The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Five Years Since Ze’evi Assassination
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There will be a special Knesset session at 4:00pm in memory of Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi on the 5th anniversary of his assassination by PFLP terrorists in Jerusalem’s Hyatt Hotel.
Ze’evi was hit by a number of bullets, with one striking him in the head and a second in the neck. The minister died of his massive wounds at 10:00am. At 10:10am, Hadassah Hospital Deputy Director Dr. Shmuel Shapiro announced that life-saving efforts had failed.
18 from Judea and Samaria – Banished from Homes
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Are we witnessing the start of a new string of expulsions and persecutions by the Olmert Regime reminiscent of recent events in Amona, as well as Shalhevet neighborhood and Beit Shapira in Chevron? MB
Thanks to Suzie Dym of Cities of Israel (Matot Arim):
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18 people from various outposts in the Yizhar area have received expulsion orders, during the Holiday period, from the IDF, which order them to vacate their homes and leave the entire area of Judea and Samaria, for a period of 3 months, half a year and in some cases — even an entire year.
Olmert Promises Shalit Will Return Home
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We all know what Ehud Olmert’s boasts and promises are worth… MB
IDF Kills Fatah Terrorist Commander
Kassam Attack on Kibbutz Mefalsim, No Injuries
Israeli Lightly Wounded by Rocks Near Bethlehem
Kassam Lands in Negev Community; None Wounded
Report: IDF Kills Two Stone Throwers in West Bank
2 Israelis Hurt in Rock Attack
This author has, in years past, taken a vacation from compiling a vort, a Parsha HaShevua for Parsha Breish’t. Somehow, not being rabbinic or a Talmud Chacham, it has always seemed difficult to put true and deep meaning of Hashem’s creation to words.
This year however, it rained in Eretz Yisrael on Isru Chag, the Simchat Torah of Chutz L’Aretz. And it didn’t just rain a few sprinkles, it poured on Yom Rishon. The weather reports promise more on Yom Sheini. And the Israeli weatherman is rarely, if ever wrong.
The First Word: The Case for ‘Dwelling Alone’, by Yehuda Avner (Jerusalem Post)
“If one asks how the ingathering of the exiles, which no one could have imagined in his wildest dreams, came about, or how the State of Israel could endure such severe security challenges, or how it has built up such a flourishing economy, or how the unity of the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora has been preserved, one must come back to the primary idea that this is ‘a people that dwells alone.’ More than that, one must invoke this phrase not only to understand how the Jews have existed for so long; one must invoke it as a testimony to the Jewish right to exist at all in the land of their rebirth.”
Right On! Restore Joseph’s Tomb, By Michael Freund (Jerusalem Post)
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“The town of Sderot has become the new Joseph’s Tomb, symbolizing our leadership’s lack of will to defend even the most basic of our national values.”
“To break out of the Middle Eastern ‘cycle of violence’ in which we find ourselves, Israel must first break free from its self-imposed ‘cycle of weakness’ and start defending itself like any normal country should.”
IAF Strikes Rocket Launcher in Northern Gaza
Palestinian Arrested with M-16, 20 Bullets
Fatah Operative Injured while Placing Bomb
2 Kassams Land in Sderot; People Reported in Shock
Peretz: I Hope We Don’t Have to Re-Occupy Gaza
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Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that the military situation in the Gaza Strip was escalating.
“I hope we do don’t reach a situation in which we have to carry out a broad ground operation” in Gaza, Peretz said.
Aaron Lerner of Independent Media Research and Analysis placed this post on his site on Erev Simchat Torah;
[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: First they burned and destroyed the Jewish facility at Joseph’s Tomb – in gross violation of Oslo and all norms. Then they replaced it with a mosque. And now they complain…]
Jewish Colonisers Storm Mosque in Nablus
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NABLUS, October 12, 2006 (WAFA – PLO news agency) – Jewish colonisers, guarded by Israeli soldiers, stormed Thursday a mosque in the West Bank city of Nablus and performed rituals in it, local sources said.
Column One: Soros Moves on to Israel, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“To rebuild American political support for Israel and to enhance the US-Israel alliance, it is imperative that Israel be capable of understanding the nature of this support. This understanding begins by making distinctions between our many friends and our foes and acting on these distinctions. Not all of our friends are Jews and not all Jews are our friends.”
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s speech at the American Task Force for Palestine’s inaugural dinner in Washington on Wednesday evening was but the latest sign that America’s alliance with Israel is weakening.