Denying Regular Egged Transportation: Another Systematic Prong in Regime’s Efforts to Isolate Yehuda, Shomron Towns?

MK Ariel: Increase Public Transportation in Judea and Samaria

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In the wake of recent events, including the suspected kidnapping of a youth from Itamar on Sunday, Knesset Member Uri Ariel (National Union-NRP) has called upon the defense minister and the transportation minister to increase public transportation in Judea and Samaria.

“As you know,” MK Ariel explained, “there are warnings of attempts to kidnap civilians. The order not to hitchhike is a command that the public cannot bear, as public transportation is very infrequent (in many communities, a bus comes only twice a day).” In any event, MK Ariel promised to work to make the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria aware of the dangers in hitchhiking, in the hope of limiting the phenomenon. read more

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Another Kidnapping? Gaza Bridges Bombed, Sderot/Negev Blitz Continue and Other Tuesday Night/Wednesday War News …

Concerns Mount Over [2nd] Kidnapping Report

For further background, click Fear of Another Kidnapping

Talks on Recovering Israeli Hostage Fail: TV

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Egyptian- and French-led efforts to negotiate for the release of an Israeli soldier abducted by Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip have failed, Israeli television reported on Tuesday.

Quoting a source close to the mediators, Channel Two said there was “zero chance” of recovering Corporal Gilad Shalit through talks, bringing closer the prospect of a major Israeli military sweep of Gaza. read more

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Parsha Chukas: Tefillot for Rectification of Chait, Unity and Rachel Imeinu

Parsha Chukas: Tefillot for Rectification of Chait, Unity and Rachel Imeinu

By Moshe Burt

The placement in Torah of our Parsha Chukat and the Parah Adumah raises questions as to why the Parah Adumah and it’s Halachot are mentioned here in our Parsha; only after Korach’s rebellion and after the continued murmuring of the Am against Moshe Rabbeinu, and after the plague which killed thousands only ending with Aaron’s carrying an incense pan amongst the people (upon Moshe’s instruction), and after the story of the rods. read more

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When Does a Regime Admit Their Castastrophic Failure?

Death of the Concept, by Meir Eindor

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What else has to happen before the architects of this catastrophe admit their failure?

The entire new concept of security, based on the notion that Israel should dig in and realign itself behind a fortified wall, crumbled at Kerem Shalom. Once and for all it was proven that there is no substitute for a strong IDF presence in areas where terrorists organize.

The evacuated area has been filled with dozens of sub-groups of terror organizations, and hundreds of armed cells receive weapons, some from “official” sources, some (mostly anti-tank weapons) which move freely across the Philadelphi Route – an additional Israeli mistake which was given over to Palestinian and Egyptian supervision. read more

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Just Who Planned, Trained and Sent These Murderers to Kerem Shalom Anyway? Military Response?

Fatah: Hamas Sent the Terrorists to Kerem Shalom

These very peculiar changes and evolvement in headlines and reports are worth noting;

Al Hayat: Abu Samhadana Planned Kerem Shalom Attack

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The London-based Arabic newspaper Al Hayat reported Monday that the attack on IDF forces near Kerem Shalom on Sunday, in which two IDF soldiers were killed and a third kidnapped, had been planned by Popular Resistance Committees leader Jamal Abu Samhadana. Samhadana was killed on June 9 in an IAF air strike. read more

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Events In and Near Gaza and Other War News …

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IDF Soldier Missing, Reported Kidnapped, 2 Soldiers Dead in Attack on IDF Base by Hamas and Other Armed Palestinian Groups …

Hamas Withholding Information on Kidnapped Soldier

2 Soldiers Killed, 4 Wounded in Attack

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Two IDF troops were killed and one reported kidnapped on Sunday when Palestinians attacked a military post and two vehicles in an operation that touched off a gunbattle with soldiers that also left four IDF troops hurt and four gunmen dead.

IDF ground troops entered the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian operatives infiltrated southern Israel via a 100-meter-long, nine-meter-deep tunnel that had been dug, the army assessed, over the past week. read more

IDF Responses to Raid of Base, Kidnapped Soldier and Overnight War News …

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Critics of Unilateral Expulsion Mount, Look Out for Olmert’s “Bilateral Expulsion”…

The War of Cities / Sderot-Gaza, Baghdad-Tehran, by Amir Oren (Haaretz)

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If a foreign planner, free of preconceptions, were to be asked to suggest solutions to the problem of the rockets being fired from Gaza, he would certainly demand considering the return of the IDF ground forces to the Gaza Strip, or at least to its northern sector, from which the range of the rockets reaches the outlying areas of Ashkelon to the north.

Taking control of this sector, to the point of erecting a fence within it, would be costly and would create other problems, but it would solve the problem of the Qassams – until the range of the rockets is increased, or until masses of Katyushas and Grads are imported. read more

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Regime Cracking Down on Jewish Activism in Advance of Expulsion from “Outposts” …

Restraining Orders to be Issued Against Extremists

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“Restraining orders were expected to be issued against 12 right-wing extremists on Saturday night.

The extremists were suspected of attacking security forces and Palestinians.

The move was viewed as signaling the impending evacuation of several illegal outposts in the West Bank, Channel 2 reported.”

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IDF Issues Orders Restricting Movement of 13 Far-Right Activists

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