Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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.” read more

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.” read more

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.