Timeline
for Terror!
The United
States has submitted a document to Israel and the PA, setting tight deadlines
for both sides to implement confidence-building steps. Israel must enable
opening of two key Gaza Strip passages - the Rafah border crossing with Egypt
and the Karni goods crossing with Israel. The US also wants Israel to remove
roadblocks in the West Bank by mid-June, and completely remove restrictions on
Palestinian travel in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern West Bank, by May 15
and to set up a long-awaited bus convoy between the West Bank and Gaza by July
1. Abbas, for his part, must develop a plan against the firing of Gaza-made
Qassam rockets into Israel, and deploy forces in the Gaza Strip tasked with
curbing the rocket fire by June 21. Some of the measures, notably the removal
of key roadblocks, if implemented would make it harder for Israel to foil
suicide bombings and shooting attacks. More ominous, Israel will be forced to
provide arms, ammunition and equipment to PA security forces in an “immediate
and ongoing” manner.
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert already tentatively agreed last week to comply with America’s
latest laundry list, according to the Reuters news agency. In spite of the fact
that Israel’s security establishment emphasizes that these moves would
dramatically endanger an already vulnerable Israeli civilian population
constantly facing missile launchings from Gaza, suicide bombings, and
other terrorist attacks.
(Why
does the US administration impose a useless and stupid “time-table” on Israel,
but veto the US Congress on a withdrawal time-table from Iraq? The PA “must
develop a plan” and promises only; meanwhile Israel must sacrifice security of
the country and Jewish lives! Olmert could, by standing up to the US government
and rejecting this plan. But the principles of Zionists were discarded by the
Kadima and Labor parties a long time ago!)
Plain and
Clear. Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan
said it clear: "We in the Hamas movement will not accept any solution that
would deny us our rights or detract from our principles.... I will not accept
an agreement saying that at the end of the day, Haifa, Jaffa, and Acre are
Israeli cities, and part of the Israeli land.... I will not accept any solution
that prevents any future Palestinian generation from acting to liberate and
regain the rest of the Palestinian land."
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
Interestingly,
the international press quite often expresses concern that the non-existent
Ceasefire is under threat when Israel kills Arab terrorists, but never when
they kill Jews or send rockets toward Israel!
Another
Political Rat with no Military Knowledge. According to
the Foreign Ministry, Tzipi Livni called for a diplomatic solution to the
crisis with Hizbullah in Lebanon on the fourth day of the war. This was her
stance at the start of the war in her testimony before the Winograd Committee. (When
the war is on, it has to have clear objectives. One does not negotiate with
terrorist thugs in the middle of the war, after they rejected all peaceful options!
Tzipi Livni is just another disloyal, political parasite creeping into PM
office!)
Mickey Mouse of
Hamas. Mickey Mouse look-a-like
called Farfour, who in a recent episode called Tomorrow's Pioneers sang about
kids arming themselves with AK-47s and striving for world domination under
Islamic leadership was featured on Hamas controlled TV. “You and I are laying
the foundation for a world led by Islamists” Farfour declared. (This is clear indoctrination of another
generation of blood-thirsty Islamic terrorists. There is still no UN
resolution. I just wonder who had financed the production of this show?) Despite an
earlier announcement by the PA information minister, the show was broadcast as
usual last Friday.
Competing
with IDF. One hundred and seventy Arabs have been killed in
the Gaza Strip during internal clashes since the start of the year. (Why
not ship them [Arabs] all from Israel and territories to Iraq where they will
be more at home?)
Payback
is a Must. Likud MK Israel Katz has said that if Hamas ordered
any harm done to the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, "the Palestinian
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his friends should be eliminated, after the
threats were made by the head of the armed branch of Hamas Abu Ovaydie.
No
Respect for UN Resolutions. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
emphasized with concern “the freedom of action and the rearmament” of Hizbollah
in south Lebanon, despite the fact that UN Security Council Resolution 1559 calls for the dismantling of Hezbollah. (Arab
and Muslim countries use the UN as a tool for inserting unjustifiable
international pressure on Israel, but they generally block or ignore UN
resolutions addressed toward them.)
