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Commentary;

IMRA’s Dr. Aaron Lerner notes that the current regime, the Olmert, Livni, Barak Troika are aiming to emulate, in Gaza, the Lebanon cease-fire model which columnist Caroline Glick recently described.

Dr. Lerner cites Roni Sofer’s report; Israel Examining International Treaty to Isolate Hamas which follows up his (Sofer’s) report of Sunday, noted on this blog, where he lists Olmert’s conditions to end the conflict.

Lerner comments;

There is a fairly straightforward explanation for PM Olmert’s interest in an international force: The Olmert-Livni team adamantly claims that the Second Lebanon War was a fantastic success because it concluded with the introduction of the grossly ineffective international force…. They thus see their reputations tied to the validity of using international forces. read more

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Israel Confirms: Truce to Begin Thursday; Kassams Continue

Related reports;

Amos Gilad: Truce Dependent on Cessation of Kassams Fired From Gaza

Gilad Warns Truce is Over if One Rocket Is Fired

Ramon: Calm with Hamas is Victory for Radical Islam

Storm Before Calm Continues: 10 Rockets, Sniper Fire

2 Kassams Land in Eshkol Region; Greenhouse Damaged, No Casualties

Palestinians Open Fire on Bezeq Workers Near Gaza Fence; No Wounded

Three Kassam Rockets Launched From Gaza Hit Israel

Four Kassam Rockets Hit Sderot Area; None Wounded read more

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Kassam Lands in Sderot; No Casualties and No Damage Reported

In Two Months Terrorists Fire 300 Rockets into Israel

Gaza: 3 Hamas Men Injured in Israeli Air Strike

IDF, Hamas Exchange Fire in Gaza

Kassam Rocket Lands Near Sderot; None Hurt

Hezbollah Building Defensive Line North of Litani River

Another of Hezbollah’s many reported war preparations.

IDF Troops Arrest Top Hamas Terror Suspect in Halhoul

Three IDF Troops Wounded by Gunfire in Nablus [Shechem]

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U.S. Army: Hezbollah Weapons Can Down Israeli Planes

Excerpt;
“The weapons include long-range and anti-anti-aircraft missiles.”

For previous blog posts regarding Hezbollah war preparations and the regime’s self-delusions, click here.

IDF Arrests 15 More Wanted Terrorists

Palestinians Throw Stones at Car Near Hebron

Palestinian Youth Arrested in Settlement [Neve Tzuf] in Possession of Knife

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Three Mortar Shells Land Near Kissufim; None Hurt

Two Kassam Rockets Fired at Western Negev; No Injured

Two Terror Rockets Explode Near Dorot

3 Kassam Rockets Strike Western Negev; None Hurt

Six Mortar Shells Fired at Israel [From Northern Gaza]

IDF Notes Increase in Infiltration Attempts from Gaza, Desire to Avoid Civilian Casualties Often Leads to Successful Infiltrations, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

Hezbollah [Video] Games Train to Kidnap IDF Soldiers

Commentary;
Jihad is not the only teror group training for kidnapping online. MB read more

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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

‘Hezbollah Amassing Long-Range Missiles’

Related report: ‘Syria, Iran, Hezbollah Planning War’

Excerpts;
“Damascus has set August as the month for final war preparations.”

“Reports about a Syrian military buildup and concern in the defense establishment that if various Syrian overtures were not well received in Israel, the Syrians might initiate military action to try and retain the Golan, or a piece of it.”

Al Qaeda-Linked Group Opening Up Branch in Shechem read more

Column One: Fighting the Next War, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“Syria has no intention of fighting a conventional war against Israel. The war that Syria is planning will bear greater similarity to the insurgency in Iraq and Hezbollah’s war last summer than to Syria’s previous wars with Israel.”

Related reports: regarding Syria’s War Intentions.

Excerpts;

Haaretz’s military commentator Ze’ev Schiff accused the Barak and Sharon governments of responsibility for last summer’s war. As Schiff put it, since the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, “a threatening system [comprised of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran] arose [on Israel’s northern border], which required a preemptive strike. The aversion to conducting such a strike eventually caused the war.” read more