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Israel Deliberately Understating Palestinian WB Rocket Threat?

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Analysts say publicity about missiles could damage PM Olmert’s withdrawal plan. National Religious Party MK Effie Eitam: ‘Any West Bank withdrawal will be followed by rockets fired at major Israeli cities.’

According to some intelligence officials, Israel has been deliberately
minimizing the threat of rocket attacks by Palestinian terror groups in the West Bank, parts of which are within rocket firing range of Jerusalem and other major Israeli cities.

Security analysts maintain publicity about terror groups’ current missile capabilities in the territories could generate criticism of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to withdraw from most of the West Bank.

On Monday, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the northern West Bank town of Jenin told WND they fired two rockets aimed at an Israeli military installation about a mile away. The leaders said the projectiles were called Bahaa rockets, named after Saed Bahaa, an Al Aqsa Brigades member killed last week in an Israeli anti-terror operation. A source close to the Brigades said the rockets actually were Jenin 1’s, a less advanced Qassam rocket that can travel about one mile.

A security official confirmed on condition of anonymity there is information the rockets may have been fired this week. But an official spokesperson for the IDF told WND the army was not aware of any rockets fired Monday from Jenin.

The IDF has several times denied rockets were launched from the northern West Bank only to later release select information stating some rockets had indeed been fired from the area.

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4/ Denial of the will of the people it governs, even in light of it’s own leftist MSM publication of reports like these.

Israel to Transfer NIS 50 Million to PA

The Mockery of Funding PA Salaries, by Evelyn Gordon

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Shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in January, I predicted that the world’s firm stance against aid to the terrorist movement-cum-political party would last, at most, six months. And indeed, the European Union has been seeking a face-saving method of ending the boycott for weeks. The United States, in contrast, had stuck to its guns impressively until this week – but now, it, too, appears to have cracked.

Over the past few weeks, EU member states and institutions have raised various ideas for circumventing the boycott.

SHAMEFULLY, even Israel has recently been waffling on this issue – which undoubtedly contributed to America’s capitulation.

Asked for comment on French President Jacques Chirac’s proposal, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev told the Associated Press that no aid should go to the Hamas government, but “everyone understands that the Palestinian people should not be made to suffer because of the shortsightedness, stubbornness and extremism of their government” – a statement that implies support for ideas of this ilk.

Indeed, the minute one accepts this distinction between “the people” and “the government,” the battle is already lost – because unlike in a dictatorship, where such a distinction is valid, the Palestinian people chose this government freely.

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