"Civil War" may be the Jews only recourse in establishing a Jewish nation! However, no one has the balls for that...
So, "the sh*tty little country" ("The Land of Milk and Honey," the Jewish Homeland,") may just have to remain a secular "nation amongst nations," home for the morally relativistic, left-wing liberal atheists and their 'citizens of the world' cosmologies.
A Jewish homeland will therefore only come once the Mashiach has arrived.

Judah Maccabee has been dead a long time (although I feel his spirit pulsing in my veins)!]

[Ted Belman/Israpundit:  This is believable for me. Remember that a few weeks ago UTJ amended its platform to allow for removal of some settlements and I suggested that Bibi must have asked them to. I believe that Bibi wants to be able to cut a deal with Abbas, or at least to offer one, where Israel keeps all the settlement blocs and E1 and gives up on much of the rest. Since that has no chance of being accepted, I am concerned that Bibi will show good faith by abandoning some settlements in advance. God forbid. [:  This is believable for me. Remember that a few weeks ago UTJ amended its platform to allow for removal of some settlements and I suggested that Bibi must have asked them to. I believe that Bibi wants to be able to cut a deal with Abbas, or at least to offer one, where Israel keeps all the settlement blocs and E1 and gives up on much of the rest. Since that has no chance of being accepted, I am concerned that Bibi will show good faith by abandoning some settlements in advance. God forbid.

INN reports:
Representatives of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Chairman Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, Thursday, that if he agrees to join the government without Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home-New National Religious Party), he will get progress in diplomatic talks, according to sources involved in coalition talks, cited Friday by the Yediot Acharonot daily. Lapid and Chairman Naftali Bennett of Habayit Hayehudi have said that the coalition must take both parties or neither one of them.
Representatives of Likud-Beyteinu told Yesh Atid representatives, “You have to give up Bennett, because [until] then we cannot advance the peace process and evacuate communities [in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) -ed].” Referring to the fact that Habayit Hayehudi is not yet in the government, the Yesh Atid representatives responded by asking, “Have you evacuated communities until now?”]

[Helen Freedman/ASFI: Is it possible that almost eight years since the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif, and the demolition of homes in Migron, Bet-El, Givat Aryeh, Ma'aleh Rahavaam, and hilltop communities, and the expulsion of Jews from legally purchased homes in Hebron, that the Likud party is considering more evictions of Jews? We see that PM Netanyahu is still unable to form his coalition and has requested an additional two weeks to do so.  Is it possible that he might be wooing Yesh Atid, a left-wing party, to join with him in exchange for promises to destroy Jewish homes? And what could it possibly mean that he has appointed Tzipi Livni to be his Justice Minister? She, who is ready to give away all of Judea and Samaria,  will be making judgments about the "two state dissolution"? Will she be the one we will turn to for implementation of the Edmond Levy report? Will she be the one to help decide on the application of Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria? If so, we know what the fate of those efforts will be. Likud, under Sharon, betrayed the Israeli people in 2005 when it reversed its promises and destroyed Gush Katif. Now, Likud, under Netanyahu, may be planning to do the same, but on a larger scale. We must not allow this to happen.]

Sources in Yesh Atid told Maariv Likud promised to tear down Jewish communities in coalition deal.
 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's emissaries at Friday's coalition talks between Likud-Beytenu and Bayit Yehudi told the party that a moratorium would be placed on settlement construction immediately upon the formation of the new government, Channel 2 reported.

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This story is still developing with contradictory reports in the air, but it would appear that Israeli jets struck targets inside Syria. There are report of a strike on a convoy headed from Syria into Lebanon, possibly carrying long range rockets and chemical weapons to Hezbollah, as well as on a military research center in Jamraya possibly linked to the SSRC, the organization that runs Syria’s WMD and long range strike programs.

These two events may be related, as Israel had warned Assad that transferring WMD’s to Hezbollah would be considered a red line. If Assad tried to covertly cross that red line, hoping that Israel wouldn’t know, he miscalculated badly, and that violation led to a further attack against an SSRC facility, possibly as a warning.