Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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Israeli Car Stoned Near Ramallah; None Injured

Border Police Arrests Two Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem [Police Found Bag of Bullets in Youth’s Home, Other Youth Attemted to Grab Police Weapon]

Jerusalem Arabs Stone Police During Arrests

IDF Arrests 7 Palestinians [Terrorists] During Operations

Israeli Car Stoned Near Hebron

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Commentary;

We have no one to blame but ourselves, for “tolerating evil in the camp” while Israeli kablanim (builders) rake in windfall profits through employment of inordinately cheap Arab labor while Jewish unemployment rises.

Shifra Hoffman of Victims of Arab Terror noted, regarding the non-existence of a policy of not hiring Arabs; “We hold the government guilty of this attack for not implementing this policy.” MB

Sixteen Wounded in Copycat Bulldozer Attack in Jerusalem

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Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month.

The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa’amon), near the corner of Keren Hayesod and King David streets. It drove a distance of approximately 160 meters, attempting to overturn a bus and crashing into four other vehicles - one of which it flipped over. The man was then shot dead by a civilian and a border policeman.

The wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the capital.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police sealed off possible escape routes into east Jerusalem and were searching for two suspects who fled the scene.

Another Bulldozer Attack in Jerusalem: 23 Wounded, by Hillel Fendel (srael National News)

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The dead tractor terrorist was an Israeli citizen, living in Um Tuba, a south-eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhood not far from Sur Baher.

His name was publicized over the radio, and minutes later, a gag order prohibiting it from being disseminated was publicized - apparently because of his family connections with a an orange-bearded Hamas legislator who has been jailed for involvement in terrorism.

Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud’s Manhigut Yehudit faction, was an eyewitness to the attack. He told Voice of Israel Radio…. “At first I thought it was some kind of accident, but very quickly we realized that it was an attack. Thank G-d, it ended very quickly, because of the alertness of passersby who shot him - I saw a man I know from the southern Judea community of Susia, but he was the first one to shoot the terrorist, and then the Border Guard policeman came and finished the story.”

The man who first shot the terrorist was later announced to be Yaki Asael, 56, father of eight, from Susia.

“We have long called for a policy of not hiring Arabs in construction,” said Shifra Hoffman of Victims of Arab Terror. “We hold the government guilty of this attack for not implementing this policy.”

Bulldozer Driver [Ghasan Abu-Tir, 22] a Relative of Hamas Lawmaker, by Ali Waked (Ynet)

Citizen Who Shot Terrorist was Reserve Officer, Teacher

Police Chief: Tuesday Attacker [Working for Jerusalem Municipality] Had Criminal Record

Police Chief Praises Border Policeman, Not Civilian

Terrorist Plows Bulldozer Into Vehicles, by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)

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Commentary;

And the governed, in their total inculcation of subservience, sit in total supplication to evil leaders. MB

Diskin: Hamas Booby Trapping Gaza Strip

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Hamas has taken advantage of the cease-fire with Israel to plant mines across widespread areas of the Gaza Strip, the head of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Yuval Diskin, said Tuesday.

Speaking at the weekly meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Diskin said the organization has rockets that can reach Kiryat Gat, and possibly Ashdod.

Diskin repeated his opposition to the truce, saying Hamas has benefited from it, as it has enabled the group to build itself up and reinforce itself. He said that, despite Israeli demands, arms-smuggling into Gaza has continued unabated and has not seen any decrease, with large amounts of weaponry being brought into the territory on a regular basis.

200 Tons Explosives, 10 Million Bullets- Diskin Says Hamas Using Truce to Plant Mines in Gaza [Thanks to Egypt], Has Missiles Which Can Reach Kiryat Gat, and Maybe Even Ashdod, by Dr. Aaron Lerner Report: Israel refuses to release Ahmad Saadat, by Roee Nahmias (Ynet)

Al-Hayat: Israel Willing to Free Barghouti for Shalit

‘We’ll Do Everything to Return Schalit’[:Olmert — That is Everything but the Jewish Kiddush Hashem Thing]

He added that Hamas has an interest in maintaining the calm at this time, in order to strengthen its hold on Gaza.

The Shin Bet chief said that in order to effectively combat terrorism in Gaza, Israel needs troop presence on the ground inside the territory. He mentioned the dramatic decrease in terror emanating from the West Bank in recent years due to heavy IDF presence in the region and ongoing operations there. This, he said, was also needed in order to quell terror attacks from Gaza.

