Yesha Council Attempts PR to Preserve Yehuda, Shomron…

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Judea and Samaria: Where Do We Go From Here? By Anshel Pfeffer (Jerusalem Post)

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The settlers in Judea and Samaria are beginning to plan a major offensive. This time it won’t include moving caravans in the dead of night onto a barren hilltop; the next battle will be carried out by slick PR firms in Tel Aviv in a desperate last-ditch attempt to shift the Israeli mainstream. The next plan for the future of the region might come from, of all places, the YESHA Council.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert virtually admitted on Monday at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that realignment was off indefinitely, and opinion polls show that a majority of Israelis suddenly think that disengagement wasn’t such a great idea, a year afterwards, and increasingly oppose another unilateral retreat. read more

Israel Bashing and Global Anti-Semitism…

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Israel Bashing and On-Jew Violence, By Anshel Pfeffer (Jerusalem Post)

For context on violent Anti-semitism, click here.

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Quite a few children starting school this week in Jerusalem were surprised to discover groups of new kids in their classes – and they were all speaking French.

It’s not only in the schools. Sit on a bench in almost any middle-class neighborhood park in towns like Netanya or Ashdod, and from the voices around, you might be able to imagine yourself in a suburb of Paris. read more

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Wednesday War News…

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IDF Fires at Rocket Launching Sites in Gaza

Palestinians Fire at Jeep in Neveh Daniel

IDF Uncovers Weapons Cache in Hezbollah Tunnel

IDF Kills Islamic Jihad Operative in Jenin


FLASH: Israel to Lift Blockade of Lebanon on Thursday Evening

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“Families of kidnapped soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev said that Israel should not lift the blockade before the kidnappers reveal any signs of life of the captured troops. They have repeatedly expressed fears that the kidnappers would attempt to smuggle the soldiers out of Lebanon.” read more

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Olmert’s Multiple Investigative Committees Run Into Trouble With AJ…

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Olmert’s multiple committees concept, a cover-up to avoid blame and responsibility for mismanagement of the war, has run afoul of the Attorney General. 2 members of the one of the committees were disqualified because of conflicts of interest. MB

Ivri, Ya’iri off Admoni Committee

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s efforts to set up three different investigative committees to probe the war in Lebanon, rather than a State Commission of Inquiry, hit another snag Tuesday when two members of the committee to look into the political echelon’s conduct of the war were disqualified because of conflict of interest. read more

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Feiglin: “The Greatest Danger to Israel is Egypt”

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The Next “We Told You So”, by: Moshe Feiglin (Manhigut Yehudit)

Moshe Feiglin: “Please, don’t explain to the grieving families that you just had to give peace a chance. We don’t have any more children to donate to your experiments. “

If you are from the Orange Camp, if you have a kippah (skullcap) on your head, a beard or sidelocks — Heaven forbid — your warnings are meaningless. It makes no difference that you saw what was in store and you warned of the imminent danger. If you are Orange nobody listened to you before and even now, after it became clear that you were right, nobody will listen anyway… read more

Usurpation of Executive, Legislative Authority: Legacy of Barak Court…

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Our World: Shimshon Cytryn and Aharon Barak, By Caroline Glick(Jerusalem Post)

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Sunday Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy presided over a hearing on a petition submitted by one Shimshon Cytryn requesting to be released from Dekel prison and placed under house arrest. Justice Levy deferred his ruling to a later date.

Cytryn, 19 a yeshiva student from the community of Nachliel in the Binyamin Region, is accused of attempted murder.

Last June 28, two groups of teenage boys pelted one another with rocks on the Muwassi beach area in Gaza adjacent to the Israeli community Shirat Hayam without IDF intervention. The Israeli press set up shop near the boys and sprang into action. Channel 1 filmed a series of narrow lens video clips which showed only the Israeli youths – including Cytryn — throwing rocks. Television and radio news broadcasts led with stories about the “lynching” carried out by “right-wing extremists.” They reported that the Palestinian “victim” was hospitalized in Gaza and fighting for his life. read more

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Olmert Just Can’t Bring Himself to Declare Unequivocal Nullification of “Convergence”…

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Olmert Announces Policy Shift to Gain Support

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A war-battered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has signaled his Realignment Plan is “no longer relevant,” seeking to increase popularity.

In his first briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee since the war in Lebanon, the prime minister on Monday spoke to committee members for three hours.

According to MK (Meretz-Yahad) Ran Cohen, a committee member, Olmert made it clear in his briefing that the Realignment Plan is no longer relevant, the plan calling for the removal of most of the communities throughout Judea and Samaria. read more

Tuesday War News…

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Fatah’s Elite Force 17 Terror Commander Arrested

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Security sources revealed a short time ago that the Ramallah-based commander of Force 17, the personal militia of the Fatah leadership, has been apprehended. An elite border guard unit carried out the arrest of Mahmoud Damra, wanted by Israel for six years, in Bir Zeit.

Damra, on Israel’s most-wanted list for a series of deadly attacks, was appointed to head Force 17 by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas two months ago. Since September 2000, Damra has led a terror cell that has carried out shootings at Israeli vehicles, attacks against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and the planting of roadside bombs. Damra was among those offered shelter in 2002 in Yasser Arafat’s compound in Ramallah, the Mukata. read more

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Convergence “Put to Bed”: Exist Left, Stage Right; Talks with “Palestinians (sic)” …

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PM Says Unilateral West Bank Pullout Now Off the Agenda

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MK Ran Cohen (Meretz): Realignment is dead, “understood from Olmert that the idea had been put to bed.”

Liberman Sets 5 Conditions for Israel Our Home to Join Emergency Government

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“Establishment of a national commission of inquiry, commitment to take realignment plan off the government’s agenda, Kadima support to switch to a presidential system, removal of the evacuation of outposts from the agenda, and passing a civil marriage law.” read more

‘New Jews’: Neither Help Their People, Nor Fix the World…

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Breach in the Dam, By Ariel Beery (Jerusalem Post)

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Sociologist Steven M. Cohen has observed, there has been a marked drop in the obligation young Jews feel to put their fellow Jews first: Only one-quarter of Jews aged 35 to 44 strongly believe they “have a special responsibility to take care of Jews in need around the world.”

This trend was taken to an extreme at the recent Wexner Foundation seminar for its graduate student cohort, a group hand-picked by the established Jewish community to cultivate its future leaders. The Wexner fellows ranked causes related to the Jewish community or Israel significantly lower than more general causes such as the American Jewish World Service’s efforts in Africa. read more