- Orthodox boxer Dmitriy Saltia wins again ! Post fight press conference video (YouTube)
- Syria and Hizballah conclude secret pact for war on Israel (DebkaFile)
- Rosh Hashanah recipes routed through Africa (The New York Times)
- Matisyahu leads Jewish Festival (Collegian)
- ‘Being Erica’ TV character transfixes Toronto Jews (Jerusalem Post)
- Awesome links of self-hatred (Heeb)
- Iran Tests New Missile; Says Lebanon Requests Military Aid. (Arutz 7)
- Hamas’ large-scale terror plot sets off high Israel, Palestinian alerts. (Debka File)
- Transfer of Gaza Strip Merchandise and Humanitarian Aid For the Week of August 13th-19th. (IDF Spokeperson)
- Israel fights the demagogues. (Caroline Glick Blog)
- On a Manhattan Street, a New Combination of Kosher Food. (The Forward)
- Oy, Vey, Obama. (The New York Times)
The Rabbinical Council of Judea and Samaria issued a statement Thursday in which it said that the results of Israel’s interception of a flotilla trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza “place us at the beginning of the Gog and Magog process where the world is against us, but whose end orders the third and final redemption,” according to the Kol Rinah news service. The reference is to the book of Ezekiel 38:18-39:16, read on the intermediate Sabbath of Sukkot (Tabernacles), which describes a war that will precede the final redemption.
The statement continued, “Secular Zionism always aspired that we not be ‘a people alone among the peoples’, but the legitimacy of our people is not derived from the nations of the world and their hateful traditions, rather from the Torah of Israel which teaches us, “The people will live alone and will not take other peoples into consideration.” (Numbers 23:9) The council blessed the soldiers and called for the unity of an emergency government that will bring about promises of salvation for the people.
Source: Arutz 7
- Foreman vs. Cotto: Boom Boom Shavua Tov. (Jewlicious)
- Jewish Music Festival to explore influences of Yiddish tradition. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
- Pixies call off Israel concert after Gaza raid. (AP)
- Drake: The Heeb Interview. (Heeb)
- Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, Witz, is now available. (Jewish Book Council Blog)
- Turkey joins the jihadist axis (Caroline Glick Blog)
- What’s Behind White House Strategy To Woo U.S. Jews (Forward)
- With flotilla deaths, Turkey may be near tipping point on Israel (JTA)
- Useful Idiots at Sea (Commentary Magazine)
- The Free Gaza Flotilla, Parashat Shelach and the Jewish Problem (Arutz 7)
According to the Jerusalem Post, Israel will use more aggressive force in the future to prevent ships from breaking the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, a top Navy commander told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
“We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war,” the officer said. “That will mean that we will have to come prepared in the future as if it was a war.”
The anonymous comment came the day after the Israeli Navy raided a flotilla of international aid ships headed to the Strip. Nine activists were killed in the raid, and dozens were injured.
The flotilla which arrived late Sunday night was comprised of six ships, and another two ships, including The Rachel Corrie, were expected to attempt to enter Israeli waters in the coming days.
Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement said earlier Tuesday that a cargo boat was already on the way to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
A second boat carrying about three dozen passengers was expected to join the first, she added.
The IDF released footage of the Monday raid on the “Free Gaza” flotilla, which depicted the activists upon the ship attacking soldiers with various weapons, including a large metal pole and other metal objects.
In a brief interview with the soldiers who were aboard the ships, one soldier said that the attack “looked like the Ramallah lynch.” (JPost)
