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A new Sderot playground will include a 'playful' bomb shelter to which children can run when Kassam rocket barrages hit. The bomb shelter will be colorful and shaped like a centipede. Let's go to the videotape and then I'll have a bit more for you. Obviously, it's terrible that kids need a bomb shelter in the middle of a playground. But that's the least of the grim tidings coming out of

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Ignoring leftist Attorney General Manny Mazuz's gratuitous advice that demolishing terrorists' homes, while legal, could "raise significant legal problems," Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the IDF to begin the process of issuing demolition orders against the homes of terrorists Ala Abu Dhaim of Jebl Mukaber - who murdered eight students in March at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav - and Husam Taysir

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Citing unspecified 'truce violations,' Hamas has frozen negotiations aimed at freeing kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held for more than two years in the Gaza Strip. Abu Marzuk told the London-based daily Al Hayat that Hamas would not send a delegation to the talks slated to take place in Cairo. He claimed that Israel was not living up to its obligations under the cease-fire and

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This is a flying pigs moment. In fact, this might even be the biggest flying pigs moment of all time. President Shimon Peres, the architect of the Oslo 'piece by piece' process, the inventor of the 'New Middle East,' the man who used to be referred to as 'Israel's first astronaut' because his head was always in the clouds, doesn't believe there's any chance of 'peace' with the 'Palestinians.'

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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert's long-time bureau chief Shula Zaken is to be indicted for her role in a bribery scandal involving the Income Tax Authority. Along with seven other people, including her brother, Zaken was informed on Thursday that subject to a preliminary hearing in which she can present her side of the story, she will be indicted. I did a lengthy post on this scandal in January

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In southern Lebanon, the UNIFIL farce continues. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon filed a report this week in which he indicated that UNIFIL forces troops in southern Lebanon discovered underground cables while on patrol. The troops were surrounded by stone-throwing 'locals,' and extricated themselves from their situation by agreeing to delete the photos. And the cables were...? The incident

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And thanks for being our friends!

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Friday's Jerusalem Post editorial is up online and it examines the moral relativism in the world media's reaction to Wednesday's 'bulldozer terror attack' in Jerusalem. Here's a sample: WHY DID Husam Taysir Dwayat do it? The hasty and erroneous answer offered by an overwhelming number of news outlets amounted to: "It's the occupation, stupid." That is the type of "context" one would expect from

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Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed concern over an Israeli air strike on Iran at a Defense Department press conference on Wednesday (Hat Tip: Hot Air). At a Defense Department press conference, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, refused to say what Israeli leaders told him during meetings last week about any intentions to strike

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Early Thursday evening there was yet another Kassam rocket attack from Gaza on Sderot, the sixth of the last two weeks. There was no damage and there were no injuries. In response, the government has announced that the crossing points from Gaza into Israel will be closed on Friday. None of the 'Palestinian' terror organizations has taken responsibility for the attack. Hamas claims that Israel's

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The Israeli government was embarrassed yesterday by the heroic actions of M, the off-duty soldier in civilian clothes who grabbed a policeman's gun and killed the bulldozer terrorist in Jerusalem yesterday. For starters, they have now banned his name (link in Hebrew) from publication. When Aaron Lerner called the foreign ministry to find out why someone went to court to ban publication of M's

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In what could be the first step aimed at torpedoing the deal to exchange the corpses of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev for mass murderer Samir al-Kuntar and other terrorists and corpses, an Iranian diplomat today accused Israel of holding four other Iranian 'diplomats' who disappeared during the 1982 Lebanon War. The Iranian, Mojtaba Ferdoussi, the charge d'affaires at the Iranian Embassy in

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There's an interview on Arutz Sheva's website today with 18-year old M [the Jerusalem Magistrates Court has now forbidden publication of his name. CiJ], the off-duty IDF soldier who shot and killed the bulldozer terrorist on Jaffa Road yesterday and put an end to the carnage. (By the way, I looked online for a photo of M to embed in this post and could not find one; if anyone has one in *.jpg, *.