Asked by MK Yisrael Katz about his opinion on the possible release of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti as part of a prisoner exchange with Hamas, Diskin said he was opposed to such a move.

London-based Arab language newspaper Al-Hayat reported on Tuesday that Israel was willing to release Barghouti in exchange for Gilad Schalit, something Hamas has reportedly demanded.

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Commentary;

There is Tzipy Livni, who is portrayed by the media as Israel’s ‘Mrs Clean’, but who has learned to cheat and knave at the very feet of her mentors; Arik Sharon and Olmert. This is the Tzipy Livni whose meteoric rise through to senior cabinet posts was achieved through ingratiating herself to both Sharon and Olmert. This is the Livni who now says;

… A person who breaks the law pays with his freedom; from the normative aspect, one must pay with his office…”

She is followed by a few other lesser lights, equally corrupt and unqualified.

It could turn out that perhaps the most qualified of the entire motley, immoral group is former defense minister Shaul Mofaz, best known for his comical, farcical letter to Likud voters with one foot out of the Likud’s door.

These scandals are NOT ONLY about Olmert, but about the pervasiveness and corrosiveness of corruption, graft and self-aggrandizement as the norm, as a cancer covering the body of Israeli governance; from national down to local levels.

By replacing Olmert with any one of the above, look for nothing more than more of the same; corruption, graft, self-enrichment and misguided national appeasement of an enemy bent on our destruction and eradication.

Replacing one corrupt incompetent with another is not the answer. New elections and fresh, new, competent, uncompromised, uncorrupted, untarnished leadership based on moral integrity is. If the political arena is incapable of finding such leadership and governance, then the people must finally rise up, beat off a mindset of subserviance, and impose moral leadership and governance. MB

Kadima Vote Paves Way to Oust PM, by Gill Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be replaced as Kadima leader in mid-September, barring unforeseen circumstances, after the Kadima council received the necessary votes on Monday to initiate a party leadership primary.

It took 12 days of voting, but a majority of the council’s 180 members voted to change the party’s constitution to allow the primary to take place. The next step is for Kadima’s election committee to set a date for the primary and a mid-August deadline for potential candidates to join the race.

Sources close to Olmert said he would likely wait until the last possible moment to announce that he is not running in order to minimize the time that he would be considered a lame duck. Olmert’s associates said there was almost no chance that he would run, because he is aware that he would have no chance of winning.

“It took too long, but I am happy that Olmert is finally on his way out,” a Kadima MK who opposes Olmert said. “I can only hope it’s not too late to save the party and restore the public’s faith in it and its leaders. Olmert is a corpse that has already started to stink and he needs to be removed as soon as possible.”

Coalition Takes ‘Humiliating’ Losses in Knesset Votes, by Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)

‘Decision on PM Indictment Very Soon’, by Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post)

Shaul Mofaz’s Plan to Secure the Premiership, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)

Poll After Talansky Testimony: Olmert Guilty 64%:8%, Olmert Should 48% Resign Now 42% Wait For Indictment

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1 [Terrorist] Dead, 2 Teens Wounded in Gaza ‘Work Accident’

Palestinians Throw Rocks at Troops South of Bethlehem; No Wounded

2 Arabs Arrested in Rock Attacks Near Bethlehem

IDF Arrests 10 Palestinian Terror Suspects in… Operations

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Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktails at Troops in Nablus [Shechem]; No Wounded

IDF Arrests Hamas Woman Legislator in Shechem

Arabs [Stone] Damage 2 Cars on Okef Husan Road [West of Bethlehem]

IDF Troops Arrest 18 Palestinians in Nablus [Shechem]

Terrorists [in Shechem] Hurl Firebombs at Soldiers Furing Arrests

Bodies of Man, Woman in Their 40s Found in Taxi Near Tsfat

Arabs Cause Heavy Damage to Bus [Due to Stoning] in Mount Hevron

Arabs Throw Rocks at Vehicles in Hevron

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Nuclear Weapons for Hamas and Hezbollah [From Iran]?

IDF Arrests 2 PA [Terrorist] Fugitives [in Hebron, Shechem]

IDF: Terrorist Killed on July 7 Was Head of Hamas Charity Foundation

IDF Kills Drug Smuggler on Syrian Border

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In Parsha Matos, Sh’vatim Gad and Reuven approached Moshe Rabbeinu regarding their desire to graze their flocks and settle their families on the East side of the Yarden. To this, Moshe Rabbeinu replied, “Shall your brothers go off to war, and shall you sit here?” (Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 32, posuk 6)

Regarding Moshe Rabbeinu’s response to the pledge of Sh’vatim Gad and Reuven to fight in the upcoming war; “then you shall be vindicated from Hashem and from Israel,” Rabbi Artscroll cites Yoma (38a) on Perek 32, posuk 22;

It is not enough for one to know that one’s actions are proper in Hashem’s eyes. One must also act in such a way as to not engender suspicion on the part of human beings.

