Search Results for: kever rachel

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Rocket Lands between Ashkelon and Ashdod

[Hamas’ Cellphone Warfare] Hamas Sends Text Messages to Israeli Cell Phones, by Ali Waked (Ynet)

‘IAF Aircraft Assassinates Senior Hamas Leader in Gaza’

IAF Steps Up Gaza Strip Air Strikes [Killing Nine People, Including Senior Hamas Leader], by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

Nizar Rayyan Considered Successor of Ahmed Yassin [ IAF Dropped Bomb on the Eight-Story Jabalya Apartment Building he Lived in], by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post) read more

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Commentary;

As the Israel Air Force continues blasting away on day 3 of ‘Cast Lead’, Kassam and mortar hits on Ashkelon, Ashdod and the Negev mount up as do Jewish casualties. Are we witnessing a replay of Lebanon 2006? Defense Minister Ehud Barak is quoted as stating that this is “all-out war” with Hamas, a “war to the bitter end.”

Remember those words if or when the same electioneering opportunistic ploysters Ehud Barak and Tzipy Livni spin a repeat of the Lebanon conflict results, imposed ceasefire in Gaza with international forces to further obstruct Israel’s sovereignty and self-defense. MB read more

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Kassam Rocket Strikes Open Area in the Western Negev; None Hurt

Ceasefire Violations Continue: Missile Attack near Gaza, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)

Gaza Terrorists Break Ceasefire with Kassam Attack, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)

Terrorist Running for [Sakhnin] City Council, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)

Firebomb Attack at Rachel’s Tomb

IDF Arrests 2 Palestinians on Suspicion of Hurling Stones at Cars

IDF Arrests Palestinian in Possession of Knife Near Cave of Machpela read more

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Commentary;

As has repeatedly occurred in the past, police again seem to be denying Jews access to pray at Rachel’s Tomb in the days leading up to Tisha B’av, ostensibly under the guise of a “security situation.”

It would seem highly likely that the government, through permitting Arabs to reside in proximity to the Kever and then walling it in to facilitate attempting to close down access or, to enable turning access on and off at will, are attempting to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of creating conditions (i.e. fear of visiting the Kever and it’s resultant neglect) for a repetition of the regime’s previous Kever Yosef abandonment. MB read more

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Iran Tests New Marine Missile [New, Sea-Based Missile With Range of 300 Km, or 186 Miles]

Border Police Thwart Knife Attack at Cave of Patriarchs

Army Soldiers Arrest Four Wanted Terrorists

[Jewish] Worshipers Trying to Enter Rachel’s Tomb Dispersed by Police

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Commentary;

For previous posts on Kever Rachel, click here. If only Arabs had been denied free access to the area bordering the Kever complex, perhaps then the walling, isolation and difficulty of Jewish access to the Kever initiated by Sharon and further implemented by Olmert would not be. MB

Hanan Porat: MK Porush Saved Rachel’s Tomb

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Former MK Hanan Porat spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, describing the importance of Rachel’s Tomb (Kever Rachel) to the Jewish people and expressing regret that Israeli control in Bethlehem is limited. Porat remembered how he and MK Meir Porush (UTJ) convinced then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin to keep Rachel’s Tomb under Jewish control during the Oslo Accords, after Rabin had promised control of the area to former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. read more