With An Incompetent Government and Biased, Opinionated MSM; Promote Private Initiative to Confront Jihad Head-On in the Arena of Ideas

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Column One: Privatizing the War of Ideas, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“The Olmert government is simply incapable of conceptualizing policies capable of defending Israel.”

“Six years after the Palestinians launched their jihad, and five years after the jihadist attacks on the US, the governments of the free world remain deeply hesitant about engaging in a true ideological struggle with jihad.”

Commentary;

By the very title of this article, “Privatizing the War of Ideas”, Caroline Glick urges us, the citizens of Israel, to act privately in every possible venue, to “force our leaders to defend us publicly and to adopt policies based on reality that see victory rather than surrender as our best option moving forward. ” read more

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Journalistic Pundits; Concentrate on Accurate Reporting of Past and Present, Not on Leftist Opinionated, Propagandist Punditism

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Behind The Lines: The Press’s False Prophecies, By Anshel Pfeffer (Jerusalem Post)

“As journalists, we should concentrate on reporting the past and present, or on providing clever comment on what is happening now. If we have any predictions on what is expected, we should express them with the necessary care and humility, with a bit more ‘perhaps’ and ‘maybe.'”

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On my desk for the last few weeks has been sitting an amusing little Hebrew booklet, the translation of whose title is, They Promised a Dove. (This title is a take-off on a popular song from the early Nineties, from the perspective of the generation of children conceived after the Yom Kippur War, who are blaming their parents for not having brought peace.) read more

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Peres: The Kassam Rockets Cannot Be Stopped

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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. read more

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Friday War News

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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.”

Syria Preparing Border for Hizbullah-Type War read more

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For Beit Shapira Families: Final Vindication or Just a Step?

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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. read more

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Menorah Lighting in Chomesh

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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.

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Gideon Ezra’s “Deadline”; A “Metaphor” for Doing Nothing, For Jews as “Sitting Ducks”

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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. read more

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Thursday War News: Kassam Blitz Continuing

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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.'”

Kassam Lands in Beit Hanoun

Syria Discussing Procurement of Russian Advanced S-300 Air and Missile Defense System

4 Kassams Land; 2 in PA Territories read more

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HCJ Jumps Into Void Left by Legislative Abrogation of Responsibilities

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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.” read more

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