Terror Groups Planning Massive Independence Day Attack on Israel
May 1, 2008
Military Intelligence Chief Major-General Amos Yadlin warned the cabinet Tuesday of terror organizations seeking to carry out a major terror attack during Independence Day.
The Israel Defense Forces, he said, “has intelligence indicating terrorists might try to mimic the Passover attack, including the possible abductions of IDF soldiers.”
On the eve of the holiday, a Palestinian terror cell detonated a car bomb near the Kerem Shalom crossing, in a failed infiltration attempt. Thirteen IDF soldiers were wounded in the attack.
Yadlin briefed the cabinet on the situation in the Gaza Strip at the request of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hamas, he told the ministers “wants to break the blockade on Gaza and since Egypt is determined to stop that from happening on its side, Hamas will try to carry out another attack similar to the one on Kerem Shalom.
The terror groups, he stressed, are likely to target the Gaza crossings: “It’s an operational opportunity for them to hurt both soldiers and civilians… They’ll target everything they can along the Hubers Route, including digging tunnels, laying explosives and carrying out shooting attacks.
The Hubers Route runs along Israel’s security fence with the Gaza Strip, from the Mediterranean to the Philadelphi Route; and includes Israel’s four major crossings with the Strip – the Erez crossing in its north, the Sufa and Karni crossings in its central and Kerem Shalom in its south.
Yadlin went on to say that “Hamas is not interested in any kind of truce. As far as they are concerned a hudna last five to 10 years, but they are asking much more for it than the moderate Palestinians are asking for a peace treaty.”
Hamas is lacking dominant leadership, he added, and while “the political wing leads and the military wing does as it’s told, the leadership per se is weak…
“(Hamas politburo chief) Khaled Mashaal said so himself – ‘We need the time to regroup’ – and even if Egypt and Hamas come to some sort of an understanding, they still need the approval of the Palestinian factions in Cairo.
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Israel at 60 - State of Israel Turns 60
April 22, 2008
The story of Israel at 60 is the tale of a little town named Sderot whose children play indoors because of Palestinian rockets, of a world-class tech industry that pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging, of a nation filled with pride and fierce patriotism, yet living in fear of annihilation from abroad and of a demographic time bomb at home.
Six decades after fighting six Arab armies to realize the ancient dream of a Jewish return to Zion, Israel is still searching for its identity and place in the world, lacking recognized borders and a way of sharing the land with its Arab inhabitants, the Palestinians.
This existential struggle plays itself out every day in the Holy Land, whether in the furious construction of Israeli homes on disputed territory, or the touch-and-go attempts to make peace with moderate Palestinians while clashing daily with the militants in the Gaza Strip.
Geut Aragon has a piece of shrapnel permanently lodged in her brain from a rocket that struck her home in Sderot, the southern town near Gaza, three months ago. She keeps her two young sons indoors.
“Since they were born they know nothing else,” Aragon says. “Sirens, sheltered rooms — they don’t play like regular children.” Although she still suffers from headaches and dizziness, she vows to stay in Sderot and even plans to celebrate on independence day, May 8, the Jewish calendar date for Israel’s declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948.
Israel, Egypt on High Alert For Hamas Attack
April 13, 2008
Egypt and Israel have been on alert for a major Hamas border strike.
Israeli and Egyptian forces have been placed on high alert along the Gaza Strip amid intelligence that the Hamas regime was planning a series of major attacks. The intelligence warned of Hamas attacks on Israeli facilities and the destruction of the Egypt-Gaza border.
“The Hamas attacks could take place any day,” a security source said.
On Wednesday, Hamas-aligned combatants attacked a gasoline storage terminal along the Gaza-Israel border, Middle East Newsline reported. At least two Israeli workers were killed in what was termed a major security breach. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the strike, meant to either blow up the terminal or abduct Israelis.
Israel: We’ll Destroy Iran If They Decide To Launch War
April 8, 2008
Israel will “destroy” Iran if Tehran decided to launch a war against the Jewish state, Israeli Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said today.
The unusually harsh warning from Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister, was delivered as the official visited his ministrys war room, which took part today in a massive, nationwide, weeklong drill that is set to include simulated chemical missile attacks on central Israel.
“The Iranians wont rush to attack Israel, because they understand the significance such action would have and are well aware of our strength,” Ben-Eliezer told reporters. “However, Iran continues to aggravate the situation by supplying arms to Syria and Hezbollah, and we must deal with this.”
The minister said this weeks war drill “is not a meaningless spectacle or a fictional scenario. The future reality is likely to be a number of times harsher than that which we recognize now. We are confronted with a situation where the home front becomes the front line.”
“In a future war, it will be much safer to live in the northern towns of Nahariya and Shlomi instead of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, since I expect that in the opening attack hundreds of missiles will strike Israel,” Eliezer said. “There will be no place in the country which is not within range of Syria and Hezbollahs rockets.”
Israel To Hold Massive War Drill Next Week
April 3, 2008
Tens of thousands of Israelis are to participate next week in a nationwide emergency drill that will simulate a massive missile strike on the country’s population centers.
The exercise was approved by Israel’s security cabinet Wednesday and will be launched with a cabinet meeting conducted as if Israel was at war, and the sounding of air raid sirens throughout the land.
Sectors to be involved will include the Israel Defense Forces, all government ministries, local authorities and the educational services.
Such a missile strike from Syria, the Lebanese Hizb’allah and perhaps even Iran is considered likely in the next Arab-Israeli war, which high-ranking IDF reserve officers have said will make the 2006 Second Lebanon War look like child’s play in comparison.
That war, between Israel and the Hizb’allah - the Iranian- and Syrian-supported terror group which launched missiles only against the north of the country - drove more than a million Israelis to abandon their homes and move south out of rocket-range.
