War News …
PM: Israel to Control its Own Security
What a laugh! Sharon has created a situation, via the expulsion, the crossing
“agreements” and in countless other instances, where he has TOTALLY abrogated his responsibility as PM to see to the security, good and welfare of the Nation he heads. In any other nation, or at least in any democracy, his actions would at least constitute impeachable offenses, perhaps more. MB
Potholes, Pits and Pandemics …
This article was emailed recently by my friend Evelyn Haies, the Head of “Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation” where a Sefer Torah was installed on 7 July, 2005 through the efforts of The Sefer Torah Recycling Network.
“P0THOLES, PITS AND PANDEMICS”
In Memory of My Father Shaul ben Chaim ben David Solomon
on his 22nd Yahrzeit, MarCheshvan 28, 5766
by Evelyn Hayes, author of The Plague Series.
(c) November 27, 2005
And it was all because they knew not Yosef, their Jewish brother with roots, rights and respectability. So it was that they dis-engaged from the ways of their forefathers, the midos of the Imaot, the borders of their family of Israel.
A Jewish One State Plan …
Israel, From the Mediterranean to the Jordan?
Excerpts:
” … All parties are prepared to withdraw to varying degrees and on different preconditions. In effect, Labour and Kadima accept the two-state solution as envisioned by the Roadmap and Likud is paying lip service to it because its preconditions are unlikely to be fulfilled.”
“The desire to withdraw is driven by a widely disseminated demographic myth that the Arabs outnumber Jews west of the Jordan. Most people are unaware of a Demographic Study completed this year which concluded that there are only 1.4 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria of which it is estimated between 100,000 and 300,000 have already infiltrated into Israel. If Israel were to annex these territories, the Jews would constitute 67% of the combined population. This is a percentage that has remained constant since ’67.”
Politics: Sorting Out Truth from Propaganda …
Hanegbi: Likud Must Examine its Errors
Excerpt:
“His comments in an Army Radio interview came in response to recent public opinion polls indicating a sharp decline in support for Likud following the establishment of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new party Kadima.”
While Hanegbi is examining Likud’s “errors” which have caused the erosion of support, he might try a little self-examination as to why he repeatedly and arrogantly evaded receiving Nadia Matar’s petitions with hundreds of thousands of names against a pa terror state. He might want to self-examine his mainly arrogant general demeanor.
Overnight War News …
Parsha Toldos: To Rise Above the Norm
Parsha Toldos 5766 — To Rise Above the Norm
By, Moshe Burt
The Israeli political scene at present resembles a Free Agency Market. It’s talents or shall we say, bounty-hunters are for hire to the highest bidder, and represent the likes of which would make America’s sports Free Agency look lame by comparison.
Forget Major League Baseball’s rush for “Closers”(the guy to pitch the 8th and or 9th innings and hold a lead) — Wagner $43 Million for 4 years, B.J. Ryan $47 Million 5 years, etc.
The Agendized Leftist Mentality …
The Effete Left’s Paradigm of Hatred for Yiddishkiet … MB
Tarred With the Brush of Extremism
Excerpts:
“New ideological groups, especially if characterized by religious fundamentalism and political radicalism, naturally draw public, media and academic fire. But we have to keep a sense of proportion when assessing the size of such groups and the extent of their influence.”
“That rule has not been observed with respect to religious Zionism. Instead, individual instances of extremist behavior are immediately projected onto an entire community. Every report of a voodoo-like ‘pulsa denura’ ceremony, of the construction of a hut on a remote hilltop, of the destruction of olive trees or of the violent obstruction of highway traffic immediately becomes an excuse for sweeping generalizations. In the public and academic discourse all settlers, and even all religious Zionists, are branded as deviants. In the process, the color orange is transmuted into a giant stain on the national-Zionist community as a whole.”
Late Night War News …
Israel: To “Disengage” or to Reach for the “Kingdom of David?”
A few days ago, this appeared on Ynet, as well as ion other English-language News sites; Rabbi: Disengage From State.
Excerpts:
“A prominent Jewish messianist has called for religious Jews to disengage from the State of Israel due to the evacuation of Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip last summer.”
“In a new book entitled ‘Between Light and Darkness,’ Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, a leader of the Chabad Chassidic sect that believes its Chief Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the messiah, says religious Jews should view the secular government as an “administrative body, like the British government who controlled Israel before the country’s establishment.”