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Jeff Jacoby takes the opportunity of Israel's 'terrorists for corpses exchange' with Hezbullah to sum up the damage that Israel has incurred and continues to incur as a result of the July 2006 Second Lebanon War (Hat Tip: Norman F.). With every such deal, Jerusalem erodes what little remains of its once-legendary reputation for avenging the deaths of Israelis killed by terrorists. The Israel that

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Egypt attempted to reopen the Rafah apartheid wall between itself and the Gaza Strip today to allow families stranded on one side or the other to return home. The fence was intended to be opened for two days, but it was shut down almost immediately after it opened, because the 'Palestinians' greeted the opening with stone throwing. Egypt has shut down the Rafiah border after dozens of Arabs

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An Arab driving a bulldozer rammed into a bus and other vehicles on Jaffa Street, Jerusalem's busiest street, a short while ago. He was shot and killed by police, who apparently waited way too long because of the strict 'open fire orders.' Anywhere from two to four people have been killed and 'dozens' have been wounded. The driver was apparently an 'east' Jerusalem Arab. He drove from Sarei

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Among the bodies that Israel has agreed to turn over to Hezbullah in exchange for the bodies of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are the bodies of the perpetrators of one of the worst terror attacks in Israel's history: The 'coastal road massacre' (Hat Tip: IMRA). The bodies of two Palestinians who hijacked an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv in 1978, will be handed over in the

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The Arab village of Bil'in borders on the Jewish town of Kiryat Sefer, which is probably 25-30 minutes down the road from me. The IDF has been trying to construct a portion of the 'security fence' near Bil'in for many months, and aside from constant interference from the 'Supreme Court' - which has taken all matters of security in this country and made them justiciable - it has to contend with '

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Aaron Lerner translates an article from Sunday's Hebrew Maariv, which explains how a senior 'Palestinian' police officer got his 'police car': A 2008 Mitsubishi Pajero like the one pictured at left (Hat Tip: Nathan in Teaneck, New Jersey). Maariv correspondents Avi Ashkenazi and Yuval Goren reported in today's edition that Israeli Border Police forces with the assistance of vehicle tracking from

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Hamas has arrested a Gaza City sunflower seed merchant and members of a well-known Gaza clan who fired rockets and mortars at the Nahal Oz fuel depot a few days ago in violation of the 'truce.' It seems that the merchant had solicited the clan members to fire the 'projectiles' at the fuel depot in the hope that it would result in Israel keeping the border crossings to the Gaza Strip closed. And

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A Chicago judge has ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran to disclose all of its real estate holdings, financial assets and other holdings in the United States (Hat Tip: NY Nana). Judge Manning's order came in a legal proceeding that has already drawn attention because the terrorism victims are seeking to seize thousands of ancient Persian artifacts in the collections of the Field Museum and the

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Zacharya Baumel was one of five soldiers captured by elements of the PLO and Syrian forces in Southern Lebanon in June of 1982. Two soldiers were subsequently released in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's General Command, while Zecharya, Staff Sgt. Zvi Feldman and Staff Sgt. Yehuda Katz have been missing ever since. According to the Foreign Ministry,

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A 'Palestinian journalist' is hospitalized in Khan Yunis in Gaza and he is claiming that he was 'abused' by Israeli security personnel on his way home from receiving a journalism award in England. Mohammed Omer, who writes for the pro-'Palestinian' Washington Report, said he was strip-searched and detained for nearly four hours at the Israeli-controlled Allenby Bridge when he crossed from Jordan

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Looks just like your kids' graduation, doesn't it? Let's go to the videotape.

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The Pentagon is warning that Israel may attack Iran before the end of 2008 according to a report on the ABC News web site. A senior defense official told ABC News there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out such an attack, a move that likely would prompt Iranian retaliation against, not just Israel, but against the United States as well. The official identified two "red lines"

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