Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Click here for access to previous links to the ongoing story regarding Netanyahu and Moshe Feiglin.

Netanyahu Offers Feiglin a Deal

Excerpts:

“Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu ended his efforts to expel right-wing activist Moshe Feiglin from the Likud on Thursday, just two days after he announced a quest to purge the Likud of ‘negative elements.'”

“Netanyahu offered Feiglin a deal whereby he would agree to not expel him from the party in return for Feiglin dropping his race for a slot on the Likud’s Knesset list, Likud sources said.” read more

To view the previous report on Marwan Barghouti for context, click here.

Deal: Barghouti to Form PA Government

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“Following a long dispute, the two factions of the Palestinian Fatah movement has reached an agreement Thursday to unite the group under the leadership of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Arab-Israeli weekly al-Sinara reported on Friday.”

“The newspaper has released the details of what it defined as the ‘bargain deal,’ between the rivaling sides, revealing that in the framework of the agreement Barghouti has consented to the movement’s unification in exchange for an effort to persuade the factions to carry on with the state of intra-Palestinian lull set to expire at the end of the month.” read more

IAF to Monitor, Fire on Kassam Launching Sites in Gaza

Mortar Shells Fired at Gaza Security Fence

4 Terrorists Apprehended During the Night

Mofaz Approves Continued Air Strikes

IDF to Step Up Assassinations of Jihad Men in Wake of Rocket Fire

‘We Won’t be War Criminals’

Excerpts:

“Israel only operates against Palestinian targets that threaten the country, a senior government official who is very close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Ynet Thursday evening.”

“‘We will not be war criminals. Whoever is irresponsible, should go and face (International War Crimes Tribunal in) The Hague,’ the official said in response to the demand made by a number of ministers in the past few days that the IDF should strike Palestinian population concentrations, even at the price of hurting civilians.” read more

Gush Katif Evacuees Prepare for Hanukka in J’lem Hotels

Excerpt:

“‘We thought we would only be here for 10 days,’ Miriami said, ‘but that has turned into four months.’ The Naumburgs would like to move to as-yet unready temporary housing, but are not keen on leaving the Hyatt for another Jerusalem hotel.”

Parsha Vayeishev 5766: Yosef and the Pit & Kassam’s, Mortars in Neve Dekalim By, Moshe Burt

I read the short article on the INN website; “Mortar Shells Filled With Chanukah Light” about the Menorah made from some of the spent Islamic mortal shells which were launched on Neve Dekalim over the years. read more

Bibi Doing Unto Feiglin What Left Did Unto Him;

For Previous reports on Bibi Netanyahu’s attempts to oust Moshe Feiglin from Likud, click here and here.

Bibi starting Out on Left Foot

Excerpt:

“Netanyahu would be well advised not employ tactics against Feiglin that were once used against him.”

How well this author remembers watching 60 Minutes back in the US in 1996 and seeing how the left vilified Bibi and identified him as cause of the Rabin assassination. How soon they forget, and now Bibi, in his own insecurities, jealousy and lack of true Nationalist strength and ideology, seeks to do the same to Moshe Feiglin. MB read more

Top PFLP Commander Killed in Nablus

Kassam Rocket Attack in Western Negev

Three Terrorists Killed in Counter-Terror Operations

Firebombs Hurled Near Ramallah

9 Ambulances Responding to Rocket Attack Site

This report follows-up on the previous report concerning Bibi’s attempt to oust Moshe Feiglin from Likud.

Netanyahu Bid: Push Off Primaries to Get Feiglin Out

Excerpts;

“Netanyahu has met with Tzvi Cohen, the Likud’s Election Committee chairman, who approved the initiative. It involves a change to the party’s constitution that would ban anyone with a criminal record and a jail sentence of at least three months from running for Knesset. ”

“In Nov. 1997, Feiglin – as leader of the anti-Oslo Zo Artzeinu (This is Our Land) organization – was sentenced to six months in prison, which he was permitted to convert to six months of public service. He had been convicted two months earlier of ‘sedition’ for organizing massive road blockades in the framework of anti-Oslo protests in 1994.” read more

Rabbi Elon Says No, Merger Seems Further Than Ever

Steinitz: Rafah Deal Was Never Signed

Excerpts;

“MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) accused Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Wednesday of misleading the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in his statement that a final agreement had been reached with the Palestinians over the Rafah border crossing.”

“Steinitz, who chairs the committee, claimed that no such agreement had ever been reached, and that the terms that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left in place had actually been objected to by both sides.” read more

Earlier in December, an email hit the log which was put away until the time appropriate to Chanukah. Now is that time. So here is a Vort on Chanukah;

Down With Hanukah
By Rabbi Meir Kahane

If I were a Reform rabbi; if I were a leader of the establishment
whose money and prestige have succeeded in capturing for himself the
leadership and voice of American Jewry; if I were one of the members
of the Israeli Government’s ruling group; if I were an enlightened
sophisticated, modern Jewish intellectual, I would climb the
barricades and join in battle against that most dangerous of all
Jewish holidays – Chanukah. read more