Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
PM Blames Former IDF Chief of Staff for War’s Outcome
PM Blamed Halutz for War’s Outcome
Olmert to Winograd: Halutz Told Me the Army Was Ready
Olmert to Winograd Commission: IDF Let Letself Down
DM Blamed IDF for His Lack of Knowledge
Peretz to Winograd Commission: I Thought Army Was Prepared for War
‘I Was Not Told Army Was Under-Trained’
MK Sa’ar Says Peretz Testimony Reveals Embarrassing Ignorance
Political Attempt to Push Responsibility on Army – Doomed, says MK Shalom
Comptroller’s Report Takes Gov’t to Task (Jerusalem Post)
The IDF Dragged Its Feet in Confronting Terror Tunnels’, By Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Comptroller’s Report Criticizes Disengagement, Before and After
Disengagement Cost ‘Miscalculated’, By Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)
Sderot Council: Report Shows We’ve Been Abandoned (Israel National News)
Kassam Problem Subject to Budget Constraints, IDF Says (Ynet)
Peretz: If We Had Means to Deal With Kassams, Things Would Look Different, by Hanan Greenberg (YNET)
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Yashar Ko’ach and Kol Hakovod!!
Moshe Burt
Benchmarks for a Bloodbath, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not purposely trying to destroy all of Israel’s hard-won security gains of the last five years. But if she were, she could hardly have improved on her new benchmark proposal. The proposal comprises two parallel sets of “benchmarks”: steps (mainly Israeli) to increase Palestinian freedom of movement, and steps (mainly Palestinian) to combat Palestinian terror. However, it does not make either track conditional on the other. Thus should Israel accept the proposal, it would be pledging to fulfill its own side of the bargain regardless of whether the Palestinians honored theirs. And since increased freedom of movement for Palestinians includes increased freedom of movement for terrorists, that essentially means an Israeli pledge to facilitate terrorist operations even if the Palestinian Authority makes no compensatory effort to thwart such operations.
Kalkilya: Rocks Thrown at Israeli Car; No Wounded
Fatah Operative Arrested in Kalkilya
IDF Arrests Two Palestinians in Gaza
IDF Arrests 15 Terror Suspects in West Bank
IDF Soldier Lightly Wounded in Nablus Operation
3 Kassams Land in Sderot; No Wounded or Damage
Kassam Rocket Attack, 1 Injured (Update)
6-Year-Old Jumps From Window From Fear of Kassam
Terrorists near Shechem Wound IDF Soldier
Commentary;
Do the Jews, at long last, have the gumption, guts and fortitude to do what must be done; what they didn’t do before the expulsion, after the Lebanon conflict and throughout the existence of the Olmert regime? Namely, take to the streets enmass, 24/7 until Olmert and his partners in corruption; Peretz, Livni, Peres and more are removed and stripped of ALL governing power. MB
Olmert, You’re Fired, by Ariana Melamed
For the sake of this country, public must show leaders the way out…
Six Minutes of Footage Missing In Video on Amona
Additional Coverage:
Police Suspected of Fabricating Evidence in Attack on Jews
Excerpts;
Six minutes of footage are missing in a video on a briefing of police officers that was belatedly turned over to the Israel Policy Center, the center’s director Yitzhak Klein said. “It appeared that the material was extracted from a larger body of material,” he said. “We requested the raw footage, but the police said that this is all the footage they have.”
IDF Nabs 6 Palestinian Terror Suspects in West Bank
IDF Force Shoots Suspicious Palestinian by Border Fence
UN Sec’y Gen. Ban: Illegal Arms Regularly Reach Hezbollah Via Syrian Border
Kassam Lands in Open Territories in West Negev
Related reports and editorial:
Rocket or Mortar Shell Injured Sheep
IAF Attacks Kassam Rocket Cell
Arrogance, by Liat Collins (Jerusalem Post)
“THESE LEADERS were guilty of the same sin as their predecessors in 1973: … Haconceptzia – “The Concept” – a narrow security rationale that held that the Arabs had no capacity to wage war.”
“In the summer of 2006 contingency plans existed but were not implemented, and the country went to war led by Olmert, Peretz and Halutz, all trusting Halutz’s overriding belief that air power would determine the outcome, what has become known as Haconceptzia ha’avirit – facts on the burning ground be damned.”
Hamas Threatens to Kill Shalit if IDF Enters Gaza
Excerpt;
“MK Yisrael Katz called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to declare that if Hamas harms Schalit, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his friends in the Hamas government will be assassinated.”
10 Palestinians Arrested During House Demolition in East Jerusalem
Kassam Strikes West Negev; No Wounded or Damage
Terrorists Firebomb Soldiers; No Injuries