The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Rock Attack on Israeli Vehicles, No Injuries
Truck Targeted in Rock-Throwing Attack
Firebomb Attack in Ramallah Area, No Injuries
Rock Attack on Israeli Vehicles, No Injuries
Truck Targeted in Rock-Throwing Attack
Palestinians Throw Stones at Truck; No Wounded
Rabbis Urge Israelis to Revolt Against Government, by Aaron Klein (WorldNetDaily)
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“Out of love for each and every Jew, we call on the people of Israel and its leaders to begin a democratic uprising to immediately replace this government, which constitutes an ominous threat to the nation of Israel,” the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1,200 rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis, said in a statement.
Among the Rabbinical Congress members who signed the statement were Mordechai Eliyahu and Abraham Shapira – both of whom served as chief rabbis for the state of Israel – and Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of the Tunisian Jewish community in Israel and one of the country’s most well-respected rabbis.
Olmert: Remarks on IDF Captives Were Misunderstood, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
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31 July; Olmert on National TV: “We will stop the war when the threat is removed… our captured soldiers return home safely and you are able to live in safety and security.”
Early August; Tzipy Livni: Made a similar commitment; “Israel would not accept any ceasefire arrangement that did not include the release of all three soldiers.”
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday his comments this week to students about the cabinet’s decision to agree to a ceasefire with Lebanon this summer were ‘misunderstood.’
Why Religious Anti-Zionism Endures, by Shira Leibowitz Schmidt (Jerusalem Post)
“It is important to distinguish between the concepts of ‘Jew’ and ‘Israeli.’ Those who confuse the two only confirm the prescience of the rabbis denouncing Zionism a century ago: The State of Israel has indeed replaced the Torah as the main pillar of identity for many Jews, both in Israel and elsewhere.”
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November 29, 1947 was when the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab entities – a decision hailed by many, though not all, Jews and bewailed by Arabs. While the Arabs rejected the establishment of a Jewish state anywhere in Palestine, the Zionists accepted the decision.
Gush Katif Farmers Must Give Up Compensation To Receive Land
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The Cabinet decided Sunday to offer land to expelled Gush Katif farmers but only on condition that they renounce compensation for their former land and that the newly allocated farm be situated in the Negev or Galilee. After 15 months since being forced out of their communities, many Gush Katif farmers still are without permanent land for agriculture.
The farmers, many of whom are in their 60s, also must work the land themselves and may not rent it to others.
Soldiers [Goldwasser, Regev] Were Seriously Wounded in Northern Border Attack
Arab Attackers Stone Israeli Bus Near Hevron
IDF Wounds 2 Palestinians by Gaza Fence
Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded
Al Aksa Operative: Rockets Will Resume
IDF Nabbed 40 With Ties to Aksa Head
Aksa Martyrs See Selves as Exempt From Cease-Fire
Police Arrest 69 Illegal Workers Overnight
Our World: Olmert’s Saudi Friends, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“The ‘deal’ that the Saudis are ‘brokering’ is nothing less than a blueprint for Israel’s destruction.”
“Olmert will do anything to take the Israeli public’s attention away from his failure in office. And to successfully ‘spin’ the public, he needs the support of the Israeli media.”
“Olmert’s embrace of a new imaginary ‘peace process’ will win him the support of Haaretz and the other radical leftist elements in the Israeli media. These media organs will then work to prevent the opening of police investigations into Olmert’s alleged criminal activities.”
PM’s Remarks Anger Soldiers’ Families
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should talk less and do more to secure the release of kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, Goldwasser’s mother, Miki, told Army Radio on Tuesday morning.
On Monday, Olmert told a group of high school students that Israel had pulled out of this summer’s Lebanon war despite the fact that Goldwasser and Regev had not been rescued in order to save other soldiers’ lives.
If Goldwasser and Regev were still alive, Olmert said, it was better for them to remain captive “a little while longer” than for other soldiers to die in an attempt to rescue them.
3 Molotov Cocktails Thrown at Car Near Nablus
Report: IDF Stages Raid in Ramallah
IDF Finds Pipe Bomb South of Hebron; None Hurt
97 Palestinian Illegals Arrested in Bnei Brak
16 Arrests in Counter-Terror Operations
Hizbullah Preparing for Third Lebanon War
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“Military intelligence officials believe Hizbullah may opt to take advantage of the growing political instability in Lebanon to launch another war against Israel by firing anti-aircraft rockets at Israeli aircraft involved in intelligence gathering missions in Lebanese skies.”
As our Parsha begins, Yaakov sent melachim (angels), some render a translation of messengers, “… ahead of him to Eisev to the land of Seir, to the field of Edom… Thus shall you say … to Eisev, so said your servant Yaakov: ‘Im-Lavan garti’ (I have sojourned with Lavan) …” (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 32, posukim 4 & 5)
When the melachim, the messengers return, they inform Yaakov that Eisev “is also coming to meet you; and there a four hundred men with him.” (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 32, posuk 7)