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Kassam Hits Open Area in Western Negev [12:10 AM Sunday Morning]; No Casualties Reported
PM Vows to Bring ‘Total’ Quiet to South
Commentary:
Olmert’s comments; …We will respond in a serious, painful, strong and uncompromising way…. Israel has a wide range of options which can be used and these options will be utilized until total quiet is brought to the South” are laughable and more Olmert boast of which he is noted. What “painful, strong and uncompromising way?” What “wide range of options?” Air Force bombing of empty fields or smuggling tunnels dug so deeply below ground level as to be impervious to bombing??
Yes, Israel has the capacity to inflict “serious, painful and strong responses” using “a wide range of options.” But it is highly unlikely that the equivocal Olmert and the even more equivocal Livni and Barak would actually resort to the type of measures necessary to complete Operation Cast Lead and actually bring quiet to Gaza for fear of offending Obama, Clinton, the UN and most of the world who would just as soon see Israel cease to exist. MB
Experts: Grads in Ashkelon [Saturday] Were Advanced [With Vast Potential for Damage, Shmulik Hadad (Ynet)
Israeli Lightly Wounded When Car Hit by Stones Near Ramallah