Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

And four years later, we live with the pain of the Korban done by Jew against Jew. Rabbi Gold’s words are poignant. (For those who cannot view the video from this blog, click here. ) Also poignant are the photos and words on the Jew against Jew Expulsion from Gush Katif […]

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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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Mayor of the Shomron town of Ariel, Ron Nachman and the Ariel city council have hit on a novel approach for those whose emunah is lacking, who see Hussein Obama or Hillary Clinton as the final arbiters on the Land of Israel and for whom Hashem never really enters the equation. They have […]

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Reuters reported last week that prime minister Netanyahu, while hosting German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, used the term “Judenrein” as derived from the Nazi era of the Holocaust to condemn “Palestinian (sic)” demands that Jewish towns be removed from the entirety of beyond the “greenline”, presumably to clear the way for a “Palestinian (sic)” in […]

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The IRIS blog did a piece on Monday treating comments of Arab-American Joseph Farah in his World News Daily where he refers to the Obama administration’s so-called “balanced policy” towards Israel as inherently racist, and that it aims for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the historical Jewish homeland.
According to an Israeli daily Haaretz report, […]

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The IRIS blog has offered a valuable analysis of prime minister Netanyahu’s Sunday night speech set in contrast with then-MK Netanyahu’s impassioned plea in 2002 to the Likud central committee against a “Palestinian state”, the position of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. With his speech on Sunday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu has capitulated on […]

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Commentary:
I am dispensing with the 3rd person “this author” on this one. America’s president Barack Hussein Obama has made his Cairo speech. Aside from the questions of what it’s decipherings, implications and deeper meanings and analysis could mean to Israel and to the Jewish world, the question is; What Should Hussein […]

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Arabs Throw Bomb at Troops [at IDF position between Gush Etzion and Hevron — Device did not Explode]
Arabs Stone Car Near Tekoa
Palestinian Youth Stabs IDF Soldier [in “Humanitarian Lane” of Hawara Checkpoint Near Shechem]
Samaria Shooting Attack [Terrorists Fired at Jewish Vehicle East of Kalkilya]
IDF Arrests 13 Terror Suspects [East of Tulkarm, Both North and […]

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Israeli Planes Drop Warning Pamphlets Over Gaza [Warning Gazans to Stay Clear 300 to 500 Meters From Border Fence, or Risk Being Shot]
Gaza-Trained Terrorists Arrested in Egypt
Call to Barak: Destroy Illegal Arab Structures
IDF Arrests Five Terror Suspects in Yesha [Near Tulkarm, in Shechem, Near Ramallah, in Hevron]
Israeli Injured by Arab Rock Throwing Near Hevron
IDF […]

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Commentary:
The State Commission of Inquiry formed to probe the treatment of “evacuees” has begun hearing testimony. This blog has referred and will continue to refer to the former Gush Katif residents by the more accurate terms, the expelled, the evicted, the former Gush Katif residents, rather than the regime politically correct term […]

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