There can be no doubt that with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington to meet with President Barak Obama, the about-to-end 10-month building freeze will be on the agenda. While the American president is expected to call for an extension of the construction freeze, it appears the prime minister will encounter difficulties selling such a policy at home, since most cabinet ministers are expressing an unwillingness to support such a move.
“A word is a word” is the campaign underway back in Israel, as those calling for an immediate resumption of building throughout Yehuda and Shomron are spending significant sums to deliver the message at home as well as to the White House and international community. Some of the cabinet ministers supporting the campaign are Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Minister Dr. Benny Begin and Minister Gideon Saar.
Yishai told the press his party will not support a continued halt of construction for a minute after the freeze expires.
In the meantime, bold campaign aside, the prime minister departed for Washington relieved with the knowledge that a bill intended to create a law that would demand Knesset approval for another building freeze was defeated. The move alarmed the right-wing camp, especially with the knowledge that the prime minister himself opposed the bill, departing for the White House armed with the knowledge that a renewed construction freeze is indeed a viable option.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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bibi the hawk turned dove
Why are some so-called “ultra-Orthodox” Jews aiding and abetting Obama’s anti-Israel agenda?
In U.S. Chareidi neighborhoods Satmar affiliated groups are hanging large posters calling for a protest in Washington this week against Netanyahu and the “Tsiyonim Apikorsim”.
This week’s Torah parsha states a MITZVAH D’ORAISA (biblical commandment) in BAMIDBAR 33:53 of “Vhorashtem es haaretz veshavtemba” (“Take possession of the land and settle there”). See Ramban to BAMIDBAR 33:53 and Pischei Tshuva 75:6 in Shulchan Aruch Evan HaEzer.
Amazingly, during this same parsha certain “KANOYIM” will surge out of their comfortable mansions in CHUTZ L’ARETZ to protest against Jews who have been MOSER NEFESH to settle the land of Israel !!!
The pretense of these KANOYIM may be that Netanyahu is allegedly uprooting Jewish graves. But the real agenda of these protesters is an anti-Torah ideology. They deny any Jewish right to Eretz Yisrael, and they deny any MITZVAH to settle the land, while screaming “Tsiyonim Apikorosim”.
Even worse, by protesting publicly against Netanyahu, these “KANOYIM” give a green light to Obama and the enemies of the Jews to further oppress the Jews of Eretz Yisrael.
How different is this from the incident of Bar Kamtza in Masechta Gittin who incited the Roman Emperor against the Jews?
Who’s the real “apikoros” here – Netanyahu who lives in Yerushalayim or those who live comfortably in
America and deny the Jewish right to Eretz Yisrael?
I propose that the Prime Minister demand that Obama halt all NYC building for the foreseeable future!!!
It’s very clear (and maybe should remain unspoken). Bibi does things for the good of Am Yisroel including voting against the bill. Hamevin Yavin.
This week’s Torah parsha states a MITZVAH D’ORAISA in BAMIDBAR 33:53 – “Take possession of the land and settle there”. See Ramban to BAMIDBAR 33:53 and Pischei Tshuva 75:6 in Shulchan Aruch Evan HaEzer.
Ironically in certain U.S. Chareidi neighborhoods anti-Zionist groups are hanging large posters calling for a protest in Washington this week against Netanyahu and the “Tsiyonim Apikorsim”.
Its astounding that during a Torah parsha calling for settlement of Eretz Yisrael, some frum American Jews will surge out of their comfortable mansions to protest against Jews who have been MOSER NEFESH to settle the land of Israel !!!
Many of these protestors may be carrying signs denying any Jewish right to Eretz Yisrael, and denying any MITZVAH
to settle Eretz Yisrael, while screaming about the “Tsiyonim Apikorsim” !
Public protests against Netanyahu by frum Jews who challenge our rights to Eretz Yisrael provide Obama and the anti-semites in the US government a political green light to further oppress the Jews of Eretz Yisrael.
Any resemblance here to the incident of Bar Kamtza in Masechta Gittin who incited the Roman Emperor against the Jews?