Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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Rock Attack on Ambulance [Near Beit Omer, Between Gush Etzion and Hevron]
Kassam Attack in Western Negev [Rocket Landed in Carmiya]
Related report:
Update: Kassam Hit Bedroom, Three Wounded
Kassam Lands Near Ashkelon; 3 Lightly Injured - Baby’s Crib Destroyed in Attack [Baby Injured by Shrapnel]
IDF Kills Two Terrorists in Gaza
Rock Attacks Near Ramallah, Shechem
IDF Arrests Seven Wanted […]

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by, Moshe Burt
The Haftorah for our Parsha begins, “Nachamu, Nachamu Ami yomar Elokeichem” — “Comfort, comfort my people — says your G’d.” (Yishaiya, 40:1) This sentiment seems to be silent, but yet a theme of Parsha Va’etchanan.
In the beginning of Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu recalls for the B’nai Yisrael how he entreated Hashem […]

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Commentary:
As was previously posted on this blog, Olmert suddenly is talking offensively, rather than defensive protection of the citizens he governs. While he is very correct regarding the use of the term evacuation — in the context of causing a permanent retreat from a place, but what Olmert apparently means is […]

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IDF: Hezbollah Moving Rockets Inside South Lebanese Villages
(Associated Press)
Commentary;
This report gives additional details on today’s earlier post regarding camouflaging of rockets and launchers in villages.
Another Olmert pillar, that of the security of the Northern border post Lebanon conflict, goes up in flames. MB
Full Text;
Hezbollah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in […]

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Barak of IRIS questions how it’s possible that Olmert’s “gesture” toward Abbas of releasing 255 prisoners ‘without blood on their hands’ could have included 30 members of Hamas and two members of the Islamic Jihad.
Was the entire “war” between Fatah and Hamas a fraud perpetrated on us not only by the […]

IAF Kills Two Islamic Jihad Operatives
Related reports:
Kassam Rocket Hits Sderot; 1 Person Lightly Hurt
UPDATE: Second Terror Rocket Hit Elementary School
Terrorists Killed Firing Kassam Rockets, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Excerpts;
“Arabs fired two Kassam rockets at the Negev city of Sderot Sunday afternoon, and a woman sustained shrapnel wounds. […]

Expellees Receive Power-Struggle Eviction Notices, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Commentary;
It seems like some of the former Gush Katif families have had to endure the ongoing long-term abuse of being caught between a disdainful regime and Israelis whose only ethic is to gouge, shake down and victimize their fellows.
It would not be surprising […]

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PM: Israel Can’t Hold West Bank Forever (Jerusalem Post)
Commentary;
Olmert continues to promulgate the oft-proven false, bogus PA demographic stats to cover his disdain for Yehuda and Jewish history and our Divine Legacy — the Land of Israel. For previous related blog posts bursting the regime’s demographics dud, click here. […]

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For previous blog posts regarding both the Winograd Report and the State Comptroller’s Report, click here and here.
Crybabies Don’t Win Wars, by Ron Ben-Yishai (Ynet)
IDF more concerned with avoiding casualties than completing missions
Excerpts;
One of the more widespread myths reinforced following the Second Lebanon War praised the remarkable performance of low-ranking combat soldiers and […]

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Iran to Fund Syrian Arms Deals, by Roee Nahmias (Ynet)
Excerpts;
Tehran will help Syria fund future arms deals with North Korea and Russia, set up military plants there and back Syria on the Lebanon issue.
Iran will transfer a billion dollars to Syria for the purchase of 400 advanced T-72 Russian […]