More Proof that the Regime Has Not Given Up on Expulsion of Jews
For those who who think that, in light of the Winograd report and Olmert’s -minus popularity in the polls, convergence is no longer a possibility, check out the regime’s latest boasts, those of the “not corrupt” Tzipy Livni, further confirmation of this blog’s predictions;
After talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts in Cairo on Thursday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni described the forthcoming visit as “historic.”
Shabbos War News
Israel’s Media: Delusion of the Jews Based on Enemy Propaganda
Column one: What is Israel’s Problem?, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“All a person has to do is take a look at Palestinian ‘educational’ television, where Mickey Mouse exhorts kindergarteners to become mass murderers, destroy Israel… to know that Palestinian society seeks Israel’s destruction and Islamic global supremacy.”
“Former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon expressed his view… ‘We argue over what the solution is, but we still haven’t agreed on what the problem is…. This obvious predicament has rarely been mentioned. It certainly has not informed the policies of Israel’s governments.'”
More on the Winograd Blame Game
For context, click here.
‘Livni Secretly Met IDF Intel. Head’
Commentary:
Livni went behind PM’s back because he allegedly kept her out of the national security loop. But being mad at Livni is a poor, lame excuse for shenanigans with Jewish lives on the line. MB
What Olmert, Peretz, and Halutz Said
Not One Cabinet Member Acted Responsibly During Lebanon War: Dan Meridor
Friday War News
Kassam Lands South of Ashkelon; None Wounded
Two Men Caught in Possession of 101-kg Hashish [at Egyptian Border]
Police Prevent Palestinian Lynching [Disguised as Jews with Kippot] in West Bank
Woman Lightly Wounded by Stones Near Ramallah
IDF Arrests Two Palestinian Fugitives in West Bank
Two Kassam Rockets Land in West Negev; None Wounded
The Winograd Testimony Blame Game — With Jewish Lives on the Line
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
Annual Controller’s Report: Watch ‘Em Squirm
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)
A Note of Thanks
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Yashar Ko’ach and Kol Hakovod!!
Moshe Burt
Freedom of Movement for ‘Pals'(sic)? Israel: Self-Respecting Nation or Banana Republic?
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.