Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Kadima Rebellion Against Olmert Gathers Pace, By Gil Hoffman and Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post)

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An effort inside Kadima to overthrow the party’s chairman, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, began to snowball Tuesday as more and more MKs said privately that Olmert would soon have no choice but to resign.

Amid reports that Olmert himself does not know whether he will survive, his main Kadima rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, is expected to make a statement about Olmert in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting that could decide whether the opposition to the prime minister will escalate into full-scale rebellion. read more

Shooting, Firebomb and Rock Attacks Continue

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“Terrorists threw three firebombs and shot at soldiers near Jenin, and the soldiers returned fire. No was injured.

Attackers threw building blocks at cars one mile south of the Gush Etzion junction, where the IDF recently removed a checkpoint, lightly injuring one person. Rock attacks also caused damage to a car near Tekoa, east of Efrat.”

Palestinian, 17, Caught With Mortar at Checkpoint

Gaza Strip: IDF Detains Six Palestinian Fugitives read more

Our World: What Commissions Cannot Do, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“Ma’ariv reported protocols of cabinet meetings in the weeks which preceded the 2000 withdrawal where then IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz and then IDF OC Northern Command Gabi Ashkenazi begged Barak not to go through with the withdrawal precisely because the Hezbollah buildup and aggression were so predictable.”

Related report: Summary of the Winograd Committee Interim Report

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When thousands of IDF reservists were released from service at the end of last summer’s war they were angry and demanded an accounting from the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government and from the IDF’s General Staff. The reservists rightly felt that they and the country had been betrayed by failed political and military leaders who chose the wrong strategy, prosecuted it incompetently, and led the IDF and the nation to an ignominious defeat that could have been a victory if they had been less incompetent, arrogant and foolish. read more