{"id":3900,"date":"2008-12-30T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/tuesday-war-news-update-kassams-mortars-continue-as-regime-weighs-48-hour-freeze-on-cast-lead-ops\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:55:00","slug":"tuesday-war-news-update-kassams-mortars-continue-as-regime-weighs-48-hour-freeze-on-cast-lead-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/tuesday-war-news-update-kassams-mortars-continue-as-regime-weighs-48-hour-freeze-on-cast-lead-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday War News UPDATE: Kassams, Mortars Continue as Regime Weighs 48 Hour Freeze on Cast Lead Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>It may be that the much decorated defense minister<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456523011&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Ehud Barak is a wily, cunning military character<\/strong><\/a> <strong>who may well have more tricks up his sleeve for operation Cast Lead, including a ground offensive which takes Hamas by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>But, excuse the cynicism, the fact remains that over the last 3 1\/2 years, Israel&#8217;s governance has lost all credibilty, both diplomatically and militarily, amongst the governed. And Ehud Barak, along with the rest of the governing Troika of Olmert and Livni, is very much a part of problem regarding lost credibility.   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456534195&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Israeli Leaders to Discuss Suspending Gaza Op for 48 Hours [to Establish Legitimacy for Ground Offensive, or Prelude to Imposed Ceasefire and International Troops?], by Yaakov Katz<\/strong> <\/a>   (Jerusalem Post)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/158367\"><strong>Seven Rockets Fall: No Injuries Reported<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/158371\"><strong>Trucks with Grad Missiles Destroyed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456535697&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Rockets Fall in Vicinity of Beersheba; No Casualties <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/129132\"><strong>Hamas [Grad] Missiles Hit Be&#8217;er Sheva for First Time [Rockets Attack for First Time Since Israel Captured it in 1948], by Gil Ronen<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the Grad-type missiles hit a kindergarten that was empty of children. The second one hit an empty field.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456535378&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Palestinians Fire Three Kassams at Sderot, No Casualties or Damage Reported<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456534430&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Rockets Fired From Gaza Strip Hit Ashdod, Ashkelon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456531448&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>IDF: 390 Hamas Targets Hit Since Start of Operation Cast Lead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456534378&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">P<strong>alestinians: IAF Aircrafts Pummeling Smuggling Tunnels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456532815&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Kassams Hit Netivot, Rahat; No Casualties or Damage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1230456532696&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Kassam Hits Kiryat Malachi; No Casualties, Several People Suffer Shock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Commentary; It may be that the much decorated defense minister Ehud Barak is a wily, cunning military character who may well have more tricks up his sleeve for operation Cast Lead, including a ground offensive which takes Hamas by surprise. But, excuse the cynicism, the fact remains that over the last 3 1\/2 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}