Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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Northern Samaria Declared “Closed Military Zone”

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Northern Samaria, including the community of Shavei Shomron, has been declared a closed military zone due to attempts by the former residents of Chomesh to visit what was their home today.

The junction between Highways 60 and 55 near Kedumim was closed first to Jewish traffic and then to Arab vehicles. Around seventy people have so far reached this area. No skirmishes with police have been reported, although verbal confrontations are going on. read more

Stones Thrown at Car in Ramallah: No Casualties

Qassam Rocket Lands Next to Orchard in Western Negev; No Injuries

MK Eitam: Leadership Must Stop Deceiving Citizens

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MK Effie Eitam (National Union-NRP) said after Mossad Chief Meir Dagan’s briefing of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, “Israel is faces severe security threats.'”

MK Eitam added, “A leadership is needed that will stop deceiving the citizens and will allow the IDF to gain back security control.” read more

Another Tack: Permanently High Plateau, by Sarah Honig (Jerusalem Post)

“The collapse that threatens us… is far more horrendously final than insolvency, with no comebacks or meaningful retrospection likely thereafter.”

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Once upon a time there was a very prolific star economist named Irving Fisher. Always inordinately confident of his astute clairvoyance, he was among the forerunners of the modern breed of celebrity financial gurus.