Olmert might not be squandering prisoners by releasing the 200 of them.

Speaking before the Home Front Command, Olmert confirmed that Hezbollah’s recent takeover of Lebanese government allows Israel to fight the state of Lebanon rather than a terrorist group there. That would mean indiscriminate shelling of Lebanese towns, a preferable alternative to sending Jewish soldiers for urban combat.

Days ago, Iran claimed a successful launch of ballistic missile with dummy satellite. The missile, too, proved dummy as it did not reach even the second stage.
Iran’s posturing reminds of Saddam. He prevented Western arms inspectors from Iraq’s nuclear facilities even as he had no substantial nuclear program at all. Saddam risked an all-out invasion rather than admitting that Iraqi nuclear program has failed.

During his visit to Moscow, Syrian dictator Assad is expected to reach an agreement with Russians to station their aircraft carrier group in Syrian port of Tartus. The carrier group would automatically bring to Syria the newest S-400 SAM battery, ostensibly to defend Russian vessels but really to inform Syrians of Israeli aircraft.

Barak is rumored to structure his election campaign around Olmert/Livni shortcomings in the Second Lebanon War - despite himself having had created preconditions to that war by running from Lebanon six years earlier. Barak’s Avodah associate, Peres was the defense minister of Israel during the Second Lebanon War.

Palestinian negotiators claim Olmert did not agree to any of their demands, and offers them less than Barak conceded to Arafat.

After the Muslim oil producers successfully staged a ten-fold oil price hike in just over five years, Israel Air Force decided to save on fuel costs. Instead of the famously intense training flights, IAF installed flight simulators - which, good as they are, are no match to live flights. In such manner, IAF saved $25 million in 2008 - a negligible amount on the background of aircraft costs.
IAF might better cut down on its superfluous bureaucracy or lobbied purchases of unnecessary hyper-expensive aircraft.

Yad Sarah takes Jewish donations ostensibly for Jewish purposes. We’re long aware of Yad Sarah spending its limited resources on our Arab enemies, but it also aids the illegal African migrants.
The proper solution to African illegals is simple: shoot them with rubber bullets at the border. The Egyptian police shoots the Africans successfully with live munitions, and so does Israel with all other trespassers. If they happened to cross into Israel, dump them into Gaza, and let the Africans live safely and peacefully under Islamic jurisdiction. They even have UNRWA camps there, so everything is set for their absorption.
We already have 130,000 Blacks here who claim to be of remotely Jewish origin. There is a billion Africans out there striving to move into a civilized country.

Many districts in Galilee have solid Arab majority. The Arab-populated areas are off-limits to casual Israelis and dangerous to police.
There is a similar Bedouin majority in Negev. Israeli propagandists love a sweet story of Bedouin Arabs who side with Jews against terrorists. That was true for the older generation, who gladly killed other Arabs for Jewish money. The new generation of Bedouin is different: urbanized and nationalist, it refuses to serve in the IDF and routinely attacks Jews in Negev.
Jewish residents of Dimona established small militia to patrol the intercity roads.

After editing missile test photos in Photoshop and claiming non-existent naval capabilities, Iran bragged about having aircraft able to fly 2,000-mile missions- which is sheer nonsense, as the Islamic entity only has an aging pool of Cold War-era aircraft.
Iran also lied repeatedly about its nuclear program, vastly overestimating the number of centrifuges.