Gay Display and Israel’s Discriminatory Legal System…
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.”
Thursday War News…
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)
Excerpts;
“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
IDF Must Conquer Both Northern Gaza & the Egypt-Gaza Border…
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.”
Pacifist Ezra to Hamas: Open Season Target Practice on Negev Towns for 10 Days…
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).
Another Olmert Abrogation of Israel’s National Sovereignty?
Report: Bush Asks PM to Authorize [Jordan-based Fatah-Loyal] Badr Brigade [for West Bank]
Full Text;
“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.”
The American Iraqi Parable Played Out by Israel in Lebanon Action…
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.”
Olmert: Be a Man, Admit it; Peretz, Halutz Were Mistakes Which Cost Israel Dearly…
Halutz Was a Mistake, by Attila Somfalvi (Ynet)
Excerpts;
The time: Spring 2005, several months before the Gaza Strip withdrawal
The drama: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided not to extend IDF Chief of Staff Moshe (Bugi) Yaalon’s term.
The surprise: Yaalon is replaced by Air Force officer Dan Halutz. The headlines scream of Yaalon’s humiliation and the surprise. For the first time, a “blue uniform” assumes the army chief’s post.
Arabs illegally Taking Hold of Areas Not Built Up by Jews…
MKs: New Phenomena – Illegal Arab Settlements, by Aviram Zino (Ynet)
Excerpts;
Knesset members tour West Bank security fence, say Arabs building west of fence to receive Israeli citizenship. ‘We will act against leaving thousands of acres outside of security fence needed for expansion of Efrat,’ they say.
on Tuesday, Knesset members from the right pointed out that there seems to be a new phenomena brewing in the West Bank: Illegal outposts erected by Arabs who are settling west of the security fence in order to get Israeli citizenship when the day arrives.
Wednesday War News…
Outrage Rising Over Kassam Attacks, IDF Vows Retaliation [Duh??]
Excerpt;
“A total of 12 rockets hit Sderot in four separate attacks on Wednesday, killing a woman and seriously injuring two others. Four rockets also hit Ashkelon.”
Kassam Lands South of Sderot; none Wounded
Bomb Thrown at IDF Vehicle North of Tulkarm
Kassam Hits Sderot, Seriously Wounding One
Five Kassams Land in Ashkelon After Sderot Barrage