Nazareth court refused a petition by five Arab murderers who murdered, etc, etc Jewish child Danny Katz and, in a separate crime, Dafna Karmon.

The Supreme Court’s Aharon Barak initiated judicial review of the case - but even he was overruled, as the courts re-sentenced the “freedom fighters.”

The Arabs were originally sentenced to life - a way too light a punishment for the animals - but Shimon Peres pardoned them. Even the normally subservient Parole Commission rejected his pardon.

No problem. Peres will get the murderers released in the next prisoner exchange, just as he released Samir Kuntar. For a good knight, Jewish blood is cheap.

by the British Queen. So there’s an opportunity now for him to go the way of other knights, or at least leave Israel as did his fellow Sirs in 1947.

Islamic Trust condescended to journalists and allowed a group of them into Al Aqsa. In the Jewish state, non-Muslims are banned from the mosque, and praying Jewish are banned from the Temple Mount altogether.

Jews, on the contrary, open even the Wailing Wall to tourists, down to pagans.

Israeli PM, Defense Minister, as good vassals, entered into Jordan princeling Abdullah presence to brief him on Gaza situation. Their idea is to push Abdullah to interfere with Hamas to stop the attacks - or otherwise Israel would invade Gaza. It’s doubtful that the shrewd Arab believed their empty threats.

Digustingly, Israeli leaders visit Egypt and Jordan all the time while the friendly Arab leaders pointedly ignore the Jewish state.

Fatah accused Hamas of staging shortage of medicines, food, and fuel in Gaza. According to Fatah, sufficient supplies enter the territory from Israel and through the tunnels.

Israeli economy is in relatively decent shape. Israeli conservative mortgage market proved so far immune to Michael Milken’s machinations, and no US-Eurozone type bubble has developed. Despite this fine situation, the government introduced a $6 billion aid package. Every Jew, from child to pensioner, will pay $1,000 to support well-connected companies. The pork barrel plan is a payoff to leftist voters. It consists of enormously stupid investments in transportation, schools, and tourism.
In the economy supposedly threatened with recession, the last thing we want is to literally bury money in roads where none are urgently needed. Israel’s problem with schools is not so much the lack of classrooms as the lack of competent teachers. State investments in tourist industry are an endeavor worth the Soviet gerontocracy: tourist sector is always the most vibrant, private, and free sector of economy. Israeli tourist industry suffers from Palestinian terrorism and high labor costs and taxes, which cannot be cured with aid.
Netanayahu lambasted the economic plan though it runs along his own hardcore Keynesian prescriptions.
To counter the recession, Israel needs one thing: let the enterprising Jews work freely. Cut - festroy - the red tape, lay off 95% of bureaucrats, and get the government’s hands off the economy.

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange suspended trading over less than $10 mil sell-off by a single investor. The index dropped almost 5%.

As the bubble bursts, donors such as Levaev curtail or end their contributions. Levaev, for example, almost ceased financing Jewish schools he created in the post-Soviet countries. In October, his office informed the schools retroactively that no payments are forthcoming from August. Tens of thousands of Jewish children might be forced into gentile schools.

In the effort to curry favor with trade unions, Netanyahu joined their proposition to guarantee the pension funds. He doesn’t want to be blamed now for their privatization and permission to speculate wildly. That might not even have been an error: during the bubble years, pension savings boomed, and the current correction is not unreasonable. Nevertheless, Israeli government will use tax revenues to support the incredibly speculative pension funds.

The economy remains sound, merely correcting the bubble. And in the worst case scenario, we can always herd goats in Samaria - that is, if we annex it.

report arresting 250 “Hamas terrorist suspects” in Hebron. If the suspects were really there and have posed any threat, Israel would have dealt with them before. Rather, Fatah thugs arrested scores of Palestinian supporters of Hamas, basically cracked down on Abbas political enemies.

US Federal Transportation Authority expects to downgrade El Al safety to substandard, ban new flights from Israel due to the glaring errors in airport safety. Oddly, Israeli airport security is usually considered good and US experts recently studied Ben Gurion operations. Now it appears they were investigating the airport.

Michael Freund offers interesing figures from Israeli Foreign Ministry: in 2008, 1,151 rockets and 1,239 shells hit Israel. Thus, during the truce period, attacks on Israel from Gaza actually doubled.

The US-Iraqi security ccoperation agreement subjects US soldiers to Iraqi courts. Technically, the courts’ authority kicks in only in case of crimes, but almost every killing can be termed a crime: how do the Americans prove they killed a terrorist rather than civilian? And occasionally they kill undisputable civilians.
The puppet Iraqi government conditioned signing the agreement on the jurisdictional provision. Apparently, Americans want to stay in Iraq more than Iraq government wants them to stay.
The provision is astonishing. Occupational forces never submit to local jurisdiction. The provision is unlikely to be carried out in practice, but it sets an extremely dangerous precedent in the international law.

Israel Air Force chief Ido Nehushtan confirmed that the army only waits for a political decision to strike Iran. Contrary to dire predictions by Western “experts”, IAF senses no problem bombing Iranian underground and dispersed nuclear facilities.

IAEA issued a report which confirms that the bombed site has the characteristics of a nuclear reactor.
Now the funny thing: suppose Israel gives the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a piece of paper called the “peace treaty.” A week later, Syria resumes its nuclear program whose only target is Israel. Jews would not violate the ephereal peace treaty. Syria, then, gets both the Golan Heights and the nuclear bomb to become the Great Syria.