wing activist Noam Federman
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Hebron regional police arrested Elisheva Federman, wife of right-wing activist Noam Federman, for questioning, following her subpoena to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court.
During the arrest, police took into custody Federman’s children, who where with her at the time.
Qassam Barghouti, Son of Top Palestinian Militant, Freed on Bail, By Avi Issacharoff (Haaretz, Reuters)
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Qassam Barghouti was arrested in late 2003 after crossing from Jordan into the West Bank. Israeli security officials accused him of complicity in Palestinian militant attacks, a charge his lawyer denied.
Prisons Service said Barghouti was convicted of weapons possession and freed after serving a 34-month term behind bars. But he remains on probation as a military court is still considering other charges against him.