The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Shin Bet Intercepts Attempt to Smuggle TNT to Tulkarem
Vehicle Damaged When Hit by Stones Near Hebron
Weapons Smuggling Attempt Foiled at Karni Crossing
Palestinians Stone Bus Near Nablus; No Casualties
Three Arab Men Allegedly Rape Female Jogger
Gaza Gunmen Release AP Photographer
Terrorists: Major Attacks Against Israel On Their Way
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Terror leaders tell of ‘imminent plans to strike from Gaza with rockets, suicide bombings and tunnels.’
We read in our parsha that “These are the generations of No’ach: No’ach was a righteous man and perfect in his generations, and No’ach walked with G’d.” (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 6, posuk 9.) The Imrei Shefer comments on the Midrash regarding the words; “These are the generations of No’ach …” that the flood was directly attributable to No’ach’s behavior. According to the Midrash, “he [No’ach]… caused the flood by not protesting against the corrupt actions of the members of his generation.” (Torah Gems, Aharon Yaakov Greenberg, Sefer Breish’t, page 56)
The Wall of Shame, by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan
Received this in an email today. This blog is proud to be the first to post Rachel Saperstein’s most recent offering. MB
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Groups of visitors, Jews and Christians, arrived in Nitzan during the Sukkot holiday. I spoke with some groups and my message was one of deep hurt and endless hope.
One group became a sounding board on a plan that shook them, resulting in shouts of anger directed at me. I had stepped on a minefield for I had attacked our sacred Israel Defense Forces.
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This is a MUST SEE movie for the Human story behind the expulsion, for Jew to connect with Jew devoid of the stereotype and prejudice. MB
Basketball as Metaphor for the Disengagement, by Orit Arfa (Jerusalem Post)
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Elidad Schneid usually got nervous before major games of the Gush Katif inter-settlement basketball league. As a member of the Netzer Hazani team, the winner of most of the league’s championship trophies, he should have been particularly nervous hours before the tournament final against Neve Dekalim. But he wasn’t. He was too busy planning for another battle scheduled for the same day: the battle over his home.
Our World: Prime-Time Blood Libels, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“Israel’s continued silence is a sign that Israeli officialdom has still not understood what the war of images demands of it. The Dura film, like the fictional massacre of Lebanese children at Kafr Kana in Lebanon this summer, shows that victory or defeat in wars is today largely determined on television. To win, Israel must go on the offensive and attack untruthful, distorted images that are used to justify the killing of Israelis and Jews throughout the world.”
Kidnapped [by Pa] AP Photographer Spanish Citizen Emilio Morenatti
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The kidnapped AP photographer was forced into a car by armed PA Arabs.
His name is Emilio Morenatti and he is said to be a citizen of Spain.
Palestinian Authority security sources, controlled by Hamas, confirmed the kidnapping to the AP. “We are making searches in the area,” an official promised.
In recent months, two Fox News journalists were kidnapped, as well as an American student volunteering for a left-wing group in Shechem. All were released unharmed.
IDF Arrested Erez Attack Suspect in September
IDF Troops Shoot, Wound Armed Palestinian in Gaza
Kassam Rocket Attack Follows Monday’s IDF Strike on Terrorists
Halutz Says IDF Must Stay in Gaza’s Philadelphi Route
IDF Discovered More Than 100 Smuggling Tunnels
Two Arrested With Knives in Hevron
IAF Targets Kassam Rocket Launchers
Nine Fugitives Arrested Overnight in West Bank
Two Palestinians Caught Carrying Knives in West Bank
Lieberman Cedes Demands on Behalf of “National Responsibility”, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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“It’s All About Iran.” Give us a break. Once again, another corrupt politician renegs on every promise made to voters in exchange for power, in the hopes that Kadima stays in power long enough to kill Likud so that Yisrael Beiteinu replaces it and Lieberman becomes Prime Minister. Once again, what Caroline Glick wrote recently is instructive as to the Lieberman strategy;
State Won’t Disclose Letter on War Probe, by Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post)
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The state on Sunday rejected a request to release the contents of a letter written by Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in which Mazuz allegedly told Olmert he should appoint a state commission of inquiry to investigate the government’s handling of the war against Lebanon last summer.
The request was filed last week by the Movement for Quality Government, one of two watchdog organizations demanding that the government-appointed Winograd Committee of Examination into the government’s handling of the second Lebanese war be dismissed and replaced by a state commission of inquiry, whose members are appointed by the president of the Supreme Court.
Scales of Justice Viewed As Unbalanced
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A nationalist organization has noted that Israeli courts have issued two different opinions on street-blocking protests, with a more severe judgment handed down to nationalist supporters. The “Headquarters of Cities” group publicized two recent decisions, one which ordered right-wing demonstrators to be held in custody until the end of judicial proceedings while left-wing protestors were ordered to work for a period of time in public service.