Shameful Repression Against Zionists in Israel. Miriam Adler,
Mother of six, has been sentenced to three months in jail or its equivalent in
public service. Her crime: Attacking a policeman during a Disengagement-related
protest. The incident occurred shortly before the Disengagement in August 2005,
when police came to arrest her and her husband for their vocal and active
opposition to the expulsion.
Duplicity
Again. The World Bank has issued a scathing report against
Israel's restrictions on movement of Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs, despite
security considerations which it noted are "undeniable and must be
addressed." (Don’t they have anything better to do?
Praising the Western coalition for reducing heroin production in Afghanistan
would be nice. Oh... production has actually doubled or tripled since the
defeat of the Taliban. Well done coalition!)
Repeating
Lebanon Mistakes in Gaza. Gen. Amidror
notes that the Winograd report concentrates on the flaws in the decision-making
process. His main conclusion is that the mistakes made along our Lebanese
border over the past several years are now being dangerously repeated in Gaza.
"In the Gaza Strip, a similar process is underway. Hamas is getting
stronger as it organizes itself, digs fortifications underground, and builds up
its military capabilities." While Israel delays the confrontation with
Hamas because of a temporary truce or some other illusory understanding,
"we are likely to find ourselves in exactly the same position in Gaza that
we created with respect to Lebanon."
Quote of the Week:
“The Israeli
people have grown so accustomed to crooks as their Prime Ministers that they
tend to elect them again and again and again.” - Emanuel A.
Winston.
"It is not right from my standpoint to
resign. My reasoning is that the Winograd Committee report was issued in order
that mistakes will be corrected quickly," -
Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert. - He did everything possible to delay the
report. There can be no respect for corrupted, self-centred traitor and his
party of professional liars!
Empty Words. PM Olmert last
Monday that Israel would "respond severely" to continuing Qassam
rocket fire from Gaza. He said that the attacks "threaten civilian lives
in the northern Negev". "The Qassam attacks constitute a tangible
threat to Israel". "Israel cannot show restraint forever."
Attack
Hits UN-run School in Gaza. Muslim extremists (terrorists) in long
white robes attacked a children's festival at a UN-run primary school with guns
and homemade bombs Sunday, killing a politician's bodyguard and also leaving
seven people wounded in plain view of terrified youngsters. (No
extraordinary meeting of UN Security Council is called! No international condemnation!)
Tell Me About
your Friends… Both Hamas and Hizbullah
have issued statements in support of former Arab-Israeli MK Azmi Bishara. He is
accused of treason, aiding the enemy in a time of war and money laundering. He
has been on the run ever since lying to investigators. Hamas has issued a call
for Bishara to return to Israel to “share the burden of supporting the
Palestinian homeland. Hizbullah has also come to Bishara’s defense and also
announced that Hizbullah is ready for another round of warfare with Israel. (…and I know who you are!)
Self-Destructive Traitors. ‘Peace Now’
leader Yariv Oppenheimer said that most of the group boycotted the huge protest
rally against the Olmert administration. Oppenheimer explained that he prefers
that Prime Minister Olmert remains in office if he continues to negotiate with
the Palestinian Authority.
Commission
for the Oslo ‘War’ is Needed.
by
Fundamentally Freund
Essentially, the findings of the Winograd Commission only
confirm what most of us have suspected all along: that the Government has
failed miserably in the prosecution of last summer's Lebanon war.
Only time will tell if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
Defense Minister Amir Peretz will pay the ultimate political price for their
actions and be sent into early retirement.
But with the Israeli media and public now busy talking about
topics such as failed leadership, lack of strategic acumen and disastrous
policymaking, perhaps it is at last time for a full-blown investigation of an
even greater mess: the Oslo "peace process" with the Palestinians? (What about an investigation of the lack of
vision and systematic denigration of the Jewish National pride by the string of
Israel’s governments?)