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Ha’aretz reports:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will shortly meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Olmert’s office said Tuesday, a day after sources close to Olmert said that the two had been conducting secret talks…

The Prime Minister’s Bureau issued a statement [Monday] saying Olmert spoke of the Arab states’ readiness to reach a peace arrangement that includes recognition of Israel, and stressed the central role played by Saudi Arabia, which has much influence on the Palestinians and the moderate Arab states.

However, Olmert stressed that Israel was adamant about rejecting the right of return as reflected in the Arab initiative.

Could such negotiations be fruitful? Both Olmert and the US are talking like it is possible to reach a compromise on the difficult issues separating Israel and the Palestinians with the ‘moderate’ Abbas.

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In case there is any doubt about whom Israel is fighting:

All of Hizbullah’s policies and activities are coordinated with the leadership of Iran, including the firing of rockets into Israeli population centers for which direct Iranian approval is required, said a senior Hizbullah official in a rare admission.

“Even when it comes to firing rockets on Israeli civilians, when they (Israel) bombed the civilians on our side, even that decision requires an in-principle permission from (the ruling jurisprudent),” said Sheikh Naim Kassem, the deputy chief of Hizbullah, in an Arabic language interview translated Sunday by the Information and Terrorism Center at Israel’s Center for Special Studies.

According to the Center, “the ruling jurisprudent,” or “al-wali al-faqih” in Arabic, is the title of Supreme Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. — YNet

If Hizbullah needs permission to fire rockets, then perhaps they fire rockets on command? In other words, they simply do Iran’s work for her. Last Summer’s war came at a convenient time for Iran, which wanted to distract attention from her nuclear program. Maybe the best way to tell if there will be a war this summer will be to pay attention to Iran.

Technorati Tags: Hizbullah, Iran, Israel

More silliness from the clown prince of the Israeli Left:

Meretz Chair Yossi Beilin will bring before the Knesset for a preliminary reading next week a bill overturning the mandatory military service law…

Beilin is convinced that making military service optional would not diminish the scope of the current recruits, citing high motivation to serve in the military among Israel’s youth. However, Beilin’s proposal allows the military to temporarily reinstate the mandatory draft in the case of diminished enlistment. — Ha’aretz

This proposal, if it could be passed — it can’t — would represent an enormous change in the way Israelis think about their nation and its situation, and make a huge difference to the nature of Israeli society.

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From today’s Jerusalem Post:

Palestinian militants opened fire near a children’s festival at a UN-operated elementary school in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing a bodyguard of a local Fatah leader and wounding seven other people, medical officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But Muslim extremists had earlier visited the school, warning authorities not to hold the festival, UN and security officials said. They also issued a warning on Saturday.

It was not clear why the extremists objected to the event, at the school in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, or whether they were behind the shooting, the officials said. The gunmen were masked, making identification difficult, security officials said…

While the sides have largely halted their attacks on each other, Gaza continues to be plagued by clan violence, kidnappings and other crime. The violence has included a string of attacks on Internet cafes, music stores and restaurants by Islamic extremists.

Radical Islamists love to propose their brand of Islam as the solution to all the problems of the world, and in this case to the misery of Gaza residents. But as this incident shows, radical Islam is just another factor adding to it. What’s really making Gaza into a hell on earth? Here are some of the reasons:

• Corruption. International aid money that could be used to fix infrastructure and create economic activities lines the pockets of the various warlords. As a result, things like the “Tsunami of human waste” occur.

• Weapons. Most likely every male over the age of 14 has a Kalashnikov. Lots of people get hurt.

• Lack of authority. The “security forces”, when they take time out from terrorist activities against Israel and each other, have no incentive to try to rein in the criminal activities of the heavily-armed clans.

Technorati Tags: Gaza, Islam