In a clever move, McCain bypassed several traditional heavyweight candidates for vice president and chose a somewhat bitchy reformer lady from Alaska.
Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, is a newcomer to politics, stands for reforms, and clean government. She is of a strong character, extremely conservative with religious bent, has five children, used to hunt deer and finished second in Alaska beauty contest. She’s very popular as a governor.
From a few hints, Mrs.Palin seems pro-Israeli and anti-Arab, especially in the oil matters, and as such can prove a boon to our country. If she reverses, that would be worse than Rice.

After months of feuding, Friedmann forced leftist thugs of the Supreme Court to surrender their monopoly on ordaining judges. Previously, the courts approved their own members, perpetuating the leftist grip over the judicial system.
According to the new arrangement, both Justice Minister and Supreme Court president would have to approve new candidates, which will weed out ultra-leftists and end the situation where the Supreme Court undermines the government and military policy.

According to the Israeli Project poll, only 63% want to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacities, and even that by Israelis, and even then if diplomacy fails, as if it didn’t already. The sanctions are purposely toothless; they don’t address Iran’s weakest points: its oil infrastructure and oil exports. Iran announced that the number of uranium enriching centrifuges in Natanz increased from three to four thousand.
And why not? America feels no threat from nuclear India, Pakistan, and North Korea, and realistically Iran would never nuke the United States. The business is really Israel’s, and our government must be stupid to listen to the US Administration.
Even if the US doesn’t authorize Israeli strike on Iran, the US forces in Iraq won’t go as far as intercepting Israeli planes en route to Iran.
Maariv reports that the government authorized military preparations for the strike. Whether the story is truthful or just another orchestrated leak designed to press Europeans for stronger sanctions, is unknown.

Hezbollah shot down Lebanese army helicopter after mistaking it for an Israeli one. It follows, Hezbollah tries to shoot down Israeli aircraft. Doing so might well spark Israeli retaliation against Lebanon - or may force Israel to end her violations of Lebanese airspace.

Abie Nathan, a rare honest peacenik, died at 81.
Abie was jailed in Israel after visiting Arafat in Tunisia, helped non-Jewish causes in the world’s junkyards, and promoted Israeli capitulation to Palestinian enemies.

Hundreds of people gathered in Shalit’s hometown for his birthday, demanded that the government accepts any demands for his return.
The paid show was disgusting as usual. The amount of attention directed toward Shalit is entirely disproportionate. Israel doesn’t allocate even one thousandth of the resources expended for Shalit to save other soldiers. And no, we shouldn’t release hundreds of Hamas terrorists for a single Israeli soldier.
The best deal would be to exchange Gilad Shalit for his leftist father.

Olmert’s seventh interrogation centered around the old story of him buying a family house in Jerusalem below the market price. That investigation was previously abandoned because Olmert, then a mayor, did not reciprocate the seller (a contractor) with any illegal privileges but merely expedited his lawful request.
The widening scope of investigations indicates that police fails to bring solid charges against Olmert on Talansky’s affairs and heaps weak charges in the hope of a plea bargain.

A hundred Israeli victims of Palestinian terror filed a case in Los Angeles against Bank of China which for years maintain Hamas and Hezbollah accounts and allowed the terrorist organizations to withdraw millions of dollars in cash. Yet, the US Administration shows no intent of sanctioning China for money laundering or state sponsorship of terrorism.
But the Administration reneged on its earlier promise to take North Korea off the terrorist sponsor list for the very same financial operations.
Israel, for her part, conducts negotiations with Syria, a state sponsor of both Hamas and Hezbollah.

After a quarrel with their company commander, 13 soldiers of the elite Givati Brigade left the army base. Their commander followed them to a bus stop, pleading with them to return. Unmoved, the soldiers took a bus to Tel Aviv. Thereafter, a battalion commander followed the bus on his army jeep and also pleaded, again to no avail.
The relations in Jewish army are uniquely friendly.

Shouldn’t they fast?

in the wake of “Israeli threats.” After Hezbollah threatened major retaliation for Mughniye, Olmert announced that Israel would now treat the entire Lebanon as a proper target since Hezbollah controls Lebanese government.
The United States gives Egypt $1.4 billion a year in aid.

Lebanon is the major voice behind the right of return. Naturally, Lebanese don’t want the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians around.
During his visit to Beirut, Abbas promised to fight for their return.

to placate both Americans, Georgians, and Russians.
Of course, residents of Sderot need no humanitarian aid. Months ago, the government allocated Holocaust survivors $20 each, citing strained budget.

After the British-Jewish foreign minister decided to visit Ukraine in his efforts to build anti-Russian coalition, a major Ukrainian ammunition warehouse on the border with Russia was set on fire. 200 million pounds of explosives near Kharkov will continue detonating into September.

Current German leaders were too young to join Holocaust, so they have to settle for something simpler.

Such support discredits Russian claims that it supplies no weapons to the terrorist organizations.

Safuri, 20, and Khalil, 19 are exemplary Israeli citizens and good students. They assembled a cache of weapons and were preparing to murder various Jews they disliked.

at 5.9%. Olmert’s results are better than Netanyahu’s.

despite Israel bowing down to every Russian demand, including the giveaway of major land plot in Jerusalem and ceding arms supply to Georgia.

Adham Lubada of the peace-loving Fatah continued his trade of bomb-making in Schem.

Incited by Jewish and foreign ultra-leftists, Arabs protest border demarcation (separation barrier) for months. Niilin is a hub for illegal migration into Israel, where sometimes tens of thousands of illegal workers cross each day into Israel to be picked mostly by building contractors. Niilin villagers protest Israel closing the border loophole.

Jeff Halper, a radical who sailed from Cyprus to Gaza, received Palestinian passport from Hamas authorities before entering Israel.