The Known Equation of ME; Hundreds of Jews = Target, Hundreds of Arabs Protecting Terrorist = Humanitarian Protection
From One Mother to Another, by Paula R. Stern (Israel National News)
“Put hundreds of Israelis in one location and the Palestinians would see this as a delectable target, and wonder how they could kill them. Put hundreds of Palestinians in one location, even protecting a terrorist’s house, and the Israeli army will not hit it. This is now the known equation of the Middle East and even the United Nations cannot deny it.”
“To Palestinian mothers, I say: you must choose. If you value your children’s lives, keep them safe and away from danger. If you value your weapons over your children, and send them to protect the homes of terrorists who endanger our children, then they cannot be called innocent.”
Can There be Any Surprise?: Abbas Supports Killing Jews
PLO Chief Abbas Supports Hitting Israel, Not Hamas, by By Michael Widlanski (IMRA)
Commentary;
The Olmert Regime may not like it. And it may be tabboo to say in Israel’s current repressed state of “Freedom of Speech,” but Abbas Supports Killing Jews, and the Regime know’s it!! MB
For context, click here and here.
Excerpts;
“Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation,” [Arabic: “Al-Ihtilal”] declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (Jan. 11) in a major speech that was warm to Hamas and harsh to Israel and the United States.
Friday War News
Livni: At Least As Dismal a Leader as Olmert
She’ll Only Make Things Worse, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
“Livni’s proposal violates the most basic rule of negotiations: Always keep something in reserve for the next stage.”
Full Text;
According to the polls, Tzipi Livni might well be Israel’s next prime minister. Public disgust with the government in which she serves as foreign minister has somehow bypassed her; with an approval rating of over 50 percent, she is Israel’s most popular politician.
Yet this popularity is mystifying – because Livni’s record gives every reason to believe that she would be as dismal a premier as her current boss.
Thursday War News
IDF Warns Hitchhikers in Judea and Samaria
Terrorists Resume Kassam Attacks
Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded
Arabs Steal Vehicle in Shomron
Stones Hurled at Vehicle in West Bank; None Wounded
Police Arrest 70 Illegal Palestinian Workers
Stones Thrown at Cars Near Kalqilya
Soldiers on Northern Border Find Kidnappers’ Bag
Excerpt;
“Bag believed to have belonged to the Hizbullah terrorist group that kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev last summer.”
Parsha Shemos 5767: “Surely This Thing is Known” — The Evolution of Jewish Enslavement
“At the beginning of the Parsha, we are told that when Moshe grew up, he went out to see his brethren … their ways and behavior. When he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, and there was no one else in sight, i.e., no other Hebrew … willing to defend the man … being beaten,
he assumed that was because their slavery had destroyed their will to struggle. On the second day, though when he saw two Hebrews fighting one another and one said to him, ‘as you killed the Egyptian,’ he saw that that man believed that Moshe’s actions on the previous day had been wrong. Moshe responded, ‘Surely this thing is known’ — it is not their slavery nor their lack of strength to fight back that is causing them not to resist the Egyptians, because they are perfectly willing to fight one another. What is evidently missing is a sense of justice, of mutual support, of helping the weak, and that is the reason why the redemption had not yet come. ‘Surely, this thing is known’ — now I understand the matter.” (Torah Gems, by Aharon Yaakov Greenberg on Parsha Shemos, page 20 quoting Bina Le Itim)
Olmert’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost?
PM Sources: Probe Report ‘Speculation’, By Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post)
Full Text;
Reports that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will face a criminal investigation upon his return from China are just “speculations,” sources close to Olmert said Wednesday morning.
The sources declared that “we have not received any official statement from an authoritative source on this issue,” Army Radio reported.
Olmert refrained from commenting Wednesday on a report he would face a criminal investigation upon his return from a state visit to China.
Israel’s Self-Inflicted Sustained War Wounds
Analysis: Israel’s Numerous War Wounds, By Anshel Pfeffer
“What hasn’t been improved one bit since the end of the war is the decision-making process of our political leadership; in fact, that’s only got much worse.”
Commentary;
This blog is not picking up this article for it’s conclusions, but for the points made within and that the conditions within the government and the IDF are apparently showing no improvement.
Pfeffer begins and ends this article by seeming to give Nasrallah
credit for the current and ongoing debacle;
Tuesday Night, Wednesday War News
Russia Eyes Iskander Rocket Sale to Syria
Iran Develops Attack Helicopter With Parts from Britain, Canada and France
Shots Fired on IDF Force near Kabatya, No Casualties
“IDF Budget 8 Billion NIS Short”
Terrorists Fire at IDF Forces In Shechem
Arabs Pelt Car on Hwy 443, Person Slightly Injured
Wanted Terrorist Arrested in Bethlehem
Soldiers Shoot, Injure Arab [Approaching Fence in Suspicious Manner] in Gaza