Amazing What the Israeli Foreign Ministry Can Do When it Wants to! Disgraceful How it Ignores Pollard!

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Received this email from a friend in the US;

Subject: [bsaje] Isn’t it amazing what the Israeli Foreign Ministry can do when it wants to? Disgraceful how it ignores Pollard!

Israeli Spends Rosh Hashanah Eve in a US Jail

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An Israeli tourist who planned to spend the two-day Rosh Hashanah holiday with friends in the Washington, D.C. area was surprised when Maryland police placed him under arrest for photographing the Fort McHenry Tunnel along Interstate 95.

The interested tourist stopped for a few moments to photograph the tunnel but he apparently attracted the attention of a local resident who phoned police, reporting a man “looking suspicious — taking photos of the tunnel.” read more

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Tuesday War News…

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Hizbullah Moving Rockets to Palestinian Camps, by Aaron Klein (World News Daily)

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Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.

The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority’s most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hizbullah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted ‘unusual activity’ in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons. read more

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Regime Still Not Fulfilling It’s Responsibilities to the Jews It Evicted…

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Gov’t Yet to Begin Homebuilding for Some Gaza Evacuees

Absurd Statement of the Day;

“Sela administration head Zvia Shimon confirmed that construction has yet to begin on a single permanent house. However, Shimon questioned the timing of this report ‘since much progress had been made in recent months.'”

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Twenty-three Gush Katif evacuee community leaders gathered on the eve of the New Year holiday for an urgent consultation, in light of what they claim is government “foot-dragging” in advancing permanent sites for their communities. read more

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As in Chevron, Israel’s Police: You Stand at Kotel as Long as We Allow and You Do As We Say, or Else…

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Man Arrested for Blowing Shofar at Western Wall, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Commentary;

What does it take to get Jews fed up and fired up. Must this author keep repetitiously relating about the regime’s repeated harrassments and intimidations?

As with Chevron and other Jewish Holy Sites, Israel’s Police and Military: You Stand at Kotel as Long as We Allow and You Do As We Say, or Else…

Jews: Will you stand still while the Olmert regime decides that it’s illegal to blow Shofar at the Kotel? Just what does it take to get your backs up? MB read more

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Ongoing Nightmare at Kever Rachel: Is it Easier to Get to Uman than to the 3600 Year Old Jewish Holy site, Rachel’s Tomb, in Israel?

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This is a crucial question and the perspective is a personal one, and so this blog will dispense with the usual third-person convention — “this author.” I’ve agonized on this ongoing story for months, out of concern for the welfare of those involved at the Kever Rachel complex, so as to not further jeopardize what is already a problematic situation with the regime and out of concern for the future of the various planned outreach progams to teach Israelis about what Ima Rachel means to the Jewish people. read more

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Abbas: Demanding Barghouti for Shalit…

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Abbas: We’ll Demand Barghouti for Shalit


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“Palestinian president says PA will demand release of Fatah leader Barghouti, PLF Secretary-General Saadat as part of any agreement that would include Shalit’s release; representatives for groups involved in kidnapping deny reports of imminent prisoner exchange deal.”

For context on Marwan Barghouti, click here.

Commentary;

Abu (Abu Abbas in a business suit) Mazen, aka Mahmoud Abbas, Ehud Olmert’s retreaded hope for restarting the Road Map and for doing “convergence” (expulsion of 10s of thousands of Jews under a different label), has demanded the release of Barghouti and Saadat, imprisoned for their involvement in the Rachavim Ze’evi assassination (as well as countless other terror attacks) as part of any agreement that would include Shalit’s release. The other component is the release of many hundred terrorist murderers. What the heck does Israel need Abbas for? That deal could have been done the day after. But it is far too vast a price to pay in terms of Israel’s anti-terrorist credibility, appeasement and collective self-respect and self immage. read more

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War News Over Rosh Hashanah…

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Kassam Rocket Hits South of Ashkelon; No Injuries

IAF strikes Gaza house that Hid Smuggling Tunnels

Report: Gun Battle Outside West Bank Church

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“Palestinian police guarding a West Bank church exchanged fire with assailants and chased them away early Saturday. Churches in the West Bank and Gaza have been attacked by firebombs and gunfire in recent days, as part of a Muslim uproar over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI last week, seen as insulting to Islam.”

IAF Targets Home of Suspected Arms Dealer in Gaza read more

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To Embrace Our Identity as Jews …

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Column One: A Prayer for 5767 By Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

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Today, the Jewish people, in Israel and throughout the world find ourselves under attack from all quarters. The rise of anti-Semitism globally, and particularly in the Islamic world, finds us in a period of grave self-doubt. Like the Europeans, our ability to defend ourselves against the swelling ranks of haters is dependent on our ability as a people and as individuals to embrace our identity as Jews.

Commenting on the nature of this surge in Jew-hatred, the great (non-Jewish) Canadian pundit Mark Steyn wrote last month in the National Review, “The oldest hatred didn’t get that way without the ability to adapt. Jews are hated for what they are – so, at any moment in history, whatever they are is what they’re hated for. For centuries in Europe, they were hated for being rootless-cosmopolitan types. Now there are no rootless European Jews to hate, so they’re hated for being an illegitimate Middle Eastern nation-state. If the Zionist entity were destroyed and the survivors forced to become perpetual cruise-line stewards plying the Caribbean, they’d be hated for that, too.” read more

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Olmert: Realignment Plan Not Dead, Just Frozen — Blog Prediction Fulfilled…

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Olmert: Realignment Plan Not Dead, Just Frozen

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“In a pre-Rosh Hashanah interview, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated his Realignment Plan calling for the destruction of communities in Judea and Samaria is not dead, just frozen.

The prime minister explained that realities today are considerably different than they were six months ago and therefore, the government’s priorities have shifted.”

Commentary;

One does not have to a Navi to get this right. For context, check out these previous posts. As that old song goes, “As sure as Hashem made little green apples and it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime…” MB read more