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Sunday War News: Kassams Hit Near Sderot and Olmert Tosses Hot Potato [of School Protection] to Home Front Command; Bombs, Arrests and Gunfire in Yesha

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Two Kassam Rockets Hit Negev [North of Sderot] as School Year Begins

Related reports:

Olmert: The Schools in Sderot are Protected

Olmert: All Sderot Schools are Fortified According to Home Front Command

Right! And we’ve got a bridge to sell, cheap! MB

IDF Attacks Kassam Launchers in Gaza; No Word on Casualties


IDF Jeep Damaged as Palestinians Detonate Bomb in Balata Refugee Camp [in Shechem]

IDF Fights Terrorists in Shechem

Terrorist Shot and Wounded in Shechem

IDF Troops Arrest Two Palestinian Fugitives in Ramallah read more

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State Comptroller: Olmert Regime “Gets Failing Grade in Everything to do with Treatment of the Home Front”

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Does the Government of Israel Protect its Own Population?, by David Bedein (Israel Behind the News)

Summary;

Bedein lists a summary of the State Comptroller’s recent report which evaluates “the dysfunctional behavior of the Israeli government during last summer’s conflict.” His introduction to the summary is based on his press coverage of last year’s Lebanon conflict where “4,000 rockets fell on population centers of more than 1.4 million Israeli citizens.” read more

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Who is Manipulating Israel’s Two Top Legal Officials Regarding Obstruction of State Comptroller’s Home Front Security Investigation?

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Surrealism as a Form of Government, by Evelyn Gordon

For related reports regarding the obstructions of the state comptroller’s Home Front Security Investigation, and all investigations regarding last summer’s conflict in Lebanon, click here.

“The army… demanding that Lindenstrauss be barred from giving the committee any information at all. And, incredibly, both Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz and Knesset Legal Adviser Nurit Elstein backed this position.”

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Imagine a country where unelected officials could bar members of parliament from asking questions or even prevent parliament from meeting altogether. To most people, this would evoke images of totalitarian states. Yet it is precisely what two of Israel’s top legal officials sought to do last week. read more

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The Home Front Command: More Dereliction of Duties and Responsibilities?

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None of Sderot’s Shelters Ready for Prolonged Kassam Onslaught, by Mijal Grinberg (Haaretz)

For numerous related reports previously posted on this blog, click here, here, here and here.

“‘Sderot realized it has no one to rely on, so it is doing the work alone.'”

“The Home Front Command, meanwhile, said it was not responsible for ensuring bomb shelters are habitable.”

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In the wake of recent warnings by military officials that Palestinians may intensify their Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, checks of bomb shelters in the hard-hit Negev town of Sderot residents have found that none of the 58 public shelters there are equipped for a long-term stay, and more than half require significant rehabolitation. read more

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Olmert Regime Appears Playing for Time; For Holidays, Knesset Break Hoping Dereliction on Home Front Will go Away

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History Cannot be Rewritten, by Alex Fishman (Ynet)

For related reports, click on the first 3 posts here.

“No one will be able to alter the bitter truth: The home front was simply abandoned during the war in Lebanon. It wasn’t adequately prepared prior to the war and it wasn’t handled properly during the war.”

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Suddenly everyone is a righteous gentile. Suddenly everyone is full of sympathy and compassion for three or four senior officials – who were full partners to the situation the home front was embroiled in during the recent war. read more

Of Course, Agendized High Court Joins in Olmert Stonewall Regarding Home Front Security

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Related Reports:

Olmert: Using IDF to Stonewall on Homeland Security in Battle for His Political Power in Contempt of Rule of Law??

Olmert Considers Himself Above Rule of Law

State Comptroller Won’t Present Report’s Findings to Knesset, by Aviram Zino (Ynet)

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The Knesset State Control Committee will be presented with the state comptroller’s interim report on the war in Lebanon, but will refrain from discussing preliminary findings or personal recommendations included in the report, the High Court of Justice ruled Tuesday. read more

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Home Front Management No Better Than Military During Lebanon War…

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Home Front Report Indicates ‘Complete Disorder’

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MK Ami Ayalon, head of the investigation committee into the management of the home front during the war in Lebanon, submitted the committee’s findings to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday morning.

The report claimed that the government ministries had failed to properly take care of the home front during the war and that “complete disorder” had prevailed.

It also said that no one body had coordinated the home front management, and that even when such a body was set up by the Prime Minister’s Office, no definite goals were set for it. read more

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Israel’s Homefront: How Beit Shemesh is Helping Fellow Jews From South Israel

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Ten days ago, Lema’an Achai’s David Morris sent an email around with this catchy title:

“Dad, What’s a Killer-meter?”

Six Days ago, David wrote this piece which has appeared on Shilomusings and a number of other blogs;

Today I met with Ariel Yered. He’s nine years old this week. He was sitting in a class of enthusiastic kids from Shomria, now relocated to the Ramat Bet Shemesh Community Center.He’s a small blond kid, frail looking, with glasses. There’s a teacher at the front of the class, and another teacher with Ariel, sitting by his side. read more

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While Syria Arms, Barak Refuses Homefront Preparations

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Israel’s political leaders seem not to have learned very much since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Newly crowned defense minister Ehud Barak refuses protection for the homefront in light of the serious Syrian threat, just as Israel didn’t mobilize and call up it’s military reserves upon prior warnings of impending war — lest it be seen as provocative, aggressive presumably by American satellite intelligence of the time.

The Jerusalem Posts’ report on Barak’s avoidance of distributing gas masks states; read more

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With Ongoing War Raging on 3 Fronts; IDF, Police Still Have Ample Time to Destroy Jewish Home…

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IDF and Police Destroy Jewish Home in Samaria

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Despite the ongoing war in the north and call-up of reserves, 30 IDF soldiers, police officers and riot policemen were dispatched to destroy the foundations of a Jewish home in Samaria on Wednesday.

The house, in the early stages of construction, was located near the Binyamin community of Shilo, on the outskirts of the Adei Ad hilltop community. It was being built by retired IDF officer Shaul Halfon, who served with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the elite Unit 101. read more

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