The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
What Winograd Missed, by Yehuda Poch (Israel National News)
The ‘Then Maybe They Will’ Doctrine, by Prof. Steven Plaut
(Israel National News)Column One: Statecraft in the Absence of Statesmen, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
Commentary (MB)
Yehuda Poch writes about former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak’s recent radio interview. The interview came down to one crucial statement;
Shahak: If rocket attacks extend to include Ashkelon, then there might be no choice but to occupy Gaza.
Column One: Statecraft in the Absence of Statesmen, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“Olmert is demonstrating that he is incapable of responsibly advancing Israel’s interests. Indeed, his willingness to engage in surrender talks with Damascus shows that he doesn’t even understand what Israel’s national interests are.”
Excerpts;
It is doubtful that opening negotiations on an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights would weaken Syria’s relations with Iran. Why would Syria consider distancing itself from Teheran when its close alliance with the ayatollahs is what is provoking the US and Israel to mollify it?
Kassam Hits House as IAF Planes Attack in Deir-el-Balah
IAF Shoots at Rocket Launching Squad
Two Terror Rockets Hit Sderot, Man Lightly Hurt
Rock Attacks on Israeli Vehicle in Samaria
Sderot Resident Seriously Wounded in Kassam Attack
Rockets Fired into West Negev; None Wounded
Border Guard Officers Nab 800 PA Arab Illegals
Unofficial Team [Including Pollster] Advised PM on Final Operation of Lebanon War, by Aluf Benn (Haaretz) via (IMRA)
Full Text;
Hours before deciding to launch a major ground operation in Lebanon last August 11, shortly before the end of the Second Lebanon War, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert consulted four people who hold no official government position.
In a meeting at his house, the four advised him to launch the operation in an effort to influence the United Nations Security Council’s emerging cease-fire resolution, but to halt it immediately should a resolution favorable to Israel be adopted.
‘Kassaming’ Coexistence, By Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
“The document [The Haifa Declaration] essentially proposes two Palestinian national homelands (the Palestinian state and the binational or Palestinian-majority ‘Israel’) and no Jewish one.”
Commentary;
In the final paragraph, Evelyn Gordon states;
Israeli Arab leaders, and their Jewish and European donors, should understand one thing: Israel’s Jewish majority will never willingly concede its national home. Thus by encouraging aspirations to destroy the Jewish state rather than encouraging acceptance of it, they are sowing the seeds not of coexistence, but of civil war.
Israel to Let Presidential Guard Train [Battalion Size Formations] Near West Bank City of Jericho IMRA
[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: The Hebrew version of the item reads “the
Presidential Guard does not operate in battalion size formations rather in
smaller formations” rather than the English version ‘”unable”. ]
Excerpts;
“Israel agreed to extensive training of members of the Presidential Guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in areas near Jericho, in the Jordan Valley.”
Gaza: IAF Air Strike Hits Hamas Training Center
IDF Strikes Hamas Post in Khan Younis
Palestinian Arrested in Possession of Explosives
2 Kassams Land Near Sderot, No Injuries
3 Kassam Rockets Land in Western Negev; No Injuries Reported
Kassam Rocket Hits Kibbutz, No Injuries
Friday Morning Kassams Burn Wheat Field
55 Illegal Entrants Arrested in Bnei Brak
Palestinians Open Fire on Troops South of Jenin
Troops Arrest Six Terror Suspects in West Bank
Israel To Sign $4 Billion Deal to Buy PA Gas
Related report:
FM Livni’s Office: Israel Wants to Conclude $4 Billion Purchase of Gaza Gas ASAP
Commentary:
This blog wrote about the Consequences of lack of a thorough, thought-through military plan. The same holds true for foreign, economic and enegy policy, i.e. negotiating with and ceding parts of Divine sovereign Jewish land to an enemy who craves our destruction. This gas deal with the PA is obviously fuel blackmail waiting to happen — turning off the pump to force further concessions. But Olmert, Livni and the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, as with their predessessors, lack the ability to think two or three steps ahead. MB
Molotov Cocktail Attacks in Hevron, Judea
Molotov Cocktail Attack in Shomron
Soldiers Arrest Terrorists in Shechem
Two Kassams Fired into Sderot; None Wounded
Kassam Rocket Strikes Western Negev; No Wounded
Report: IDF Targets Hamas Building in Gaza City
Kassam Fired at Sderot; None Wounded, Cars Damaged
2 Kassams, 1 Explodes Near Sderot Mayor’s Home
Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Sderot; None Wounded
IDF Arrests Senior Hamas Members in West Bank
2 IDF Soldiers Lightly Wounded at Dugit Ruins in Gush Katif
Over the Holiday: 5 Rockets, 2 IAF Strikes
IAF Bombs Money-Changing Offices that Funded Hamas
Related report: IDF Targets Businesses Transferring Funds to Terror Organizations
Two Kassams Fired Near Ashkelon and Sderot
Three Terror Rockets Hit Southern Israel
Arabs Shoot, Throw Bombs at IDF; Six Arrested