The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
MENL: Egypt Becomes Leading Source of Fatah Weapons
IDF: Arms Being Smuggled to Hezbollah on Weekly Basis
TA on High Security Alert Following Infiltration
Related Story: Security Forces Prevent Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv
Anti-Tank Missile Fired at IDF Near Gaza Fence
Palestinians Shoot Israeli Near Fence in Ramallah
Stabbing Attack Foiled in Gush Etzion
Terrorists Shoot at IDF [Near Shechem], No Injuries
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.
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.'”
Israeli Woman Lightly Hurt by Rocks Thrown at Car
Israeli Man Seriously Injured After Being Stabbed
Related Report: Slain Truck Driver Identified as Oded Laniado, 55
Related Report: Police: No Terror Orgs. Claim Truck Driver Attack
Arabs Critically Stab Israeli near Kiryat Sefer
Palestinians Hurl Stones at Israeli Car Near Nablus [Shechem]
Palestinian Arrested [Attempting to Stab a Female Soldier] at Checkpoint Near Nablus [Shechem]
Intelligence Report: Hezbollah Back to Pre-War Strength
Related Report: Peretz Denies IDF View on Hezbollah; Livnat Worried
Police Chief Karadi Quits Following Zeiler Report; IPS Chief Warden Yaakov Ganot to Replace Karadi
For context regarding those who conspired in and took part in the expulsion and who are now being made to pay mida knegged mida for their own alleged corrupt acts; click here, here and here.
Related Story: Earthquake in the Police Force
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.”
Full Text;
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.
Pipe Bomb Thrown at IDF in Hebron; No Casualties
Hevron Jewish Religious Items Desecrated For 3rd Time This Month [By Arabs and Israeli Leftists]
Molotovs, Rocks on Cars Near Ramallah
Molotov Cocktails on Israeli Cars in Samaria
Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktails Near Nablus [Shechem]
Kassam Rocket Attack Fired at Western Negev
Two Explosions Heard in the Vicinity of Sderot
Batya of Shilomuse posted a piece on Friday entitled; National Masochism about what systematic, institutional brainwashing
of generations of Israel’s Secular “Golden Youth” has wrought.
The results of this nurtured and inculcated brainwashing have manifested themselves at all levels from politians, soo lacking in any valid connection to their Jewish roots and thus, soo lacking in any kind of national or personal pride that they now consider Jerusalem as “marginal” to according their leftist, systematically inculcated vision of true Israel, to the youth of today and how “most Israelis only know Judea and Samaria and even our capital, Jerusalem, from army service.”
The old saying is that a picture tells a thousand words…
Consider this joint news conference photo of US Secretary of State Rice and Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni next to the Haaretz headline;
Terrorists Lightly Injure 2 Israeli Soldiers in Shooting
Fatah Terrorists Fire Rockets at Sderot
Palestinian Caught With Knife Near Nablus [Shechem]
Palestinians Shoot at IDF Force Near Ramallah; No Injuries
Prisoners of Ideology? IDF Goal if Attacked by Syria: Prepare for Negotiations, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Full Text;
“In all the IDF’s war games, exercises and simulations, which presuppose thousands of Israeli casualties in a clash with Syria, the aim of the war is defined in identical terms: to arrive at negotiations with Damascus “from an advantageous position.”
