Archive for January, 2008

Thursday War News: Terrorists, Missile-Launcher Killed, 50 Terrorists Nabbed in Gaza, Egypt Opens Rafah Border to Killers, Contraband; Illegals Nabbed in Galilee, Near Ramat Beit Shemesh; Fighting Near Shechem, Jenin

January 24th, 2008

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Five Kassam rockets Launched From Gaza Strip; No Casualties
Related reports;
Update: No Injuries in Sderot Rocket Attacks
Rocket Attacks in Sderot
Golani Forces Kill Gunman, Arrest 50 [Terror] Suspects in Gaza Strip
IDF Kills Terrorist Aiming Anti-Tank Rocket [south of Erez Crossing]
Egypt Defies Israel, Will Leave Rafiah Border Open [Free Passage for Terrorists, Contraband]
Three Mortars [Launched] Near Nahal Oz
Weapons […]

Shas: Classic “Pants Glued to Seat” Syndrome

January 23rd, 2008

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Commentary;
The Shas party, in classic “pants glued to seat” syndrome have issued Olmert their latest lame “ultimatum” about leaving the coalition the moment “talks begin on Jerusalem.”
And if Yishai is soo foolish as to believe that Olmert will keep him “updated immediately on every concession… in diplomatic negotiations”, then we’ve got a “bridge to sell” […]

Revolving-Door PA Court: PA-Employed Hiker Killers Get 15 Years

January 23rd, 2008

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Commentary;
Back in the old country, we used to have sports pools where if our favorite teams scored so many points or runs, the one who guessed right walked away with some bucks.
Now that the Pa trial of the Pa policemen/hiker killers has concluded and aggregiously short 15 year prison sentences meted out by the Pa […]

Wednesday War News: IDF Nabs 20 Gaza Terrorists, 16 Kassams Fired Tuesday, Hamas Tries to Import Kassams to Yesha; Molotovs, Devices Hurled in Yesha, 13 Terrorists Nabbed in Hevron

January 23rd, 2008

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IDF Troops Operating in Southern Gaza Arrest 20 Terror Suspects
Most of Gaza-Egypt Wall at Rafah Destroyed in Explosions
Excerpt;
“Gunmen had set off seventeen explosions overnight to blow holes in the wall on the sixth day of an Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory. Tens of thousands of Palestinians flooded across to buy food, cigarettes and fuel.”
Sixteen […]

Tuesday War News: Regime Caves to Pressure, Oil Restored to Terrorists, Kassams- Mortars Resume; Delayed Recon Satellite Launched as Iran Gets Nuke Fuel From Russia; Terror Arrests, Fighting Near Jenin

January 22nd, 2008

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Three Kassam Rockets Land Outside Sderot; No Casualties
Two Kassams Hit Negev
5 Kassams Fired as Israel Allows Fuel, Cooking Gas into Gaza
Commentary;
As always, Israel’s weak-kneed, defeatist, anti-Torah leaders quaked before the contrived Islamic outcry and the resultant “threats by the Palestinian Authority to end diplomatic negotiations, warnings by UN organizations that food aid would have to […]

Parsha Yitro 5768: Toward a Paradigm Torah Judiciary

January 22nd, 2008

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by Moshe Burt
Our parsha has taught over the years about the mutual admiration, love and respect which existed between Moshe Rabbeinu and his father-in-law Yitro, the former advisor to Pharoh.
Shem Mishmuel writes on our parsha about Yitro’s journey to the camp of the B’nai Yisrael, his heartfelt desire to join the B’nai Yisrael […]

Will Olmert, Livni Heed Lebanon Failures, Act Accordingly?

January 21st, 2008

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Commentary;
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, we don’t have Amir Peretz and Dan Halutz “to kick around anymore” — they’re gone from the scene.
But the question is now, after the Winograd report comes out at January’s end, will the governed unify and rise up to demand, to compel — in unison and in massive numbers — […]

Monday War News: Kassams Continue to Fall, Gaza Arabs Contrive “Humanitarian Crisis”; Terrorists Arrested, Stonings and Fighting in Yesha

January 21st, 2008

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Kassam Rocket, Two Mortar Shells Fall in Western Negev; No Casualties
Mortar Shell Lands Near Sufa Crossing; No Injuries
Olmert: As Far as I’m Concerned, Gazans Can Keep Walking
Excerpt;
Olmert: “…Let all of Gaza walk on foot and not have fuel for their cars, because they have a murderous regime that won’t let people in southern Israel live […]

Jews’ Greatest Crisis: When Islamics Embrace National Unity on Jerusalem

January 20th, 2008

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Commentary;
In reading Natan Sharansky’s words excerpted below, particularly where he cites Yassir Arafat at Camp David in 2000 as declaring “that since Jerusalem belonged to all Arabs and Muslims, he had no right to make the decision about the relinquishment alone - and therefore needed to consult the Arab and Muslim League,” this author reflected […]

A.B. Yehoshua: Another “Rape Me” Leftist Extremist

January 20th, 2008

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Abominable leftist author A.B. Yehoshua apparently lines up solidly behind Haaretz editor David Landau’s yearning for a “rape” of the Jewish state. MB
A.B. Yehoshua: Bush Should Recall Ambassador Until Outposts Dismantled, by Menachem Gantz (Ynet)
“Israeli novelist says Israel deceiving international community into focusing solely on illegal outposts, thus legitimizing settlement […]