The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
2 Kassams Land Near West Negev Kibbutzim; None Hurt
Report: IAF Jets Fly Low Over Lebanon
Kassam Rocket Fire Costs Sderot Industry NIS 40 Million
Kassam Rocket Attack Without Injuries
Kassam Rocket Lands in Western Negev; None Wounded
IDF Arrests 22 Palestinian Fugitives in West Bank
IAF Jets Strike Four [Hamas and Popular Resistence] Buildings in Gaza
Troops Nab Top Tanzim Target in Tulkarm
MKs Blame Kassam Attacks on Government and Egypt, By Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post)
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Officials from across the political spectrum scrambled to cast blame Wednesday for the day-long Kassam attacks that pounded the south of Israel, killing one woman in Sderot.
MK Shai Hermesh (Kadima) said in response to the rocket firing Wednesday morning that “the source of the terrorism is because the Egyptian army turns a blind eye as a constant supply of arms flows into the Strip under their nose.”
Olmert: Whatever is Necessary Will Be Done
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“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is in Los Angeles, told reporters that the IDF is authorized to take whatever measures are required to bring an end to terrorist rocket attacks into the Sderot and western Negev areas.
After being informed of the increase in attacks on Wednesday, Olmert telephones Defense Minister Amir Peretz, instructing him to step up the IDF response to the attacks.”
For additional background, click Outrage Rising Over Kassam Attacks, IDF Vows Retaliation
Perverted Sensibilities, by Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)
“Demonstrations in support of a left-wing cause – gay rights – are important enough to outweigh both religious sensibilities and threats of bloodshed, but demonstrations in support of a right-wing cause – Jewish rights on the Temple Mount – are not important enough to outweigh either.”
“Faith in the legal system, by enabling disputes to be resolved peaceably, is the glue that holds society together…. If… large segments of society become convinced that Israeli law does not grant them a fair hearing, many of their members are liable to conclude that they have no recourse except the law of the jungle: brute force.”
Kassam Missile Explodes Near Sderot
Kassam Strikes West Negev, Damaging Building
Kassam Rocket Strikes Shaar HaNegev Council Community
Tulkarm: IDF Seeks Fugitive With ‘Blood on Hands’
780 Illegals Apprehended by Police
IDF Finds Undetectable Bomb Belts, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
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“The IDF and Shin Bet announced Thursday morning that they had uncovered a Nablus-based terror cell which was manufacturing explosive suicide belts with liquid explosive material, unable to be detected by metal detectors
More Calls to Conquer Large Parts of Gaza, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Col. (ret.) Moti Yogev: “The Kassam rockets are a direct result not only of the terrorists who fire them, but of the wantonness, lack of professionalism and irresponsibility of this government and its ministers. This includes Minister Sheetrit, who is talking nonsense… The government is not implementing the most basic effective measures to fulfill its basic responsibility to protect the citizens of Sderot and the western Negev.”
In a live interview broadcast during the afternoon news magazine of Israel Radio, Environment Minister Gideon Ezra (Kadima) proposed that Israel declare that it will not respond to Palestinian rocket attacks for a period of ten days.
“We have tried everything else and it hasn’t worked,” Ezra explained.
Ezra conceded that it would have been easier to promote the proposal if he had come out with it before a woman was killed and a man seriously wounded in Sderot by a rocket today (Ashkelon was also hit by four rockets this afternoon).
Report: Bush Asks PM to Authorize [Jordan-based Fatah-Loyal] Badr Brigade [for West Bank]
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“US President George W. Bush asked Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in Washington on Tuesday to authorize the entry of 1,500 Palestinian soldiers from the Jordanian-based Badr Division, into the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the British daily The Daily Telegraph reported.
The relatively well-armed Badr Division is loyal to the Fatah faction, and the hope in the US is that the additional troops will help buttress Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ strength in the territories against Hamas.”
An American Parable, by Samuel Freedman (Jerusalem Post)
“This parable applies, sadly, to Israel as well. Israel in the aftermath of the stalemate, if even that, against Hizbullah. Israel with Haim Ramon and Moshe Katsav in place of Tom Foley, Dennis Hastert and Jack Abramoff. But Israel, too, with all the architects of the summer’s unwon war still in place.”
“So let me just say, from this distant perch, and with all my Zionist ardor, that it appears curious and strange to see every leader in the summer’s war still ensconced in his position.”
