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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