The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
IDF Prevents Kassam Launch; 6 Rockets Fired
Kassam Rocket Attacks Continue Without Artillery Retaliation
Three Kassams Launched, Two Land in Israel
IDF Soldier Lightly Wounded in Nablus
IDF Kills 3 Gaza Operatives Planting Explosives
Two More Rockets as Hamas Proposes Cease Fire
IDF Kills 3 Palestinians Near Gaza Fence; Six Qassams Hit Israel
Commentary #1
These stories may not seem related, but just maybe they are. Something to think about? Could this be what when former NSC Chairman Major General Giora Eiland had in mind in suggesting to ” … Compensate Egypt with 150 square kilometers in the southern Negev …”?
BBC: Gaza Rockets Real Threat to Israel
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I’m sure the Education Ministry, together with a bit of the volunteering spirit that has yet to completely disappear from Israeli society, could help organize a much calmer summer for hundreds of kids than the one they are expecting. The “message” of such a plan would not be to flex our national muscles. Rather, it would show simple, human and obvious concern for the welfare of children who see through the lies that “we are doing our best” as they continue to shake with fear.
Exclusive: Israel Transferred Jordanian Weapons to the PA
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The Israeli government, through the IDF, transferred 1,050 Kalachnikov rifles and one million bullets to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday and Wednesday. The weapons reached the Allenby Crossing, on the Jordan-Israel border, as a gift to the PA from the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. After receiving orders from the government, IDF forces transported the weapons from the Jordanians across Israel and handed them over to PA forces at the Erez and Karni crossings into the Gaza Strip.
Expulsion Cost $2 Billion–So Far
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A Finance Ministry official has revealed that the cost of the expulsion program has cost $2 billion and will rise. “The costs just keep mounting,” said deputy budget director Harel Belinda. He also described the problem of unemployment among the expulsion victims as a “ticking bomb.”
The plight of the former Gaza region and northern Samaria residents is exacerbated by the government’s fear of submitting amendments because factions on the right and left would try to change the law. “The government will have to withdraw the law if any changes proposed by MKs are made to it. This would be catastrophic for us since we’ll find ourselves helpless in the face of the distress of the evacuees,” warned Ra’anan Dinur, director general of the office of the Prime Minister.
Olmert in Paris: ‘Convergence is Unstoppable’
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“Convergence is unstoppable,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday after meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris. “It will be implemented. I hope with negotiations, but also without [negotiations],” the prime minister emphasized.
PA At War Til Bitter End; Israeli Public Is In Denial
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Glick was quick to label Olmert’s convergence or re-alignment plan an Israeli surrender, “It’s surrender. It’s the transfer of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem to Hamas and Al-Qaeda. He’s pushing an Israeli surrender; he’s pushing the national destruction of Israel, that’s what he’s pushing.”
Olmert Lays Down Condition for Talks with PA
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking at a press conference with French President Jacques Chirac, said Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must recognize Israel before negotiations can start.
He added that the PA also must end all terror and fulfill obligations of previous agreements. The PA and Israel announced an agreement in February 2005 at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit but it quickly fell apart. The PA was to receive control of five major urban centers on condition it end incitement and terror. Suicide bombers from the first city where the PA took control carried out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv shortly after the accord.
Analysis: Bad Timing for the IDF’s PR Battle
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Sometimes in life it is all a question of timing and on Tuesday it didn’t work right for the IDF. Just hours before the military planned to exonerate itself as a result of the investigation into the explosion that killed seven Palestinians on a Gaza beach on Friday, two Palestinian children were killed alongside six other innocent civilians. This time the responsibility fell directly on Israel’s shoulders.
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This is a Perfect Example of how Israel’s MSM Places higher Value on lives of “Palestinian(sic)” civilians, as “the brave freedom fighters” exploit them, hiding among them for cover; rather than on the lives of Jewish civilians living in the south who are subjected to the daily Kassam and shelling blitz.
Olmert Approves Strategy of Arming Abbas to Fight Hamas
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Olmert’s decision effectively positions Israel on the side of Fatah in its conflict with the Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization which governs the Palestinian Authority. That conflict over control of the PA has brought the two groups to the brink of civil war.
Fatah’s new weapons will be supplied by Egypt and Jordan and shipped to Fatah forces, including Abbas’s presidential guard, via Israel.
An aide to Olmert quoted by Reuters said, “He approved the delivery of a certain amount of weaponry to Abu Mazen’s (Abbas’s) presidential guard in order to bolster him so he can fulfil his obligations.” The aide did not specify which obligations the weapons would help Abbas fulfill.
Qassam Lands Near Strategic Facility
Kassam Rocket Fired at Jewish Community
Peretz: One Day of Quiet Proves Terrorists Got the Message
Peretz: Hamas Halted Qassams Due to Threat of IDF Operation
Gaza Violence: One Dead, Senior Fatah Guard Wounded
IDF Arrests 13 Tanzim, Jihad Terrorists
IDF Kills Al Aqsa Terrorist in Jenin
IDF Nabs 13 Fugitives in West Bank
