The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
After Eilat Suicide Bombing: Olmert Instructs IDF to Maintain Current Policy
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“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert instructed the IDF on Tuesday to maintain the existing cease-fire with the Palestinians, and not to alter its operations following Monday’s suicide bombing in Eilat, which killed three people. Israel Radio reported that in a meeting with several defense heads, Olmert rejected a number of anti-terror proposals.”
Who is Moshe Katsav?, by Elyakim Haetzni (Ynet)
Commentary:
This author has kept the blog pretty much out of the Katsav episode. But one can’t help noticing that those complicit in the Expulsion from Gush Katif are falling, one-by-one; Sharon by way of debilitating stroke, Major-General Udi Adam, Chief-of-Staff Halutz and now the slow, painful fall of a hypocritical President who didn’t stand against the expulsion, didn’t stand against the police and Yassam attrocities in Amona, has been totally silent regarding the former Gush Katif residents who have NOT been compensated and are largely jobless and much more. He only bothered to raise a stur in his own defense. Divine retribution? MB
Related Story:Peretz Orders IDF to Launch Operations Inside Gaza
Notice the wording in the report, as opposed to the banner headline;
“Defense Minister Amir Peretz… ordered the IDF to prepare to launch operations inside the Gaza Strip and against the infrastructure that enabled the suicide bomber who killed three people in Eilat earlier in the day to cross from Gaza into Israel.”
Related Story: PM, Peretz to Discuss Bombing Response
Excerpt;
“The identity of the terrorist organization responsible for Monday’s attack would help determine how Israel will respond.”
Sinai Border Wide Open to Illegal Workers, Terrorists, by Shelly Paz (Jerusalem Post)
Military Source: “It is clear to us that borders without fences cannot stop illegal aliens or terrorists. The vast majority of terror attempts are stopped and there has been an increase in overall effectiveness, but it is still a drop in the bucket.”
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“The border between Israel and Egypt is easy to cross, there is no real obstacle, just a low fence that is easy to cross,” Yossi Edelstein, supervisor of the Foreigners Enforcement Department in the Interior Ministry, said Monday.
IAF Strikes Terror Tunnel in the Northern Gaza Strip
We’re Very Proud, [Eilat] Bomber’s Family Declares
Eilat Suicide Bomber’s Mother: “As he walked out of the house, he asked me to wish him good luck, I wished him good luck and I knew of his decision to become a martyr. Although I was aware of his intention, I did not know exactly when he was planning to carry out a martyrdom attack.”
4 Palestinians Arrested for Possessing Explosives [At Checkpoint East of Tulkarem]
IDF Arrests Twenty-Two Wanted [Tanzim] Terrorists [Near Shechem]
Our Parsha opens by stating; “It happened when Pharoh sent out the people that Hashem did not lead them by the way of the Philistines, because it was near, for Hashem said, ‘Perhaps the people will reconsider when they see a war, and they will return to Mitzriyim.'” (Sefer Sh’mos, Perek 13, posuk 17)
Torah Gems cites a vort from R’ Baruch Abba Rakowsky who says; “Perhaps the people will reconsider when they see a war, and they will return to Mitzriyim.”
Suicide Terrorist Murders Two in Eilat, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News 10:45 Jan 29, ’07 / 10 Shevat 5767)
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For the first time, a suicide terrorist has detonated himself in the southern port city of Eilat. Two Jews are reported dead; no one was wounded.
Initial reports implied that the explosion inside a small bakery in Eilat around 9:45 AM was caused by a gas canister explosion. However, shortly after 10:30, the police abruptly issued an announcement saying that an Arab suicide terrorist had entered the bakery carrying a bag and detonated himself.
Prof. Aumann: Post-Zionism Greater Threat Than Nukes, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
“Motivating ourselves is the most important thing, and the thing we are losing the most. Without motivation, we will not endure. What are we doing here? Why are we here? What are we aspiring to here? We are here because we are Jewish, we are Zionist, because of our ancient bond to this land; we aspire to realize our 2,000-year-old hope of becoming a free nation in our land, the Land of Zion and Jerusalem. Without this profound understanding, we will not endure. We will simply no longer be here; post-Zionism will finish us off.”
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared at a Knesset meeting Sunday that Israel would not stand by and allow the world to ignore a threat to the Jewish people.
Ö²“We won’t let the world forget again, through indifference and silence, the threat to the Jewish people,Ö²” he said. OlmertÖ²’s remarks were made in reference to the growing concern that Iran will complete its nuclear development of a weapon of mass destruction and make good on President Mahmoud AhmadinejadÖ²’s vow to wipe the State of Israel off the map.
A Step Forward [??] for One Gush Katif Community, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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A proposal to expand a central-Israel moshav for families expelled from Netzer Hazani has been submitted. Elsewhere, Katif expellees already settled in Shomeriya say they still have no phone lines.
The expelled families of Gush Katif continue to suffer the ups and downs of the bureaucratic process of building them permanent homes in place of the ones the government destroyed in the summer of 2005.
The families of Netzer Hazani were given reason for hope, while those of Atzmonah-Shomeriya and Shirat Hayam scored a minus.