Last week IDF officials reported that the Hizb’allah now has more rockets than it did before the last war, and that it is now equipped with missiles that can hit much deeper into Israel, even as far south as Dimona, the site of Israel’s nuclear facility.
Syria is armed with even more powerful and more accurate missiles, and is known to have non-conventional warheads including those with VX nerve gas in its arsenal.
Earlier, before the Security Cabinet gave the green light for the drill, Israeli media reported that Syria was calling up its reserve troops fearing an Israeli attack.
Also on the same day, in an apparently unrelated development, the Israeli defense establishment announced that it s non-conventional protection kits - against atomic, biological and chemical attacks - are to be upgraded and redistributed to the public.
Jewish Leader Calls Hagee Extremist
April 3, 2008
The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn’t work with the Rev. John Hagee, a Christian Zionist, calling him an “extremist” on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said Hagee and his group, Christians United For Israel, reject any Israeli land concessions to achieve peace with the Palestinians.
Reform Judaism supports creating a Palestinian state; Hagee sees a biblical mandate for the territory so End Times prophecy can be fulfilled.
Yoffie also condemned Hagee’s views on Roman Catholicism and Islam. The San Antonio pastor has suggested that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler, among other comments.
Hagee has vehemently denied he is anti-Catholic and said his remarks have been mischaracterized.
Cheney Says A Palestinian State Is Long Overdue
March 24, 2008
Declaring that an independent Palestinian state was “long overdue,” Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that the success of the U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations depends on the Palestinian ability to rein in militant groups that favor armed resistance over negotiations.
“Terror and rockets do not merely kill civilians, they also kill the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people,” Cheney said after meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “The future belongs to the advocates of peace and reconciliation.”
Abbas is largely unable to limit the activities of the largest Palestinian militant group, Hamas. After a unity government between Hamas and Abbas Fatah party collapsed in June, Hamas gunmen drove Fatah forces out of the Gaza Strip, leaving Abbas in control of only the West Bank.
Efforts to reconcile the warring Palestinian factions continued Sunday in Yemen, with both sides agreeing only to continue talking.
Abbas, after meeting with Cheney, said that Israeli actions in both the West Bank and Gaza were undermining Palestinian faith in a negotiated settlement with Israel.
“Peace and stability will not be achieved through settlement expansion, or the setting up of checkpoints around towns and villages, and the military escalation against Gaza,” he said.
Israel On High Alert Near Lebanese Border
March 16, 2008
Israel intensified patrols near the Lebanese border over the weekend its in anticipation for a possible attack by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as the end of the mourning period of its assassinated military commander Imad Mughaniyeh approached, a Lebanese security source said Sunday.
Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the February 12 car bombing that killed Imad Mughaniyeh, a Hezbollah leader suspected of masterminding a series of terrorist attacks against US and Jewish targets in and outside Lebanon. The Israeli government has so far denied the charge.
Mughaniyeh was killed in a car bomb blast in Damascus.
Immediately after Mughaniyehs killing, Israel put its military and embassies on alert, and advised Jewish institutions worldwide to do the same, fearing a large-scale revenge attack would be carried by the group to avenge the assassination of Mughaniyeh.
Usually in Muslim traditions, there is a 40-day mourning period.
According to the source, Israeli patrols near the Lebanese borders were intensified Sunday and soldiers were seen sitting behind bunkers on high alert.
Mughaniyeh was one of the worlds most wanted men. He was linked to a series of attacks that killed hundreds of Americans, including 241 US Marines in Lebanon, and the kidnappings of Westerners in the 1980s.
His attacks were believed to have extended into the 1990s, with the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires and an attack on foreign military housing in Saudi Arabia. Dozens were killed in those attacks.
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah vowed at Mughaniyehs funeral last month to retaliate against Israeli targets anywhere in the world.
Israel Fears New Uprising By Palestinians - Possible 3rd Intifada
March 9, 2008
Fears of a new Palestinian “intifada,” or uprising, have been stoked by a shooting rampage that left dead eight Israelis at a Jerusalem yeshiva, raising the death toll from militant attacks since Jan. 1 above the total for all of last year.
Israel’s army yesterday closed Palestinian areas of the West Bank and banned young men from attending Friday services at the mosques on the Temple Mount in the Old City.
After hours of silence, Hamas took responsibility for the carnage Thursday inside the prominent Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, the Ha’aretz newspaper reported on its Web site. But the Associated Press later reported that Hamas had backtracked on their claim.
“There may be a later announcement. But we don’t claim this honor yet,” said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ military wing.
The attack came on the heels of an Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that Palestinian officials say killed more than 120, including a disputed number of civilians. The campaign targeted militants who have been barraging southern Israel with rockets. Four Israelis have also been killed in fighting since last week.
The Next Mideast War Is A Rocket Away
March 3, 2008
It begins with a single Qassam rocket, one of the thousands of homemade projectiles fired in recent years by the Islamic radicals of Hamas from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. The rockets have made life nightmarish for many Israelis but have largely missed their targets. But this one gets “lucky”: It smashes into an elementary school, wounding 40 children and killing 15.
The Israeli government, which had heretofore responded to the Qassams with airstrikes and small ground raids, cannot resist the nationwide demand for action. Within hours, tens of thousands of Israeli troops and hundreds of tanks are rushing into Gaza, battling house-to-house in teeming refugee camps. Just as swiftly, Palestinian officials accuse Israel of perpetrating a massacre and invite the foreign press to photograph the corpse-strewn rubble. The images flash around the Middle East on al-Jazeera TV and trigger violent demonstrations in Arab capitals.
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