Posted on 03/18/2010 11:46:22 PM PDT by Cindy
"Air Force strikes in Gaza"
SNIPPET: "IDF retaliates for deadly Qassam attack: Air Force hits several Gaza targets, including metal foundry, smuggling tunnel; Vice PM Shalom says Israel to offer strong response to rocket attack that killed Thai worker Thursday"
SNIPPET: "IDF aircraft struck at least four targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said."
SNIPPET: "Israel also sent a letter of complaint to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to visit Israel at the weekend, and to the UN Security Council.
A previously unknown group, Ansar al-Sunna, believed to share the hardline ideology of al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire at Israel, as well as the al-Aqsa Martrys Brigades, a wing of the Fatah movement.
Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that Israel holds Hamas accountable for attacks originating in the Gaza Strip regardless of the group that commits them."
(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...
stepping back in time to 2009:
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTHYbnyjaNk
“15 Seconds - Ready or not here I come”
Video Description:
In Sderot, israel, you’ve 15 seconds to run for cover. sderot, israel, 2009
“Hamas, Hezbollah Could Push Israel To War”
Mar 4, 2010
By David Eshel
Tel Aviv
SNIPPET: “Israel is always on high alert when it comes to the potential for war with its neighbors, particularly the two groups viewed as proxies of Iran and Syria: Hamas and Hezbollah. Though neither seems particularly eager for a full-blown conflict with Israel at present, defense analysts see a number of developments that could lead to another war with one or both, perhaps as soon as this year.
One reason for this view is that Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon continue to be supplied with ordnance from Iran. Thousands of Hezbollah rockets are poised to strike Israel again, though for almost four years the border between Lebanon and northern Israel has been remarkably quiet. One reason may be that 11,000 soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and 15,000 Lebanese army troops are more effective at keeping Hezbollah’s Shiite militia at bay. The tranquility may be illusory—Tehran and Damascus could encourage Hamas and Hezbollah to attack Israel in furtherance of their regional aims. Iran has also threatened retaliation if Israel attacks its nuclear program; and with popular unrest a constant threat to the leadership in Tehran, a war with Israel, fought through Hamas or Hezbollah, could be one way of diverting Iranian public attention away from the regime.
Other developments are raising tensions as well.”
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865127,00.html
IDF nabs 152 infiltrators on Egypt border
Published: 03.19.10, 13:18 / Israel News
One hundred fifty two infiltrators were intercepted near the Israel-Egypt border during the past 24 hours, in separate incidents. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of infiltration attempts into Israel. (Hanan Greenberg)
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(”Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, PA, March 17, 2010”)
“Hamas Official: Renew Terror Attacks”
Posted at: 2010-03-17
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The Folly of America Training the Palestinian Army
JINSA ^ | March 19, 2010 | JINSA Reports
Posted on March 19, 2010 1:05:43 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Fairly authoritative sources have noted that Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. Army general responsible for training Abu Mazen’s Palestinian security force/army, has become increasingly marginalized by the Fatah government. Last summer his staff was reportedly no longer directly involved in training or planning and had been “expelled” from the Palestinian Authority (PA) “Strategic Planning Department.” Then came news that American DynCorp International’s contract for training and mentoring Palestinian forces had not been renewed. Now, another shoe has dropped.
According to Janes’ Defence Weekly as reported by wire services, the PA has drafted a plan to end American training and supervision of the force entirely. “Dayton’s role would be limited to bringing money and equipment for the security forces. He would not deal with PA operations or deployment,” a Palestinian official was reported to have said. “Officials said the PA leadership...determined that U.S. intervention was hampering security force development and undermining the legitimacy of the regime.”
We suspect that Lt. Gen. Dayton would retire rather than be in that position, but that would suit the PA as well. He has already done the job they wanted done. He’s built their army and now they want to use it as they see fit.
We don’t blame the Palestinians.
For years JINSA has pointed out the folly of U.S. military funding and training for the nucleus of a Palestinian army. American military sources with whom we discuss the issue generally give us two oddly linked responses:
A well-trained army would be loyal to the “State,” and; in the meantime,
It would protect the current Fatah regime from the Hamas regime that wants to unseat it in the West Bank as it did in Gaza.
Israelis, too, have told us that since Hamas is essentially at war with Fatah as well as Israel, training Fatah soldiers to fight Hamas means that the IDF doesn’t have to do it. “The more they kill, the fewer we have to kill,” said an IDF officer.
This is a temporary answer at best and a foolish one as well. There is no Palestinian state and if, despite the best efforts of rational actors, one emerges on two sides of Israel, Hamas will be as much a part of it as Fatah, and entitled to some say in the disposition of the army.
