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The Turkish Invitation: Adding Smoke and Fire Where None Exists and Trampling on Jewish Sovereign Rights?

Safeguarding Jerusalem, by Yehuda Ben Meir (Haaretz)

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It’s become very clear that the clash over the construction work near the Mugrabi Gate is not a struggle against the archaeological excavations or the construction of a bridge, but part of a broader campaign for the control of Jerusalem. After all, this construction work has no connection to the Al-Aqsa Mosque nor any effect on it.

Indeed, even among some of the Arab MKs – those same leaders mobilizing the war and the incitement against the construction – there were those who admitted, some through winks and nods and others more directly, that whether the work really threatens the mosque does not matter. In their view, Israel has no sovereignty in the Old City and has no right to carry out any sort of construction work in the Temple Mount environs. read more

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The Israeli Police: Public Servants Who Perceive Themselves as Above Law and Morality

Our World: More Than a Few Rotten Apples, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

For context, click here.

Excerpts:

“The mafia brings people into the police and they act as [the mafia’s] servants…The people in the police are afraid of nothing. A person who can take a half-a-million shekels inside a police station and not report it is someone who couldn’t care less and fears nothing. A police like this cannot endure.”

Thus spoke retired district judge Vardi Zeiler Sunday morning. Zeiler’s indictment of the police came as he presented the findings of the state commission he led which investigated allegations of police and prosecutorial mishandling of organized crime investigations and of police collusion with the Perinian crime family. read more

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Tuesday War News

Parsha Terumah 5767: Ascertaining Man’s True Motivations

by Moshe Burt

It seems to this author that each Parsha in Torah carries with it a major theme, attribute or mido.

The two previous Parshiyot; Yithro and Mishpatim speak about related attributes; intent and honesty and our Parsha, Terumah addresses motivation.

In previous years, the Parsha sheet for Parsha Teruma dealt with man’s motivations equating them with what drives the athlete in the beginning, or as we baseball fans say, in the “Big Inning”. And as has been done regarding other Parshiyot, this year another revisit of the motivation of men seems appropriate. read more

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Israeli Apartheid: “Relates to Where People [Jews] Live and what They Believe.”

Happy Apartheid Week, by David Wilder (Israel National News)

For context, read this related post.

“In all actuality, they* don’t give a damn about the 10,000 Jews expelled from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Their plea has nothing to do with humanity. The reason behind their unusual demand is totally political… As published in Haaretz newspaper, ‘the current neglect of the evacuees from Gush Katif [Gaza’s main settlement bloc] is likely to erode the state’s legitimacy should it decide to carry out a similar process in the future.'” read more

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Monday War News

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Another Expulsion Co-Conspirator Biting the Dust?

The Scars of a Vindictive Regime’s Discrimination

The Forgotten Evacuees (Jerusalem Post Editorial)

“Evacuee children in the Ashkelon area are not eligible for the hot school lunches that are being offered to their classmates, who are permanent residents of the region. The bureaucratic logic behind this hardheartedness is immaterial. What matters is that youngsters are being blatantly discriminated against and set apart from fellow pupils in a most humiliating fashion.”

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It is nearly a year and a half since a government-sponsored advertising campaign reassured the nation that “there’s a solution for every settler” – a reference to the thousands of Israeli citizens then slated to be removed from Gaza and northern Samaria as part of disengagement. read more

Motsei Shabbos, Sunday War News

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