But, the most poignant explanation of the situation comes from the Tiferet Yehonatan who is quoted in the sefer “Torah Gems” where he states, on “Shall your brothers go off to war, and shall you sit here?”;

“‘…When your enemies attack Israel — you shall sit here’ — you will remain in peace in whatever country you are living in? Do not think so for an instant, because a war in defense of Israel is a war for the survival of the entire Jewish people whereever they are.’” (Torah Gems, Aharon Yaakov Greenberg, Parsha Matos, page 156.)

This explanation is as poignant now; nearly three years after the expulsion from Gush Katif and the Shomron and as the chickens of “disengagement” come home to roost despite whatever spin Olmert, Ramon, Bibi, Peres, etc. may have put on subsequent events in Gaza. The poignancy of the above citing comes into clearer focus in that the Sharon/Olmert regimes, who stole everything from the Gush Katif residents, stand in continuous, direct, blatant violation of the very laws they forced through Knesset regarding compensation and resettlement of the people that they expelled.

Now, nearly 3 years later, the former Arab workers, who lost their jobs because the Jewish businesses they worked for were forcibly put out of business by the regime’s expulsion of Jews, have sued their former employers for “wrongful dismissal” and the Olmert regime responds telling the former Gush Katif residents that the Arab claims are “your problem.”

It used to be that the Israeli credo used to be to not to abandon one’s brothers on the battlefield. But that was before the advent of What Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick calls the “New Israel” of Sharon, Olmert, Livni, Barak, etc.

But I’ll repeat once again a point which ought to relate to our generation, that is if most Israelis are not so myopic, or conveniently amnesic, as to not remember; we felt betrayed when we were attacked at the Munich Olympics, on the Holy day of Yom Kippur, or when an Air France plane was hijacked to Entebbe. Don’t dare feel betrayed, indignant again because, for the Secular Israeli who supported expulsion of his Jewish brothers and apathetically gave little thought to them, caring only for his own personal comfort and convenience, caring only for gaining “the normal life” of the nations, perhaps nothing Jewish could ever be sacred again.

Good Shabbos!

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Moshe Burt, an Oleh, is a commentator on news and events in Israel and Founder and Director of The Sefer Torah Recycling Network. He lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh.
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IDF Arrests 13 Wanted Terrorists in Shechem Area

Israeli Arab Arrested on Suspicion of Planning to Kill Bush, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

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Four Israeli Arabs from east Jerusalem and two from Nazareth have been indicted for allegedly setting up an Al-Qaida cell in the capital and offering their services to Global Jihad elements, security officials announced Friday.

One of the suspects allegedly made contact with those elements in an attempt to assassinate US President George W. Bush during his visit to Israel in May.

6 Hebrew University Israeli Arabs Charged With Operating Al-Qaeda Cell

Al Qaeda Plotters Met in Al Aqsa Mosque

Israeli [Arab] Al-Qaeda Took Pictures of Bush Chopper Landing

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Commentary;

Amidst the various and myriad corruption, graft and influence-peddling scandal accusations against prime minister Ehud Olmert, including
cash-stuffed envelopes, $4,000 a night hotel-rooms allegedly paid for by wealthy American financiers and more; it appears that Kadima’s leadership heir-apparent, who presents herself as Ms. Politically Clean, may have taken a corrupt leaf from her former mentor’s repertoire. MB

Check out this piece below;

FM Livni’s Spokesperson Attempted to Deceive Press About Expense of Her [France] Trip, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

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On July 13th, 2008, FM Livni opted to leave Paris with her entourage in first class seats on a commercial flight instead of returning with PM Olmert on his chartered plane later that day so that she could attend a wedding.

Israel Television and Radio correspondent and Hakol Diburim anchor Ayala Chason revealed in the program this morning that FM Livni’s spokesperson tried to deceive the press regarding this incident.

The spokesperson claimed that Livni actually saved the Israeli taxpayers money since she and her entourage checked out of the hotel in the morning instead of the afternoon.

Chason checked with the hotel and discovered that the Government of France had covered the hotel tab for the Israeli delegation.

“Livni saved the French taxpayers by checking out early,” concluded Chason.

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