The United States arms and trains the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in the belief that the Lebanese state will use the LAF to control Hezbollah and maintain a peaceful border with Israel. A JINSA delegation in Israel recently heard a presentation on Israel’s belief that with Hezbollah officials in the Lebanese government cabinet, the Lebanese government is, in fact, a “state sponsor” of terrorism against Israel. “The state apparatus is the face to the world and brings in aid, including American military aid. Hezbollah is the actual security force of the country and will determine whether there will be peace or war.”
What the Israelis clearly understand about Lebanon should be understood about the Palestinians as well-and understood by the United States in both cases. Giving military skills to young men with no understanding of or control over where they will use those skills is not in the U.S. national security interest-particularly when they fire our general.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865225,00.html
“Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails at police in Jerusalem”
Published: 03.19.10, 21:14 / Israel News
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/182912
Arab MK: Liberate Jerusalem from the Jews
Reported: 16:44 PM - Mar/19/10
(IsraelNN.com) Arab MK Ibrahim Tzartzur said today that Jews don’t have any right to Jerusalem and called on “the Islamic nation” to liberate it from Israeli hands.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865390,00.html
“Under fire: More rockets hit south”
SNIPPET: “Rocket fire from Gaza continues throughout Saturday, prompting residents in south to take cover in secure rooms; no injuries or damages reported in strikes. Meanwhile, visiting UN chief calls for end to rocket attacks, Gaza siege”
Shmulik Hadad
Latest Update: 03.20.10, 20:44 / Israel News
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865466,00.html
“Barak meets with Mitchell’s aide”
Published: 03.20.10, 21:33 / Israel News
I feel certain that Mitchell will go over there and insist the Gaza rockets cease immediately. /s
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865479,00.html
“Earthquake in north measures 3.6 on Richter scale”
Published: 03.20.10, 22:24 / Israel News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475265/posts
“What Crisis?”
Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2010 | Ken Blackwell
Posted on March 20, 2010 4:16:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
SNIPPET: “President Obama needs every vote he can get in the House of Representatives for health care this week. So it would not do to have some of his liberal friends on the Hill think there is a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations right now. Asked by FOX News’ Bret Baer directly if the recent diplomatic storm was a crisis, the President said no. He spoke of the decision by a mid-level Interior Ministry official in Jerusalem to allow housing units to be built in the Jewish section of the city. “Not helpful,” the President described the routine issuance of a building permit.
Who knew? Never before had even the volatile Palestinians violently protested against more apartments being built for Jews in the Jewish quarter.
So what’s different? They’re testing us. The Palestinians want to see how far they can press the Americans. They want to drive a wedge between the Obama administration and the coalition of Likud and Right-wing parties that makes up the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Palestinians know that Obama wants to “reach out” to Muslims. If they can cause enough trouble in Israel, they know they can raise a hue and cry among their fellow Muslims, just in time for Obama’s big “Entrepreneurship Summit” with Muslims, slated for April 26-28 in Washington.
If they can incite Arab youths to a new “intifada,” the Palestinian Fatah faction, these political heirs of the terrorist Yassir Arafat, think they might topple Netanyahu’s coalition. If they do that, they hope to bring to power in Jerusalem a government willing to hand over still more territory to meet insatiable Palestinian demands.
Israel is but a fraction of the size of the Arab world.”
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10030120.htm
Saturday, March 20, 2010
“Palestinian leadership incite terror as 2000 Fatah defect to Hezballah”
By Elizabeth Kendal
Religious Liberty Monitoring
Special to ASSIST News Service
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865526,00.html
“Report: PM to ask US for bombs against Iran”
Published: 03.21.10, 07:01 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “The Sunday Times newspaper reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pressure the American administration during his upcoming visit to Washington to release sophisticated bunker-busting bombs needed for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear sites.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865565,00.html
(AFP)
“Ban Ki-moon enters Gaza, says shows solidarity with Palestinian strife”
Published: 03.21.10, 08:56 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “A group of protestors carrying Palestinian flags were on the site. Ban said that he is in the Gaza Strip in order to show his solidarity with the strife of the Palestinian people living in Gaza and in order to highlight the need to lift the siege on the Strip.”
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865913,00.html
Settlers says Arab killer instinct grows as gov’t weakens
Published: 03.21.10, 16:35 / Israel News
The Shomron Settlers’ Committee commented on the attempted terrorist attack in an IDF checkpoint south of Nablus on Sunday and stated that “anytime the government of Israel shows weakness, the Arab killer instinct grows.”
A statement issued by the committee noted, “The Arabs interpret Netanyahu’s low status as an invitation for terrorist activity.” (Shmulik Grossman)
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171462
“IDF kills 2 attackers in W. Bank”
By JPOST.COM STAFF
21/03/2010 13:25
SNIPPET: “Assailants shot after trying to stab soldiers securing Palestinian farmers near Itamar.”
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