Squandering the Country’s Credibility By Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
“The bottom line: Construction on permanent housing has yet to begin in even one of the 18 locations earmarked for resettling evacuees.”
“Having evicted these families from their homes to serve its own policies, the government has an ethical obligation to at least […]
Division Commanders are Taking the Heat, by Anshel Pfeffer (Jerusalem Post)
Full Text;
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. Dan Halutz and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will eventually agree on a candidate for the IDF Northern Command and Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam will be allowed to go home, thereby avoiding the summary judgment of the Winograd […]
Nasrallah File Was Not Important Enough for Military Intelligence
Full Text;
A request to begin amassing a file on Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah following the IDF withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 was turned down.
At the time, a colonel in military intelligence requested to begin building a file on the Hizbullah leader but he was turned down, […]
PM Olmert Attends Israel Democracy Institute Seminar on “The Jewish
Character of the State of Israel - Religious Zionism as a Motivating Factor for National Dialogue” (IMRA)
Excerpts;
Prime Minister Olmert made the following remarks:
“The religious Zionist public is in severe distress in the wake of the harsh public debate that is giving rise to fundamental […]
From Corruption to Cleanliness, by Meir Tamari (Jerusalem Post)
Commentary;
The first sentence speaks tons not only regarding individuals, but regarding the entire Nation and the Israeli government whose moral, fiscal, diplomatic, and institutional corruption endangers us all! MB
Full Text;
On Rosh Hashana individuals and […]
Report: IDF Performs Security Checks in South Lebanon
Excerpt;
“IDF soldiers arrived in three jeeps and a tank, stationing themselves on a main road where they stopped cars and checked the drivers…. and had performed a similar operation on Tuesday.”
Palestinians Throw Stones at Bus in Hebron
IDF Arrests Al-Aksa Fugitive Near Ramallah
Troops Allowed to Shoot […]
The Real Reason that the IDF was Unprepared By Shmuel Katz (Jerusalem Post)
“But perhaps the worst blow to Israel’s security was the notion that giving the Arabs chunks of territory - and that unilaterally - would be a large step forward on the way to peace. That notion was exemplified […]
DM Peretz: PA Continues Attacks, Hizbullah Continues Arming, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
Commentary;
Amir Peretz, easily THE most incompetent minister of defense in Israel’s modern history. If his handling of the war left any doubt of this fact, the excerpts below should more than squelch any doubts.
Read what Barak of […]
Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Israeli Car by Ramallah [Near Kfar Hizma, South of Ramallah]
Excerpt;
“No one was hurt, and the car was undamaged. IDF forces were sweeping the area.”
Israeli Lightly Wounded by Rocks in Hebron
Tunnels Uncovered Along Gaza’s Border with Egypt
Excerpts;
“Two underground tunnels along the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt were dug to smuggle weapons […]
Yom Kippur 5767: Unity, Brachot and the Jews; Kohanim to Mankind — Revisited
By Moshe Burt
The Mussaf portion of any prayers; Yom Tov, Rosh Chodesh, Shabbos represent the essence, the main point of that day.
On Yom Kippur, the essence of the service, the ikar is the avodah of the Kohen Godol. So much so […]