The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Seattle’s ‘Hidden Yidden’, By Judy Lash Balint
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‘No services tonight. Watch the news,” read a hand-written sign posted at one of Seattle’s Conservative synagogues on Friday afternoon, a few hours after a Muslim American forced his way into the Jewish Federation building where I worked for four years in the early 1990s.
Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, shot and killed assistant director Pam Waechter and injured five other office workers before turning himself in to police.
Jewish Demographic Momentum By Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, and Michael L. Wise
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Arab Demographic Momentum has become part of the Israeli lexicon. In this theory, population growth in the Arab sector will overwhelm the Jewish population as ‘baby boom’ generations give birth to an even greater number of children. Arab births will accelerate even if birth rates remain stable or drop slightly, because such a large number of women will enter their childbearing years.
But the evidence is now in: demographic momentum exists — but the momentum is occurring among Jews, not Arabs. Not only has the momentum not occurred in the Arab sector, but Arab birth levels have begun to fall, while births for Jews are continuing to grow.
Our World: As Ahmadinejad Watches, By Caroline Glick
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IN HER discussions with Israeli leaders, Rice has proposed that in the framework of a settlement of the current crisis, Israel give Mt. Dov on the Golan Heights to Lebanon. There has been almost no public debate about the reasonableness of the US position. Yet even the most superficial analysis makes it clear that such a move would be catastrophic for Israel’s long-term viability.
Mt. Dov, which Hizbullah refers to as the Shaba Farms, is not and has never been Lebanese territory. In 2000, following Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, the UN certified that Israel had removed itself from all Lebanese territory.
IAF Resumes Air Strikes in Bekaa Valley
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“Warplanes struck deep inside the country early Tuesday. They hit an area that is a stronghold of Hizbullah guerrillas, witnesses said. Warplanes also hit Hezbollah fighters battling with soldiers near the border as the guerrillas fired mortars into Israel.”
Three-Pronged Attack Aims to Push Hizbullah Back to Litani
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“The security cabinet approved on Tuesday morning expanded ground operations in Lebanon…. Ground forces had taken up positions in the southern Lebanese town of A-Taybe and were carrying out operations in Al-Adaysa and Rav a-Taltin, west of Metulla. Officials said that the above-mentioned towns were being used as Katyusha rocket launching sites.”
60 Killed in IAF Strike on Qana in Southern Lebanon
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“A high-ranking IAF officer said that the IDF warned the residents of Qana to evacuate the village in anticipation of the airstrikes on Katyusha launchers.”
Over 100 Rockets Hit Northern Israel on Sunday
Six Wounded as Rockets Pound North
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“In one barrage of at least 10 rockets, a house sustained a direct hit. Other damage was also reported. A total in Kiryat Shmona and Acre as over 80 rockets rained down again on northern cities. Twenty-nine people suffered from shock. All of the casualties were taken to Nahariya Hospital.”
Last Tuesday night, Rav Chaim Zev Malinowitz gave a Yom Kippur Kattan Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av Drasha which an attendee was kind enough to summarize and send around by email. This author, in turn picked up on this blog and included it on the blog’s daily email. As a result, Israel National News saw the importance of the Rav’s points and did a news report on it on their website.
This Motsei Shabbos, the Rav requested an addendum be placed to the summary which this author deems vital as an addition, as follows;
This author tries not to comment or deal on this blog with issues and news not in some way related to or a consequence of last August’s expulsions of Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron.
This author was dead tired on Friday night after Shabbos Dinner and visiting with friends across the street. Soo dead tired in fact, that a siddur was left at the friend’s home which was seen as gone missing on Shabbos morning.
And so, Motsei Shabbos, this author went back to the friend’s house to retrieve the siddur. Upon arriving to retrieve the siddur, he viewed an interview with ADL’s head Abe Foxman on Israel’s channel 11 news.
Column One: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, By Caroline Glick
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In his address to the Knesset last week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert framed Israel’s war in Lebanon as a war for “our right to be normal.” His emphasis on our right to drink coffee led many to wonder if he understands the immensity of the threat we face as he curries favor with Israel’s aging baby boomers.
As polls of the Arab and Muslim world’s opinion of Israel make clear, The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh probably understated the magnitude of their desire to destroy Israel when he wrote on Thursday: “Throughout the Arab and Islamic world, hatred of Israel is so immense today that, if given the chance, tens of thousands of women and men would join Hamas and Hizbullah almost immediately.”
Lebanese War Widow’s Home in Danger by Hillel Fendel
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IDF officers arrived at the home of Maj. Ro’i Klein this week to inform his widow he had fallen in battle. In a few months, they are liable to return – to remove her from her home and destroy it.
The reason: She lives in a neighborhood in Eli, in Samaria (Yesha), that has been targeted by Peace Now – the same radical left-wing group that brought about the destruction of nine Jewish homes in Amona earlier this year.
Rocket Landings in Tzfat – Rosh Pina Area, No Injuries
24 Wounded as Kassam Falls Near Zikim Kindergarten
IDF Eliminates 3 Terrorists in Bint Jbeil
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“IDF soldiers eliminated three terrorists in the Hizbullah stronghold of Bint Jbeil overnight…. There were no injuries reported among the IDF troops.”
Air Force Destroyed Missile Command Center in Tyre
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“A direct hit destroyed the building that included the 12th story Hizbullah center. The command unit controlled Syrian-made 220 mm rockets which have caused most of the civilian fatalities in the Hizbullah terrorist war.”