MK Ravitz: How Much Do You Really Care? Enough to Do the Right Thing — Remain in the Opposition??

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MK Ravitz: Evacuating Outposts is Collective Punishment

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MK Avraham Ravitz (UTJ) harshly criticized Defense Minister Amir Peretz for his stated intention of evacuating four outposts because of “lawbreakers from them who attack Palestinians, children, and soldiers”.

Ravitz said today that he didn’t understand Peretz. “Why aren’t the criminals punished and brought to justice? Instead we act like a backwards country and use collective punishment.”

According to Ravitz, outposts should only be evacuated by a decision of the Prime Minister and only after dialog with the evacuees. read more

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Olmert: No Way to Stop Kassams … Sderot Blitz Goes On, and Other War News

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Olmert: No Way to Stop Kassams

For more background,
Olmert: No Overall Solution to Qassams

IDF Forces and Police Arrest Suspects in Yatta

Nablus: IDF Kills Tanzim Operative

IDF Rounds Up 12 Terrorists

MK a-Sanaa Barred From Entering Gaza

Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades Declares War on Sderot

Kassam Lands in Kibbutz in W. Negev; None Wounded

IDF Places Responsibility for Civilian Deaths on Terrorists

Terrorist Killed in Israeli Missile Strike On Al Aksa Cell

IAF Strikes Car in Northern Gaza, Four Wounded read more

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Parsha Korach 5766: Leadership; National Responsibility vs Rationale of Self-Interest …

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Parsha Korach 5766: Leadership; National Responsibility vs Rationale of Self-Interest

by, Moshe Burt

The Sefer “Torah Gems” by Aharon Yaakov Greenberg states the following thought; “Now took Korach…”; that Korach was blessed with many positive attributes: fine lineage, wisdom, qualities worthy of a leader of B’nai Yisrael. “‘Now took Korach — he took himself.’ He did not wait until he was offered the leadership, but he sought to take it by force. That is why he is not worthy of it.” (Torah Gems, by Aharon Yaakov Greenberg, Parsha Korach, Volume 3, page 79.) read more

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In Israel, Expression of Opinions = Incitement to Rebellion, to Violence When Not Leftist Views …

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Ex-Gush Katif Spokesman Held for Incitement to Rebellion

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The former spokesman for the Gush Katif local council, Eran Sternberg, was taken in for questioning by the Shin Beit security service on Tuesday on suspicions of incitement to rebellion.

Eran openly called for refusal to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces after last summer’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

Sternberg is also suspected of incitement to violence against security forces and minorities.

Sternberg refuted the suspicions of incitement to violence against security forces and minorities, and said that even his Shin Bet questioners admitted they have no evidence to back up the suspicions. read more

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Mayor Moyal: You’re Not Saying What Needs to be Said …

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Entrances Blocked to Sderot

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Employees of Sderot’s city beautification department blocked the entrances and exits to the city on Tuesday morning using vehicles.

The move was made in protest of Kassam rockets that have recently struck the southern town.

Police, including mounted forces, were positioned around the city in order to maintain order.

Sderot Municipality Shuts Down City ‘Indefinitely ‘

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The Sderot municipality shut the city down on Tuesday in protest at the continuing barrage of Kassam rockets from Gaza that have struck the area. All inner-city junctions would be shut down and every day, for an indefinite period of time, the city would be blacked-out from 9 p.m. onwards. read more

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DM Peretz: 12 Hours Later, We Are Still Awaiting Your Promised “Dramatic Changes”, We Won’t Hold Our Breaths — Other War News …

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IAF Hits Suspected Arms Factory in Gaza Strip

For more background and a very pertinent question asked by IMRA’s Aaron Lerner, read; Hamas Weaponry Manufacturing Facility Targeted [Are There More?] and IDF Spokesperson’s Office Declines to Comment on “Target Bank”

Hezbollah Builds Up Forces on Northern Border

For more background, click
Hizbullah Returns to Northern Border

Qassam Lands in Sderot; No Injuries

Kassam Falls in Western Negev

Nablus: Palestinians Hurl Explosives, Fire on IDF read more

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Peretz: More Empty Fields to be Hit??

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Peretz Promises Dramatic Changes in a Number of Hours [Not exactly holding our breaths]

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As Sderot residents continue moving away from the southern city due to daily rocket attacks, Defense Minister (Labor) Amir Peretz on Monday promised a “dramatic change” “…in a number of hours or perhaps tens of hours” if the rocket attacks are not halted.

Visiting the Sderot area accompanied by President Moshe Katsav, Peretz vowed to bring an end to the rocket attacks, declining to detail what exactly the “dramatic change” entails. read more

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Selective “Free Speech” …

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Think Again: Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, by Jonathan Rosenblum

For context, click here.

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WHILE AS a Torah Jew I attempt to maintain a degree of restraint in my own speech, I do not want the secular Israeli state to attempt to impose a regime of restraint through the law.

Nadia Matar’s current trial on charges of “insulting a public official” is a case in point of selective enforcement, as this paper pointed out this week (“Noxious speech,” editorial, June 12). No doubt Yonatan Bassi was insulted by a letter from Matar likening the Disengagement Authority to a modern day “Judenrat.” read more

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Background: Impact of the Blitz on Sderot and Why No Concrete Action is Taken to Eradicate Smuggling, the Terrorists, the Launchers, the Stockpiles…

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Sleepless in Sderot, Judy Lash Balint

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Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gush Katif last summer, Sderot has become the new address for a barrage of Kassam rockets fired from the area of the now-destroyed Jewish communities of Dugit, Alei Sinai and Nisanit. According to IDF statistics, more than 600 Kassams have been launched against Israel from the Gaza Strip since last September. Several have targeted the Ashkelon industrial area, but it’s Sderot, barely three miles away from Beit Hanoun, that has borne the brunt of the onslaught. read more

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With 5 Billion NIS Tax Surplus Plus Announced Budget Surplus, Why Aren’t the Gush Katif Refugees Being Compensated?

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A reasonable question? For context on the budget surplus, Click here.

Good for the Rich

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It also isn’t true, as Hirchson says, that “lowering VAT is necessary because the surplus from tax revenues will reach NIS 10 billion this year. We must return some of that money to the public.”

According to the finance ministry’s tax administration, the country’s tax surplus (the difference between planned tax revenues and the amount of tax actually paid) stands at about NIS 5 billion. Nor is there any leftover from VAT revenues; that real growth is about four percent. read more

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