Here’s a cartoon about Sderot: The residents are saying “Hello! They’re shooting at us!”, while the army answers “Call back when somebody gets killed”.
It looks like the IDF has decided to change their approach. In response to today’s rocket attack, the IDF struck directly at the terrorist cell reponsible.
This is a picture of a home in Sderot, hit by a Qassam rocket today.
Let’s stop talking about a ‘ceasefire’ between Hamas and Israel.
First of all, the rockets keep falling.
Second, they are coming from Hamas, regardless of what faction takes ‘credit’ for them.
And finally, Hamas is calling for all factions to redouble their efforts to kill Israelis.
So there isn’t, and hasn’t been a ceasefire.
Israel has taken steps to correct some of the failures of organization, training, and logistics that occurred during last summer’s war in Lebanon. Our security correspondent says that reserve training for combat units has been greatly increased, and equipment and supplies in the units’ warehouses has been replenished. “There’s no more budget problem for the army”, he reports.
Tell us again about the enormous power of the Jewish lobby in the US:
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during his visit to Israel that Washington has decided to sell Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs to Saudi Arabia, Haaretz has learned.
A recent discussion in Washington raised the possibility that Jerusalem would ask the U.S. not to sell the satellite-guided smart bombs to the Saudis, but it was decided to reject this request…
Defense Minister Amir Peretz expressed Israel’s opposition to the sale of the weapons to Saudi or other Persian Gulf states during his visit to the U.S. a few weeks ago. Peretz said Israel was concerned the weapons might fall into terrorist hands. Israel also argues that the presence of such weapons in the Arab countries undermines Washington’s pledge that Israel will enjoy a qualitative edge in the region – attained mainly by the possession of advanced weaponry…
Washington has rejected such requests from Israel before: surrounding the sale of AWACs and advanced F-16s to Saudi Arabia, and Harpoon missiles to Egypt. — Ze’ev Schiff in Ha’aretz
Technorati Tags: Israel, JDAM, Saudi Arabia
I haven’t written about the boycott of Israel voted by the British National Union of Journalists, because it seemed to me that everyone was doing it, including the woman I believe to be the best blogger in the UK, and possibly the world, Melanie Phillips, who wrote:
The Palestinian journalists’ union, of course, demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority because Johnston was kidnapped by Palestinians. The NUJ apparently cannot grasp quite how demented it is, therefore, to boycott Israel because of the kidnap of Alan Johnston. If something nasty happens in the Middle East, they think Israel is the only party to be blamed. If Palestinians kill Jews, blame Israel. If Palestinians kill Palestinians, blame Israel. If Palestinians kidnap a British NUJ member, blame Israel. And if Palestinian journalists protest to Palestinians about the kidnap by Palestinians of a British journalist, those Palestinian journalists are to be ‘rewarded’ by — a boycott of Israel.
But there’s more to the story than just another few idiots and a boycott.
