The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Olmert Set to Meet Abbas Within Next Few Hours
Kassams Land in Sderot Neighborhood, Negev Kibbutz On Friday Night
Palestinian With Explosives Caught in West Bank
Commentary;
There can be no one soo naive as to believe that these are the only war actions which took place over Shabbos or Motsei Shabbos! MB
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PMO Denies Date Set for Abbas-PM talks, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)
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On Thursday night, Olmert told Kadima activists at the party’s Petah Tikva headquarters that he expected to take diplomatic steps with the Palestinians in the upcoming year.
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of activists, Olmert said he was “doing everything possible to bring about a diplomatic horizon.” He said he would not maintain the status quo on the Palestinian issue.
IDF Held Fire after Spotting Rocket Launching Cells
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“The IDF spotted rocket launching cells firing on Israel Thursday but held fire in line with the government’s policy of restraint, WorldNetDaily reported Friday. Several Kassams were fired shortly after the sighting, two of the weapons exploding in Sderot and causing damage to a community center and one landing near Ashkelon, a port city and home to oil and gas pipelines and a large electric generating station.”
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The family of Gershon Bar Kochba has won a year-long battle to remain in its Hebron home after police forced them out of the residence more than eight months ago.
Lawyers for the family appealed to the courts after repeated evictions by police who had been ordered by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to remove the residents from their home.
200 Settlers light Candles in Homesh, by Efrat Weiss (Ynet)
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Some 200 settlers and right-wing supporters held a Hanukkah ceremony in the evacuated settlement of Homesh in northern Samaria on Thursday afternoon. The setters received authorization to light the holiday candles in the former community from the IDF.
A group of Palestinians hurled rocks at the settlers as their buses were leaving the area, no injuries or damage were reported.
Minister Gideon Ezra’s Deadline and Threats of Response to Kassams Were “Metaphors”, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
For context, click here. Typifies the Olmert Regime and it’s abject lack of priority for Jewish lives. MB
Date: 21 December, 2006;
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Speaking in a live interview broadcast on Israel Radio’s noon news program on 4 December, 2006 Environment Minister Gideon Ezra (Kadima) Minister Ezra noted that he supports the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and that he had, in fact, proposed a unilateral 10 day ceasefire himself.
Despite Seven Kassams, PM Decides to Exercise Restraint
MK Tal (Kadima) to Olmert: Will it Take 40 Kassams to React?
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Arrested Hamas Terrorist Supplied Tools for Tunnels, Rockets
PA Residents Accuse Israel of Air Strike
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“The explosion apparently was caused by a misfiring or a ‘work accident.'”
Syria Discussing Procurement of Russian Advanced S-300 Air and Missile Defense System
A Too-Political Judiciary, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
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The most sensible comment on last week’s controversial High Court of Justice rulings came from Knesset Constitution Committee Chairman Menachem Ben-Sasson. Responding to Knesset members’ outrage over the court’s decision to overturn part of the “Intifada Law” – thereby allowing (some) Palestinians to sue Israel for damages incurred in a war that they themselves launched – Ben-Sasson said that he was “astonished by the uproar,” since “it is the MKs’ responsibility to determine the relationship among the branches of government.”
Arrested Land of Israel Activists Released on Bail
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Jerusalem police released on bail three women arrested earlier on Wednesday for breaching the security fence surrounding the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem.
The three Land of Israel activists, including the wife of Kiryat Arba Mayor Tzvi Katzover, were arrested when they took part in an effort by 200 people to reach Rachel’s Tomb on foot. Dozens of youth managed to breach the fence and enter the sanctified site, exemplifying one of the messages of their protest – that fences are no security solution. The protesters were confronted by police and IDF soldiers, who failed to prevent the breach.
Netanyahu: Bring Ahmadinejad to Trial
For context; click Parsha Mikeitz/Shabbos Chanukah 5767: A Message of Yosef: Never Assume That The Nations Accept an Obligation to the Jews:
How quickly treaties, agreements or committments pertaining to Israel and the Jewish people which either are signed by Arabs, or for that matter, by the nations, including the Superpower, are forgotten or fall by the wayside in the name of expediency, political alignments or realignments, regional, international and economic pressures. We see that agreements, third-party guarantees, either by the US, the EU, the UN and it’s UNFIL are worthless and worse — totally detrimental to Jewish security and wellbeing. We see that agreements, third-party guarantees, either by the US, the EU, the UN and it’s UNFIL are worthless and worse — totally detrimental to Jewish security and wellbeing.